Who's on the boat?!

In class last friday there were stixteen students chosen to participate in a simulation. The simulation was that wethe sixteen students were on a boat and then it crashed. So to save themselves they all got on a different boat, but that boat could only hold nine people, so seven people were gonna have to be voted off the boat. As a group the sixteen students had to figure out which people should stay and which people should go. I was one of the students not in the simulation. I observed a lot of decisions to kick people off that were wronge. I felt that many people were kicked off for the wrong reasons, and many stayed on who could have, sadly, gone. Overall I thought the simmulation was intresting, and especially as an outsider it was interesting to see how people reacted, and what decision they made, as well as to see who was in charge (taking control and organizing). Sometimes it was even a little strange how people completely listened to that one persons decision, especially in the case of being kicked off, and that they didn't defend themselves towards having the right to not be kicked off.

Freeks and Geeks!!

To start I just want to say I really like this show (Freeks and Geeks)! And i really think that we should continue to watch it in class. At Stevenson, there are many different groups, but they are different than the groups in Freak and Geeks. In the show the groups encoutered run ins with most of the same people, but at Stevenson this obviously isn't possible, its just too big. This makes it hard to compare the show to Stevenson...i mean i don't even see a lot of my good friends during the school day! There are many different groups within our Stevenson community clashing groups is not as much of a problem as it was in the show, different groups just stay within their groups and stay away from other groups, and this could be a problem of its own, and some people would think of it as cliquiness a problem not adressed in the show but something more common at Stevenson. To answer the question of who has power i don't believe that there is anyone person or group that holds power over the rest of the school. I feel that Stevenson is too big for that to happen and is a much more common problem in smaller schools. The only power i could think of is being under the authority of deans, counselors, teacher, and security gaurds who seem to be everywhere all the time and definately aren't afraid to show their power and authority. This could be another reason of why fights between groups are unlikey to see...at least at school. To end again i really like the show, and hope that we'll be able to watch more episodes!