Blogs Are Bad

I went to public high school, I know that most of the teachers and administrators are there because teaching is a passion of theirs. Yet every school has your typical mad-at-the-world, power hungry, and downright mean staff member. If I were pulling your leg then where did movies like The Breakfast Club spawn from? Well we’re not in Kansas anymore toto, we’re in the real world. The world where blogs and ipods are outlawed from schools.

When I was in high school (class of ’97) everyone had dial up internet and AOL was the hipster way to go. Chatting online was new, and the grown ups deemed it as the new evil. This was, however, the means that taught me to type at 70wpm (opposed to the tedious type teach programs at school computer lab). Administrators feared “Predators” hiding out in chat rooms, and tricking young chatters into giving out personal information. Needless to say, online chatting is now an integral part of our wired society. We use it for communication across seas, within companies, and to keep up with our friends. I have AOL Instant Messaging on my mobile phone.

I personally feel that most of the young blogger’s content is a waste of my breathing time “bobby said that he likes kirstin, and I had a sandwich for lunch, like”. Yet I am impressed by their creative layouts and web design. Blogging was my avenue to learning the basic HTML and FTP information I rely on now. By taking blogging away from children is crippling them for their technological future. I encourage students to keep online journals and write for themselves. I remember a day when parents were happy that a child was home on a computer, opposed to hanging out in front of local liquor stores.

posted by: feeling entropy