I think this following link is about a subject with few people in the middle. You either immediately assume it is a hoax —— a bunch of people with a weird sense of humor harassing some poor farmer —— or you think there might be some other as yet unknown explanation. I guess I go for the unknown just because there are so darn many of the dog-gone things.
This is one of those pieces by Luciano where I don’t know if he thinks this woman is cool or if he is poking fun at her. I think, if I lived in N. Pekin, I would try to get her out of office. None of the “news” this woman has created has been particularly flattering of N. Pekin —— and N. Pekin could use some image restoration.
It must be an election year? Politicians are suddenly concerned about high gas prices (which have been artificially high now for about five years?) and they start proposing measures to make it better. Like wasting more money on ethanol to curry votes with corn farmers. So our gasoline costs will go down a little bit because our taxes will take another jump to fund ethanol? I have nothing against corn farmers or any of the people who make their living off agriculture —— I just think we should actually make some effort to cut our dependence on fossil fuels and it takes more fossil fuel to turn corn into ethanol than it does to just use gasoline. If we were putting this money into REAL research in solar, wind, and other sustainable technologies we wouldn’t be wasting our time (and money) with ethanol.
#TremontSchool#EducationMafia I stole a couple quotes from the link below to complain about. And yes, I’m still grumping about schools and the illogical means used to teach. My boys brought home a ton of homework on their first day of school and were told it would be good for their “study habits”. Since school is the only place one requires these habits —— they aren’t worth too awful much in the real world. This falls in line with the first stolen quote:
Educators say in order for students to be successful, they have to have good study habits at home.
Again —— successful at what? Successful at doing homework? How many of you do homework now that you are out of school? What jobs require homework and who would work at them if they did. Oh sure there are some “successful” business people who brag about taking their work home with them —— but that is work —— not homework. When was the last time you had to write a three-page report on some stupid subject nobody really cares about. I can’t think of a single piece of homework that made me successful.
And the second quote:
Students are advised to take a ten minute break every hour to help alleviate eye, neck and brain fatigue.
Just how many hours of homework are required to make these poor kids successful? Let’s not forget they just spent at least six hours of their day at school where one might assume they were studying. And they do this for twelve years? I think it may be time we took the schools away from these so-called “educators” and get something that works better. Children shouldn’t hate school and all the homework goes a long way toward building resentment that doesn’t encourage learning. I know I hated homework (by now that is obvious) and I didn’t have half the busy work kids have today. School should be more about teaching and learning and lot less about busy work to build character. You can read the rest of this nonsense from the link below, but it is all aimed at supporting the original myth that homework has any value in making a person “successful”.
Here we go again with the teen drinking subject. First click the link below and read the story about the public service announcements and then come back for my rant.
OK —— now think back when you were about 16 or 17 years old. Did you listen to or believe anything that a “local official” had to say? How many of the stoners and drinkers we went to high school with paid any attention to ANYBODY? I still say the only way you are going to keep the drunks off the road is to keep the booze away from them. Send a few liquor salesman and party enabling parents to jail for making alcohol accessible to minors and the problem will be better addressed than wasting a lot of money on TV ads.
AMEN to your “soapbox speech” about schools, educators, and homework!
Our household had the homework thing too last night. Not only does Morton Jr. High and High School take these kids from summer hours to homework, they make them do a “heat schedule”: school begins at 7:15 and gets out at 12:45 and the kids get no lunch or break (unless you call study hall and P.E. a break). Don’t even get me started on the so-called PE program!
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