Friday, September 25, 2009

Aw, how cute...


All of my students have read the student handbook and they've all heard my lecture about inappropriate subject matter at the beginning of the term yet I keep finding things like this when I clean my room. It's really amazing how the drug culture has become so important to so many of my students. This was on a transparency, presumably destined to become a silkscreen. It's actually kind of funny and subversive. It kind of reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw the other day that said something like, "the hippies wanted to change the world but all they do now is smoke pot and play frisbee golf". I think the Care Bears might as well get high all the time because, as a group, they have become culturally irrelevant.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

4:20


At the beginning of every term I ask my students to please refrain from creating images that advertise or glorify drugs and every term I have to deal with students who missed or ignored my request. I try to be as open as possible to a student's self expression needs. Being drug related alone is not enough to disqualify a project. If a student were to create something that actually said something thoughtful about drugs or drug use, I think I'd be inclined to defend it. Unfortunately the only thing that the pieces I get are trying to say is, "I am a drug user". It makes me sad.