2010 core questions survey reflection

There were a lot of numbers in this poll that really suprised me. One is that in 2010 38% of the people asked said that they strongly agree that the constitution establishes a christian nation. This is suprising because I have never heard of this before and almost half of the people beleive that it is true. I don't know what they think promotes a christian nation more than any other religioun when in the first ammendment it states that you have the freedom of religoun. I find it interesting also that although 43% of the people aksed said that they strongly disagree that Public schools should be allowed to discipline students who use their own personal computers at home to post material that school officials say is offensive, people in our school have still gotten in trouble for pictures that have been posted on their facebook pages. Not only do they get in trouble for their non school related things, but the deans are actually going out of their way to look at peoples pictures and get them in trouble which I think is completely rediculous. One more thing that was shocking to me is that less than half of the people surveyed said that the constitution clearly seperated church and state. I thought that it made a clear seperation.

9/11 film

We watched a film about 9/11, it was all footage from that day and the days after the attack. Some things that I remembered from the film was the huge smoke and debris cloud that was tumbling through the streets of New York City looking like it was eating up everything in its path. If the cloud engulfed you, you wouldn’t be able to see anything at all just smoke. Another thing that I remember is the sound of each of the buildings collapsing. It is the sound of thousands of innocent people dying. I remember seeing the streets around the building covered with people trying to get away from the heat. All of those people probably died from the building collapsing or an explosion. The last thing that stuck with me from this film is after the attack people were arguing about how this affects America and what we should do about it and things like that. They realized when they were arguing that they were on the same side and they shouldn’t be arguing so they hugged and made up. This type of behavior I imagine doesn’t happen much in New York City or anywhere.

Speech Codes

I think that the college students had it in their constitutional rights to dress up in this racist way. But I think that it should be against the schools rules to make racist remarks or act in a racist way. School is no place to display racism so if they want to be racist they can take thier party off campus. I agree with speech codes in schools. They restrict peoples rights, but I think they should be restricted in certain places and school is one of those places. Just like I think it would be inapropriate to walk into a church and start talking badly about christians I think no one at a school should have to worry about racism, it's about learning and becoming a part of the community.