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To: SmithL
"I feel extremely sad," Padilla said. "Today, they dismissed and didn't recognize all the work I put in my school work."

Have we entered some kind of bizarre twilight zone where one's own perception of one's expended effort is the only meaningful barometer of achievement? ;)

3 posted on 04/11/2006 7:50:35 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Have we entered some kind of bizarre twilight zone where one's own perception of one's expended effort is the only meaningful barometer of achievement? ;)

It is strangely familiar to what we've been hearing from the illegals i.e., they work so hard that they deserve legal status. That there are established standards they must comply with is completely lost on them.

7 posted on 04/11/2006 10:07:44 AM PDT by Pa' fuera (I support family reunification.......through deportation)
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