This story perfectly illustrates the problem that I have with the Nancy Johnson school of scientism. Full story here.
A San Diego school vice-principal saw an 11-year-old’s home science project (a motion detector made out of an empty Gatorade bottle and some electronics), decided it was a bomb, wet himself, put the school on lockdown, had the bomb-squad come out to destroy X-ray the student’s invention and search his parents’ home, and then magnanimously decided not to discipline the kid (though he did recommend that the child and his parents get counseling to help them overcome their anti-social science behavior).
Science!
When police and the Metro Arson Strike Team responded, they also found electrical components in the student’s backpack, Luque said. After talking to the student, it was decided about 1 p.m. to evacuate the school as a precaution while the item was examined. Students were escorted to a nearby playing field, and parents were called and told they could come pick up their children.
OMG. A kid actually knows how to (GASP!!!!) use his knowledge of science to construct something, and the candy-assed vice principal calls the bomb squad!
The school, which has about 440 students in grades 6 to 8 and emphasizes technology skills, was initially put on lockdown while authorities responded.
[...]
Both the student and his parents were “very cooperative” with authorities, Luque said. He said fire officials also went to the student’s home and checked the garage to make sure items there were neither harmful nor explosive.
So what’s up with this?
The student will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling, the spokesman said. The student violated school policies, but there was no criminal intent, Luque said.
Well, Jeebers. Knowing photons from futons, and actually knowing how to do something is against school policy. Science is supposed to be sitting there and reciting the catechism of how the polar bears are drowning. Understanding and thinking are forbidden.
Could you imagine what would happen if a kid brought a spud gun to school? Go ahead and keep telling yourselves that we’re #1, and we can and should play these PC footsy games while the Asians eat our lunches. We’re not #1 in science and tech, not even close. And these idiots are the reason why. How can we be producing first-rate scientists and engineers when the people teaching at our “technology” schools can’t even tell a motion detector from a bomb?
This is also an open thread.
Tags: Education
Speaking of science, it looks like the quote and reply features have been restored.
Schoolz is gettin more stupider all duh time.
Wow.
Jaw. Dropping.
Amazing. The kid makes a science project…. because he is supposed to…. and the school goes into lockdown and the kids stuff gets destroyed.
but he won’t be prosecuted?
I almost wish that he would be so his folks could launch a lawsuit against the school district.
That the SD is wanting to impose ‘counseling’ is a load of crap as it is.
That just pisses me off.
And
howeverwhoever gives out these new icons/photos/avatars: thanks. I had trouble uploading something more, uh, ME … So this one will do just fine.Yet nowhere does the story ‘out’ the offending vice-principle. There arseholes need to be identified and pilloried in the civil square of public opinion. Words like …. You will never work in this career again need to be heard.
Maybe when the transi-proggs are more afraid of their fellow citizens that they are of trying to out PC one another , we may actually get somewhere.
Sheesh!
If this was the norm when I was at school my whole neighborhood would be in permanent lockdown and only SWAT teams and Bomb squad members would be allowed to live there!
I suppose the administrator thinks that the family should be overjoyed and thankful that they aren’t being prosecuted. Like he/she did them a big favor.
School bureaucrat efftards!
Uploading the avatars isn’t hard. The trick is making sure that whatever Gravitar account you have has the same email address as your Blogmocracy account. Then it works, but you still might not see it right away because of the way the browser caches them.
snork wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I have multiple e-mail accounts so maybe that’s why it didn’t work before. I’ll have to check that.
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Schools will soon be an anachronism. Any parent serious about education will abandon bricks-and-mortar public schools with their certified socialist teachers teaching a narrow curriculum in graduated steps based on ludicrous state standards to children grouped by age not ability.
The virtual classroom will take off for the intelligent, motivated and ambitious. The rest will be sent to state-provided day care for “activities” and a nutritious state-sponsored lunch.
@ IslandLibertarian:
Exactly.
@ Overlook:
breakfast, lunch and (in some school districts) dinner too.
After checking with fisting czar Kevin Jennings, police determined that the electrical components had no legitimate sado-masochistic uses, and must be destroyed.
