SMHS Softball State Play-Offs

Tomorrow, Friday May 4th in Phoenix, we (San Manuel Varsity Volleyball) play our first game of the Division IV state play-offs! The team is currently ranked 2nd out of the 50 teams participating in the Division IV state tournament just behind the #1 ranked team Pusch Ridge. The Lady Miners will be playing against Baghdad at 6 p.m. If they achieve that win they will play Saturday morning, May 5th, at 9 a.m. against the winner of Hayden and St. David. This team has all the potential to go all the way to the top. This year's team is a very young team, but has a lot of talent. Only four seniors are participating this year (including myself) and the rest are underclassmen. Come and support your Lady Miners at Rose Monfford Complex in Phoenix, Arizona! Let's bring home a win!

Dress Code Dilemma

Lately our school's dress code has not been enforced and I think the students are taking advantage of that. I really don't see the harm in wearing a shirt with a logo on it. Ya, some people can't afford certain brands of clothing but we're still allowed to wear jeans and there are really expensive brands of jeans out there. This always seems to happen at the end of the year. Everyone starts dressing the way they please with short shorts, ripped pants, and shirts with logos on them. If they aren't offensive or too reveling there really shouldn't be a problem. I am all for self-expression and I believe that the way you dress can reflect your personality and our dress code takes that away from us. Dress codes are being used in a lot of schools lately and I can't help but question if they are effect or doing what the school set out for them to do. Of course students should dress accordingly for school and not wear revealing items of clothing. If an honors student is sitting in class here and decided to wear colored shoe laces I think they shouldn't be pulled out of class to sit and wait to be told to not wear them. Yes, we have rules, but then again we are all supposed to be adults right? Adults make their own decisions.

My second post for this week is going to be some advice. Now that I have gone throught the majority of my Senior year I know that all those people who told me it goes by fast were right. You have no idea how fast it goes and if you take school seriously it is a very stressful year. My advice for underclassmen would be to take your classes seriously now because when you go to college you're paying thousands of dollars for that education and now you have everything you need to know being taught to you for free. Teachers shouldn't be disrespected. What makes you think they want to be there any more than you do, especially when you're being rude? Get all of your work done early and it will pay off. TRUST ME! Procrastination does NOT work! My other big piece of advice is to make as many memories as you possibly can. Like I said, it goes by way too fast.

Boy Set On Fire By Bully!

This week I decided to find a current news topic and give my general opinion on it as well as the facts and information on it. I had trouble finding the right topic to write about that I would enjoy writing about, which is why I am doing this last minute. I was scrolling through my current newsfeed on Yahoo.com and I came upon the title "Bullied 13-Year-Old Set on Fire Changes Thinking." Immediately I was intrigued and decided to read the article. Bullying always seemed like something that always happend at school, no big deal. Never did I think that someone could take bullying to such an extreme in the way the 17-year-old Joseph D. Gardner chose to do so. This 17-year-old took such extremes as to place death threats, but he took it to the next level. Joseph D. Gardner told a 13-year-old boy that he wanted to kill him then later set the boy on fire and sat back to laugh. That poor boy suffered first and second degree burns on his arms and face. But that's not all, he also had lung damage from inhaling fumes of gasoline, which Gardner used to set his victim on fire. Garder is currently facing a 10 to 30 year sentence. After getting the jist of this article it made me think that bullying really can escalate. If you or someone else is being bullied, even in the slightest way, you should really tell an adult or your parents. Don't let something like this happen. Bullying needs to be stopped! I'd really like to know your thought and opinions on this subject and also about the poor boy in Missouri.




I read this article and got my information from:
http://news.yahoo.com/bullied-13-old-set-fire-changes-thinking-163900142.htm

Well...

This would be my first blog post ever, so bare with me. 

I'm a Senior in High School and ready to graduate next month. I am currently enrolled in an Advanced Newspaper Class, which I am editor-in-chief of. My blogs are mainly going to be my views on various subjects relating to my class, but also I'm going to use it as a way to express my opinion.