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Ohh...my controversial beleifs...GET READY!!!
I think all schools should REQUIRE instrumental or vocal music through 8th grade. That's right, ALL KIDS should be required to be either a band nerd, an orc dork, or a choir freak through 8th grade. Then in high school, they can choose to continue or not. I think it's such an enriching experience on all ends. Actually, I don't only think it, it's been proven in studies for years that studends that play instruments are better learners academically.
That being said, I also think kids should be required to be involved in at least one physical extracurricular activity through 8th grade, be it dance, football, softball, or whatever. Kids today are lazy.
Once high school hits, they should be able to choose what path to take, be it in athletics, music, or academics.
WELL ROUNDED PEOPLE.
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I also think the legal drinking age should be 18. If I can give myself lung cancer or die for my country I should be able to drink. I don't get why my country deems me responsible enough to elects it's leaders, but not responsible enough to drink.
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I think abortion is WRONG. However, I think the government needs to stay the hell out of my body.
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Yes, I think if minor things like marriage and driving a car require licences, you damn sure better have licences for children. Too many stupid people get pregnant nowadays. If a woman gets prego that doesn't have a licence to raise children, they should be given up to an adoptive family that has one.
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And my main beef, that fits with this thread...
If you're gonna live in America, you should speak english. I hate going to restaurants/grocery stores/gas stations and having to repeat myself a dozen times, or have to strain to understand what the clerk is saying to me. I also hate sitting in my math and physics classes and straining to understand what my foreign TA is saying either due to a thick accent, or less than stellar grasp of the english language.
I also hated working at a public library as a 16 year old, in the lowest position possible there, and being called away from my shelving carts (that I usually had lined up 10 thick to do) because my college educated bosses and their immigrant patrons were unable to communicate, and I had to help translate with my shitty high school spanish.
That being said, my job last year was tutoring ESL children in basic english concepts. It was a great job, and I felt I helped many children on their ways to becoming a part of functional society.
I spent one of my breaks my Freshman year in an immersion program in Mexico, living and working with the people there. I damn sure wouldn't have survived that if it weren't for the fact that I had 6 years of Spanish before I went there. Not a single one of them spoke English. I never expected them to speak english to help me out. I was in their country, I was the outsider in their world. This is why I also feel that (even though it is beneficial) it is ludicris to expect Americans to be required to learn a second language to make life easier for immigrants. If we went to their country, they wouldn't speak english for us, so why should we learn their languages so they can be more comfortable in our country.
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And my last little pet peeve...
I can't STAND the stigmas in the modern world that allow people to judge a person's intelligence or worth based on appearance.
What a person looks like on the outside has nothing to do with whether they are smart or stupid, and a good or bad person.
Yikes.
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