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When I was in middle school(8th grade), my science teacher taught from a textbook that turned out to be primarily about how the world was going to fill up with trash, and how we should all recycle. One day I asked an embarrassing question(embarrassing to him, obviously): if recycling was such a good idea why don't companies mine old trash dumps for valuable materials to recycle? The next thing you know I was put in the back of the class next to the door, all by myself.

I spent the rest of that year asking questions like that of the teacher and pretty much making him look like a fool when he had no answer or his answer contradicted the book. I had no idea at the time I was a conservative; I was just taking the information given to me and trying to make sense out of it by asking questions. I ended up getting a B in the class. I had aced every test by putting down the answers I knew he wanted, so when I asked why I got a B, he said I lost points due to lack of class participation in discussions! LOL. Apparently only politically correct responses counted towards those points.

My own similar story doesn;t have to do with any type of political stuff; but back in 9th grade my history teacher, Mr. Vinson, was a great guy. But it was history; I mean, all I had to do was read the book and aced every test. 90% of my time in class was spent turned around talking to my friend Verlin. When our report cards came out, I had an A+ and the comment, "Does not pay attention." I tried to convince my parents why the contradiction. :)

If recycling was such a good idea why don't companies mine old trash dumps for valuable materials to recycle?

Holy cow. That is the best statement on recycling I've ever heard. I'll use it myself the next time I get into a discussion on the subject.

Excellent!