See Dick and Jane... Weep

Jewish World Review ^ | 4/19/02 | Malkin

[pabianice]

Your taxes at work. Recently, the FAA required all employees to attend the same type of outrage. When some employees refused, they were fired. But you don't care, do you?

[nothingnew]

I care. I thank G-D I went to school in the fifties, and my twin daughters have been out of school for years.

Sick people running the Ed System.

FMCDH!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I read in the San Francisco paper yesterday that the teacher's union would now be given the choice of textbooks...
Why bother voting for a school board ?

[gitmo]

The public sniveling and sniffling ended with a "final exercise -- hugging as many people as possible in two minutes, to the theme from 'Rocky.'" One child, showing uncommon wisdom, dubbed the dolorous debacle a "psycho cry-fest."

When I was in high school, I would have loved to hug certain girls. I'll bet there was a lot of that going on.

Don't you love the PSYCHO CRY FEST description?

[3catsanadog]

Tomorrow these same kiddies will be back to bullying and snubbing their peers. I'd like to see if things have changed in this school and everyone is now warm and fuzzy and not a mean thought passes through their darling heads.

[WFTR]

One child, showing uncommon wisdom, dubbed the dolorous debacle a "psycho cry-fest."

We occasionally have similar garbage at work under the auspices of the diversity program. I call them exercises in "guided whining." What the whole situation really represents is a new kind of secular religion being foisted upon us. There's nothing that they tell kids that wasn't covered just as well under Christ's command to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Add a good dosage of other Bible verses such as I Corinthians 13, and you have a working prescription for most of the schools' problems. I agree that mistreating other students is wrong. It was wrong when I went to school, and it is wrong today. It should be treated as wrong and punished, but this kind of psycho garbage needs to end.

WFTR
Bill

[madfly]

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[Free the USA]

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[madfly]

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[Free the USA]

It looks like we were both on the same thread at the same time and double bumped to Homeschool list.

[Khepera]

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[ikka]

I am not the first to say it, but

Public education is child abuse

[galt-jw]

yeah, but kids are usually pretty cynical. a lot of em might know this is nonsense, but a good excuse to get out of class. we really need vouchers.

[madfly]

I just took deleted the "Bump Lists" from my lists to try to avoid that. I hope that helps.

[Hildy]

I can't believe they were fired. You can't fire a Government employee for anything.

[timm22]

That's really creepy. It sounds a lot like the self-criticism sessions in North Korea that I've read about.

[BradyLS]

Tomorrow these same kiddies will be back to bullying and snubbing their peers. I'd like to see if things have changed in this school and everyone is now warm and fuzzy and not a mean thought passes through their darling heads.

I was briefly a part of our city's "Youth Council" back in the early 80's. The paltry funds we raised from putting on mild rock concerts were spent one year to send two of our number (all we could afford) to what can only be described as a "diversity training" camp for a week. When they returned, we were piously instructed in the right way to treat others. Before two weeks were gone, our annointed were back to the the usual name-calling and kid snobbery.

[BradyLS]

I can't believe they were fired. You can't fire a Government employee for anything.

Perhaps they were invited to exercise their talents in another agency at an entry level before being released to pursue their life's dream.