 |  Social Voice is an online social issues-oriented blog created by students in Mr. Spencer' class and students in IMPACT in Phoenix, Arizona. Our goal is to express our social voice through exploring issues, engaging in the community and expressing what we have learned to the world. Please join us in the dialogue! All items on this blog are created and developed by students. |
my life in pictures
I took five pictures with the school camera. One picture was of my dad. I love him so much. The second picture represents a style of ours, which is skinny jeans. I like wearing skinnies. The second was my sister with her basketball jersey. She made the basketball team and I'm proud of her. We're all into style and how it intersects into our culture. Finally, I included a picture of me, because I love myself. It doesn't mean I'm arrogant, but I'm okay with myself.
why recycle?
Is it important to recycle? What happens if we don't? Does anyone really care? Would the world really change? The reality is that recycling will help us not to pollute the world, because when we choose it as an option, all of our trash is either reduced, reused or recycled.
Recycling is important in a way that will help us to not pollute the world. All of our waste could be used again and made into something more resistant that would last longer. We could take the paper, alluminum and other products and transform them into a new product. In the United States, we have massive landfills that contain waste. If we could choose recycling instead, we would change things. Just imagine thousands of waste sites being transformed into green areas instead. Just imagine our trash transformed into something useful.
People can recycle in their everyday lives. For example, they can use paper bags instead of plastic. Or better yet, reduce by using reusable bags. Plastic bags take longer to dissentegrate into the ground and paper means fewer trees. However, a canvas bag means nothing is being destroyed. You can also collect all the plastic bags and take them to the grocery store in teh recycling senter.
You might ask yourself, "What would happen if we never recycled? Maybe it's not a big deal." However, if we never recycled, this world would be more of a disaster. There would be more trash, more landfills, more pollution. The air would be more contaminated. A chance of living a longer life would diminish. However, when we reduce waste and recycle, we make the earth more sustainable.
I believe that recycling is very important. For that reason, I joined the IMPACT club and we recycle. Once a week, we go around to all the teacher's classrooms and help people and our environment. It's one of the small ways that students can make a difference.
photo credit
No Joe
Students are creating PhotoShop collages about social issues. This is one example of taking a photograph and making it into social-oriented art.
when teachers bully
Most teachers are great. They spend hours after school helping tutor kids. They like their jobs and it shows in their personality. I've had those teachers and it's like they are saving lives. On my worst days, it's actually the teacher that can inspire hope.
The thing is this. Even if most of them are great, some of the teachers out there are mean. I don’t know if they are having personal problems or not but they can't be taking it out on us. If they have home problems they should at least not take it out on us. We aren’t the cause of there problems or are we? Just think about it. The same teachers who rip into kids because they are having a bad day are the ones who say a child is making an excuse if he asks a teacher to leave him alone.
Adults say we should just talk to them one on one. If we try to ask them then they will surely get angry because we can't ask them about their personal life. It's considered "off limits." So what is the point of even trying to help the teacher they don’t want our help? We're just supposed to smile and pretend, because they are the ones who are in charge.
It's rare, but some teachers actually bully their students this way. And the kids tell the other teachers but they don’t believe them. This can cause the kid to have stress this way and it can even lead the kid to having suicidal thoughts and things like that the kid might be afraid to tell their parents and they just want to get rid of the pain and they will just kill themselves. That might sound extreme, but I had a teacher once before who made life feel this way. The student ends up in a big ball of depression.
I know this sounds harsh. I've had great teachers. But I want people to know that there are good and bad ones out there. The good ones are unappreciated and the bad ones seem to go unnoticed.
photo credit - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/2341162140/
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