Oh GW. . . I first must apologize for two things. . .
1. I personally was on the roll to attend this event but due to unforeseen events with my job I could not make it (no I did not have the day off)
2. I am somewhat harsh on GW because I am $100,000 in debt to them so I feel like I am entitled to be harsh
On any given day I hear statements around foggy bottom on the GW campus like the following
“Oh my gosh I only have $10,000 in my checking account”
“Hi Mom, I totally rode the Metro today to the mall and it wasn’t even scary”
“The money on my GWorld Card [student ID card] is not really money it is like fake money that I can buy stuff with”
“That Coach Purse is soooo last season”
“I just got back from my parents Beach House”
I have NEVER in my entire life heard these kind of statements until I entered this area. Ok, Ok I know I know- welcome to GW. It is not so much having the money that bothers me it is the sense of entitlement and the way I see the majority again the MAJORITY of the U
NDERGRADUATE students treating each other and GW staff as a whole.
Picture it Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2009 GW kids are BUSSED (the irony) to Anacostia an area that I am sure many were unaware that there are other quadrants in the District besides NW/foggy bottom style DC to paint Anacostia High School.
Here is a little something from the Hatchet Newspaper:
Day of Service Draws Hundreds: Students Help out in Anacostia, 1/22/09
. . . GW students could be found all over the school, from the classrooms they were painting in robin’s egg blue, to the bathrooms that were missing most of their sinks. West said one of the reasons they chose to paint the classrooms in bright colors is the connection between higher test scores and color in schools.
Isn’t that nice. . . . helping the kids in the “hood” WELL GUESS WHAT??!!!
For now you will have to trust me until I can get there myself, but a friend who was at Anacostia HS last week told me that when he was in one of the classrooms he thought to himself. . .
“why are the walls two different colors and half painted?” and I nearly fell out of my chair!!! They volunteers apparently didn’t finish the painting and when the time limit ran out. . . and now the school has rooms that are HALF PAINTED.
AGAIN GW, you get a DEPLORABLE rating from me. . . so I will look into how we can get some volunteers back there or hell I love painting I can take my crew and head back.
This post To Be Continued. . .
