Tag: From The Classroom
From The Classroom: Yet Another Modest Proposal About Snow
As promised, here is my first of two ‘modest proposals’ (yes, modeled a bit on Jonathan Swift’s immortal one) about the recent school closures due to snow. This first one pokes fun at the overcautious parent who starts demanding that schools close when he or she sees the first snowflake. Don’t fret, overbearing moms & [...]
From The Classroom: Another Modest Proposal About Snow
(Readers: Apologies for the length between columns. The past two weeks were filled with midterm exams.) In the past two weeks, we’ve had a few storms and nastiness. We also had some snow. The ‘storms and nastiness’ I’m referring to resulted directly from the snow. Specifically, the comments about school closing, and the comments about [...]
From The Classroom: RAVENNNNNSSSSSS
Whenever the Ravens make the playoffs, Maryland might as well be one big tailgating party. A quick Saturday trip around Annapolis Harbor Center was enough to paint a beautiful picture of Annapolis’ purple-and-black pride—on a day when the Ravens weren’t even playing, no less! The cars in the parking lot sported Ravens flags and stuck-on decals, [...]
From the Classroom: Seth Perry’s Top 10 11 Of 2010
Well, the duplicate sweaters have been returned, the Christmas cookies are beginning to double as mold colonies, and, by the grace of God, I’ve got almost a year until I have to resume fabricating answers to my little siblings’ questions about Santa’s existence. This downtime after Christmas is a good time to reflect on certain [...]
From The Classroom: If You “Like” This…Nothing Will Happen
Last night, I had a crazy dream. And not the kind where Jessica Alba takes her shirt off. I was observing some sort of religious ceremony. It was in…you could call it a cathedral, but instead of extensive Sistine-Chapel type murals of angels and cherubs and the Virgin Mary holding God Jr, the ceiling was [...]
From The Classroom: Hypocrite Harris And Other Reasons Students Would Make Better Congressmen
I have a business opportunity for anyone who is interested. It should only take a little bit of cash infusion to start it up, and should immediately begin booming and producing countless profit. Ready for this? A new clothing line of “Miss me yet?” shirts featuring Frank Kratovil. If the voters in District 1 haven’t [...]
From the Classroom: A Modest Proposal
What’s up, Annapolis? Is everything going well in your world? I’m certainly more chipper than I have been in recent days, not only because it’s Thanksgiving Break, but because last week I got an unexpected day off. Why? The power went off at my school. Now, I have to make this day up during the [...]
From The Classroom: Games On Trial
Hi there, Annapolis! I won’t be talking about the election, because frankly I wasn’t all too pleased with the outcome, so I might as well avoid it lest I turn into a fire-breathing rant beast. The part I am pleased about, though, is that all my election predictions were correct EXCEPT for the delegates in [...]
From The Classroom: Seth Perry’s 1-Year Special
Facebook users: Please share this story with your facebook friends by clicking the “recommend” button above! I owe it all to Craigslist. That’s never a good thing–after all, if you’re indebted to Craigslist, they could force you to buy all those ugly oriental rugs that no one seems to want. But the fact is that [...]
From The Classroom: Really???
Really? That’s all I can say. The rash of recent assaults at Annapolis High and South River has me incensed, at several people. Here are some of my thoughts: Really, attackers? Really, you morons? The fact that you’ve done what you’ve done to those poor kids is despicable, I hope you know that. I don’t [...]
From The Classroom: The Homecoming Game
I used to be a huge fan of country music. As of now it’s more of a passive interest, mostly because it’s never quite caught on with my friends, and because I only recently figured out that Garth Brooks’ “That Summer” is actually about a teenage guy hooking up with an old woman. (Still, play [...]
From the Classroom: Seth’s Thoughts On Campaign Slogans
NOTE: This is an opinion piece of the author. Statements made are in no way an endorsement (or non-endorsement) of any candidate by Eye On Annapolis. Hi there, Annapolis! After a brief summer hiatus, your resident teen commentator is back. I think it’s a good idea for sites like this that are trying to get [...]
From the Classroom: The Good And Bad Of Local Government
Hey, Annapolis! Word on the street is “OWWWWWWWWWWWW OH MY GOD OH MY GOD” because kids from Spalding have been throwing rocks at people from their cars. Word from City Hall, meanwhile, is that Josh Cohen has followed up on a proposal he made all the way back in 2003, where he suggested that health [...]
From The Classroom: Intro To Summer
What’s up, Annapolis? Summer is fast approaching, and the only people happier than the sunscreen companies are my people, the teens, who have been cooped up in school all this time, and will now be cooped up even longer than expected due to overcautious school administrators snow. I can’t think of anyone who isn’t excited [...]
From The Classroom: Blabberin’ ‘Bout Books
Hi there, Annapolis! It’s spring, and that means that Key School’s Annapolis Book Festival is coming up this Saturday April 17th! As a student of Josh Cohen’s alma mater, I feel obliged to promote it a bit. It’s an amazing event–food, fun, and lots and lots of books! There will be thousands of used books [...]
From the Classroom: Postcards From The Food Court
Hi, Annapolis, I’m back, and I brought multimedia entertainment! Photos, if you want to be unsophisticated about it. These photos were taken on a recent trip to the mall with my homeboy amigo BFF BFFL conspirator friend Matt (my apologies to the rappers, Spaniards, cliche girls, even cliche-er girls, and mobsters that I’ve offended by attempting [...]
From the Classroom: Dear Dr. Maxwell
After the wonderful letter to Mayor Cohen about the need for more efficient snow removal went up, I thought it would be a good idea for me to write a letter to Dr. Maxwell, superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools, to voice my concern of the public schools’ handling of the situation. Dear Dr. [...]
From The Classroom: How We Throw An Awesome Party
Hi there, Annapolis. Today, I’m gonna take you on a journey into the world of teen parties. I’ve been to a few over the years, including a really awesome one last weekend, and I’ve decided that it’s my duty to report how we teens throw parties in Annapolis. Now, I’m not talking about the crazy [...]
From The Classroom: Snow Kidding
Let It Snow!!!! Christmas has been over for too long, and Valentine’s Day can’t come soon enough, so I’ve come up with something new to celebrate. Without it, we wouldn’t have Frosty, sleigh rides, or cotton balls taking up the bottom inch of every preschooler’s winter collage. With it comes beautiful pictures, days off of [...]
From the Classroom: The Midterm Diaries, Part 2
Hey there, Annapolis. I’m back with more coverage of the exams. If you’re wondering why the malls are empty and the sewers are full of hair that has been pulled out by stressed teenagers…we’re probably studying geometry. So, exam coverage continues. Weekend: Studying, studying, and more studying, which is a code for doing practice problems [...]
From the Classroom: The Midterm Diaries, Part 1
There are not a lot of things that can strike unrelenting and complete fear into the heart of today’s teens. For girls: “OMG, like, I was using your cell phone, and I just, like, broke it.” For guys: “Justin Bieber‘s coming to town and I want you to go see him with me!” But there [...]
From the Classroom: Fun With Gender Roles
Fun with gender roles Oh, excuse me—did I just use the words ‘fun’ and ‘gender roles’ in the same sentence? Those are two that definitely do not go together….like ‘monogamy’ and ‘Tiger Woods’. Perhaps a more accurate pair of correlated phrases would be ‘offended female beats guy senseless’ and ‘Gender roles’. Yes, gender roles are [...]
