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Date: 09 November 2011 16:36:56
Ok, first rule - don't blog about work....well not going to exactly. At the moment I am doing some extra hours teaching and back with a bunch of AS and A2 students. The syllabus I'm teaching is not the one I am warmly familiar with and have taught most often but this means in someways I'm enjoying it more. This week I have been teaching about Bedroom Culture, Girl Power and Riot Grrrl and the theory that goes with it. It's been kind of fun because to illustrate some of my points I have gotten to play Sandra Dee from Grease, Wanna Be by the Spice Girls and Violet by Hole and so it's been a kind of sing-a-long-a-Sociology.
Being with these young people though I have been filled with thoughts of "what do your lives hold?" Whilst this thought is something I regularly sort of think about individuals with this bunch I look and think it in a more collective and profound way. I know that some of you reading have concerns about young people who are not as fortunate as this bunch and those questions must be even deeper, but I am questioning in my context. It is for that reason I support the young people in whose footsteps many of them will follow who are out on the streets tonight. This BBC report explains what they're doing as does this page from the group organising the demo.