Vouchers, anyone?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Why do I have the vice principal from Breakfast Club in mind? Or maybe the one from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
You mean the one from Ferris Bueller’s … with a pit bull hanging off his leg! hehehe
@ lobo91:
Ok. Now I getting angry. I went to Gravatar and it won’t let me log in. I even logged out here, tried it, still ‘no go’. So I logged back in here (see, here I am) and … rrrrrrr
Actually, this is good advice as long as the counselor tells them one thing and then sends them on their way:
“Find a private school where they want kids who enjoy learning about science!”
@ Bunk X:
Vochers don’t pass because then us common folk could afford to go to the same schools as the politicians.
This from the Sydney Telegraph’s Tim Blair’s blog
LGF WATCH
Tim Blair – Monday, January 18, 10 (01:18 pm)
Lonely glacier denialist and Danny boy Charles Johnson claims:
One thing you’ll obviously never have to worry about: Tim Blair changing his mind on anything.
This isn’t true. For example, I’ve changed my mind about Charles Johnson.
This is unreal!
LanceKates wrote:
That’s cynical, but I’m afraid it’s the truth. Doesn’t it strike you as odd that the people who love the government running everything all have their kids in private schools? Lots of public school teachers have their kids in private schools. What’s that tell you?
Expect government run health care to work the same way.
@ lobo91:
sgm
what was your primary mos
Goofy stuff like this happens because the “educators” have traded in judgment and common sense for “no tolerance”, which I s’pose, means no tolerance for judgment and common sense. A couple of years ago some school suspended a second-grader for bringing a toy GI Joe gun (about the size of a paper clip) to school. It just gets dumber by the day. If I had it to do over again, I’d send my kid to private school.
LanceKates wrote:
The cost of the school doesn’t equal the quality of the instruction. Most of mine was free. It was called Mom & Dad.
More to the point, the Ivy League democrat candidate who’s against school reform was ranking on the Republican VP candidate for having a degree from a state institution. What’s wrong with this picture?
@ coldwarrior:
I’m a 74D (what used to be 54B until a couple years ago). Back in the dark ages (the Reagan administration) I was a 13B.
Why do you ask?
snork wrote:
Elitism and train tracks.
huckfunn wrote:
That’s a part of it, but the other part is that teachers at a school that supposedly specializes in “technology” can’t tell the different between a pop bottle with a few electronic components in it and a bomb.
@ lobo91:
did u get a juliet rating?
Bunk X wrote:
You’re not the one who needs vouchers. It’s the kids who’s mom and dad (if they’re lucky enough to have a dad in the house) can’t or won’t teach them.
@ coldwarrior:
You mean J5 (tech escort)?
Nope.
@ lobo91:
that one seemed to be a big deal in the late 80′s
you chem dudes are something else.
snork wrote:
No doubt.
Ooh. Serious burn:
Obama here for Coakley, trailing a diminished aura
@ coldwarrior:
I have the H (instructor) SQI, and the 2S (battle staff nco) ASI. In about 3 weeks, I’ll also have a P4 (tactical information operations) ASI.
@ Bunk X:
My instruction was called Older Sister. She liked to play teacher and I was an eager student. We did it as part of our play time together but what ended up happening was that I got a heads up on almost every single thing I learned at school until she was old enough to start obsessing over boys. Then I was on my own, but I still had quite a jump on the curriculum for my age group.
One thing my sister taught me by accident was French. She wasn’t playing school with me anymore but I lived in her room so I could hear the endless practicing she did during her French homework. I was still in grade school but every time she memorized a French dialog, I memorized it too. I couldn’t help it.
She walked around the house practicing her French and I was mouthing the words along with her. I could have passed her French exams in her high school French class.
@ lobo91:
i thought you were done /retired.
what is the rank.
I read a book by Bill Bennett where he writes that he went to an inner city school with Ted Kennedy as a bipartisan talk with the kids. When asked what concerned them the most, the kids answered “crime”. He said Kennedy tried to steer the conversation to jobs but the kids said their fathers had jobs, crime was the biggest problem they had.
Please wake me up after the Second Dark Ages. I’ll have all of the science and mathematics books that got burned during the great “Era of Unhurt Feelings”.
Good Night.
/drink
@ snork:
I predict Coakley will win, and the voting tally aberrations/corruption will be swept under the table.
unclassifiable wrote:
shot
@ coldwarrior:
Nope, not retired. I’m not on active duty at the moment, so I’m back in a TPU reserve status. Hoping to be able to go back on orders for another year starting sometime this summer.
