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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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I Am The Only Way To Go!
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Well. I was just reading through a local net and noticed some
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people discusing a F.U.C.K. realese, Shockwave's "Chocolate Lovin at
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McDonalds" (because of the racisim in it). Anyway, it got me to thinking
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about how I have been hearing my American Litature teacher talk about how
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some people local to us want to get some book baned for some lame
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reason (is there ever a good reason to ban books?) So, I won't take you
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through another "People who ban things should go kill themselves because
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they have no respect for anything, and people who don't have respect for
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anything are close minded assholes who should be killed because it is
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people like THEM who are the reason the world is a bad place to live
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in" file, cause there was already one. What I am going to talk about
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here is how people who are close minded, and have a stong drive that
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what they are doing is right, can be extermly dangerous.
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I attend school at Littleton High School in Littleton, Colorado.
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Some of you may have heard this name before because of the 'Direction
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2000' program that originated from it. I personaly liked this program for
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many reasons, and disliked it for a few. The main reason I liked it was
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because course credits were no longer required. They gave you a book, with
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a list of 'Demonstrations' that you had to complete. Now, there were some
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bad points to this. Some of the demonstrations you HAD to complete (unless
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you went in front of the school board and gave them a valid reason why you
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would not be able to do that demonstration) were crossing the line between
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home and school. Things like Ethics, Community Involvment and Personal
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Arts. If you gave the school board a valid reason they would then 'waiver'
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it. This meant that you neither passed it, nor failed it, you simply didn't
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have to do it. For the ethics demo, (Which was easy, and anyone with half
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a brain cell could complete in their freshman year, and did) all you had to
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do was receive a certain situation from one of your teachers, and then you
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would write up an essay on what you would do in that particular situation,
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what you think would be the wrong and right thing to do. Not extremely
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hard. Except, I personally think (and so did a lot of kids who went running
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to their parents like little kids) that the school should leave teaching
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ethics up to the parents and/or the church (if you attend one). Now,
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Community Involvement. What you had to do for this one is 30 hours of
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community service, for a proficient, and 50 hours for of community service
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for an excellent. Isn't community service for criminals and people who like
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to 'clean up the earth' or those that have nothing better to do? I
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personally do not think (and so did a lot of kids who went running to their
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parents like little kids) that a school should make us clean up the
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community, or else we don't graduate from high school. As you can tell,
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after 1 1/2 years of high school (when this whole program was thrown out
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the window) I had a total of 0 hours of community service. Finally,
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Personal Arts. This one isn't bad, in fact, i loved it. Here they made you
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attend 2 plays performed anywhere (and since we have good actors at our
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school, it made it actually fun to complete), and then you had to write up
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an essay on each play saying what you thought it was about and how it
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relates to a current event. Not hard at all, but still, some people didn't
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like having to do that, since plays are a 'Non-School' requirement they
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thought that it was 'unfair' to make them do it (and so they all ran to
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their parents AGAIN).
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But, despite my whining I would like to tell you what was so good
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about this program. You have just been made a Freshman of a High School,
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you are given a book and told that you have to complete all of the
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demonstrations listed in it before you can graduate (no time limit that I
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can recall). In order to do some of the graduations you would have to take
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certain classes (and still have time to take all the fun classes like
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Computer Applications where we get to sit in a class and use windows for 46
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mins (and listen to a teacher who thinks he is god of computers but doesn't
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know a programing a language higher than Basic) whoa NOW THAT was a FUN
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CLASS! (bit of sarcasim in the tone of my voice), or Engineering classes
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where we play with legos, a robot arm and build electronic boards that make
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lights flash and neato stuff like that). But, if you knew all the material
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you didn't have to take any classes (wow). So, if you knew everything, you
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could just sign up for a bunch of fun classes, get all A's, finish all your
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Demonstrations in your first semester and then graduate High School (no
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crappy GED here). So, this would be the PERFECT program for all those
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people I see on BBSes "Yeah, I am the most inteligent person in the entire
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universe, and I know all the stuff already, but am forced to sit through
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boring classes teaching the people around me better then the actual
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teacher".
