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N.J. Students Forced To Eat On Floor
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| October 11, 2007
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Posted on 10/11/2007 7:15:55 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
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To: thebaron512
High salaries always come first in public education.
That’s the real priority.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:33:25 AM PDT
by
Nextrush
(Proudly uncommitted in the 2008 race for president for now)
To: ClearCase_guy
"Life was simpler then. There wasn't all this concern about hy-giene! In my day, we didn't have Kleenex. When you turned seventeen, you were given the family handkerchief. ... It hadn't been washed in generations and it stood on its own ... filled with diseases and swarmin' with flies. ... If you tried to blow your nose, you'd get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and children would burst into tears at the sight o' ya! And that's the way it was and we liked it!"
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:33:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
To: the OlLine Rebel
This allows teachers to go into greater depth in their discussions, Superintendent Montesano said. BS. It gets the teachers out earlier.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:33:56 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Food imported from China = "Cesspool + Flavor-Straw")
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
It makes perfect sense to me. It’s a public school. They’re getting the students ready for when they’re homeless.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:34:13 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:35:53 AM PDT
by
jdm
To: the OlLine Rebel
Children don’t seem to care about germs, much :-).
They certainly have choices other than sitting on the lunchroom floor, though. At least they should have other choices. Maybe they can’t let them take lunch into the classrooms (as we sometimes did, especially in bad weather) because they’d trash the rooms or have orgies.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:36:32 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("There is no such thing as death for a Christian who believes in the Resurrection." ~ Fr. Ho Lung)
To: jdm
After all, it's a public school, not a five star restaurant. I heard these totally spoiled brats of parents and I cringed by their demands that you and I pays for!
The next demands will be that there will be bathroom attendance wiping the seats in the stalls after every use!!
LOL, you nailed it right on the head!!!
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:36:58 AM PDT
by
danamco
(Now, I would LOVE to hear your solution as to how to remove 12 to 30 million people from this countr)
To: dfwgator
Dana Carvey was great. What ever happened to him?
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:37:45 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: ClearCase_guy
He was on Dennis Miller’s radio show a few months back.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:39:46 AM PDT
by
jdm
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Renowned microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno warns 80 percent of all infectious diseases are spread through contact. So when a child touches the floor to sit, then touches a sandwich, whatever is on the floor can then be ingested.
Tell it to these guys....
To: danamco
You mean your middle school didn’t have a concierge either?
/sarcasm
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:42:57 AM PDT
by
jdm
To: dfwgator
After my first couple of bouts of cholera and typhus I’m at the point where I look forward to it every year or so.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:43:26 AM PDT
by
perez24
(Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
When it comes to schools and daycare centers, I am not sure that I buy the unsanitary argument. ALL the surfaces in schools and daycare centers in particular compose one gigantic petri dish. I am not sure I would want to go around swabbing surfaces as these parents did, I fear I would end up a germophobe like Howard Hughes and Howie Mandel.
To: stylin19a
Renowned microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno warns 80 percent of all infectious diseases are spread through contact. So when a child touches the floor to sit, then touches a sandwich, whatever is on the floor can then be ingested.Didn't Dr. Tierno ever hear of the "Five-Second Rule?"
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:47:04 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
To: stylin19a
Renowned microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno warns 80 percent of all infectious diseases are spread through contact. So when a child touches the floor to sit, then touches a sandwich, whatever is on the floor can then be ingested.Didn't Dr. Tierno ever hear of the "Five-Second Rule?"
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:47:09 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Though likely not intended as such, this directive fits in perfectly with the “multicultural” role playing lesson plans that we are allowing to dominate public education.
Administrators might even get grants for school innovation and empathy for the poor if they couched their decision in those terms.
Just think of all the “cultures” that sit on the floor when they eat and use their fingers rather than utensils to get their meal into their mouths. Just think of the scene as “universalist,” “progressive,” “breaking bread with our third world brothers and sisters.”
To: jdm
thank you for that note of common sense.. we didn’t have the germ hysteria in my youth and we somehow managed to come out alive. and really, it’s not as if they are forcing the kids to put their food on the floor itself..this is semi interesting..but really a non-story.
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:50:56 AM PDT
by
Awestruck
(All the usual suspects)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Renowned microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno warns 80 percent of all infectious diseases are spread through contact
Doesn't that include contact with lunchroom tables as well? I remember my lunchroom tables and stools. They were pretty nasty. Ever touch the underside of a school desk or a school lunchroom table? Hmmmm....what's that sticky thing? Man...now that I think about it, I think I'd rather eat on the floor.
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To: F15Eagle
All the money raised for schools and they can't accomodate a decent place to eat?It isn't even a decent place to teach or learn, but it should be a decent place to eat?
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posted on
10/11/2007 7:57:34 AM PDT
by
jdm
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