I’m still a SGM. Not really interested in putting in for CSM, mostly because it’s an additional 4 year service commitment, and I’ve already been in almost 31 years.
Obama is worried about a Coakley loss, though.
According to Fox News, he’s asking the House Dems to ok the Senate Health Plan bill so that the Senate won’t have to vote on it again.
He’s probably also worried about what the House would do to the Bill and what it would look like if the Dems used the nuclear option to pass it again on 51 votes — but I think he’s concerned about how the Senate will look after Tuesday, too.
@ lobo91:
i am at parade rest
snork wrote:
No, because generally these are the people who think that THEY are entitled to run everyone else’s lives. So they should be able to choose their child’s school, and yours too.
@ Bunk X:
I tend to be cynical that way too Bunk, but I really believe Coakley is going down, just call it an informed hunch.
@ coldwarrior:
LOL!
At ease.
Nobody even does that when I’m at my unit. Believe it or not, I’m only the third-ranking NCO there. We actually have a CSM and 3 other SGMs, in a unit with 110 people.
@ MrPaulRevere:
Exactly how close are the most recent polls (or haven’t they done any in the last few days)?
Bunk X wrote:
Obama went to stump for Coakley. Going by his track record, I’d say that pretty much kills her chances.
@ MrPaulRevere:
That would be the beginning of the end.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Here’s a linky to go with that.
@ lobo91:
at parade rest
You just can’t make stuff like this up. The writers at The Onion, SNL, The Tonight Show, Letterman, etc. may as well pack up and go home. All that is needed is somebody to peruse the papers for this kind of thing — the jokes just write themselves.
The parents won’t be prosecuted? My heavens! If it was me as the parent I’d be finding one of those legal firms that helps support academic freedom and work to see if the Vice Principal could be prosecuted, fired, or sued. Stupidity should hurt.
Bunk X wrote:
Just like Washington State Governor in 2004, and Minnesota Senator in 2008, I predict that if Coakley does “win”, it will be by less than 1000 votes. If Brown wins, it will be by a lot more.
@ Nikis Knight:
Considering that he was heckled in MA (of all places!), I think Obama is beginning to understand that he has passed his prime.
@ Eliana:
In second grade, Mrs. Goss told me that Santa Claus didn’t exist. I learned that adults could lie.
In third grade, Mrs. Mikulski told me that left handers shouldn’t “hook” their hands in order to write cursive properly. I learned that she was right handed and didn’t know any better.
In fourth grade, Mrs. Jennings admonished me for claiming that bananas had seeds. I learned that Mrs. Jennings was blind.
In fifth grade, Mrs. Reasor said that I had to sit next to the classroom garden because my allergies were imaginary. I learned that Mrs. Reasor was ignorant.
By sixth grade, I learned that I had to put up with all this crap for another six years.
But they weren’t through with me yet. I got to go to college… heh.
@ snork:
Yup. If Coakley’s behind, they’ll suddenly find some “misplaced” votes in the back of someone’s car…
@ snork:
I am admidattely cynical when it comes to those running our country. Congress is free from insider trading laws, free from public school, free from public healthcare (one promise I imagine the President will keep)
Every congress rails against how horrible education is, yet none of those politicians have their kids in school. That tells me that they use the education problem to get reelected, but have no plan to actually fix it.
I believe that no problems in our country will be resolved by our government until we require equal treatment as those in Congress get. but in reverse… Congress must have to live by the laws they place upon us.
If we required that, we’d have far fewer laws and far less restricting ones at that.
@ Bunk X:
@ Eliana:
Prime? I think he’s passed his “sell by” date.
I wonder how many people actually change their minds or make up their minds because of a visit from the President?
…
@ Eliana:
That was an “isolated incident”. :)
That’s funny, the preview shows the new avatar I chose but it still doesn’t show up here.
Eliana wrote:
Here’s a link to a collection of recent polls in the Massachusetts race. Brown’s up in 6 of the last 8, by anywhere from 1 to 15 points.
@ mjazz:
Have you tried clearing your cache?
wowmjazz wrote:
nonovem
mjazz wrote:
Probably a bunch of tea party folks funded by big pharma and big tobacco.
