Responsibility for learning belongs to children, too
Leave Lorraine Ahearn wherever she is, Georgia, Florida, Mexico or Canada. The comments relating to the local school system by Joseph R. Bag O'Doughnuts III were the most agreeable piece of writing I've seen in the News & Record ever.
The school system wasn't meant to be a social club but an educational facility. Learning to deal with life is as important as math and English. Forget trying to fit everyone into the same mold and allow the cream to rise to the top. If children don't want to learn, behave and contribute to society, send them home and let them go find a job somewhere.
For years now, the school system has been lowering the standards so everyone can pass and everybody can be happy. Guess what? The real corporate world is a bit different, and the children might as well become acclimated to it in school rather than later.
Bag O'Doughnuts has written more truth in Ahearn's column in one writing than she ever has.
Charles C. Lane
McLeansville
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don't disagree wholly - but not to sure what jobs can be done by a 10 year old who doesn't want to learn, behave and contribute to society.
.. also wish we would encourage more paths than the "real corporate world" - small business, craftsmen, etc ... but the local stuff just keeps disappearing.
Posted on July 2, 2007 5:13 AM
10 year olds can be alot of things!
drug runners, theifs, "The lookout", Professional mischief makers, liars, couch potatoes and a waste of space
Posted on July 2, 2007 6:49 AM
Terry Grier says employers want employees that feel good about themselves. That's what is important.
Posted on July 2, 2007 7:33 AM
"Terry Grier says employers want employees that feel good about themselves. That's what is important."
And WHY would employers want any other kind?
Posted on July 2, 2007 9:36 AM
A line of coke will make them "feel good about themselves" if this is employers' main goal...and costs a lot less than funding the public zoo system.
Posted on July 2, 2007 10:36 AM
neo,
Your "tiny" mind is probably only surpassed in smallness by your member.
"A line of coke will make them "feel good about themselves"...
How do you expect ANYONE to take you seriously?
Posted on July 2, 2007 11:54 AM
"How do you expect ANYONE to take you seriously?"
Seems like SOMEONE did.
Posted on July 2, 2007 12:08 PM
"Your "tiny" mind is probably only surpassed in smallness by your member."
I've always wondered how you expect ANYONE to take YOU seriously Demon Deacon, especially with the daily nonstop insults as witnessed yet again.
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What's with the Bag O'Doughnuts person? I seldom read Ahearn's column.
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"Forget trying to fit everyone into the same mold and allow the cream to rise to the top."
Nah, we can't do that Charles, that would be called competition, which isn't fair. Someones self-esteem may suffer.
No matter how much social experimentation we endure, one truth is constant: some people are smarter than others and some will succeed better than others in school and in life. Give everyone an equal shot and let those who want to rise to the top do so.
Posted on July 2, 2007 12:12 PM
Ya know, it's flattering to be the object of one's obsession...up to a certain point. But when it comes to THE LIBERAL CANADIAN fantasizing about the size of my body parts, it gets a little unnerving for me, and unhealthy for him as well.
It's gotten to the point that I expect any day now to come out of my trailer and find stuck to the windshield of the old Amigo a note cut from the letters of different magazines and pasted on a sheet of plain white paper that goes something like this:
"kiTtY, sAw y0u lAsT eVENiNg iN tHaT l0Wes st0Re OvEr On baTtLegr0Und aVe aNd fOlLOwEd yOu inTo tHe jOhN. cOuLd yOu fEEl My prEsENce? lOvE uR tAn LiNE. aLsO sAw u mOwN gRasS saTteRdeY, U lO0keD gRaTe iN DeM deNim sHorTs...
You need therapy, THE LIBERAL CANADIAN...
Posted on July 2, 2007 12:40 PM
And people ask why I don't use my REAL name....
Posted on July 2, 2007 1:02 PM
we've learned recently that neo's real name is "stephen king."
as for nit, i do know her. her name is "paisley redwine."
lib-cont is "prudence mcgillicutty."
as for me, i am steve turner.
Posted on July 2, 2007 2:18 PM
Dammit! I'm Adam West!
Posted on July 2, 2007 2:24 PM
Nit,
No doubt. For the very same reason I don't use mine either.
NeoKitty with his "anger and ignorance" and Dan, with his narcissistic "stalking" (ie keeping a file on me!)no telling what would happen if they knew me.
I just picture some "Mr. Matheney" character from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Dan and some Marty Feldman looking fellow for NeoKitty.
Wouldn't want to run into those two gene aberrations for anything. But they do keep each other entertained and they are quite the comedy duo, although THEY are not trying to be funny. :)
Posted on July 2, 2007 2:31 PM
"NeoKitty with his "anger and ignorance" and Dan, with his narcissistic "stalking" (ie keeping a file on me!)no telling what would happen if they knew me."
Wise choice Demon Deacon. For someone who is afraid of Frenchmen knowing he is American, I can understand.
Posted on July 2, 2007 5:31 PM
"Terry Grier says employers want employees that feel good about themselves. That's what is important."
That's funny, my employer wanted someone who could code in C/C++, Java, Expect/Tcl/tk, Perl and knew the TCP/IP stack and SNMP. The job description said nothing of "folks that feel good about themselves." I guess I've had it all wrong all these years. Back to the drawing board I suppose.
Posted on July 2, 2007 5:41 PM
"no telling what would happen if they knew me"...
I can tell you what would happen as far as I'm concerned...I'd make sure my fly stayed zipped.
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Posted on July 2, 2007 6:10 PM