Come on let me go out...

Dear Mom and Dad,

 I am writing this letter to you because as we all know I want to go out this Friday. I feel as if I should be able to go out because of many reasons. To be honest I’m such a good student. I do all my work and get good grades. All my grades are either at or where they are supposed to be. I gave you my tracker the other day and you guys congratulated me. I also do a lot of work around the house, I help Isaac get his homework done, and I help Tatiana whenever she needs help, I was the dishes, clean the bathroom, clean my room and wash my clothes. What more could you ask for?  I do everything I’m told unlike my sister Tatiana who is like a wall. We talk to her and nothing happens, I’m so much better. If you don’t let me go out I will not help around the house anymore, I’ll be rude to my teachers and to my brother and sister. I will go anyways if you don’t let me you guys have no choice. I’m old enough to make my own decisions and I know what’s best for me. And if you say I can’t come back home I know you guys won’t hold to your word. You guy can’t just kick me out of the house I’m a minor and there is no way of kicking me out. This is just so stupid how you guys never let me go out but you guys were allowed to go anywhere as kids and me it takes lightning to strike the house to be able to go out for one day. In my defense I never make stupid decisions either I’m a good girl and I’m that way because you guys have taught me how to be that way as I have grown up. You know who you daughter is and what decisions I will make so in that case I should be allowed to go on Friday and have a little fun.

Love,

Johanna Arias

The Arts? Or waste of time?

Should high school students be required to take an art? In my school a graduating credit that is required is an Art, well for the singers, dancers, artists, and instrument players that's a piece of cake. But then there is me... the girl who sings in the shower and pretends to sound amazing but the moment that water is turned off its like nails on the chalk board. I as a junior haven't completed my required credit. I really don't want to do it next year but I have to. In my life I don't plan on doing anything in the arts so i don't believe that I should be required to waste my class on something I don't need. I rather spend time on something that helps me get closer to my goal of becoming a physician. I believe that it shouldn't be required  it should be optional, I understand where the required credit come for Computer Literacy because as a growing technology era we should  learn the basics of using a computer and being efficient in typing, we would you it in our daily lives either as physicians to dancers. I mean lets really look at what we can learn from the arts if we want to be a physician? Choir teaches you how to sing... Band is for the people who play instruments... Art is for the ones who can draw and I can't to save my life...  Maybe culinary arts because it teaches you to follow procedure but in reality you don't have to because in cooking you can add and remove what you'd like as opposed to having to follow the set procedure in chemistry or in biology. So think about we have to take a class that for some of us doesn't change anything or doesn't affect our lives when we could be taking the class that could help us get one step closer to being what we want to be in life. I leave it for you to think whether your part of the lucky artistic people or not, Should high school students be required to take an art? 

That Really Special Thing to Me

There is a class in the school not understood by many. What class is that you may ask; although it seems obvious. This certain class happens to be my favorite class. NJROTC (Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps). This class is misunderstood for many reasons, the uniform, the curriculum, the teachers and mainly the purpose. This class is just like any other class you come in. You sit down. You listen to your teacher. You do the work, and the outcome is your grade. Does that not sound familiar? Of course it does, but this class does distinct itself from the others. This class is an opportunity  to change your life. That is if you allow it to do so. People come day in and day out... "I hate this class" "This class is stupid." "This uniform is gay." Well that uniform is the same uniform that the men and women that are fighting for our freedom. Of course if these people come in here they will never, ever be able to like that class with the mindset that they have. I say this because I was once one of those people. Its because of these people that this class is so misunderstood. If your not open minded then where will you get in life? Will you ever try new things? An example would be myself I got to ROTC and said the day I walked into the class and automatically said I hated it not knowing the first thing about it. Later my mom just told me to try it to be OPEN-MINDED so I did. Now I'm the XO of my unit (second in charge) and i love the class and wouldn't change it for the world. Its important that when people get to this class not to shut it out just because you have to wear a uniform on Wednesdays, always look at the brighter sides of thing. It will save you loads of looking at your closet wondering what you are going to wear. This is mainly for the people who have heard many scuttlebutt's (nautical term for rumors) about the class so the they know that the class is just a class with many opportunities to better yourself.