I think this is a good opportunity to make sure that you guys become familiar with really double checking the facts you get in email forwards. As our society changes and more and more communication happens via cyberspace it becomes much easier to believe what we read in an email. Banking scams or the Nigerian immigrant scam are great examples of this. However, this is also now the primary source of the modern urban legend.
Please reference the following link http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp for a deeper discussion of why reuse of a plastic water bottle will NOT cause breast or any other type of cancer.
Urban legends gain strength because they prey on our fears, and breast cancer is a very real fear for women drinking from your water bottle should not contribute to it.
Having said that... I was thinking that maybe some of you are forgetting that credit for posts on the blog only comes with a response that is thoughtful, honest, and more than 3-4 sentences.
Some topics I think you could talk about longer...
A. The social norms posters... so 82% of students don't smoke what about the remaining 18%? Why do people start smoking nowadays when we know how bad it is for you? Is there anything else we can do to help convince people how bad it is?
B. Lawrence King was a 15 year old boy who was a victim of a school shooting on Feburary 12th. This shooting wasn't really covered on the news. Another 8th grader brought a gun to school and shot Larry King, his classmate, in the head. The shooter did it because King was openly gay and occasionally wore women's clothing to school. Here is a link for more information... http://www.rememberinglawrence.org/
Okay! See you tomorrow!
