Posted on 02/27/2005 12:16:06 PM PST by flixxx
You mean like back in the day when you penned an X for your signature?
We have not had weather permitting weather around here of late, but that happens here also.
I used to smoke behind the gym, too. And I passed notes. My girlfriends and I learned ASL so we could talk in class, too!
{{{hugs}}} Fellow trouble-maker.
Neither have we. Rainy, chilly, windy. But in April they get to eat outside.
Privatizing all schools works for me, as long as that portion of taxes are eliminated from tax bills. Not refunded but eliminated.
As of right now I have no problem with the public school my daughter is in when it comes to values, as what she is learing in school is not going against the values she is being taught at home. If I see a difference, I will be the first one saying and doing something about it.
I never smoked. But I whispered answers to the kids around me!
And now off to church ... it's COLD here!
Say a prayer for your smoking FRiend. Stay warm!
I was long over the "stuck-up" high-scoring phase half way through my freshman year.......I was still that in my neighborhood, but I was only middle of the road in my HS. It was a tough school.
Had I gone to the local HS, I would have been that way, but I chose to go to one half way across the city that gave me challenges. and I'm talking about Catholic schools, not public schools.
Ben Carson, as a child was required by his mother to go
the library every week, check out a book, and give her a
written book report. He and his brother did this for years.
It was only after he had graduated from college that he
found out his mother was illiterate, incapable of even
reading the reports.
Oh, did I say that Dr. Ben Carson went on to graduate from
medical school and become an internationally famous neonatal surgeon?
Opps! Did I fail to mention that Dr. Ben Carson came from an
urban black family?
Values trump education everytime, but a values enriched
education is best!
You smoked BEHIND the gym??????? Heck, I smoked IN the gym.
{{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}} to both of you fellow trouble makers.
Bump for later
LOL
You have mail.
I'm guessing from your anecdote that Dr. Carson went to *gasp* Public School?
...What is the fate to be of the children whose parents are incapable of home-schooling their children, due to their own illiteracy? As well as those who cannot afford to pay for Private schooling?
Do we need yet another generation of illiterates? Why don't we fix the public schools, instead?...
Your sentiments are well meaning, but can you tell me how "we" are going to fix the public school system?
While some good public schools still exist, there is little doubt in my mind that the trend towards "bad" public schools is the prevailing direction. I sent my kids to the same school I went to, but it is the same school in name only. I had to take them both out for all our sakes before they reached the 6th grade. I won't go into further details, you've probably heard it all many times before anyway.
This is not a problem that is going to get fixed until a very large number of parents (I'd say maybe 40 or 50 percent) have pulled their kids out of "Stalinsville" elementary or whatever and quit sending a check for school taxes to their county. If it's not big and it's not organized, it won't work. "We" will just go to jail.
"We" would have a better chance of lifting a derailed locomotive back onto the track then of fixing our public schools. That is my opinion.
To make it even worse, the schools are not solely responsible for the problems. Bad parents have a hand in this as well as well as bad legislature.
My daughter (in a great public elementary school) got to eat lunch...as did everyone else at their respective lunchtimes...outside last week because the 6th grade science fair was set up in the cafeteria.
:)
Isn't that wonderful! Good for her and her friends. My boys have gone to eat lunch at McDonald's several times over the years for being good students.
They were walking on air when they get home. "Mom! Mrs X took me and (insert name of other student here) to McDonald's today!" The school district has a budget for the teachers to take the students to eat out. It was so sweet for them to take 2 children out of 20 and let them know that they are special. No PC going on here.
Rewards are a good thing.
My middle boy has 2 blue ribbons and one red from the state science fair.
; )
Hillary will if she wins in '08.
How about in stead of pulling kids out of schools, that many parents just start speaking up?
Why does the solution of fixing the problems in public schools always seem to have some element of "leaving" instead of fighting the problem from theinside?
I will not deny I left a bad district for a good one, but I left it before my child was ever old enough to be in it, and not after many years of having fought the system, even before having a child.
Not everyone can do what I did, and I'm not saying anyone should, but for many people pulling their children out of a particular school is not an option. So instead of the constant mantra "get rid of the schools or get your kids out of them" how about some encouragement and ideas for how parents can fight back?????
Has anyone thought of that idea?
I don't know if Ben Carson went to public school.
He is over 50 years old today, meaning that if he did, he went
before before public schools became government schools.
Agree. Conservative women look hot. A lot of liberal women look like skanks.
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