A-TECH needs some R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Photo Illustration by Brianna Vargas/Maverick Messenger
Mark Blanco and Alex Sally demonstrate A-TECH’s lack of respect.
By Brianna Vargas
Assistant Editor
In the past weeks, A-TECH has been shaken by disrespectful incidents involving students. As an A-TECH student, it is important to show visitors what makes our school shine. Every one at A-TECH, from students to teachers, knows that our school is something special.
“I wanted to work at A-TECH because of its reputation,” said Graphics teacher Mr. Blount. “A-TECH students are generally hard working and know right from wrong.”
However, given the recent actions of some students at A-TECH, it is hard to believe that all members of A-TECH still strongly withhold these simple morals. Because A-TECH is such a small school, it is absolutely dire that everyone gets along and showing respect to the school, its students, staff, and visitors, is essential.
As Dean Price has said before, “A-TECH is treated like a work environment. Would you act that way at your work?”
A-TECH students should be preparing themselves for the real world and growing up. But, it seems, many students have the opposite attitude and treat A-TECH like a playground where anything, however offensive, is accepted. Its time A-TECH takes a lesson from the RESPECT club and learns to treat others in the way those people would want to be treated.
“ RESPECT stands for respecting every student’s pride, ethnicity, and culture today,” said RESPECT’s Vice President Jessica Lee. “Our club tries to instill consideration for others lifestyles including the clothes they wear, the foods they eat, and their heritage.”
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Is this in relation to an incident that happened at A-tech?
Which incident? lol.
I agree with the writer. Since I’ve been here, everyone respected each other. Yeah, there was a bit of animosity between certain students (not saying anything in specific. Just generalizing) but it was nothing serious. Nowadays, it seems like no one respects each other, everyone’s trashing the school, and no one seems to care. What happened?! We need to bring ATECH back to it’s golden days instead of the daze we’re in now.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T? I don’t know what it means to me…
what incident
I’m sorry, I don’t see the point of this article…
This is so pathetic.
wow when did the maverick messenger become unprofessional
this whole thing sounds like gossip
and your basically slandering, so good job assistant editor!
you gotta remember that we are TEENAGERS and we shouldn’t have to be sheltered in a “work” atmosphere. i’m sorry but not everyone is uptight.
have fun at atech
and i agree with elmira
this thing really does not have a point
ahaha what are you talking about? what incident? and how have atech students not been showing respect? this article really makes no since at all. and when was atech ever golden?
Do you people not realize that we are teenagers?
even if we are a advanced school. we are still kids.
kids do stupid stuff.
its not like there are fights.
compared to every other school in the valley, we are saints.
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Really now? Perhaps this is what happens when administration changes the restrictions for ATECH so everyone has an equal chance. Before ATECH was exclusive to those who were worthy to enter. Now you see what I have said for a couple years now, ATECH is changing and is not what it once was. I understand the need to change the restrictions because of sue-happy, everybody is equal America, but the change in work ethic of the student body was inevitable because of the changes. The CCSD and the ATECH administration has no one to blame but themselves.
I have to agree with F. Pasties. Kids at ATECH are treated like kids in all the stupidest ways and adults in all the worst. We do more work on a daily basis than most in the “work place” do in a week or so. It’s pretty ridiculous how we’re all expected to give our youth’s away willingly to pointless assignments and pathetic restrictions. Everyone tells us high school is the best time of our lives. If that’s true, I would rather not see how much worse it can get. Hasn’t anyone ever talked to Mr. Stridde about our uncontrollable hormones and underdeveloped brains? We shouldn’t be expected to be adult every second of every day because guess what, WE AREN’T EVEN GROWN YET!
This article said a lot without actually saying anything; I have no idea what these “incidents” are. Maybe if I did, I would be more on the lookout for such disr-e-s-p-e-c-t.
Wow just explained everything perfectly
We’re still maturing, thus we’ll do idiotic things, get over it.
I LOVE YOU, F. PASTIES! <3
But yeahhh this school seems kind of dull compared to all the other ones in the world.
I feel like I’m missing out on some things here that I would have experienced at another high school.
The administration makes a big deal out of everything, because it seems like they are bored and need something to do, so they take it out on student by disciplining them for completely ridiculous (and minor, might I add) instead of trying to make the school better and actually listening to what we want changed (a la RSVP). Sorry.
Okay bye.
HAHAH i love you AYO JAYSUSSS. and i have a feeling i know who you are.
and as for this: “this school seems kind of dull compared to all the other ones in the world”
your wrong. it’s not “kind of dull”
it is COMPLETELY dull, lifeless, monotonous, vapid, and colorless.
all atech has ever done, was try to get rid of anybody who brought something vibrant to this school
You know that website, Fmylife.com?
Yeah, for me everyday would be “Today, I went to school. FML”
We need more things that are fun to be be happening and the administration needs to ACTUALLY LISTEN, not PRETEND TO about what we want.
Maybe “incidents” like this would happen less often, then.
And please, teenagers will be teenagers, let them live a little. We are not Stepford Wives; we ARE going to act out. It’s in our hormones. It’s HIGH SCHOOL, things like that should be expected.
Yeah, we get good grades and are the best in the state and won 1839127828191912919 awards, whatever. But we’re still PEOPLE with growing minds that are trying to figure themselves out, and we deserve to be treated the same way as the other teens. Not robots.
And that’s all I have to say.
cosign :]
“all atech has ever done, was try to get rid of anybody who brought something vibrant to this school”
What are you, some kind of conspiracy theorist?
If you knew the right people, life at A-Tech wouldn’t be so boring.
Also, #12 and #18 summed up the situation perfectly
ha believer, the right people at atech are BORING. that whole school is BORING. live a little