….
and glenn beck.
lobo91 wrote:
“What absentee ballots? The post office was closed and the folks overseas, as well as those in Afghanistan and Iraq, have never heard of either of them.”
Eliana wrote:
Coakley is behind in EVERY poll, even her own internal polling. I can relate to Bunk’s cynicism, I could very well be wrong here but I don’t think so. Barring a last minute surprise I’m going out on a limb and calling it for Scott Brown.
@ lobo91:
Other images at gravatar or cookies?
Never mind.
@ mjazz:
Browser cache.
What you see isn’t necessarily the same as what everyone else sees. Your browser may be using the old image.
Does one of you guys or gals have a 1.0 sock named YoungLibertarian92? Rhetorical question. We all know what an affirmative answer would do.
Anyway, YL92′s been rattling the cage over there for a couple of days. Yet he lives. They’re on a AGW thread now, so his hours may be numbered.
Krauthammer: Massachusetts ‘Could Be a Copenhagen III’ for Obama
Democrats are losing on this one even if Coakley wins…
@ coldwarrior:
Then I discovered beer.
mjazz wrote:
Your avatar looks like pot or something. It’s cool.
lobo91 wrote:
He’s getting passed his “best if used by: ” date
@ Opilio:
It’s one of our holograms.
@ Bunk X:
Thanks.
This cartoon seemed far fetched in 1948.
However, it is dead on accurate for what the Dems and the great leader have planned
This cartoon seemed far fetched in 1948.
However, it is dead on accurate for what the Dems and the great leader have planned
http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html
@ Opilio:
@ mjazz:
@ Bunk X:
just playin some grateful dead here and reading the blog
@ danrudy:
nice head!
welcome
coldwarrior wrote:
Dead link on Utoobage?
Bunk X wrote:
nope. on my toobe.
i have over 400 dead shows on hand…the coldwarior is a huge hippie
@ danrudy:
What a radical statement! Would that be legal nowadays? /
coldwarrior wrote:
Brings to mind images of Cass Elliot.
@ coldwarrior:
I saw Anthem of the Sun on Youtube and started listening to it. I had that album so long ago I had forgotten what the songs sounded like.
@ coldwarrior:
Listening to the Persuasions’ Tribute to Zappa.
http://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/wavy-gravy.jpg
Opilio wrote:
i did 8 dead shows on two continents …saw phish 6 times…and the allman bros i wont even get into.
@ danrudy:
They used the “C” word.
@ Opilio:
I want to have his children, he is really good.
I’m emailing that cartoon.
@ mjazz:
Which?
@ Bunk X:
danrudy’s @ 84
An Israeli IT company has sold an online business management system to
Iran.
Totally off topic!
Time for everyone to register at True/Slant http://trueslant.com
You will thank me for it!
(P.S. some of the registration email stuff ends up in “junk mail” if you use a hotmail/live account)
@ mjazz:
Oh yeah. That’s going up in next Saturday’s Matinee post.
You want to know why Little Green Footballs has been neglected lately?
“”The Lizard Annex”"
Charles Foster Johnson has not been “Otherwise occupied” Uploading his crap to True Slant. That is why his “lizzards” have been swimming around in fetid open threads. He dumped them!
http://trueslant.com/charlesjohnson/
Warning!!! no corrollator tool, no stinky, just raw naked Johnson.
@ MrPaulRevere:
Wow!
Possum wrote:
LOL! Master! Beta! WTF!
Rotating thingy!
ROTFLMAO If YL92 is a sock he gets voted sock of the year. If not I still want to have his children!
@ Bunk X:
If you look at all his “contributions” so far, well they are stripped down LGF articles, basically links to other peoples articles. However! Notice the number of comments he gets.
Nobody gives a shit about what he posts over at “The Lizard Annex”
Possum wrote:
Heh. I won’t bother. I’m listening to Zappa’s “Stuff Up The Cracks” right now and it fits with CJ’s Annex.
Possum wrote:
click on that link…give cj money
Possum wrote:
why the fuck are we concerned about this?
@ coldwarrior:
Because it’s dark stupid humor.
Bunk X wrote:
yep./
@ coldwarrior:
coldwarrior wrote:
why the fuck are we concerned about this?
