Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Yeah, that too. It's such a nice day that I didn't want to get myself all riled up!
You don't say...... ;^)
Hehehe
As a result, people are crammed together, traffic is awful (as I've mentioned before) and jobs are limited. Add to that, with such a diverse mix of cultures, it is impossible for most folks to get along. When we first moved here, hispanics were a minority, but as an American family, fully assimilated in American culture, we had no problems with bigotry at all.
Now, the new Cubans (and thousands of South and Central Americans) that come over have no desire to assimilate and really don't have to, since most every supermarket has more Spanish speaking staff than English. So the Dade County natives became strangers in their own town. That is why during the Elian affair, so much pent-up anger towards Cubans and hispanics in general finally lashed out and Americans of Cuban descent like me, took a lot of heat.
But, back to the topic at hand, the fall out of the rapid growth of Miami suburbs was the strain on public schools to handle more kids, a lot of them who cannot speak English and thus learn more slowly. This leaves the smarter kids who speak the language to become bored and frustrated with school and get into more trouble as their grades slip. Additionally, there is a mindset that mediocrity is A-OK and once a student falls into that trap, it's nearly impossible to get them out.
Lastly, God is persona non grata in public schools, so students with a less than perfect home life have no moral compass whatsoever. In all, you get a student with no clear distinctiveness in grades, morals and discipline - the perfect Democrat voter.
I saw Rosie's post and LOL because the same thing would have happened to me! :)
Yeah, but not as late as yesterday! I logged off last night, then started reading "Executive Orders"; BIG MISTAKE! I finally had to force myself to stop reading at 3 am! I dragged out of bed at 9:30 this morning because we have our homeschool teens get together today. Then I have to get our son ready for his Boy Scouts Fall Camporee. He has to prepare some stuff for a cooking contest. He won it a couple of years ago with a Cherry Crisp that he made. This year he wants to try an Apple-Cranberry Crisp!
Missed opportunity, eh? ;-) Yeah...should have said it was on purpose...but it was actually just me concentrating hard on trying to write well, and therefore goofing up!
Did you try a different lembas recipe last night?
I think I will just burn a pan of rice krispie treats in the oven - crisp, brown on the outside, cream on the inside - LOL!!!
I've had a few nights like that, but for the most part I can't do it! I'm a morning person, so by eleven I usually find myself reading pages over and over without fully comprehending and have to give up.
My brothers were all in Boy Scouts for SOME period of time, though only one spent enough time and effort on it to make Eagle. Still, they all had fun and learned a lot of good skills! The cooking contest sounds fun...best of luck to your son!
I don't really want to read it. I don't have a reason to want to fear the schools. I guess what I don't like to see is an attitude in homeschoolers that must tear down other methods of education in order to bolster their own method. If it is good, then call it good. It doesn't have to classify everything else as evil does it?
Home schooling is dandy. It is wonderful when it can be done, I will grant you that. But I don't want to have to embrace insults against where I came from in order to respect homeschooling, and I feel like homeschoolers too often don't promote homeschooling without tearing down everyone else that attends traditional schools. How can I answer categorical statements about kids that can't write? - I can write.
I don't think homeschooling is ever gonna be practical for the mainstream. It is unfortunate perhaps, but most families aren't ready for that. Many good families aren't ready for that, and the broken ones will never be ready. And the majority of Americans don't share the goal to school at home. So there has to be a good option for those kids. If the schools are broken, we should fix them because fixing them is the right thing to do. If they are wrong, why can't we make them right? - I don't agree with abandoning the schools to the liberals who are the only ones left there. - So I wish the best parents who care about the curriculum weren't already gone, and there was a place on the conservative side for those who want good schools. The good people have left the constructive part of the discussion. They are already on the other side of the road, where all they do is jeer and point, which doesn't help solve anything.
Hullo! - Good Morning! - I hope you don't mind the tediousness of this discussion in our cheerful Hobbit Hole. And RMD, I, like commas, too. My fault when I read my own writing is that I write in the way that I would speak it, with pauses, for effect, to make sure everyone heard, and is stopping to consider, my point.... LOL!
Not yet! Last night was our music tonight and I didn't get back until fairly late...then worked on peeling wallpaper until time for bed. I MAY try tonight, but I want to track down our old biscuit recipe which is written inside the cover of Mom's favorite cookbook. Dad told me I could have it, but I haven't retrieved it yet.
That's the approach we've taken. We've always been very involved with Corin Jr.'s schools and will be with his little brother when the time comes.
We're fortunate to be in a conservative area, like I've mentioned. Still there are times when we wonder if we'll need to think otherwise when the little one starts school...
I'll let OT and ksen make the obvious elf jokes about this...
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