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    « The move is done...let the unpacking begin! | Give the gift of theater, dammit! »

    August 26, 2003

    School's out for summer! School's out forever!

    I guess I shouldn't have been so grumpy about local middle-school students getting to turn in their homework late. They're taking things even further than that up in San Jose. Teachers at Lynbrook High School are "discouraged" from giving homework over weekends and holidays, and their school days have been truncated on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

    I think my tenure at that school would have been exceedingly short.

    Posted by patrick at August 26, 2003 09:16 AM

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    I can't believe that, when I went to school we would get homework almost every Thursday and Friday. True it's unfair to give too much homework out but I guess that school doesn't want their pupils to learn too much. No wonder people seem to be getting dumber now-adays.

    Posted by: Phil at August 28, 2003 04:43 AM

    Oh, dear Dawg... oh no, we can't let our little overachieving soccer bastards actually work too hard thinking. That would be bad for their self-esteem.

    I'm sorry, but this ruling is just the typical whining of Asshats who never studied in school, and so rose to the only job level they could manage -- school administrator. It's the result of spoiled-ass baby boomers suddenly finding themselves in power, just at the point when they're becoming socially irrelevant.

    Know what? Homework is good for you. Read a chapter or two tonight. Hell, write a paper once a month. High school isn't about getting into college. It's about getting an education. And, know what? If you manage to get the education, you can write your way into the college of your choice.

    Think about it. If I were on a college admissions committee, it wouldn't matter how many extracurricular activities a student were involved in if their admissions essays were complete pieces of illiterate crap. On the other hand, if I ran across a well-written, cogent and thoughtful essay from a student whose sole extracurricular activities were two semesters of band in their junior year, I'd pay attention.

    And, anyway, we're talking about the under eighteen crowd here and, y'know what? Their life isn't supposed to be Game Boy and skittles. It's supposed to be study study study. Homework doesn't leave any time for soccer mom to drag the power-SUV all over creation, wasting gas and lugging the kidlets? BFD.

    Once again, a sign of the baby boomer apocalypse. Those asshats didn't make anything of themselves, but they're trying to be damn sure that their own kids get the free ride the post WW-II world promised but never delivered.

    You know why it never delivered, you shit-stains? Because you just sat there expecting it and never worked for it. And, in the mean time, the world passed you by. Oh well...

    I say more homework, more tests, keep Gen Why? on their toes. It's the only way to undo the damage done by those "Give it all to me now" bastards of several generations back.

    Asshats...

    Posted by: Jon Bastian at August 29, 2003 01:25 AM

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