Matt+W’s+OpEd+Article

ASB, Please take the following into consideration. By: M. R. Woertink

The school, just like the economy now and in the 30's, is not doing too well -economically, obviously. Teachers are complaining about paper shortages, yet somehow you manage to haul out two shirts a year that a. are unnecessary and b. not too many people enjoy, although they have started to get better. Here's a solution: one shirt a year that is decided upon by the // entire // student body, not only by the "elitist," undemocratic, exclusive, cult. With that one shirt bought in the spring for those in Renaissance, all returning sophomores through seniors will now have a shirt, that they like, to last them a year. But, how do we determine from the freshmen and those truly on Renaissance you ask? Well, those not on Renaissance wouldn't have received a shirt to begin with. So now Mrs. Perez can economically, effectively discriminate between those on Flight and those on Renaissance.

You concurred that hosting the Spring Renaissance Rally, for a (hardly) extended lunch, at Foothill would decrease the amount of students from taking a personal day. Well, congratulations, not only did students not show up for school, teachers didn't either. Honestly, do we need the inflatables? Sure, it might be enjoyable to run through one a few times, but not when the booth workers are that stringent. And really, the "Gamez on Wheelz" trailer, really? Yes, Rock Band is fun but did you really need to spend $250 for the truck to sit there for an hour and a half for Rock Band? Do we not have screens in every classroom and even larger ones in Spirito Hall. Don't tell me, were they all broken? Does no one under you influence own Rock Band? Would it have been too hard to supervise Spirito Hall, after all, it is such a big room and electricity is so expensive.

The Magic Mountain trips are good; a bland word for a not so extra-ordinary field trip. Sure we’re skipping a day of school to go to an amusement park, but please, could you plan it in such a matter as to make sense. First off why Monday? You might as well throw an all night party on a Monday night and then expect the students to perform well the next morning, not going to happen. You rant, Miss Perez, about how expensive the trip is. Well, tap into your inner elitist that you displayed during the Renaissance Rally and make it more difficult to go. This way, theoretically, Foothill’s -useless- CST scores will skyrocket. And ten busses back and forth to Magic Mountain do not cost $7,000, almost all of Foothill’s annual expenses, which can be found here: []. If this was actually true, something has to change.

Removing David White from the Presidency that he had worked so hard to obtain was basically like shooting yourself in the foot. Do you even realize what he was reprimanded for? Two weeks before the campaigning for Senior Class President had even started, he posted, on Facebook, "David White, the final solution to your problems." He took the posting off the next day. Conveniently enough, three weeks later, // after // he had won the election, someone brought it up and said it was offensive. No one told David it was offensive; he only had the posting up for one day. Someone would have had to have saved the posting, and it just so happened that it came up after the election had already been determined. Suspicious. Too bad for you, you didn't realize that, in winning the election, David had the support of more than 50% of the eligible voters, and now that he's gone, there are that many angry people. Plus we have the 100% support of Podcast 6738.

Some words that the wise would heed.

To whom this may concern: I would like to know where the $90 Technology Fee goes -a pie graph would be dandy- that each student has to shell out at the beginning of each year and why the Flight students, over any others, are given Disneyland Tickets for filling out a little card.

It may seem like I hate ASB but in truth, I do not. I hate Mosquito Hawks and injustice. I understand that you are trying ASB. media type="file" key="mattw-muckraker-0910.mp3"