Pre Reading Blog Unit 3

Popular culture! What hasn't popular culture touched and influenced today? I don't think there is anything that popular culture hasn't touched. I will go towards the side of our schools, since I work directly with agriculture students whom you may think wouldn't be influenced by popular culture. Wrong, they are affected just as any other student in today's education system. They are influenced by the media and film industry, it is asthonishing to think but I have had a problem with minors having sexual intercourse at the school farm in which I manage. I graduated from this school just 5 years ago and we would have never thought of doing something like that at our school farm. But today it is portrayed to be dangerous and rebellious to do inappropriate things in public places. The school does not even worry about kids smoking anymore they have given up on that fight instead they now spend their time chasing the harder drugs. What has caused the change in the schools attitude and the students behaviors? I do blame a lot of it on the main stream media, music, movies, etc. It is apalling to listen to some of the new music that has come out, I personally listen to old country where men respect women. But not this new rap crap, hell they might as well be raping these women in the song lyrics, and to think our 12 year old boys are listening to this. Put two and two together and answer the question of why domestic violence and rape statistics are on the rise?