Students Acting Rebellious

   My Sophomore year of High  School, I took an extra class at 6:50 in the morning so I can get some extra credits. I had this teacher that was always 10-15 minutes late everyday, and show up with Starbucks in her hand. So we realized that she was late becuase her Vente Carmel Frapuccino was more important to her then educating us on time. Classes at my high school were usually 50 minutes long, but this class was 40, so we were a little behind. Plus, her being late 10-15 minutes plus the shortened time, we would have about 30 minutes of instruction everyday. Because of that short time, we would just watch history movies all day. We barely even learned anything and everybody was struggling on tests. the day after we all got our tests back, we all saw that most students got a D or an F, with some C's and the ultra rare B by one student. That day, she was late as usual, and instead of maybe asking questions about the past test, or wondering why all her students failed, she just plopped on another boring history channel movie from her TiVo. As she puts this movie on, one daring kid in my class starts packing up his stuff and starts leaving. My teacher asked why he was leaving, and he said, "because I didn't wake up at 6 in the morning to go to class and watch History documentaries on TV. I'm not learning anything I might as well go home." and so he left. The whole class was in shock of what happened. I couldnt believe what just happened. after that day, for the rest of the year, we never watched another movie, we actually learned, and I thanked that kid in my history class for it.

     This video of Duncanville High School student Jeff Bliss has gone viral on YouTube. with millions of views on this video, it's safe to say a lot of people has heard about this man. To me, this guy is a hero. he stood up for what he believed in, and that takes a lot of courage. this story reminded me a little bit of the book we read in class called, Bread Givers. The whole essay we wrote about on how if Sarah was a hero or not, and this dude shows some heroic qualities. He shows a lot of courage, and in that courage, he shows a lot of passion. you can tell by the fire in his voice that he was pissed off at this teacher. He kept talking about how he never learned because he kept getting packets and the teacher never taught anything. I once had a teacher like that. I'm sure most of us have, but have you ever seen somebody with the guts to stick up to a teacher like that? It's a very rare sighting.