[Carley]

My daughter was lucky enough to be selected to a summer physics seminar in Los Alamos.

One of the highlights was a chance to hear a Nobel Prize winner in Physics give a talk on his field.

She was so inspired and talked about hearing that scientist for the longest time afterward.

Her high school advisor asked her why she would want to spend a Saturday going to hear that scientist.

[Tax-chick]

She was so inspired and talked about hearing that scientist for the longest time afterward.

That sounds like me after seeing Thomas Sowell!

[Peet]

Her high school advisor asked her why she would want to spend a Saturday going to hear that scientist.

Good heavens -- instead of encouraging her like he should have? Sad.

I didn't see anyone say what I was thinking: What lesson did they teach the kids? They taught the kids that it is OK to segregate based on race.

One of my cow-orkers in my life as a sysadmin was married to a teacher and he told this tale: His wife's grade school class (3rd, 4th, I don't recall) had a "diversity trainer" assigned for an indoctrination session. So he comes in and askes "How am I different from Mrs. Teacher?" The kids do "taller" "man" "slender" and run out of ideas. So Mr. "diversity trainer" says, well, she's white and I'm african-american.

Way to teach the kids racial differentiation, idiot!