We may be concerned, or interested or just fucking casually reading about it because…
coldwarrior, you are posting on a “chat room” that used to be called “Littlegreenfootballs2″ and THAT is why some of us are, and I quote you, “why the fuck”
That is why the fuck…….
Have a nice day.
Hey, I just noticed the text under the Preview button:
Preview is definitely your friend!
Cute!
coldwarrior wrote:
I suppose you have proof that clicking on that link gives Johnson money?
How much per click?… where does the money come from?
A Major Talaban assault is currently underway in Kabul. Multiple Ministries have been attacked by Talaban and there are reports of 20 suicide bombers targeting foreign MSM types at their hotel in downtown Kabul.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I saw this on the BBC, apparently two of the terrorists have been killed in gun battles. The BBC is blaming Karzhai and the fraudulent elections for the attacks. I suppose they have to blame someone except the perps. Bush, Blair and Howard are no longer in office. It must be tough being MSM and no longer being able to blame the usual suspects.
@ Possum:
What is this True Slant? Has selrahC abandoned his blog?
The World’s Worst Carbon Polluter
I rarely check my spam box, and normally delete everything in it. But this I am copying in its entirety. It was sent by an “Environmentalist Group”, and if anybody wishes to have proof positive that the nature conservationists have been hijacked by “environmentalists” who have other agendas, I submit that this is it. Sorry about the long read and apologies if its been posted before:
@ African Moondog:
Yet another home for “nuanced” and “open-minded” liberals.
You know, a cut above the run-of-the-mill wannabes. Not putting them down or anything…
//
Charles has a post there where he bashes FOX News and humbles himself to admit that he used to be wrong about global warming, but has examined the evidence and determined that the climate scientists FOR global warming are right.
You’d think if they had some big bombshell evidence that AGW was seriously impacting the planet, they would, you know, show somebody.
Anyhow, I left a comment there supposing that AGW is in fact impacting the climate noticeably and challenged them to provide a solution that didn’t bankrupt the country (LMAO I know!) and could be enforced across the board for all nations.
@ African Moondog:
So what’s her solution?
Bumr50 wrote:
Global Change, the socialist revolution, and the touchy feely utopia that follows. World Government. The usual things I guess.
@ African Moondog:
She ain’t got one besides ‘lay down and die’.
Trichloroethylene must be a Republican substance.
Bumr50 wrote:
You are brave, signing up to a site where selrahC could have access to your updated personal info. Was there any response?
@ African Moondog:
All they take is an e-mail address so I think I’m OK.
I got the boot over there (@1.0) for suggesting that less Mexicans would sneak across the border if bullets were involved, so I’m just a ‘small potatoes’ whack job to him anyway.
I just left it, but I’m not expecting much as his post didn’t really go into anything except how awful FOX was for misquoting Danny Glover and how STUPID us AGW deniers are.
Bumr50 wrote:
Indeed it must. Notice how, no matter what the ubject, they always bring race into it yet they are the non-racists?
@ African Moondog:
I went to check, but got hung up on their banner article, blaming the conditions in Haiti (pre-earthquake) on guess who?
African Moondog wrote:
Red Alert Update: Taliban Assault on Kabul
January 18, 2010 | 0827 GMT
The Taliban attack in Kabul is reportedly winding down. The assault began around 9:35 a.m. local time Jan. 18 (the day the new cabinet was being sworn in) when reports of rocket fire and explosions were heard in the Afghan capital near several government buildings.
Just 23 minutes later, reports emerged that the Taliban had claimed the attack in a message to the Afghan Islamic Press. In the claim, Taliban spokesman Zabihollah Mojahed said 20 suicide assailants were attacking the Presidential Palace, the Central Bank and the Ministries of Finance, Justice and Mines and Industries. The Serena Hotel, the Defense Ministry and the Afghan Telecom had also reportedly come under attack.
A little after noon local time, militants began to lay siege on two major shopping centers, including a mall called the Grand Afghan Shopping Center near the Justice Ministry. Eyewitness reported militants carrying rocket-propelled grenades entered the second and third floors of the mall. A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) reportedly detonated outside one of the shopping centers killing several security forces.
Around the same time, reports emerged that militants who had earlier breached the southern gate of the presidential palace had entered the building where a swearing-in ceremony for Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s Cabinet was scheduled to take place. The Afghan government denied any breach of the palace had taken place. Several minutes later, another blast was heard outside the Cinema Pamir in an area far from the other attacks, about 1 kilometer away from the Serena hotel.
