[Cringing Negativism Network]

I remember when schools were about learning.

About individual thought. Curiosity.

Not beating kids into mental submission, to vapid political indoctrination.

[cherry]

these people are all about superficial petty ideas....

so the kids can't use plastic zip lock bags for sandwiches, but the teachers and administrators will go thru reams of paper sending out notices,internal memos, posters,etc....and it'll all be thrown in the garbage...

pencils and chalk is what used to be used...with erasers....and kids who brought their lunches in brown paper sacks were usually the poorer kids...like me...and our moms wanted us to fold up the paper bag and bring it home each day...and I happen to know a lot of kids did that.

they throw everything out at schools....there is no reusing large poster board, or saving half used notebooks...

there still has been nothing done about the obscene text book industry....how many trees that does that require so the textbook people can make huge profits every time the schools change the requirements, which is continuous.......

these idiots are all for kids being bused everywhere, wasting gas picking up the little darlings from a 1/2 mile away or so, yet they'll forbid plastic little bags.........insanity....

[ladyjane]

I remember when schools were about learning.

Since when do schools get to mandate how parents pack their kids' lunch?