https://www.brit.co/more-than-500-girls-missing-from-dc-in-2017/ Over the past few days I’ve read countless articles or social media posts about the insane number of girls that have gone missing since the start of 2017. However  I and from what I’ve read many others have failed to notice any major media coverage on it. Not once have I personally seen it on the news. In the article link I’ve attached it seems the police in DC are using the excuse that  majority of the girls are repeat runaways, now I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I find it almost impossible to believe that over 500 young girls from the same area all just “ran away” since the start of the year. Three months if you really think about it their expecting people to believe that over 500 girls in ONE place just all happened to run away, I don’t buy it. Even if they are just “run away’s” I still have trouble understanding why not more is being done to find them these are still young 13 and 14 year old girls run aways or not they shouldn’t be out there alone. However that’s not all that doesn’t sit well with me about this, just today actually I read a post that Linwood Barnhill a D.C cop who had been accused of “pimping” teens had been arrested and another that Laura Silsby the VP of the company “Alertsense” who provides the technology for Amber Alerts was caught trafficking 33 kids out of Haiti. Clearly I would never attempt to make the reach that these two individuals took these 500 girls that have gone missing over the last three months. However I don’t think it’s a reach at all to assume there is something way more serious then just some “run away girls” going on in DC and in my opinion there’s a lot of covering up happening. I decided to post about this, this week because aside from it being a serious issue in my opinion, I know I for one I wouldn’t have known about it without social media especially because of the insane lack of major media covering it. The more attention this gets can hopefully bring some of these girls home or at least find out some type of information of their possible where abuts. It’s just horrible to think 500 families are going to bed tonight not knowing where there daughter or sister or cousin or niece is and the DC police seem to be doing little to nothing about it.

I found this film to be very interesting. Mainly because there was such a fine line between parts of high school that are still that way in present time and things that are now completely different. One thing that stuck out to me was the girl who got in trouble for violating the dress code with the length of her skirt. It was relatable content because public high schools in present time still have dress codes but I did have to laugh a little bit because I know for one in my old high school that wouldn’t of been even a second look by the principle let alone seen as a dress code violation but that was just one instance that showed how much times have really changed since then. I also noticed that some of the classes I’m assuming they where health class where separated by gender, I know back then it wasn’t exactly socially acceptable to have classes like that to be co-ed. I’m aware there are probably a handful of high schools in present day that still hold classes like health separated by the gender of the student but majority of high schools now have everyone regardless of their gender in one room and everyone learns about everything together. The  major thing that stood out to me and honestly kind of annoyed me however where the classes that seemed to be geared to teaching men to be men, or women to be women.  Although I’m aware that the image of the “American dream” is for the man to be the bread winner and the women to take care of the children, bills and the home I think this would be an extremely hard class to have in any public high school in any part of the country in todays day in age. Its more common now then I think in any other time period in our country’s history for children/young adults to have been brought up in a single parent house hold, whether that be a single mother or father.  The film also made me wonder how much is going to change socially and in the education system in the next 40 years.