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Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I'd expect g'nad to comment on that one.
At least the dog didn't strip every tomato off the vine.
LOL!
I'm ok now. I got a very sweet email from the wife of the president of Big CHEF. Very encouraging. She said that as upsetting as this is, she knows it must be doubly so for me, because of Celeste's involvement. She also told me I was acting wisely when it came to the egroup. Again, I appreciate that, because I've never dealt with it where I've had to use my own judgement. She told me she admired how I was handling things.
Hey there everybody!
Got my new laptop ~tablet today. Am having big fun with hand-writing recognition. Darn if it doesn't work pretty well.
(of course ya know I'm gonna weigh in on this) But it is counterproductive to saddle kids with that much homework.
It stems from pure hubris - the idea that schools and teachers know what is best for a child. This goes back to Dewey whose philosophy is the backbone of the modern education system. The idea is that teachers have to intervene in all aspects of the child's life so they don't pick up the bad habits of their parents. Dewey was a 'progressive', so conservative, traditional thought was 'bad' and needed to be corrected. Dewey felt that a child's first loyalty is to the greater society - not the family. Teachers work to build the village.
Most "El-Eds" aren't aware they're taught to be control-freaks. They'll smile at you blandly and bat their eyelashes and lay some learning theory jargon on you. But the truth is, they believe that any lesson worth learning will come at their direction and that time spent with family and friends won't learn you your multiplication tables.
This, of course, is dead wrong.
Kids need unstructured time. They're currently overprogramed by products of the same educational system that believes 'activity' is the same thing as 'accomplishment'. As *IF* you can't get into college if you didn't take tap and ballet and violin and softball and lacross all in the third grade!
They need time to play quietly, they need time to play rowdily. They need time to play imaginatively. They need time with their own thoughts to think about things; to wander around the backyard and discover bugs and flowers and such.
They need time to spend with Moms and Dads and grandparents and siblings and friends and cousins. They need time to help cook and set the table. They need time for chores. These interactions have far more of a lasting and formative impact on a young person than any worksheet or textbook.
Instead kids these days don't have time to hear themselves think. And it's sad. They are taught that Mom and Dad are usually wrong, that you can't learn something until the teacher teaches it, that rote memorization is learning (and once you take the test you can forget about it), that quantity of effort is more important than mastery of the material, and that learning - real learning - is pointless.
Sorry for the rant.
I hate what we do to kids in the name of education.
Hurray! New tech toys are the bestest!
I'm just tickled my maters are ripening up! I had so many tomaters that I had no choice but to make sauce yesterday. (It ended up being tomato paste, but I'm just pretending that's what I meant to do all along...)
Good!
It gets us to worrying when you go all worrying like that. :)
Any ideas for zucchini?
I've done stuffed zucchini, zucchini fritters, zucchini+turnip+onion fritters, zucchini bread, steamed zucchini....
I may go read a book now.
Dip it in an egg, dip it in flour and deep fry it...eat it with ranch dressing...
Mmmm baby baby!
Did I tell you I made fried green tomatos? We had them with steak. I thought I had died and gone to heaven (Big'ol grills a mean steak)! FGTs are excellent with ranch dressing.
How 'bout stir-fried with shrimp or tossed with pasta? Or zucchini lasagne (use zucchini strips instead of pasta.
Guess you could always freeze some for the winter.
Just had a Forrest Gump moment.
The lasagne idea sounds good - I could use my tomato sauce.
Yeah, you do it the exact same way...deep fry em in slices, like disks, you know? Not longways.
I've done FGT and fried zucchini and fried crookneck yellow squash all at the same time. My brother (when he used to speak to me) would stand in my kitchen and eat them as fast as I could fry up a batch!
Mmmm...fried!
Maybe I should do FGT before the squirrels get them.
Dang. I just ate - and that sounds soooo good it's making me hungry again!
Yay! Glad it finally came!
And you could have fried squirrel to go with 'em!
Sometimes I just stir fry them with onion, garlic, and hot pepper flakes with a dash of soy sauce.
Or for an Italian flair, substitute tomato for the soy sauce.
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