Posts in "Dixon High School"

By Devon Minnema at 7:29PM

Jun 15, 2010

YAL@DHS Makes Regional News

YAL@DHS made front page news in the Vacaville Reporter, which serves the greater Bay Area for its upcoming TEA Party on July 3rd, and were subsequently in several other local newspapers including the Woodland Daily Democrat, Contra Costa Times, Dixon Tribune, and Davis Enterprise:

Some Dixon youth are hoping local residents will gather with them to mark the Independence Day weekend by exercising their civil liberties.

The second Independence Day TEA Party is slated to run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 3 at Women's Improvement Club Park in downtown Dixon.

Tenth District Congressional Candidate Gary Clift will be one of the guest speakers, say organizers. Clift recently won the Republican nomination and is endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus, among many others.

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By Devon Minnema at 5:14PM

Apr 18, 2010

Dixon High Chapter Hosts On-Campus TEA Party

On Friday, 4/16, the Dixon High School YAL Chapter held a TEA Party event on campus just for students. The event earned quite a bit of local media and attracted over 150 attendees. Liberty Republican Congressional Candidate for Solano County Gary Clift came and spoke and I said a word or two, too. It was pretty awesome.

Disclaimer: Young Americans for Liberty does not support or endorse any candidate for election.

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By Devon Minnema at 12:20PM

Feb 16, 2010

Sacramento's Getting Pretty Desperate

According to a staff editorial in the Sacramento Bee, the Governator has actually proposed selling advertising space on the traffic bill boards meant to alert highway drivers of bad traffic conditions in order to shrink California's approximately $20 billion deficit.

This time the governor wants to sell advertising space on state highway message boards.
The proposal is serious. If approved, existing message boards – the ones used to alert drivers to road hazards ahead or abducted children – would be upgraded with LED technology and converted to colorful commercial grade electronic billboards. The state would lease the billboards to outdoor advertising firms and collect the money upfront to help balance the state budget – as much as $2 billion over 20 years for 500 billboards.

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By Devon Minnema at 8:17PM

Jan 2, 2010

The Death of School Spirit

Many people don't realize how the world around them is affected by bureaucracy, regulation, and tyranny, but one example can be related easily, especially at Dixon High School.

DHS's New Campus

Our school recently built a new campus, and the transfer that began three years ago had been quite the tremendous event. Dixon High had a beautiful new campus, much like that of a small college, that was adorned with rams etched into almost every wall to note our loyalties.

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By Devon Minnema at 11:48PM

Dec 11, 2009

DHS Teachers Embrace Collectivism

As a student at Dixon High School, which is located in the rather conservative community of Dixon, CA, I never expected to see collectivism so boldly embraced by faculty members.

Today, Friday, Dec. 11th, I had the amazing pleasure of arguing with a biology teacher who had the audacity to say, "There should be no individualism." A biology teacher looked straight at me and said that, her words ringing in the empty classroom with a slight pitter-patter of rain from outside. The statement was provoked after a relatively lengthy argument about a disciplinary issue that had faced the bureaucrats in the school administration.

I serve as a representative in DHS's Leadership assembly, and this week was supposed to be a school-spirit week that ended was to end as all school spirit week -- with a rally at the end. However, two students got in a fight on Thursday, the day before the rally, and the rally, in a knee-jerk decision by the administration, was cancelled. The Leadership Assembly had been planning the event for a month and a half and was therefore very indignant, however the YAL@DHS actually did something about it.

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