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huh? PhotoJim Send a noteboard - 27/10/2009 02:57:20 PM
Public schools must just be a pit of sin for those folks. A list of books my kids have read through the school include:

Bridge to Terabethia - includes the traumatic death of a child.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - I think you know how that one ends
Something Wicked This Way Comes - deals with the supernatural
Romeo and Juliet - everyone dies
Stranger In A Strange Land - holy triumvirate here of sex, death, and religion
Dune - death and religion
Maus I&II - a happy concentration camp story.
Of Mice and Men - in case you forgot, Lenny is too rough and his brother just wants him to turn around.

In German class they watched Run Lola Run last year.

Granted, Stranger, Dune, and Maus II were elective reads but were on the list of choices and I had to sign a permission slip for my 15 YO to see a rated R movie in school. But not a single kid from the German class did not have permission.

And don't get me started on the sex-ed videos. The "This is what *insert STD here* looks like" series is just downright nasty.

And I live in a suburb that votes 90% Republican in the middle of Ohio. The stick shoved up the ass of each of the people on your board must have been placed there by the hand of God itself.
Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!

Not to be rude but who are you? And I suppose equally important, where are we?

The Wotmaniac formerly known as nomad.
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Remember how I told you about that local charter school banning Shakespeare? - 27/10/2009 01:42:23 PM 900 Views
Get with the times man. - 27/10/2009 01:49:38 PM 773 Views
I don't know whether it would make you feel any better - 27/10/2009 01:59:15 PM 617 Views
yeah, write to the local paper and news channel - 27/10/2009 03:32:46 PM 578 Views
I'm in Indiana. - 27/10/2009 03:43:03 PM 578 Views
I am very worried about the next generation. - 27/10/2009 04:36:24 PM 576 Views
I'm kinda curious how we don't see it as lying to them. - 27/10/2009 04:43:49 PM 640 Views
Many, many people see lying to children as a perfectly legitimate technique. - 27/10/2009 07:23:59 PM 633 Views
I really think you ought to write to the paper. - 28/10/2009 02:39:55 AM 576 Views
I can understand how you feel... - 27/10/2009 02:02:42 PM 569 Views
Two questions - 27/10/2009 02:12:02 PM 606 Views
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Oh okay thanks! - 27/10/2009 02:54:46 PM 559 Views
You have the right of it. - 27/10/2009 03:05:48 PM 579 Views
Re: Two questions - 27/10/2009 03:04:09 PM 576 Views
If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 02:29:18 PM 636 Views
But Humpty Dumpty breaks! - 27/10/2009 02:30:28 PM 574 Views
Humpty Dumpty was pushed! - 27/10/2009 02:59:55 PM 570 Views
Exactly. - 27/10/2009 03:10:54 PM 576 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 03:08:01 PM 553 Views
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guh - 27/10/2009 03:31:28 PM 538 Views
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What she's saying is true. - 27/10/2009 04:40:22 PM 554 Views
You gotta be kidding me! - 27/10/2009 03:42:57 PM 568 Views
It serves k-8 but I want to do different material with the 7-8 kids. - 27/10/2009 04:41:42 PM 536 Views
apparently none of these kids has a TV? - 27/10/2009 02:47:00 PM 582 Views
Yeah, I have to edit everything. Even history, apparently. - 27/10/2009 03:09:08 PM 557 Views
huh? - 27/10/2009 02:57:20 PM 667 Views
Re: huh? - 27/10/2009 03:15:43 PM 660 Views
Wow, cool school! - 27/10/2009 03:37:51 PM 569 Views
What if you have Scrooge get swine flu for the third visit? - 27/10/2009 02:57:28 PM 563 Views
And.... - 27/10/2009 03:17:42 PM 568 Views
People are paranoid. *NM* - 27/10/2009 03:11:26 PM 246 Views
ah, you did say what grade they are. - 27/10/2009 03:47:40 PM 522 Views
what's their problem? - 27/10/2009 03:48:10 PM 563 Views
sheesh man! Ridiculous. *NM* - 27/10/2009 11:34:21 PM 235 Views
Maybe you should get Philip Glass to present a non-denominational, unoffensive school play. - 27/10/2009 11:47:08 PM 559 Views
That was a funny mind image. *NM* - 28/10/2009 01:08:42 AM 240 Views
Seriously?! - 28/10/2009 11:52:30 AM 562 Views

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