PLN #2

The article I read today is called Boulder man kills mountain lion attacking puppy. I found this article in the Denver Post. This article talks about how a man in Boulder, Colorado shot a mountain lion at 1:30 am in his backyard. He only shot the mountain lion to save himself and his puppy. I personally think that he shot the mountain lion to protect mostly himself. It said in the article that the mountain lion started to make its way towards the armed man. So he shouldn't be charged for shooting the lion to protect his dog. He should get off the case because he was protecting himself on his own property. Its just like for example if a man was in your house armed and you found him in your room and you were also armed, you have every right to shoot him because you can die and its on your own property. So my question to this article is should the man be charged for shooting the lion to protect him and his dog, or get off the case for protecting himself from death on his own property?

PLN # 11

Today I read State pushes teens to buckle up more. I found this article in the Denver Post. I really enjoyed reading this article because I think not buckling up is one of the biggest causes of death especially for teenagers.

One girl said that when she was 15 she was driving in a car with some friends and they were speeding. Their car slip on a gravel road and flipped over completely and her and her friends were all hanging upside down by their seat belts. She was then one of the view who started the campaign "Click it or ticket".

"Click it or ticket" I think is one helpful way to remind young adults, even older people, to always buckle up. The Denver Post stated that 71 teenagers died in Colorado from accidents, 50 of those kids were not wearing seat belts. This was only in the year 2005 and it was only in Colorado. Now imagine the amount of loses of teenagers that don't wear seat belts all across America. Not wearing a seat belt may cause severe injuries or worse death.

PLN #7

The article I read was called Phone Searches Spark Protest. I found this article in the Denver Post. This article is talking about how one school, Monarch High School, is not following the law of the state and school district. It is also breaking the rights the students have. Examples of what this school is doing that is so poorly, is that they would take away students cell phones and break in and read all their text messages. That is against their right of privacy. Also the school keeps accusing students of doing bad things like smoking in the parking lots. My opinuin on this, is that schools need to respect the rules of privacy and to respect that kids can do whatever they would like as long as it is not on school property. I did more research after reading this article and found out that reading text messages and make transcripts of them is a felony. This means that the principle, assistant principle, and the teacher who accused this student can be sued.

PLN 7

The article I read today was "Math in life " by James H. The article talks about what teachers should be teaching in math and in any other subject as well. Mr. Holman mainly talked about what he should teach in math that would help students, mainly seniors and college students, as they go further on into life. Some suggestions he put out there were how to handle taxes, credit card interests, mortgages, etc. . I personally think that math teachers should be teaching students these things because taxes, for example, are important to know how to handle. Many young adults look towards there parents to help them in situtations like this. But as you grow older adults know that you need to figure these things out on your own. That is why I think it is a good idea to teach this in classes so every child understands the concept of what they are doing.
The schools in all the other states or countries should do this because it would help make things eaiser and less confusing.
So I agree that we should teach things like how to hand credit cards and money.