The FReeper Foxhole - The Army's Field Laundry - Somebody has to do it. - January 29th, 2005

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[snippy_about_it]

LOL. I don't know where to begin. Excellent commentary as usual. Is this stuff always in your head or do you have to think about it?

[Soaring Feather]

Very well thanks. I enjoyed the lunch very much, but had to beg off the movie, my knee is especially painful these days and sitting is just torture.


Ramona loved the surprise. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Evening Mayor.

[SAMWolf]

What's "consideration" worth in American dollars? ;-)

[SAMWolf]

When I was in they startched the crap out of our fatiques. They'd almost stand up by themselves.

[SAMWolf]

You get some weekends off?!?!?!?!?!

Slacker. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks PeterPrinciple.

Good story.

[SAMWolf]

He just tried pizza now?!?!?!?!

Didn't you ever explain to him pizza is one of the major food groups?

[SAMWolf]

I always manage to find ways to make new mistakes.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

As for the "public schools"--in my elementary days, a man from Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge would show patriotic films of America's history, and the Pledge of Alegiance began every school day.

When I was going to High School, they had a Memorial Day and Veterans Day Service during the school day on Veterans Day and on the day before Memorial Day (because we were off that day) before they did the "let's get a three day weekend" bit. Kids don't get the schooling required to have respect for those who came before us and founded this Country and kept it Free.

Too bad we can't deport the NEA to enemy countries and let them ruin the youth there.

[SAMWolf]

They were starching our Stateside fatiques, no starch in the Jungle fatigues, Thank God!!

[PhilDragoo]

Geraldo is comparing today's Iraq election to 1776.

There will be a settling of accounts with our schools.

I can't envision what it will be, but it will come.

[SAMWolf]

Lots of good teachers, it's the NEA and the adminisrators that should be hung.

I really hope things will work in Iraq, but I'll believe it when I see it.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Tax-chick]

If I told you, I'd have to tell the IRS.

[Humal]

Sam, I agree with you that the NEA has done a lot to damage the quality of education in schools. So has the ACLU. I taught from 1971-1996, and when I first started teaching, we would say the Pledge to the flag every morning, have a VOLUNTEER read a passage from the Bible, have school wide programs to honor veterans, and even had the kids memorize "Flanders Fields" for Memorial Day. In between these events, we taught reading, writing, and arithmetic and a few other life skills. My biggest discipline problem was chewing gum. I still see some of those "kids" I taught then, and they have turned out so well.

Compare that to today's classroom ----

[SAMWolf]

LOL!

[SAMWolf]

Back when they actually used schools to teach Reading, Writing and Arithmetic and not do Social Engineering.