Teenage Alcoholism essays

Teenage Alcoholism essays I am a senior at Plainview High School and I was a part of the sit-in on Thursday the 11th and I was suspended for nine days for my involvement in the act. I am very disappointed in the way this matter was presented to the public and the major part of the information was missing from the article in the Post-Bulletin and on KTTC. First off the major concern of the sit in was not about the loss of a vacation day. The major concern was the destruction of our student council. The student council has gone through a lot this year. They lost an advisor to some unmentionable controversial issues involving the school board and high administration members. Then they lost their authority to be the decision makers of most of the school sanctioned student events. We were also infuriated about the fact that one of the Student council members attended a school board meeting in which when she presented her report they asked everyone in attendance to leave the room and they closed the doors which is against policy to close a school board meeting (when it doesnt have to do with personal business) In the room she was being almost being verbally harassed by the school board for 31 min. The next subject on hand is the so called meeting with select students today (Friday the 12th). They did have a meeting with very select students. In all truth they selected the students who agreed or did not have a feeling either way on the issue. In fact they were so good about selecting students only about 3 of the dozen or so students actually were involved with the sit in. This has lead many students to believe that the school is just trying to push this off till the summer break when we (the seniors) leave and the underclassmen have a whole summer to forget about it. It makes me wonder what else is going on in the school system when the administration is so worried about press being involved that when KTTC showed up Thursday morning, after being allowed ...