Downstrike/education

This office helped me a lot while I was in college.

Count me in!

Don't blame the poor kid! He didn't make up the stupid word.

From the page: I'm afraid no matter where you look, schools are administered by people who are so clueless that they don't even know they're hypocritical. They're the people who got straight As from Kindergarten through Graduate school, because they're good at following instructions, but haven't the foggiest idea why the instructions work.

They don't know how to learn, or how to teach, but suddenly it's their job to instruct a university's staff how to do its job."

From the page:

"CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -- Molly Shoul, 10, has been practicing her rendition of the rock singer Pink's song "Dear Mr. President."

The fifth-grader at Park Springs Elementary School in Coral Springs chose the song to perform at the school's annual talent show.

Pink's song is an open letter to President George W. Bush, questioning how he sleeps at night given his stance on everything from the war in Iraq to gay rights.

But after Molly's mom gave the talent show's director the lyrics to the song, Molly was told the principal considered the song inappropriate for an elementary school audience."

Why am I having a flashback of entering some school poster contest when I was in 4th grade, in which the slogan on my poster said, "Don't Be An Ass", with a picture of a donkey looking back over it's shoulder and rump?

One of these chapters is starting at my college, but they need to forget the committees and politicians, and their blathering.

It was time to act when WE were children. We children knew then that the time to act was when our parents were children; we wanted action then. All we got was blather. To this day, all we get is blather.

When I was fresh out of school and couldn't find work - years before California Redemption - I walked the roads and irrigation ditches around an agricultural center, and hauled aluminum cans to Coors, Budweiser, or who ever would buy them, and paid myself $4.00 per hour doing it, when Minimum Wage was $3.25.

When California introduced Adopt-A-Highway in 1989, I officially adopted 4 northern California miles of U.S. 395 and, (unofficially), 6 miles of a Modoc County road, and cleaned up the entire history of steel and aluminum beer cans littering those roads sides. I also fueled my wood stove for two winters on scraps I took home with me from those road sides, instead of cutting down junipers for wood, (even if Modoc National Forest does call junipers, "weeds").

I'm now physically disabled, but I still recycle what I can. What do you do for the environment? I mean, besides talk. If you aren't DOING something, FIND something to do! If you're politicizing or forming committees, remember that the main purpose of forming committees is to concentrate adequate stupidity, when the stupidity of one person won't suffice, and that a politician is ony a person who is campaigning to be a member of a legislating committee.

From the page: "The marketing program, to be announced today, is called "Give 1 Get 1," in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399.

One of the machines will be given to a child in a developing nation, and the other one will be shipped to the purchaser by Christmas. The donated computer is a tax-deductible charitable contribution. The program will run for two weeks, with orders accepted from Nov. 12 to Nov. 26."