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Well, I’m not exactly sure what freedom means, but to me, it is a certain idea. Here goes. I think that freedom is being able to do what you want, but with reasonable restrictions that prevent one from going TOO far. I’m so grateful for this freedom, especially the freedom of speech we’ve been talking about in English and Social Studies. Having freedom of speech, I can say most anything I want, as long as it is not affecting others in a negative way. I can go on and on about basically whatever I please, and that really is a great blessing. I can give my opinions, my beliefs, and my feelings to others freely. The one part of speech that can be bad is when you threaten someone or make up lies about them, which is called slander. We are not free to do those things, and I believe that to be good. Those hurt people and are not something we should be able to do freely, because these rules to freedom are to help, not hurt. However, us students in Ms. Rumford’s class need to remember that those rights are the rights of adults. Being students in a school, we have less rights to do what we want and we must be careful. For instance, students have rules against swearing. People could say that that is unconstitutional, but, since we are kids, it’s fine to have those rules. If we went up to a teacher and said “You are a hag,” we would get in big trouble. Although we have freedom of speech, we are not allowed to do that. Just recently I got in trouble with one of my teachers. I was trying to do something nice for her, but she didn’t like it and got mad at me. I didn’t really yell, but my voice got more emotional and angry as I told her I really was trying to do something nice for her, to help her with something she needed help with. Then she yelled at me even more, and I left. I’m freaked out to go to her class, and I have it today. Yikes :( Also, all of this stuff really pertains to bloggers and our blogs. We have somewhere we can post whatever we want, but that doesn’t mean it will come without consequences. Ms. Rumford told us about a kid who got expelled from his school because he wrote on his blog that he was going to (Listen now, this is funny) that he was going to hire a *hitman* and kill his teacher. lol. That is just funny to me. I mean, who would ctually put that up? Later he said he was “joking,” but it was too late. I mean wow. Try to think about what you’re actually saying, eh? Like that boy/girl (I’m not sure), we have to be careful about what we say. Like Ms. Rumford said “The Internet is not something you can hide behind and flippantly cock your head and shrug you shoulder in a sign of arrogance.” We really do need to think about what we are posting, ad make sure it is appropriate for everyone. Think about it. Is it something you would say to your grandma? I don’t really know what we’re supposed to be talking about now, but yeah.
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Your definition of freedom is similar to mine. I think it is about being able to do whatever you want however we want to without going too far out of the limit. The boy/girl should have thought about what would be the consequences when he/she said he/she would hire someone to kill their teacher. The second chance was not given, and I don’t think it was supposed to.
Hi Dohee, thanks for responding! It makes me feel really good when people leave comments on my posts. I totally agree with you about the second chance and the kid. He did something stupid, and the consequences of his actions were to get expelled. You’re totaly right about how we can do whatever we want WITHOUT GOING OUT OF LINE. Good point. If we take it too far, we lose freedom.