On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Bob Calco<[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen: > > I work from home. I'd rather send them to Catholic school (like I went to) > but need to make more money for that. I'm neither poor nor rich enough to > afford it. :) -----------------------
How can you not afford it? Been there and sent the two kids of mine through the private school system. One wanted to do the college route and the other manages a firestone tire shop. > No, I'm not worried about that at all, I'm just objecting to the > politicization of the education system, which is even scarier. ---------------- As long as citizens are in charge of the system it will be. > I'm OK with addresses per se, and having kids watch them; but this came > along with lesson plans that asked kids to write themselves a note about how > they can "help the president" and included post-speech discussion questions > about what "the president wants us to do". ------------------------ If one of the kids said that they could help the president by staying in school and not making babies in high school, well I would applaud! > Supposedly they nixed that, claiming (what else?) a miscommunication, but > they still haven't fixed the spelling of "Schoochildren." -------------------- You miss took ebonics here I think that spelling is along the lines of: Schoo Chlren. It may be that dialects vary by location. Bad Steve! > And the fact they're trying to pull that kind of shit is beyond scary. Right > out of Ayers' education handbook, the kind of stuff Hugo Chavez does in > Venezuela. I thought that kids were expected to write the current president as part of civic duty since I went through the mill in the 60s. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
