Posted on 11/25/2010 10:45:09 AM PST by Clint Williams
I don’t get it...was it just a secretary checking to see if her boss actually reads the paperwork before he signs it?
When I was a kid the school district gave each kid one pencil a month. If you lost your pencil in the middle of the month, you were screwed.
I befriended a former schoolteacher later in life — she was telling me about a time that she gave a kid a pencil and was castigated by one of her colleagues. “How is the kid going to learn responsibility?” the colleague asked.
We discussed it among ourselves. There are many reasons other than lack of responsibility why a kid might not have a pencil. Maybe a bully swiped it from him. Also if a kid doesn’t have a pencil, how is he going to get one unless someone gives him one?
“I still have the lead from a pencil that Ann Jenney stuck in my leg in 1935. She was always a problem.”
You should write her.
Might as well ban pencils if sixth-graders don’t know how to read or write.
No but they are symptoms of the same disease. These are attempts to push Americans over the edge so the socialist gov't can declare a state of emergency and clamp down.
You're pretty wise for just "some fat guy in L.A." ;-)
There are several ways they can accomplish what you suggest. Creating a hysteria over some "exotic" and "contagious" flu is always a Top 3 reason.
In Annapolis MD last year a male sixth grader drew a gun on a piece of paper, aimed it at another kid on the school bus and said “bang!” The kid was suspended. Bizarro world! Thank God he didn’t draw a mushroom cloud or a speck of anthrax.
When I used to have to enter prisons for the job that I had several years back I was told that I could not bring in pencils. Pens were allowed but not pencils since they were too dangerous if a prisoner would get their hands on one. What amazes me is that as our schools continue to become more like our prisons that parents still will send their children into that environment.
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