Posted on 10/29/2025 3:44:42 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
In one of America’s most popular novels, seven-year-old Scout has been reading “ever since she was born.” She and her father read the newspapers together every evening. Late in the summer, she realized she would be starting school in a week. “I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on the children there. ... I longed to join them.”
But everything changed by lunchtime! Scout’s older brother Jem asked how she was getting along on her first day of school. “I told him. If I didn’t have to stay I’d leave. Jem, that damn lady says Atticus’s been teaching me to read and for him to stop it.”
What could have happened between breakfast and lunch so horrible that Scout’s eager enthusiasm was crushed?
That evening, Atticus asked, “Something wrong, Scout?” She told her father she “didn’t feel very well and didn’t think she’d go to school any more if it was all right with him.”
Why did Scout want to stay home? Essentially for the same reasons that absenteeism is now at epidemic levels throughout the country. Schools don’t respect their students and don’t respect the subjects being taught.
“‘Don’t worry, Scout,’ Jem comforted me. ‘Our teacher says Miss Caroline’s introducing a new way of teaching. She learned about it in college. [The story is set circa 1935.] It’ll be in all the grades soon. You don’t have to learn much out of books that way — it’s like if you wanta learn about cows, you go milk one, see?’” Scout points out that she is not concerned with cows.
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Ah yes. Rand Paul is concerned that he doesn't know the names of the drug runners, and that we aren't giving due process to. Rand Paul is an asshat.
If you can show me a way to avoid their gold join box of oblivion I might read more of their articles.
“Rand Paul is concerned that he doesn’t know the names of the drug runners,”
I’ve never been a big fan of his, but I really did think he is smarter than that.
Rand is one of the many citizens in our Republic who can’t fathom the difference between societal law enforcement and war. They think everything is a legal/police issue - even internationally. IMHO.
I read the book in school in the early 1960s. I remember liking it a lot but I now see that there was much I didn’t understand. However,the film is now one of my ten favorite films of all time.
One of the interesting subplots is the mad dog.
It’s not mentioned much by the liberals.
Atticus killed the dog.
He didn’t even think twice.
It was a danger to his family and town, and he killed it.
No arrest, no trial……just dead.
With a rifle.
Liberals don’t like that.
Ignoring Rand Paul. Turning off videos that include him, not giving clicks on articles or X is the best way to starve the beast.
But it's so much fun reminding RandFan of what an ass his idol is.
May be. But the other side thinks everything is a mental health issue, or a race issue.
It’s one of my top ten favorite movies, too. I think I may have had a crush on Gregory Peck. When I was her age, I had a haircut that was similar to Mary Badham’s in the movie. Plus, it has the Southern factor in it, with dirt roads and guns. That’s how it was in parts of the South (north central Florida) where I grew up. Yes ma’am and no sir. I think it’s about time I watch the movie again (I have it on DVD). It’ll wait until the World Series is over, though.
Rand couldn’t find his rear end if he had a map and his last name was McNally.
I never liked this book, or any of the “hate whitey” books we were forced to read all with the required self flagellation.
We were forced to read it and told what to think about it and how to repeat exactly what the teacher told us to repeat. Any deviation from the official dogma resulted in failing grades. There was no challenging allowed.
Now that I am older to me it is the MLK jr of books. You are not allowed to criticize and mustsing the unquestionable wonderfulness of every part of it.
Book sense vs the real world.
Book sense people are so smart they are stupid in reality.
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