"Dougco school vandals cause $15,000 in damage"
This article, posted in the Denver Post, shocked me. I was just scanning through to find an article and I glimpsed at the words, “Mountain Vista High School was vandalized.” Since I know several people from Vista, I quickly opened the article. At 1:45am this morning an employee with District Security patrolling the school parking lot spotted three people just wondering around, before any of the damage was discovered. The Vandals threw several large rocks through the windows near the front of the school. The rocks also damaged several office computers, and caused about $15,000 in damage.
After reading this article, I started thinking about all the people who could have done it. Could it have been Vista’s competitors? Or even a student from Vista? I think that vandalizing property, especially school property has no point. What are the reasons people do it? Is it to get revenge? Or is it to show hatred towards someone or something? I think what those people did to the school was terrible, and why would someone do such a thing? There is nothing that can happen to a person that has hurt them so badly mentally that they have to take revenge on someone else. What also upset me was in the article was that it stated the three vandals were spotted before any damage was even done. I think of this as, its 1:30 in the morning and District Security observed three strange people wondering the school and didn’t think of doing anything about it. It makes me wonder, how much exactly schools are being monitored at night. I just think this whole situation is terrible and could have been prevented.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
This article, posted in the Denver Post, shocked me. I was just scanning through to find an article and I glimpsed at the words, “Mountain Vista High School was vandalized.” Since I know several people from Vista, I quickly opened the article. At 1:45am this morning an employee with District Security patrolling the school parking lot spotted three people just wondering around, before any of the damage was discovered. The Vandals threw several large rocks through the windows near the front of the school. The rocks also damaged several office computers, and caused about $15,000 in damage.
After reading this article, I started thinking about all the people who could have done it. Could it have been Vista’s competitors? Or even a student from Vista? I think that vandalizing property, especially school property has no point. What are the reasons people do it? Is it to get revenge? Or is it to show hatred towards someone or something? I think what those people did to the school was terrible, and why would someone do such a thing? There is nothing that can happen to a person that has hurt them so badly mentally that they have to take revenge on someone else. What also upset me was in the article was that it stated the three vandals were spotted before any damage was even done. I think of this as, its 1:30 in the morning and District Security observed three strange people wondering the school and didn’t think of doing anything about it. It makes me wonder, how much exactly schools are being monitored at night. I just think this whole situation is terrible and could have been prevented.
After reading this article, I started thinking about all the people who could have done it. Could it have been Vista’s competitors? Or even a student from Vista? I think that vandalizing property, especially school property has no point. What are the reasons people do it? Is it to get revenge? Or is it to show hatred towards someone or something? I think what those people did to the school was terrible, and why would someone do such a thing? There is nothing that can happen to a person that has hurt them so badly mentally that they have to take revenge on someone else. What also upset me was in the article was that it stated the three vandals were spotted before any damage was even done. I think of this as, its 1:30 in the morning and District Security observed three strange people wondering the school and didn’t think of doing anything about it. It makes me wonder, how much exactly schools are being monitored at night. I just think this whole situation is terrible and could have been prevented.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Digital Native Photo of the Day
Digital Native Photo Of The Day posted in the Fischbowl
In the article, Digital Native Photo of the Day, posted in the Fischbowl it is about how the world that Mr. Fisch grew up in has changed drastically to the world that the kids today our living. In his blog, he explained how back then, his family had only one phone in the house and how there was no such thing as internet etc. The article also contained a photo of Mr. Fisch’s 7 year-old daughter. His daughter was multi-tasking and holding a cell phone in one hand and typing on her laptop in the other. New programs, like Webkinz, Neopets, etc. Encourage kids to get online and interact with technology. From experience, with a family friend who is now 8 years old, she is into things like iPods, “Club Penguin” (another game similar to Webkinz) and especially cell phones. When I was 8 years old I was playing things such as Barbie’s and Colored Game Boys. I didn’t even know what the internet was. Looking back to compare these differences amazes me. It feels like a few months since I was that age and to see how far this country has advanced in technology just astonishes me. This whole situation definitely makes me wonder what we are going to be like in maybe just a few years from now. We are constantly growing in new technology almost daily.
In the article, Digital Native Photo of the Day, posted in the Fischbowl it is about how the world that Mr. Fisch grew up in has changed drastically to the world that the kids today our living. In his blog, he explained how back then, his family had only one phone in the house and how there was no such thing as internet etc. The article also contained a photo of Mr. Fisch’s 7 year-old daughter. His daughter was multi-tasking and holding a cell phone in one hand and typing on her laptop in the other. New programs, like Webkinz, Neopets, etc. Encourage kids to get online and interact with technology. From experience, with a family friend who is now 8 years old, she is into things like iPods, “Club Penguin” (another game similar to Webkinz) and especially cell phones. When I was 8 years old I was playing things such as Barbie’s and Colored Game Boys. I didn’t even know what the internet was. Looking back to compare these differences amazes me. It feels like a few months since I was that age and to see how far this country has advanced in technology just astonishes me. This whole situation definitely makes me wonder what we are going to be like in maybe just a few years from now. We are constantly growing in new technology almost daily.
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