The size of this attack (if it involved 20 assailants as the Taliban have claimed) is more than twice as large as the Feb. 11, 2009, attack in Kabul, which involved a team of eight attackers. While a complete and concise assessment of what has been struck is still being compiled, it does appear that the justice ministry (the main target of the February 2009 attack) was again hit hard and there are reports of a substantial fire burning inside the building. It is unclear if the fire was started by a rocket attack or assailants who had succeeded in penetrating the building’s security.
STRATFOR sources are reporting that the Taliban may have used suicide vehicle bombs and artillery rockets in addition to the suicide bombers on foot and armed gunmen. If so, this is a new wrinkle. We have seen VBIEDS and artillery rockets employed by the Taliban in Kabul, but not in coordination with an armed assault.
@ Bumr50:
Of course, who else? Still, I am sure that The One will rectify all that with taxpayers largesse.
Has anybody ever wondered why densely populated Japan, one of the most earthquake prone nations on Earth, has so few earthquake casualties?
@ African Moondog:
On yesterday’s prayer thread, I expressed concern about our efforts in Haiti.
Also this:
The aid is needed but how do we determine who gets what?
It may sound heartless, but I think our best bet is to reestablish the government that was in place with rudimentary basics, and leave all aid with them. And of course, a SMALL contingent of manpower, with more close by.
The Haitians need to help the Haitians. We can facilitate, but must not enable. There’s not one iota of Obama that understand or is willing to understand this. With him in office, Haiti WILL become a debacle(post-tragedy) of epic proportions. He won’t be able to resist the raw and pliable nation of people at his hands.
This way, if they don’t use the resources properly the people can rise against it, if they choose to.
We can OBSERVE and SUGGEST.
Sorry for reposting, but I was on a roll yeaterday.
Good Morning.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Back to the Beeb:
“A spokesman for the interior ministry told the BBC it believed seven suicide attackers were involved.
Four attacked a shopping centre near the Serena Hotel and presidential palace. All were now dead and fighting there had ceased, the spokesman said.”
Bumr50 wrote:
That is not heartless, that is a damn good question. You know the old cynicism about aid: “Aid is where you take the money from the poor people in the rich countries and give it to the rich people in the poor countries.”
@ RIX:
Morning Rix.
@ RIX:
Morning RIX.
Dawg, Bumr, how are you this morning?
I guess from what I hear, Obama did not deliver anything like
the Gettysburg Address in Boston last night.
what would MLK think of this?
…………………………………………………………..
CINCINNATI, Ohio — On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some controversy surrounds Cincinnati Public Schools’ observance of the federal holiday.
The students are off, but the construction projects will continue during holiday, and the Cincinnati NAACP and Baptist Ministers Conference are planning protests.
Members of the groups will stand in solidarity at 4 a.m. on Monday at Parham Elementary School in Evanston.
Cincinnati NAACP President Christopher Smitherman says, “We plan to meet the contractors and workers at the gate. CPS can shut them down or we will.”
@ African Moondog:
A lot of people seem willing to leave it to the American Red Cross. Personally, I’m skeptical of anything so close to the government. I’ve been that way since I was a kid and witnessed my Dad donate blood religiously to the Central Blood Bank here and specifically NOT the Red Cross.
@ RIX:
Nothing can save that stupid woman. If she wins it will be purely because of the “NOT Republican” factor.
@ mawskrat:
According to True/Slant, MLK would conclude that conditions in Haiti are OUR fault.
Please don’t ask why I was there.
It looks to like Brown wins a fair vote. The polls are all over the
place, but if you average them, Brown is in good shape.
Coakley went to DC for a fundraiser the other night, while Brown worked the voters. Says a lot.
If his lead holds up, this is a tsunami.
Good morning, y’all.
{Rix}
{Bumr50}
{africanmoondog}
@ mawskrat:
I think MLK would go medieval on them. They’re trying to build a school, and not having the students there obviously provides a window of opportunity to do things that they otherwise could not.
Since they’re ministers and all, I’m SURE they’d show the same zeal if work happened on Christmas day….
///
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Good morning Goddess.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Mornin’ goddess!
