Sunday, August 12, 2012

Same Sex Universities?

This post is a response to Arturo Artigas post about same Sex Universities. 

I think you are right on point with this blog post. I as well believe that we should not make our students have same sex public schools and universities. The idea of that is ridiculous. I know that if they would have put me in a same sex school when I was younger, I would not have had the type of social interaction I needed to succeed in the real world. Having both women and men in the same school is a good thing. They try to blame the problem on the whole to many girls having children and dropping out of school problem. 

I think that is a problem but I read in a KXAN article "a greater percentage of students at Pearce and Garcia have friends involved in gang activity and have used marijuana and alcohol." I think the schools should be more worried about their children getting into drugs and alcohol, which tends to lead more towards under age sex. If kids are having more under aged sex then their will be more risk of teen pregnancies. Instead of focusing all the problem of the pregnancies fix the problem of drugs and alcohol that lead to teen pregnancies. 

Another thing you had talked about that I really liked was how the Board of Trustee's are viewing the survey results. They really need to listen to the people because if they really went through with this system of schooling I think it will create more problems then there already are. In that same article it said “The Department of Education has declared that basing curriculum on gender stereotypes is unconstitutional." Which I think is very true because students in public schools should have the right of going to school with different sexes. The American Civil Liberties Union recently started a national campaign and are trying to go in and sue schools with one sex schooling. I am al for that campaign and hope they do not force our Austin students to be in same sex schools.


Friday, August 10, 2012

People not liking the Voter ID bill


I recently read an article in the New York Times about how Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, the chairman of the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus in the Texas House of Representatives, went to Washington this week, to try and say that people should not need to show voter ID when voting. His excuse was that some people live 200 miles away from DPS offices and that the Republicans just do it to hurt Democratic votes. 

I personally think that is stupid. I think every person should have to show a voter ID to be able to vote. I think having a voter ID is one of the smartest and best ways of reducing voter fraud in not just Texas, but all of the United States today. Having just a voter registration card makes it easy for someone else to use your vote if you do not want it or steal it. I really hate how the Democrats are all saying how the Republican’s are purposely trying to hurt the minorities by doing this. They are trying to just reduce the amount of fraud. I mean anyone could see how this would be a better idea. A drivers license costs $20 and I’m guessing an ID cost some where around their too. I know people say how it would be a lot like a poll tax with the whole ID costing money. I really just think that every one should have some sort of ID. It would really just make everything easier. Also people who do not have an ID should not be operating motor vehicles or have a job that requires having an ID which is most. I just think this is the best idea for our state of Texas.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Voter ID law?

This post is a response to Carrie Sander's blog post called "Texas voter ID is a must".

There is not need to for to criticize this article because I partly believe this as well. I just wanted to comment and add some stuff to it and some better reasons why we should attain this law.

Carrie talked about how the Republican party says we need voter ID's and how the Democrats say thats discrimination to the minorities. In my opinion its not discrimination at all. I truly think at least in the state of Texas they should make people show some sort of ID when voting. How do you know that someone isn't just using someone else's voter registration card and taking their vote, because they do not want to vote themselves. Having an ID to vote is a completely logical way of helping stop voter fraud.

When the voters say it will hurt the "minorities", they mostly mean the Hispanics. The reason for that is "Texas added 4 million people to its population between 2000 and 2010, he said, and 90 percent of them were Hispanics." said in this Times Union article. Everyone knows that a lot of those immigrants did not come here legally. Their is a huge chance that some of the illegals are using some of our own citizens voting cards. Then they have the excuse that a lot of the poor people can't buy ID's. Do y'all know how much a Driver's license cost? Around $20 and all these people are trying to tell me that these people without Driver's licenses are not driving already? Even if these people are poor the majority of them probably drive to work and that means without a drivers license. So by making people who want to vote have an ID it could also decrease on the amount of unlicensed drivers as well.


 The only reason why the Democrats don't want the voter bill is, because they will lose some of their minority votes that they would need to win any of the elections. No matter how you see it, most people could see that this is not just a good idea, but needs to happen. I hope this bill gets passed.