Q3 Blog 3

Would you take advice from a teenager about your credit card bills? Many people would answer this question with a big fat no because they would think that a teenager would have no knowledge whatsoever about credit card bills. However being a 16 year old teenager i would have to disagree with that statement. Just because teenagers are young doesn't mean that we do not have the knowledge about what to do about credit card bills. I for one know a lot about credit card bills because i always help my mom with hers and sometimes i even do them for her. Many parents would argue and say that all teenagers have on their mind is sex, drugs, alcohol and school. However that right there is an overgeneralization and is a fallacy. Just because most teenagers are like that and only think about those four things doesn't mean that all of the teenagers think like that. I would say that we teens have a lot to offer not only to our parents but to the whole city when it comes to bills and money because the way things look right now the city and state need help and new ideas about how to save money. There is one big reason why this does not happen and that is because we do not have enough ethos as teenagers because almost all the adults have this stereotype on all the teenagers and that stereotype limits not only what we are capable of but it limits the growth of the teenagers into adults.

Q3 Blog 4

Getting an F on your report card is one thing that all teenagers want to avoid, not only because it looks bad on your report card when colleges look to accept you or not, but also because all of the things the school will do to you like send you to tutoring. At my school teachers everyday urge teenagers not to be late because if you are late a total of 5 times to class then you receive an automatic F in your citizenship grade. So if teacher urge us not to be late to class then why do they not allow us to run to class so we can be on time and not receive an F on our report card? I remember a few years ago i was going to be late for class so i started to run to class and a teacher stopped me and told me not to run. I ended up being late and i got an F on my report card. That F did not only affect me at the time but now that F could hurt my chances of going to the university of my dreams. This normative ideology that schools put upon the students effects us in more ways than one and although some teachers may argue and say that the reason they don't let us run in the hallways is because its dangerous and someone might bump into someone and cause an accident, also instead of running how about coming earlier to class i would argue back and say that even though i run in the halls of the schools it doesn't mean its a 100% chance that i am going to bump into someone and even if i do what is the worst that can happen, maybe papers scattered everywhere and two people on the floor shaken up but thats all. The long term effects of not running to class and being late hurts the person more than crashing into someone. Also what i would say to those teachers that say that teenagers should just get to class earlier i would say "what if i have P.E and my next class is on the other side of the campus," what do i do then? The campus itself is basically telling me to run because of how big it is. Teenagers should be able to reject the normative ideology of us walking to class because it will ultimately affect and hurt us in the future more than it would if we crashed into someone.