The Disciplinarian

The position of Assistant Principle at the Lovett school is a hard one indeed. The job requires balancing lots of different tasks including planning assemblies and other administrative duties. But students rarely see that side of the Assistant Principle, they only see his role as the school disciplinarian. They have been famous and they have been infamous but we always remember our Assistant Principle. The new faculty member spear heading this task is Mr. Malito. Have been working with him more this year because of my position on SGA and I would simply like to publicly thank him for the great job he is doing. Of course we've only been in school two days but I think he is doing a great job.

I would also like to make it public knowlage that I really liked Sr. Yohn. While I may be among the few, I think he also did a fairly good job in his position. And he was really nice if you got to know him. But it is a hard job and I commend all those who rise to the task. And while we all Sam Even's "Bell Time," I think we have found a worthy successor.

The Convenience Factor

Lovett has done two things at the start of the school year which have generally made me a little irritated. First, the Senior Caravan was canceled and second, we are no longer allowed to paint on the athletic doors. Now of course there are substitutions in the works for both of these problems but it all comes down to a very simple cause: convenience. It is more convenient for the seniors to enter the first day of school in a very orderly and normal fashion, and it is more convenient to not have to clean the athletic doors. But is it not also more convenient not to have homecoming? Homecoming is just a lot of work. But homecoming is different you say? Well I agree but I think I have proven my point. I think we can put up with a little traffic on the first day of school and the loud music accompanied. And I think we could probably find a way to not burdened the housekeeping staff, but that would take energy, something apparently hard to come by on the Lovett campus.

Way too PC

Well I'm not going to play fun word games with you this time because this is just downright annoying. (To understand that sentence please read at least the first paragraph of the blog below.) So for those of you who don't go to Lovett (on a side note: please leave a comment cause I would love to know if anyone other than Lovett students read this) being the Vice President of the student body I was in charge of reading the announcements during Monday morning assembly. Because they are usually boring I tried to spice it up with a little stand up routine (I should have known). So I basically make fun of the announcements. In my eyes the highlights were: no one doing summer reading, and the comment about private school. I figured those were a little on the edge and I might catch some flack for those if any at all, I seriously doubted anyone would bother to say anything because nothing was bad unto its self. So when Dr. Dunkle, the principle walks up to me, I am already getting annoyed because I know what is coming. So he starts up all political with the "that was a great assembly" bit. So he once he is through the rhetoric (BS) he says that he didn't like it, it got old, and then he lectured me on my comments about ... none other than ... golf? I'm sitting there with my mind racing trying to remember what I could have possibly said about golf. And all I can think of was that I said, "I've always wanted to go to a golf match." How in the world did that offend anyone? I really have always wanted to go to a golf match! So here is the ultimatum:

I agree with the whole tolerance thing at Lovett (get ready for some blogs about that) but only to this extent: I will tolerate everyone by making fun of everyone equally. I would like to point out that if we are trying to equip people for college we cannot shield them from a comment about golf. This obsession with political correctness is just creating a bubble for everyone at Lovett that will rock their world when it actually pops. We are tolerating ourselves to death and if I don't have enough freedom to read the announcements (or anything else), they might as well come out and say that they are going to limit free speech, which of course is their choice.

Not Very PC

Lovett is not very PC friendly, not at all. Even though it is crammed full of PC people, they insist on not letting us be a PC campus. Now many of you are probably appalled right now because you are thinking that Lovett is not very Politically Correct (all the rage these days). Well guess what ... you are dead WRONG!!!

Lovett is a Mac Campus ... Yes this blog is about computers, not politics. I have a personal vendetta against Mac's but this is not a place for me to tell you all the reasons PCs are better. I am here to note that there are benefits to both PCs and Macs. Macs are great when it comes to design and areas such as that, and the Visual Arts program uses them a lot there. Great, they are little and cute so lets put them all over campus.

But what about the rest of us? What about those of us who don't quite appreciate the little white apple with a portion bitten out? What about those of us who aren't going into the design world? Well, Lovett is still on top of the ball, they installed 3 PC's in the library this year ... Hooray! But wait, why can I never use them? Because every one else wants to!

Okay enough with the cynicism, here is the solution: To prepare Lovett students for the rest of our lives we need to know the basic premise of both. I know enough about Macs to properly use them and actually I know a lot more than I really care to know. But we have 4 computer labs side by side, not to mention several others else where. All full of the white boxes. The answer is simple ... Do what every other school does: have some PC labs and some Mac labs. Its not that difficult. Sticking our head in the sand because we like the Apple will solve nothing!

The Election

Well, the results are in and I ... Didn't win.

First of all, I would like to give my sincere congratulations to Jackson. I think he is an awesome person and a very worthy candidate. I probably would have voted for him had I not run and I think he will make a very good president.

Also some side notes: I took a good shot at it and lost so if you are speaking to me you don't have to avoid the subject just because I didn't win. Also, I do think that Lovett's elections are a bit of a populatiy contest but nothing compared to how it could be. I think we do a very good job.

I pledge Allegiance to the ... Lovett?

Something occurred to me today as I was talking to someone. I was talking about the school I grew up in and talking about our day and what we did and things and I was talking about how we used to have a devotion every morning. This is when the light bulb went on:

At The Lovett School the average high school student probably says the pledge of allegiance at a maximum of three times a year.

Does that seem strange to anyone? Where I come from we said it every day with out fail. Not just on chapel or assembly days ... EVERY DAY. And even Public Schools do that. At my old school, we had a devotional, a prayer, and the pledge every morning. I wouldn't expect that of Lovett, but my gosh, you would think that we weren't even in America. And on a side note I checked today, there is no American Flag on the High School campus, unless you count the one hidden away in the corner of the football field, and it was not flying today. That's just sad.

Heart to Heart

Here is something fun and exciting that Lovett does once a year. We fill out a survey and then on Valentines Day, we are given a list of who we are most compatible with. It isn't serious and usually it just provides a good laugh. I really like it and I think if they would do fun little things like that all the time it would just lighten up the monotonous school life every once in a while. And you never know, it could just get something started. (Good luck to all those lucky guys who got Mrs. Wingate on their list!)