Whatever you do, don’t go in to work to catch up or anything like that!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
You get the Trib?
Interesting article on rude college age kids and their enabling parents.
At least people are finally noticing.
@ Bumr50:
Ah, teachers have an in-service day. I’m in a training session all day, then I’m staying late to grade some projects.
I have to say that the negative comments about public education distress me. I completely agree with the concerns, but I disagree with the response.
Anybody see the Vikings locker room after they defeated the Cowboys?
Farve led them in a Chorus of “Pants on the Ground.” Very cool.
Goddess, you would be appalled at the stste of public Educastion in the City of Chicago. I do believe that you would not want to be any part of it.
Bumr50 wrote:
Actually the Red Cross is one of the better organizations who deliver real aid to people in need IMHO, they have been around for so long they know all the scams and as far as I remember they try to distance themselves from governments.
If I’m commenting on EDUCATION, I should at least spell it correctly.
@ RIX:
Pittsburgh City Schools regularly graduate kids that can’t read or count. I’m not exaggerating or joking.
I went to a tech school to get my associate degree in business and had to switch from day to night classes because I couldn’t sit through a tax class where the instructor had to spend a week teaching students how to do arithmetic with numbers that had values involvong a decimal point. Students with high school diplomas.
goddessoftheclassroom wrote:
{Goddess}
A good public school is better than a good private one if only because they are cheaper but deliver the same product! However, if a school is dysfunctional, it is more likely to be a public school.
@ African Moondog:
I’m in no way trying to diminish them, just prefer religious charities that I know a little better.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Good morning beautiful…
A big problem in Chicago is the teachers. They give a preference to Chicago State grads & many grads are at best semi-literate.
They do not have to test out proficient in their own subject.
RIX wrote:
Not if you are a product of the San Diego Unified School District…
I agree with your replies about public education, Here’s the first step to my solution:
Parents deposit $1000 on their child’s first day of school in a special interest-bearing escrow account that will be returned to them when their child graduates. A minimum of $1000 must be in the account at all time.
The student must pass his or her courses. Money is deducted from the account for summer school or other remediation.
Money is also deducted for disciplinary infractions.
Parents and students will also complete objective teacher evaluations. Teachers will an average negative eval will be scrutinized by administration and given the chance to improve or be dismissed.
@ doriangrey:
Mornin’ Dorian!
@ doriangrey:
{doriangrey}
I’m glad that I got to give you a “hug” before I left!
Have a great day, y’all!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
And if they can’t afford it, they can take it out of the child tax credit.
I’m with you.
@ Bumr50:
Yes, always support those you trust, and so non gummint linked organizations always get my support when I can afford it. The Red cross earned my admiration when I read about their contributions in WW2
“The Red Cross also famously arranged parcels for prisoners of war, following the provisions of the third Geneva convention in 1929, which laid out strict rules for the treatment of PoWs. The Joint War Organisation sent standard food parcels, invalid food parcels, medical supplies, educational books and recreational materials to prisoners of war worldwide. During the conflict, over 20 million standard food parcels were sent.”
Bumr50 wrote:
Good morning Bumr50…
Actually the Goddess’s proposals make a lot of sense.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
Good Morning Goddess !!!
A former high school principal near here told me he could solve all the problems in the school if he just had the authority to fire two people a year. He said on average he might fire one, but that would bring order to the chaos.
@ Bunk X:
In 2nd grade Mrs. Damstra put me in the back because I couldn’t see,
in 2nd grade Mrs. Godlove taught me to love books.
Actual names. Irony
African Moondog wrote:
While I have nothing but respect for GOTC I have serious misgivings that her solution would work. Because of the powerful influence of the teachers unions and the anti-competitive nature of public education I believe the only solution that can work is to dismantle the public education systems monopoly on primary education.
Force the K through 12 education system to compete, reward the successful schools and punish the ones that fail. Vouchers and public funding to any private school that produce academic excellence and achievement and de-fund the administration level employees of any public school that fails to produce academic excellence and achievement in its students.
I like to tell my wifffeee that I do things based on science. When studies showed that regular, ahum, intimate encounters promotes prostate health she had no way to counter.
Now this! Drink!
Science!
OK off to work now, ya’ll have a good day now…
That bad huh? Products of Chicago Public Schools have trouble getting their names right the first time.
