They Weren't Kidding Around About That Pen Power

It is my insane pleasure to reiterate what was announced at school this morning - the SCHS Athletic Banquet will be taking place on Monday, May 25th - after school. After circulating my blog entry from last night among some of my most highly respected elders and teachers and being confronted by the school's football coach and alternative teacher, Shawn Hager, it got into the mind of the A.D. to reschedule the event to the afternoon. That's what press that hasn't been bought out can get ya.

Though our encounter started out snarky, with him commenting that we indeed have beaten Belfry (and me approriately responding "Yes, once in the four years I've been here. We haven't beaten them at math once in that time."), I appreciated the talk I had with Mr. Hager. My intentions were not to blame the coaches at the school for the event being scheduled as it had been, as it may have been perceived by some. Another teacher I respect highly defended Coach Hager's attitude toward academics in addition to speaking favorably of what I'd written. Again, the coaches and their academic mindsets were not the exact target of my paper, though I realize why it could be easily interpreted as such. I only wanted equal treatment for the athletic honorees in comparison to the academic honorees. And now, that will exist.

The only gripe I took away from the conversation was that he was under the impression someone had put me up to writing the piece. I'm aware that my association with a certain Creative Writing teacher, stout defender of the mountains, and fan of Kentucky literature could have led him to this assumption, but it was a ridiculous one. I don't need a whisper in my ear to push me to voice my opinions about things - I've got enough initiative to stir up my own dust, to rake my own mudd.

Cause if people who are willing to put themselves out there for the world to criticize in order to let people know what they think and to put information out there that needs to be thought about do not do so without a push aside from their own feeling about the situation, eventually the truth will never be told again. There's not always going to be someone to tell you to do something. 

I'm just glad I can tell myself to write something that was able to generate change, however minute, that needed to occur.

Batman, AWAY!!!
Joshua Aaron Moore

Quote of the Day

"I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it." --- Will Rogers