Let's draft letters to the editor regarding the news articles and this article we'll explore on Wednesday: For your post, paste your entire letter (150 words max!). Make sure you understand the stylistic requirements of the genre (just what is a letter to the editor?). For responses, give feedback. What works, what doesn't? Are there any logical fallacies? Is the evidence sufficient? How can the appeals to audience be more persuasive? etc.
Final Draft of your letter is due on Tuesday!!!
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I feel this student should be allowed to have his club, its all in the first amendment like we have been discussing in class. This club would be a good idea, and I also feel that I would want to be allowed to start any club at school I wanted to start. It's freedom of speech and high school is our start into the real world isn't It? it's a big preparation for the real world? Well then they should give us ALL of our first amendment rights while at school. Don't get me wrong they should limit us to a small degree, but they should be encouraging us to express our views on politically corrupted subjects.
-Nicole
The kid should be allowed to have his club. If you don't like the idea, don't join. It's as simple as that. There's no need to protest, or to write letter's to editors, suck it up. If you oppose it so much, start a club that counters it. If you say you're too lazy to start a club, then you don't really care, so stop whining.
The kid should be allowed to have his club. If you don't like the idea, don't join. It's as simple as that. There's no need to protest, or to write letter's to editors, suck it up. If you oppose it so much, start a club that counters it. If you say you're too lazy to start a club, then you don't really care, so stop whining.
Nicole has a good point that you should be able to start any club you want in school beacuse it is our setup for the real world. Kudos Nicole.
Not letting students speak would "punish kids"
October 25, 2007 3:49 pm
In a recent letter to the editor, (A school-club free-for-all, October 20, 2007) someone complained about letting students start a Pro-Choice Club at CFHS. The concerned parent argues that they would not feel comfortable with their child being a part of this club. So don't let your child join that club! Or if you really want to protest, start a Pro-Life Club.
The parents other argument is that allowing this club would be a gateway to all controversial clubs, like a Legalize Drugs Club. Who wants to start a Legalize Drugs Club? That should not even be an argument. Drugs are illegal, being Pro-Choice is not.
If you're against a club, then don't join that club! As long as they stick strictly to sharing their ideas and informing other students about them (not trying to persuade other students to conform to their beliefs) then there is no problem.
Adrienne Johnson Spotsylvania
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Not letting students speak would "punish kids"
October 25, 2007 3:49 pm
In a recent letter to the editor, (A school-club free-for-all, October 20, 2007) someone complained about letting students start a Pro-Life Club at CFHS. The concerned parent argues that they would not feel comfortable with their child being a part of this club. So don't let your child join that club! Or if you really want to protest, start a Pro-Choice Club.
The parent argues that "If a judge rules, in essence, that if you allow one club you must allow another it could open schools to having to permit virtually any club a student wants to start." The parent is saying that allowing this club would be a gateway to all controversial clubs, like a Legalize Drugs Club. No it would not! Who wants to start a Legalize Drugs Club? That should not even be an argument. Drugs are illegal, being Pro-Life is not. Also note the "If" from above. "If a judge rules." But they didn't! It's all hypothetical! The parent is using irrational ethical appeals, a sarcastic manner, and improbable and unreal ideals for clubs without any background or support to follow them up throughout their entire whiny letter.
If you're against a club, then don't join that club! As long as they stick strictly to sharing their ideas and informing other students about them (not trying to persuade other students to conform to their beliefs) then there is no problem. Let the students do what they'd like within realistic reasoning.
Adrienne Johnson Spotsylvania
In a recent letter to the editor, (A school-club free-for-all, October 20, 2007) an individual felt that having a club for pro-choice at colonial forge high school, a parent with a child-student at CFHS, wrote of disagreement with a pro-choice club at the school. If the student feels so strongly about the subject, start your own counteracting club. This kid can have his club if he wants it, just the same as i'd expect to be allowed to have a club i wanted to start. Don't get me wrong we need some limits but not that strict of limits.
they should give us all our first amendment rights in high school and teach us of our first amendment rights to help us understand what we can do to express it. but in all honestly where one persons freedom begins, anothers ends.
Nicole Mahaney, spotsylvania county.
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