BTW, as a fervent student of the English language, I will add this:
Posted on 12/11/2012 6:03:06 AM PST by shortstop
Hinge it to a goal.
You want to get into college? Don’t write your essay all about yourself and how wonerful you are. Gear it to the educators who will be reading it. They like kids who love learning. Tell them what you want to learn.
Get the kids’ heads to turn around that way if you can.
Or the same with getting a job: Don’t talk about your qualifications and your paltry experience. Tell them what you know about their company and how it’s the place you want to work and why.
Kids are taught that it’s all about them for so long that they find it hard to make the switch. When you’re looking for something, a college education or a job, you’ve got to turn it around.
My generation is largely conservative/libertarian, the youth vote showed itself to be largely democrat. I know what my kids, their friends in the 20-35 yo groups believe in and it is not conservative by a long shot when it comes to how they vote. I also see it in the older student (25-40) population where I teach.
Too many potential conservative voters in those groups as well as my own generation simply did not vote for whatever ignorant reasons. I didn’t care much for Mitt or the way he handled the campaign but he was a far better choice than four more years of the would-be dicatator.
Agree completely. I am talking about kids that are 11-12 years old, who know what the scores of games are and, to their credit, often comment on the fact that the “trophies” mean nothing.
Even when they were 5-6 years old, my sons and daughter knew what the score was at the end of their games; again, the libtard utopia of “equal outcomes” thwarted by human nature and reality...
Simple. Spend 12 years on a website, consistently and obsessively posting, day in and day out, like a twitchy overnervous sweating mole-rat who's overdosed on crack and high-caffiene-content coffee.
11 years will not cut it. It has to be 12.
BTW, as a fervent student of the English language, I will add this:
I don't recycle pumpkins. I re-use them.
I process them through a thermal-mechanical device, which renders the pumpkin into a brown slurry. The brown slurry is then processed with other biological materials in a different thermal-mechanical process to a solidified brown cake. That brown cake is processed through an animate biological re-forming system, then flushed down a pipe into an underground bio-degradation system, from which it emerges as an aqueous solution of nitrates. That solution is finally disposed of in the environment, where is supports the growth of various species of the family Poaceae.
That depends on your POV. Vultures, rats, and cockroaches like terror and slaughter ...
bm
Laz,
I know you did/would. I anticipated your erudition and perspicacious talents.
Actually I’ve been around about 14 years. I signed up about 6 months into the birth of FR but lost my initial login info, changed it, whatever.
I was Amos the Prophet for years but decided with help from Jim to take off the mask. Now I am me.
I enjoy your posts and appreciate your candor.
As for a reputation I am not exactly reserved but have not caught the wind that you have found.
Lou
Glad to meet you after all these years, sir!
The gladness is mine, FRiend. Perhaps notoriety has not followed me here due to my failure to develop friendships. I count you one.
Delightful! Glad I can count you as a friend!
And by the same token, not all kids today are worthless self-important slackers. Stop trashing them because of stupid articles like this.
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