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Now, who do you turn all this stuff into? Well, your EAP teacher of
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course. Here is the story on EAP clases and teachers. Every monday between
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4th and 5th hour we would have a class called 'EAP' this lasted 25 mins
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(totally screwing up the schedule on mondays (and a lot of kids went running
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to their parents!*^&!%(!*& Fuckin' lamers)). What we did in EAP was talk
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with our EAP teacher (we had the same teacher until we graduated, unless
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we complained that we didn't like the teacher and requested a new one,
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about our progress and then they helped us on what we needed help on, and
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advised us throughout High School. Say for example, the swimming
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demonstration, you needed to either take a swimming or diving class, or
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take a swimming test (so you wouldn't have to take any swimming classes at
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all). You would get a proficient, or excellent (depending on how well you
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did on the test, or your grade in the class). If you wanted to take the
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test (so you didn't have to take the class) your EAP teacher would tell you
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when the next testing was, set up an appointment with one of the swimming
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teachers, or give you the "I didn't want to take a class and I didn't like
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the sound of the Swimming test" because you have to swim 500 yards
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non-stop, float for 30 mins, and do some other weird things (what does
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putting pants on your head have to do with swimming?). Now, i can swim
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and all, but for 500 yards non-stop? I don't think so.
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Now, you have heard about Direction 2000, the main points about it,
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and the good/bad things involved it in. I want to tell you why we don't
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use it anymore. The idea was thrown around the table starting in 1987
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(think thats right). It was first implemented on the class of '95. When the
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program came into effect it was VERY disorganized and they weren't really
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prepared for it, but they had to have some guinea pigs to test on. They
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continued this program into the Class of '96 (my class) and then into '97.
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While I was in my Sophomore year there was a lot of arguments coming
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forward about this program. Apparently this type of program was nothing
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new, schools all around the country had been using demonstration type
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things for graduating, the only reason Littleton High School got more of the
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glory was the fact that they gave it a name, totally threw the credit system
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out the window and then made sure everyone knew about it (thats what I was
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told). Well, you might have seen all the times I said "and then the kids
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ran to their parents". Well, some school in another state had one of their
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students and her parents sue the school because she thought it was "Unfair
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to make a student do community service in order to graduate" (power to
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you). With all these kids around my school running to their parents, the
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School Board and Staff got very worried, especially when the election for a
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new School Board was right around the corner (middle of my sophomore year).
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Well, this election was quite publicized around my area, and Denver in
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general, because there was a 'Back to Basics Slate' running (I hate that
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term, this is High School, if you want basics go back to Elementry School).
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There are 5 people in the School Board, if at least 3 of the 5 people on
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the slate won, then Direction 2000 would probably go bye-bye. But if only
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2 of them won, then Direction 2000 would most likely be safe until some
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lamer sued the school for giving them an education. Now, the problem with
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this election is that their was NO organization for the people who were
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running for Direction 2000. So, of course, 3 of the 5 Back to Basic people
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won (It seems those back to basic people really had some brain after all),
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and 2 of the previous School Board people won and stayed where they were.
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If you tallied the votes, Direction 2000 vs Back to Basics, Direction 2000
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won, but alas, organization just wasn't in their vocabulary. So now we have
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this school Superintendent (Mary Chavez) rated the best in the nation.
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Principal (Tim Westerberg) rated one of the best 3 principals in the
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nation, and School (Littleton High School) rated one of the best 8 schools
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in the nation, is about to become one of the most fucked up. Why? Because
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of paranoid people, the book burners and back to basic fuckers who think
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they are doing the right thing (I think they should study McCarthyism a
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little more), but, since they can't look past their own fucking nose they
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don't know what the students want. There was, for about a month, the hope
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that the School Board would allow students to choose if they wanted to be
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on Direction 2000 or the Credit System, but they decided that would be to
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much trouble and threw that idea away. So now, we have a school (who just 1
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month earlier was considered one of the best in the nation) in total choas,
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trying to get all the credits where they belong, making sure students were
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on track, etc.. The Superintendent quit because she was being pressured by
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the 3 Back to Basic people on the school board.
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What does all this say? This 'Back to Basic' attitude is not just
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localized around here. There are many people that think change is bad, and
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that everything has to stay the same or we will be thrown into a world of
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chaos. These people need to take a look around at how chaotic this world is
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already, and its because we have been doing the same thing for years
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now, while everything around us has changed. These people are living in a
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fantasy world where they think their way is right and every other way is
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wrong. There are MANY different types of people in this world and MANY
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different types of ideas (Which is why Anarchy will only work with small
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groups of people, Anarchy can never be used on a wide scale). If you want
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a society to work you have to make up ways to respect almost all ideas
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equally. This seems to be something the people in power are incapable of
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doing. The people who want this world to go in a backwards direction have
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power. With that power they can point the finger and take care of the
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people opposing them. It can be the witch trials and McCarthy all over
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again.
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Rage-303
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