Posted on 06/15/2022 3:41:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It's a run-down former saloon. Working guys come here for cheap grub. The evening special is roast pork with apple sauce and mashed potatoes.
About 5:20, two tough, contemptuous men show up to wait for something. They don't care what anybody might guess about their plans or who else might walk in.
The two men are professional killers, one of them armed with a sawed-off shotgun. They are casual about insulting regular people and bossing them around. One killer goes in the back, the kitchen, and ties up the cook and another fellow who happens to be there.
The mood is somber. The guy they're waiting for, a big Swede, is a heavyweight boxer who could seem invincible to most people. The killers don't care. It's just a matter of time before the boxer appears and is cut down.
This is a story by Ernest Hemingway known as The Killers. It is regarded as one of his best stories, spare and emotional at the same time. Toward the end, the narrator sums up the story.
What's he going to do?"
"Nothing."
"They'll kill him."
"I guess they will.
This story also happens to be a perfect description of K–12. The killers are the school officials and self-appointed experts who cow everybody into silence and surrender. And the big boxer, the helpless giant — he's like the millions of kids and millions of parents who should be powerful but are nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left believes that if they controlled everyone’s lives that they would be much better off. But the left is blind to their own idiocy. Just look at Biden’s cabinet.
The Japanese have a saying, “The nail that stands up will get hammered down.” I was so much faster than my schoolmates I was literally punished for it. I was also so bored that I thought I’d die, nailed to a seat while the teacher tried to get slower students to grasp whatever the subject was. School in mass classrooms with a “diverse” student body are brain killers.
“Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/08/john-taylor-gatto/bianca-you-animal-shut-up/
And THAT’s just the Preface; the rest of the book is as equally damning.
I know exactly what you mean. I was also punished for being ahead of my classmates. I'd finish first, get bored waiting, and then do something truly horrible, like put my hands on my desk. Yes, doing that triggered the teacher to put me out in the hall as punishment. I was similarly punished for finishing all the reading materials of this new-fangled reading program (I think it was called SRA) in a week when it was supposed to last the rest of the school year. Instead of giving me more advanced material to keep me engaged, the teacher would punish me for finishing assignments too fast. This happened so often, I would be greeted by the principal while standing out in the hall, on a first name basis. He knew I hadn't done anything bad. I wondered why he never told the teacher to give me more work. Great educators, huh?
The genius in my clan tells the story of having finished a test 20 minutes ahead of the rest of the class. No materials allowed on the desk so she watched the clock, and was sent to the principal’s office for it.
One of many stories I heard growing up...homeschooled.
I know that feeling. We had two large boxes of Geography lessons (maps and stuff). They were really fun lessons to do and supposed to last all year. I finished them off after a week, and as reward for being a good student, I got to sit in the school office during geography class every day.
I can honestly say I never had this problem in school. Lol But I liked school until I got to the 5th grade and I realized the teachers were mean old bags that got their jollies by picking on certain kids and I was one of them.
When I went to school there was no ‘diversity’ and the slow ones went to a separate class.
I know that feeling.
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Me too.
What really torqued my jaws was when I was told I wasn’t allowed to do my homework in class.
I almost always finished the days assignments with time enough left in the class to finish my homework also.
I would tell them they weren’t getting paid to steal my time away from school, that they had no right to my time when I wasn’t at school.
I’d ask them to explain how they had the right to dictate ‘ when ‘ I got my work done if the work got done in the end.
I just ignored them and none of them dared send me to the principle cuz they knew I’d ask him uncomfortable questions too and crap always rolls down hill.
The education system expects 30 to 40 kids to be doing the same thing at the same time when they evaluate teachers. Try getting 30 adults to do the same thing at the same time ( my apologies to the USMC silent drill team). It’s a flawed approach.
Me too, they called it tracking. It worked well and so it was cancelled for being unfair. That was 30 years ago when everything started going downhill in K-12.
I never was punished for it. However, I was in Catholic school, so that may have something to do with it.
The idea that you don’t need to know anything, since you can google any information you want at any time, is leftist doctrine. It’s why kids don’t memorize times tables anymore, causing them to be numerically illiterate. When you don’t know anything you’ll believe whatever your leftist overlords tell you.
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