The ways of bloggin'

The Idea of blogging is good. Going over a chain of events on a forum that many people can put their thoughts and idea's down for the people to see. Its always a good idea to see another person's thoughts on a topic and blogging is a easy way to do that. But everyone picks to blog about their idea's and the others either don't care to do it or are afriad to post their opinions. Making students do this in class over actually work on the projects at hand to talk about subjects of their choosing isn't such a great idea.
I personally don't want to have my views on a topic out for the world to see and debate over. It's not what I would want to do. I'd rather talk about the topic to people around me, not argue over the internet. That doesn't do much. Now having to do blogging as an assignment? It's not worth the time. We could and should be doing our work that is going to further educate us in the topic we were and are covering in class. It is not worth the time to find a random topic, express your opinion to people on the web and chat about it. Yes the topic may be big and important, but what we would get out of it wouldn't be.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather be doing something school related that is actually going to help me in someway. Now my teacher is amazing and his Idea's are second to none, but making us students do this is, in my opinion, a waste of his and my time during his class. I'd like to see blogging brought back to a choice effort, not forced to do it.