Pinging Michelle's list.
At least the Democrats' captive constituency will know what hip hop and gangsta rap is all about.
At the age of nine, we're teaching him to figure baseball batting averages in his head. He's also helping me to figure out average velocities of .308 and .223 cartridges while he assists me at the loading bench.
Next weeks book is "The Red Badge Of Courage" and after that we start on "The Chronicles Of Narnia" together.
Mom has been teaching him ratios using recipes for breads and pastries in the kitchen. He's well versed in the life cycles of various microorganisms using the yeasts we use in our home brews.
He can figure the alcohol content of beers and meads all by himself.
Now that's a boy who's receiving a well rounded education. I can't wait till next years parent-teacher day.
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Ok, that's it. I am officially launching my Gansta Rap career as "Scoop Doggy Doo"...
Pity about that Two Pack Shaker guy. Never met him, although I was acquainted with his brothers Six Pack and Twelve Pack.
I think it's absolutely shameful that he is being denied his rightful place as a literary figure alongside singer/songwriter Charles Manson, environmentalist/author Ted Kaczynski, and culinary innovator Jeffrey Dahmer.
Oh, wait. They are in the same place (well, three of them are, and they're saving Manson a place. A warm place).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Well, stune my beeber.
Sounds like it was written by Zoolander.
Who is this person? What are her educational credentials...and most importantly...how did such a blatant idiot end up in this position?? Perfect example of the need to totally reform our schools from the bottom up; not tinker around the edges.
Oh, and since when did "being popular with the kids" count for anything? Maybe they should go with "Rap Appreciation" or "History of the NBA" for 7 hours a day. Good grief!
Pinging Michelle's list.
This waste of space should be required to READ EXCERPTS of this "book," in front of the text APPEARING ON A PROJECTION SCREEN, to the SCHOOL BOARD AND PARENTS.
And "more importantly" is not acceptable grammar. It is "more important."
Michelle knows how to get directly to the heart of the matter! She is my favorite cultural columnist.
My daughter (she'll be a junior in HS this year) has classics on her reading list: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Frankenstein, and if I recall correctly, Native Son (yes there are black-penned books that I consider classics). None of this Six-pack or 40 Ounce business, or whatever the heck his name was...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
According to a group called “Parents Against Bad Books In Schools” (PABBIS), in Fairfax County VA, EVERY McLean HS rising 11th and 12th grade English class requires the reading of “ Ragtime” by E. L. Doctorow. PABBIS reports the book has a woman being dog whipped and whipped with a razor strap during sex; oral sex; and a scene, too graphic to describe here, of what happens when a man spies on a naked woman being massaged by another woman.
At Mount Vernon HS all International Baccalaureate (IB) 11th grade English students are required to read One Hundred Years of Solitude. Again according to PABBIS, the two main themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a rambling dreamlike book from the so-called "magical realism" genre, are solitude and incest. One review said this book "has a lot of violence, much incestuous sex, and plenty of anti-capitalism and anti-clericism." Another said there is "enough incest to keep those with even the shortest attention spans turning pages." Raping your sister, sex with another sister, sex with your aunt, a "zoological brothel" where dog gives stud services to be fed, a child with a "raw back" whose grandmother makes her service 70 men a night for 20 cents each, a male prostitute with a huge sexual organ, balancing beer on his "inconceivable maleness," are all part of this required reading for these teens who are too young to see an R-rated movie.
In the AP Literature class at Hayfield HS the theme of this summer reading list is supposedly all "cultures." Books on the list are divided into various "cultures." According to PABBIS, there are many "culture" categories but glaringly no category for majority American culture unless if one counts the category of "The Effects of British, French, and American Imperialism" or the category for "American Popular Culture and the Vietnam War" or the category of "The American Dream in Reverse."
PABBIS does a lot of research. If you don’t have time to preview personally every book on your child’s summer reading list, take a look at www.pabbis.com.
It's for the kids, you know. /sarcasm
When I was a kid, back in the dark ages, we didn't have a summer reading list, except what we chose ourselves. We had to read a fair number of books during the school year.
Hokt on Eboniks B workn 4 me
Tupac is caput.
Damn coffee spray across key board....
But as a gradual start we want to take some dyslexics who have failed every effort to learn reading in regular spelling, and teach them in reformed. Perhaps some day one will hand you a note in SoundSpel. Would you deign to read it, knowing it made that man literate? Could you read it?Well, SoundSpel drops silent letters ("no" not "know") and it spells long vowels (AEIOU) as AE (as in steak), EE (as in meet), IE (as in tried) and so on. Heer's a sampl. It is a litl shoking at ferst but being fonetic it's eezy with sum practis. Wuud U tri to reed it, to help a dislexic? To fiend out mor, see www.spellingsociety.org or www.americanliteracy.com/alc6.htm