Lindsey Lohan in another high school movie. Go figure. Mean Girls is the topic. I hadn't ever seen it before but after hearing many people talk about it and draw analogies from it I figured it was a need to see. I am not totally sure what I think about it yet. Having never set foot in a public highschool during a school a day in my life, I have very little grasp on how accurate this movie was. However, I think it takes somewhat true stereotypes and pushes them to extremes. I didn't realize that the character Lindsey plays is a homeschooler that goes to school for the first time in highschool at 15. That fact caught my eye when I was reading the back. I can relate to not knowing the music scene or not knowing who certain famous people were when I was hitting my early teens. The dynamic of a goody girl trying to go to public school was an interesting one. It made me laugh because my siblings, along with several other friends of mine, just entered public school after being homeschooled their whole life. Their stories are not as hyped as this movie but some of them relate well. I think it's movies like this that make me want to teach high school. It makes me want to get into that world and see what it's really like and possibly change it. The movie saddened me because if high school is even a fraction like that movie, those people live for nothing. They only see inside their tiny little box called hollywood high school. I think it would be awesome to be a teacher in that school that shows kids the window to the world around them and to the God above them. When I was sixteen I went on a mission trip to a poor town in Ukraine. Zaphorozhye was filled with lost people and it looked to me like everyone there had a drinking problem and lived on the streets. That kind of trip opens your eyes quickly to the fact that the little world you live in, is nothing. I am not sure how all of this ties together at all....but this movie is very dumb but at the same time says a lot.
As I type this I look across my desk at a photo of my students and think of what a different and amazing picture they paint. It is a picture of us on a bridge in La Feria, Texas. There are athletes, popular kids, nerds, homeschoolers, public schoolers, private schoolers, metal heads, band geeks, and everyone else all thrown together. Thrown in the middle is me and one other college student. Two people, who according to the world, shouldn't be accepted by middle schoolers. This picture just reminds me of the power God has over the worlds pop culture. It's a cool picture:)
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