By: Jessica Lewis; Staff Writer
On a normal Monday morning there is a hardcore gig going on in downtown Riverside. The line-up consisted of several melodic hardcore bands such as local band More To Come, Energy, All We Know, and Let Live. After walking up the tall staircase and paying the 6 dollar fee you will first notice three art pieces on the wall that have a questionable meaning. However after pondering where the heck you are and what your doing there you see the band’s equipment. After about a 10 minute wait the first band plays More To come consisting of La Puente High School student Michael Garcia, and former students David Jimenez, Ivan Garcia, and Jordan Barragan. The show ended up having a respectable amount of people there, not much movement but you still felt the energy in the air giving off by the hardcore riffs, and fills given off by the instruments. Whereas the show wasn’t just about who showed up, or how many people were there. It was a celebration of hardcore music. The energy and volume were tuned up and the audience respected every bands talent even if they weren’t famous. So if you ever feel like joining in on a celebration/ gathering of hardcore check out More To Come at www.myspace.com/moretocomex.
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I am a concerned parent of the Hacienda La Puente School District. I attended and graduated from La Puente High School. I read your article in the Tomahawk "How to be a Teenage dad". Having that as a headliner on your front page student paper is a real eye catcher. I found it very upsetting that your article encouraged in BOLD letters how to be a teenage dad was even presented to the students. There's no denying that there are teenage dads as well teenage moms at your school and other schools across the district and the United States. There certainly was when I went to school. I don't think much changed from my generation to your generation. What amazes me is that the article is encouraging you to be a teenage dad. Offering On-campus class "What to expect". Does this class teach what to expect?? How about the every two hour feedings? The sleepless nights. When your baby is crying for hours on end after you just came home from a long day of school, exams,football, cheer, or band practice. You changed their diaper, fed them, burped them, rocked them, walked around the house with them and still you don't know what bothering them and only getting maybe if you're lucky 4 hours of sleep for the first 6 months. Not to mention how expensive formula, diapers, doctor visits and medication is. All this will have to be provided by who?? The Teenage Mom & Dad or the Teenagers mom and dad?? Let's stop and think for a moment...did I get enough rest to pass that test History for tomorrow? Did I remember to pack enough clothes,diapers and formula in the diaper bag as I dropped off my baby before I headed to 1st period. You are a child and you have every right to be a child. Fight for that right! Enjoy your young life. Before you know it you're going to sit and wonder what I could have done with my life if I just have waited. There's no mistaking that the baby is here or coming. Holding a little you in your arms for the first time is the most joyous, remarkable feeling unlike no other, but reality is that you are still a little you a(child) that your parents still have all those feelings to this do no matter what!! I just feel that you can also encourage how not become a Teenage Dad (parent). Encourage school, college, a future. I'm disappointed that the opinion of Marcia Sainz, Secretary; encourages and I quote "Teen pregnancy would teach a young teenage parent to be more responsible and mature about life". Life teaches you to be responsible and mature. Not being a teenage parent. From observance of today's young teenage parents that doesn't always seem to be the case. From the many teenage parents that graduated when I did; not many of them are parents raising their children together with the other teen parent and I didn't see much and still to this day don't see that maturity level. Maybe this class would have benefited them if it was offered back in my high school day, but then again so would a class offering how not be a teenage dad (parent). I thought I was to young to have my first child at 21, and I was married and 16 years later still married. I wouldn't change having my children for the world! I love them! They're my life! There's nothing I wouldn't do for them. Just as today's young teenage parents would feel.
Sincerely,
A parent and a graduate of La Puente High School
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