"Bozo" Bus Driver has no Common Sense

Yesterday a five-year-old first grader was dropped off in the middle of the Bronx and left to wander the streets. The New York Daily News said that the little boy, Jaeden, was supposed to go to the after school program next door to his school but was accidentally put on the bus instead. Not knowing what was going on, Jaeden rode the bus until that last stop when the bus driver forced him to get off. The bus driver didn't even care that Jaeden had no adult waiting to pick him up. What else is a five-year-old to do but listen to his elders? This poor little boy had to ask a stranger for help because he was lost.

This is a disgrace. First of all, this kid was supposed to go right next door to the school for an after school program and somehow he was put on the bus. The school should have a better system of organizing where the kids are going after school whether it's on the bus, getting picked up, or going to an after school program. It wouldn't have been such an ordeal if the bus driver just took this little boy back to school after he realized that this kid wasn't getting off the bus but that's not what happened. Jaeden rode the bus until the last stop where the bus driver forced him to get off. This kid is five years old, he doesn't know any better than to listen to this bus driver. I can't believe that the bus driver didn't even realize that he didn't have anyone waiting to pick him up. Also, shouldn't he/she know what kids ride the bus? If someone that doesn't usually ride the bus that this driver is driving the driver should have figured that out and brought the kid back to school. This poor little boy had to fend for himself and ask a stranger for help because he was lost. Now, he's in the Bronx, this person that he asked for help could have been some bad guy with a gun and kidnapped him or something. Luckily this story has a happy ending. The lady that the little boy asked for help called the school and got him to his mother.

The Importance of a Blog

A blog can be very helpful in the learning process of this class. Learning about online journalism is very important because this day in age, media and online are used more than print. By posted entries and discussing other authors' works, it will help us understand what kind of topics we should write about and how we should write it. A great benifit of using a blog for part of our learning is that we get experience with online writing and people can even look at our blogs and comment on them. A drawback to using a blog could be that a person may comment on something that you wrote that you thought you did a good job on but they think the total opposite. All in all, writing a blog is such a good way to get your ideas out there and really helps with learning about the journalism of today.

Blogs can also be very helpful with learning in general. I recently learned that you can even search for different kinds of topics that blogs are about. Being able to do this will allow a person to learn about anything. If someone was interested in reading someone's thoughts about the election it would only take a two second search to find an infinite amount of blogs.

Is the Superintendent Smarter than a Fifth Grader?

This past Friday, a superintendent from Georgia, Kathy Cox, won $1 million on the television show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". The New York Times stated that instead of keeping the money for herself, she decided to give the money to three schools in the state two of which were for the deaf and the other one to that for the blind. It was also a risk for her to go on the show because if she got a question wrong "she would embarass herself and the state school system". Luckily, when she chose to go for the million dollar question, she answered correctly and won the game. She says that she went for the million dollar question because she didn't want to have to say that she was "dropping out of school" in front of the children that many people are trying to keep in school. She didn't have to say she dropped out, but she did get to be the first to say, "I am smarter than a fifth grader."

I was really excited when I read this article because I always watch this show and I scream at the television when people can't get a first grade math question correct. I was even more happy that someone who is involved in the school system won the game. It would have been so embarassing for this superintendent to lose and have to say that she wasn't smarter than a fifth grader. I would lose respect for the schools in Georgia because the superintendent couldn't answer some of these simple questions. I've watched one in the past where the contestant was a former student of an Ivy league school and he got stuck of some of the simplest questions. Let's just say that this lady took risks and she was smart enough not to embarass herself.