See ya later.
Remember when Ronald Reagan was president, we also had Bob Hope and Johnny Cash still with us…
Now we have Obama. No hope and no cash!
From the local liberal rag, a letter from an “academic.”
Speaking of the Red Cross…
The Haitians are doomed.
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The Red Cross for years has been an incompetent & greedy organization.
Several years a ago , I was privy to management compensation. You would not guess that this is a Charity, huge salaries.
By time they get finished skimming off of the donated dollar , it is fortunate if $0.50 gets to a victim.
We gave through the Salvation Army for Haiti & Catholic Charities is anotheer safe bet.
The main thing I learned in public school was to bring a knife to a fist fight, and the power of fear. I had to read Machiavelli’s The Prince in tenth grade and it was like a revelation in social discourse. They’d have expelled me by third grade in today’s pussified systems.
Anybody catch the two hour season premier of 24 last night?
Have thety slipped, sloppy writing & bad acting.
They kind of took up where they left off last season, “Muslims vs Bad Guys” & the Muslims in this world are now the good guys.
The US president is taken with a ME leader who will sign a Nuke teraty & agreee to take massive amounts of cash.
“He is a once in a lifetime leader who no longer supports terrorism. ” She said that.
The bad guys? Russians! You know the same guys who attacked us on 9/11 & are comitting terrorisnm all over the world.
This is from Public Policy Polling, posted on Michelle Malkin.
@ RIX:
I was told that this one is one of the most active groups in Haiti.
Israel has set up a hospital. Have the Saudis? UAE? Iran? Vennys?
@ RIX:
Thats why you give to the local branch in all charities.
• In a survey of the 200 largest U.S. charities, Forbes magazine has given Food For The Poor outstanding ratings of 97% in charitable commitment and 98% in fundraising efficiency.
December 2008
2008 SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES*
Total Expenditures:
$1,516,189,274
Operating Expenses:
$34,216,451
Tractor-Trailers of Aid Distributed:
4,637
Administrative Ratio:
2.26%
97.74% of every dollar is direct aid.
I haven’t heard of them before , but they look like a good charity.
Factoid, the Navy Hospital Ship Comfort which was dispatched from Baltimore to Haiti. If land based would be the larges bedded hopital io Baltimore with 900 beds according to FNC
@ snork:
Absolutely. Up here in the Great White North, socialist extraordinaire Jack Layton had a bit of trouble when it was found out he used a private medical clinic. Of course he had no idea, honest mistake and all that.
How about that, Food for the poor is on nbc right now.
@ RIX:
Good morning, all!
With this admin I’m surprised the writters didn’t make the the Brits the bad guys.
Sh*t, they had a student mission there when it happened, kids missing.
Hey dog,I just have no confidence in the Red Cross, local or national.
I have seen them in action.
In San Diego County they lent a Marine Bereavement money to attend his fathers funeral.
When he returned they demanded payment in full, I saw it.
If he had it, he wouldn’t have borrowed it. He needed a payment schedule.
The Natl Red Cross took Katrina money & updated their computers.
I will give to the Salvation Army & Catholic Charities, but never to the Red Cross.
Click for pic of missing kids.
They’re not finished , so maybe. They could also implicate the Boy Scouts , Sarah Palin & Glen Beck.
Hello all.
I love this story. Thanks so much for posting it. I’m Canadian and American and teaching in South Korea. The kids here can kick our kids a$$e$. The kids study constantly. At my Korean church, I take the kids out to the movies and the music rooms. Two of the oldest girls, one in high school and one in university study ALL the time.
It’s winter break right now. I teach in one of the schools kids go to after regular school. I teach kids at 9:50 in the morning and then they show up again for our last classes ending at 9:00 PM. And this is their winter break with no regular school!! They do leave for home after lunch at 1:30 PM then come back later.
And the kids here carry box cutters. Half inch razor blades. I wouldn’t want to be sliced by one but I’ve asked the kids if I could borrow one when I needed to open something in class. I have kids that draw great pictures of guns and label them so I know what type of gun it is. They do things that would get them heavily examined in our pu$$ified countries. I think I’ll try to hang out here until WW3 is settled. And hopefully welfare states will continue to collapse in the meantime. Bring on the pain!!
i think the principle is named Barney Fife