online assignment

the two articles that i chose to respond to were the edutopia article on providing birth control at schools and also the article Body of Cedar Point Elementary School Principal Found in Park.

i chose the first article on birth control simply because it disturbed me. i do understand that middle school students are having sex and that it's a reality, but i'm not sure if that is a good idea. the only positive outcome that i could possibly see is for parents who don't have insurance and know that they're children or think that they're children are having sex and they could use the help. other than that, i kind of think that it's promoting sex in a way, saying go have sex, we're here to help with the birth control and condoms. on the other hand it's like this may prevent a child from having a child or spreading of diseases. it impacts my view on education because as teachers we go to school to educate students and to teach them things, but now it seems like teachers are having to become more like parents to these students. offerring birth control and condoms has taken it too far in education system. personal matters like this should be dealt with at home. i think as a parent of one of those students that attended that school in maine i would have been outraged just as they said some parents were. i would not want my child to take that message of that school providing birth control and condoms as it's ok for me to have sex.

for the second article i read, i chose it because it was talking about a death... that's all a article has to say and i'm going to read it. this article definitely sent chills through my body considering that a principal was found dead by an 8 year old girl. investigators are calling it suicide so far but are waiting for reports to reveal if it was anything else. this article brought tears to my eyes because everyone talked so highly about this man and how he was a great principal. not only was he a great principal, but he was a great father to two children. this is so upsetting to me because of how others will have to suffer his children and wife. it doesn't really impact my view on education, but it does make me realize that suicide is everywhere and that this could possibly happen. as a teacher you would expect one of your students to commit suicide before the principal would just by considering that suicide is one of the most common ways that teens die today. students will also be confused simply because your principal is an authority figure and you would look up to him, and that person they once looked up to took his own life. so i wouldn't know how these students are taking it what they may be thinking and so maybe this is how it impacts my view on education.