Students listen to the presentation at St. Andrew's.
Tuesday, the day after Martin Luther King Day, Community High School was one of the many schools that presented a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The entire school was split up into two locations: Craft Theater and St. Andrew’s. After block six classes were let out, students assembled into one of these two locations. For the Craft Theater, it was difficult, as nearly 250 students had to be packed into the small theater.
The people in my U.S. History class can be frustrating. Whenever we have class discussions, everyone gangs up on this one kid, whose views are slightly more conservative than the supposed views of the rest of us. He’s a Republican at a liberal arts and science school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which I can imagine would be hard to begin with. And every Tuesday and Thursday morning, whether we’re talking about economics or health care, my classmates accuse him of being close-minded and ignorant.
But here’s the thing–the discussion always goes in circles, or nowhere at all. Some of these kids seem to think that they’re entitled to an opinion, no research required. Like any town with a dominant political party, it can be easy to fall into Ann Arbor’s liberal trap. In U.S. Government last year, we would talk about the presidential election, and no one could say a word about any of Obama’s policies. They only talked about “change.”
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