Posted on 06/17/2008 5:46:32 PM PDT by My hearts in London - Everett
(NaturalNews) A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
I am not the one who will make the decisions for them.
Son and his wife are talking about home schooling. They've got to have some young'uns first, though. They are well suited for it. I'm not against it. Just didn't work out for us. Son turned out ok... is an aerospace engineer. (Not all public school kids are failures.)
As for my daughter, let me get her out of high school and college, first. Of course the decision will be up to her and her future husband.
Yes, you do indeed rock!
My apologies... not my intent.
Christians have been saying this about RFID technology, in particular the implantable nodes. The way we will know that this is what is referred to in scripture is that if a person doesn’t accept the mark, they will not be allowed to buy or sell. Simple enough. By the time it actually happens, there will have been so many people calling christians irrational that the irrational tag/mantra/meme will be well established, regardless of the fact that what the christians said would happen actually did happen.
No one has gotten under my skin here, old timer. Judging from your history of posts this is par for the course with you so I’ll take that into account in future. Like your homepage, by the way. ;~)
heh.
I can’t wait to be a grandparent. I’ll do what my parents did ;)
I wasn’t at all saying that your children shouldn’t make the decisions for their children or that I assumed your children would be failures, just that the relief I feel for the kids getting out the system is more than outweighed by the pity for the ones that haven’t even started yet.
As for rudeness and example-setting for one’s children, Eaker’s kids are blessed to have him for a Dad.
That may be. But in reading his history of posts, if he talks to or in front of his children the way he talks to posters here, I'm not impressed. I grew up with a father like that and I'm glad to say that I didn't learn that trait from him.
I save my label of "honorable" to bigger issues than defending someone over their educational preferences. If you want to use that word though, that's fine, Twink. It was the decent thing to do, I would say. :~)
I remember the college experience to be quite exciting, especially when they raised tuition and fees 26% in the middle of the summer before his last year after all the financial aid paperwork had already been processed. Not the kind of excitement I was looking for. But we survived that one and will survive the next one. Best of luck to you and your kids. Penn State is a great school! (I hope my son the Sooner doesn’t see that! ;-) )
I guess it’s true, I assumed it was another urban legend. In the supt’s newletter:
http://www.ri.net/middletown/middletownstandard/v6n3/index.pdf
It’s under the “MAPIT Pilot Program”
I think he should change his tagline to (if I say it I’ll be banned, lol).
You’re ragging on someone that doesn’t deserve it by any stretch of the imagination.
Disagreements are common, expected. I have no clue why you chose Eaker to slam when really you should have chosen the poster that DID turn your thread into a slam.
You’re calling one of the most honorable, kindest people a jerk. He’s far from a jerk.
Well, sure, just tag the “bad” people or the troublemakers. That should convince all the naysayers.
Oh gosh, I didn't mean to imply that at all. I guess we got things crossed and I was probably fuming a bit from that other reply I got, so that may have affected my understand of your post and the tone of my reply. I apologize for not communicating better. I surely didn't think that you meant my public schooled kids (or grandkids) would be failures. Didn't even enter my mind.
I agree with you about the ones who haven't even started yet. If I had to do it all over again in this day and age I'd probably choose a different route. I have noticed a deterioration from school to school (elementary, middle and especially high school) within this district. I don't know how much is the school administration/staff or a function of kids just growing and getting into the teen years.
Didn’t a school district in California try this and the parents said no thanks? I hope they do the same thing here also, where do schools come off thinking they have the right to tag someone else’s kids?
I know I'd do it all over again with my girls if I could.
Ah, he’s (and you) a Sooner. lol. Great Football team, btw.
Yep, the college experience is quite exciting (mine was anyway) and fortunately I didn’t know the costs back then.
Oldest wants to go to Penn State. It’s out of state for us now.. so there’s that...but she wants to go and since we both went there...we’re soft on it. We’ve been all about Rutgers (state school) but we both think if you’re gonna spend 4 yrs of your life somewhere then it should be somewhere you want to be.
Keeping fingers crossed that she gets a full ride (in engineering) just like her Daddy.
Heh. Got 4 kids. I’m sorta looking forward to the day when tuition isn’t an issue ;)
Oh, I know. But from reading your subsequent posts it’s clear that you can stand up for yourself quite nicely and didn’t need any help! :~) Theophilus took your post the wrong way. I momentarily did too, but I know people can word things different from what they really mean sometimes. It helps to keep me from the “open mouth, insert foot” syndrome!
I completely agree with your first paragraph. It’s always best to ignore rude people. I have a tough time doing that but then again, I’m rude sometimes too.
Obviously, I don’t agree with your second paragraph. I don’t have to read his history of posts to know he’s a good man. And, he’s never talked to me in any way but respectful. That counts for tons.
As for talking to posters the way we talk to our kids, well, I have 4 kids and it’s different than the way I talk to my kids and the way I post here. I figure I’m talking to adults here, not my kids. Then again, I’m pretty raw with my kids too.
I grew up with a Dad who was a WWII vet, firefighter, real man. He was rough in a way but the most gentle man, Dad, husband. But the guy could protect his family.
I’m not defending Eaker or anyone else over educational preferences. I didn’t label him as honorable for educational reasons. Eaker is an honorable man. His posts show that.
He’s a real man, as his posts here have shown. He took up for someone who was slammed. And, that’s minor compared to the way the man lives his life.
My Dad was a rough guy, rough around the edges type guy. WWII Vet, firefighter, etc. But the most gentle person, great husband and father.
He was an honorable man. Eaker is too. My husband is one, too. I don’t say that about many.
As I stated in a previous post, the reason I didn't jump on Theophilus, is because I could see where the first poster's post could be misunderstood. It was soon apparent that ItsForTheChildren was perfectly able to defend her own words and meaning.
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