Education Week 11/17 Reflection

I have to say that I rank among the number who are very pessimistic about the integration of dance with other subjects.  To me, I have a very difficult time seeing how on earth you would be able to integrate dance with a subject like physics.  Obviously, there is nothing in the article to suggest dancing and physics is a good idea or even being used, but I use it as a point.  Are we seriously able to integrate dance with subjects that allow for greater knowledge at higher grade levels?  I remember doing that "Heads, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes" dance in elementary school but learning to read by dancing seems farfetched to me, much less combining danging with even more "difficult" subjects.  I appreciate the arts, but I think I would stand on the side of the fence that it should remain its own distinct discipline, and I definitely think that dance should be in schools just as much as music or arts programs are.  Until we could see some more conclusive evidence, I would rather keep it that way.  but then again, you cant hope to get any evidence without doing it first...
As a person who has done an excessive amount of texting in the last few years of his life, I'm not sure how I feel about the study from Cleveland showing that kids were three times as likely to have sex if they texted beyond 120 times a day.  I would like to see studies from different areas before jumping to any conclusions... that isn't saying anything against Cleveland, Ohio of course but it seems like much too small of a sample from such a small area that it cannot even closely be called legitimate.  This is one of those articles that frustrates me because they come out and say that "hyper-texting" as they like to call it leads to sex and other risky behaviors, but there is such a a strange link.  I mean, come on people.  Its such a ridiculous way of saying things; it's practically verbal coercion.  "well we have this study here, but you are certainly allowed to have your own opinion, but aren't these numbers funny?"  slightly ridiculous in my opinion.