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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 986 Views
Get with the times man. - 27/10/2009 01:49:38 PM 860 Views
I don't know whether it would make you feel any better - 27/10/2009 01:59:15 PM 697 Views
yeah, write to the local paper and news channel - 27/10/2009 03:32:46 PM 676 Views
I'm in Indiana. - 27/10/2009 03:43:03 PM 663 Views
I am very worried about the next generation. - 27/10/2009 04:36:24 PM 659 Views
I'm kinda curious how we don't see it as lying to them. - 27/10/2009 04:43:49 PM 725 Views
Many, many people see lying to children as a perfectly legitimate technique. - 27/10/2009 07:23:59 PM 718 Views
I really think you ought to write to the paper. - 28/10/2009 02:39:55 AM 656 Views
I can understand how you feel... - 27/10/2009 02:02:42 PM 657 Views
Two questions - 27/10/2009 02:12:02 PM 691 Views
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Oh okay thanks! - 27/10/2009 02:54:46 PM 641 Views
You have the right of it. - 27/10/2009 03:05:48 PM 662 Views
Re: Two questions - 27/10/2009 03:04:09 PM 650 Views
If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 02:29:18 PM 755 Views
But Humpty Dumpty breaks! - 27/10/2009 02:30:28 PM 653 Views
Humpty Dumpty was pushed! - 27/10/2009 02:59:55 PM 661 Views
Exactly. - 27/10/2009 03:10:54 PM 655 Views
Re: If A Christmas Carol didn't get through... - 27/10/2009 03:08:01 PM 641 Views
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What she's saying is true. - 27/10/2009 04:40:22 PM 634 Views
You gotta be kidding me! - 27/10/2009 03:42:57 PM 651 Views
It serves k-8 but I want to do different material with the 7-8 kids. - 27/10/2009 04:41:42 PM 623 Views
apparently none of these kids has a TV? - 27/10/2009 02:47:00 PM 664 Views
Yeah, I have to edit everything. Even history, apparently. - 27/10/2009 03:09:08 PM 639 Views
huh? - 27/10/2009 02:57:20 PM 748 Views
Re: huh? - 27/10/2009 03:15:43 PM 743 Views
Wow, cool school! - 27/10/2009 03:37:51 PM 647 Views
What if you have Scrooge get swine flu for the third visit? - 27/10/2009 02:57:28 PM 654 Views
And.... - 27/10/2009 03:17:42 PM 653 Views
People are paranoid. *NM* - 27/10/2009 03:11:26 PM 286 Views
ah, you did say what grade they are. - 27/10/2009 03:47:40 PM 603 Views
what's their problem? - 27/10/2009 03:48:10 PM 641 Views
sheesh man! Ridiculous. *NM* - 27/10/2009 11:34:21 PM 274 Views
Maybe you should get Philip Glass to present a non-denominational, unoffensive school play. - 27/10/2009 11:47:08 PM 640 Views
That was a funny mind image. *NM* - 28/10/2009 01:08:42 AM 282 Views
Seriously?! - 28/10/2009 11:52:30 AM 651 Views

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