Girls get extra school help while boys get Ritalin

USA Today/Yahoo ^ | 8/29/03 | USA Today - Staff

[meyer]

Parents today would be shocked that the teachers' had a smoking lounge, too.

For a while there, we thought that us students were going to get one too! Didn't happen, but we tried.

[annyokie]

We tried like hell and didn't get one, either. We did manage to wrestle part of the common for smokers, though!

[meyer]

We tried like hell and didn't get one, either. We did manage to wrestle part of the common for smokers, though!

Sounds like we graduated in similar times, though I suspect you are a little younger than I. Class of '77 here, graduated 3rd quartile, barely made it, and hated every minute of high school except when I was cutting class. :) Too many kids there!!

Did a little better in College some 22 years later, Summa Cum Laude class of '99. Something happens when you age, or at least it did for me.

[annyokie]

Nah, we be the same age, maybe by a year, I made my escape a year early by taking clsses at the local JC and graduated class of 76.

I hated high school. I got in a face-off with the cheerleaders wherein I told them all to F off or I'd kick their collective you know whats. (Shocked looks all around.) (No bragging) I was a very pretty girl, but new to the crowd and sick of their elitist crap.

I did well in college, as well, though you did better. Just cum laude (had a babay last semester.) Congrats! Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

[meyer]

I did well in college, as well, though you did better. Just cum laude (had a babay last semester.) Congrats! Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

Having a baby would have to be a major distraction to studying - I had peace and quiet for my last semester.

As for smokin' 'em, I quit (again) about 1 1/2 years ago. They were starting to take a toll on my health.

[annyokie]

I had my last one three months after graduation. Child, that is. I started smoking again three years ago.

Third time I've started up again in 25 years. Quite for 10, lose for three. No smoke nazis the first two times around. Live and don't learn, I guess!

[happygrl]

Noam Chomsky?

OH Yes!!!

Some of my family memebers are devotees of his worldview.

It's a lost cause to discuss or argue with them.

We can't even agree on a shared reality.

Everything, according to them, is spun to support the existing power-elite. Nothing is as it seems.

The elusive "they" always have their story out in the media. Total tinfoil.

The sad, but inevitable result is a form of mental illness, and I say this sincerely.

And I've read that he's not even a good linguist; his theories have a certain cachet with leftist academia, but they don't hold water with those who can get past his aura of celebrity.

So many areas of academia have been corrupted. I'd like to see the university youth have a revolt, a la the Berkley Free Speech Movement, but against the lies and B.S. promugated at the university level.