Shawn's Response

I respect the ways that Prager feels he can improve the school, but some of his opinions seem too radical to actually be accepted at a high school. I agree with a lot of the stuff he talked about, but when he talked about how he wanted to eliminate students' cultural identity's, I think he went a little far. Just because a club is broken up into groups based on race, doesn't make it a bad thing. Usually students work better when they're able to work in a group that they can relate with, such as, if they have the same religion, same race, or whatever. Prager took a swing at political correctness in his speech, but eliminating student's ability to express their beliefs through certain after school clubs, would prevoke a much more negative response from parents, students, and, perhaps, even from teachers. eliminating these clubs would cause the schools students to fall far behind academically compared to other schools in the state, country, and world. In his paraghraph about the English language, he says he wouldn't offer classes in a native language, which wouldn't work because you have to complete at least two years of a foreign language to graduate. I also disagree with his decision to take away classes that inform students about how harmful smoking, drinking, and unprotected sex are. I mean, this would be a great idea; if you're ok with having a school full of drunk, pregnant, smokers. If the school were to actually eliminate the cultural beliefs of students and fauclty and the "bodily safety" classes, it would cause the schools problems to rise instead of decline. Lastly, I feel like his closing statement about students not knowing the words to the Pledge of Alegiance, is way too far. Students know the Pledge, ,amy just choose not to repeat it, noone can make them say it though, this is America, not Communist Russia.