The Glade 4.0

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Well, at least I now know what caused the "Me" Generation.

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Talya, yes, he is type 1. He started injecting himself at about eight if I remember correctly. He was always one of the little adult kids.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

He had to be, and so he learned to be trustworthy with his own life-or-death very early in life.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Your points are well taken, but, speaking only for myself, I HAVE taught in a classroom, and for unruly and in some cases violent teenagers, not small children. I ahve a pretty good idea of what it takes to be in charge of a classroom, and in my experience passing gas is relatively minor.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I guess the school disciplining method really is regional. I grew up in a small town in western Texas. Throughout my school years, part of the admission process was a form parents filled out to determine if they wanted their child corporally punished (swats - 3 paddles on the bottom). This is a summary of the three options:

1) no corporal punishment
2) corporal punishment
3) call first, then corporal punishment if I agree it is deserving

The majority of parent’s chose option 3. Not because they were going to disagree with their child being corporally punished, but because they wanted to be informed of the situation so they could be corporally punished twice (by them and the school). Getting swats really was the norm around here. From my experience, older kids (junior high and high school) preferred to be paddled and have it done with, than to have detention after school.

When I was in junior high, a kid in my class was talking back to the teacher. The kid was sent to the principle and was to be punished with three swats. The kid started to scream “only my mom can spank me”, so the principle called the mother. The mother came up to the school furious. She checked him out of school for one period, took him home and spanked him fearsome, and checked him back in to receive a punishment from the principle. The principle dismissed him back to class because he knew the mother gave out far more severe swats than he would have. From then on, he never once asked for them to call his parents when he was in trouble.

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Such a simple concept, yet so true; that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. - Enzo, The Art of Racing in the Rain.

DE- Are you forgetting who he is married too? He is talking about me and my experiences mostly

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

Thanks DE. Then I appreciate your opinion moreso due to you experience.

You obviously could have left yourself out of my original grouping. I think I did say "most of you have no idea what it takes to run a classroom. So that leaves you out.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I'd rather manage 12 year olds than adults who think they know how to manage 12 year olds. My Little League teams have better discipline than the majority of continuing education students I see.

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This always blows my mind. I can understand kids accepting basically any punishment that's meted out, but I simply can't imagine being a teenager (nearly a full-grown adult!) and passively accepting such a demeaning punishment. It's all in what you grow up with, I guess, but for me - f*ck that. No way I ever would have bent over and taken a paddle to the *** at that age.

For me, that comment just shows that corporal punishment was not effective as a deterent.

/captainjacksparrow on
Clearly, you've never been to Singapore.
/captainjacksparrow off

Not that i advocate completely adopting their punishment system, but based on Singapore's results, corporal punishment really does seem to be a deterrent for all ages, even for adults. I fully support adopting "caning" (adults) as a punishment for some crimes. It is less costly than prison, and rather than teaching them to be better criminals, it allows them to remain productive members of society and actually appears to serve as a deterrent.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm actually curious for an update from LK.

Did you send the note back as you had written it?
Any fallout or response from the teacher?

QFT- I tell my students, I like talking to them better than talking to adults most of the time.

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

I sent the note. No response from the teacher and apparently nothing taken out on my son either.
We'll see how today goes.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

You and Fox should totally fart at the next parent teacher conference. Preferably as loudly as possible.

I'm down with that. NF won't be. All his Southern Baptist manners and stuff. I'll have to feed him cabbage and broccoli and beans before we go.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Your quote reminded me of this video:

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

I will quote the head of my medical school. "Flatulence is generally uncontrollable, and the inability to pass flatus is fatal."

This is dangerous medically.

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Memento Vivere

I have local knowledge.
That sandbar was not there yesterday!

They're trying to kill your son!

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I am so gonna use this with my wife, thanks.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

I was in a 5th grade classroom fixing a computer while the teacher was showing the kids a video about space. John Glenn came on and was talking about his time in the space program. The teacher told the class, "That's John Glenn - the first man on the moon."

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PS: did you know you could drag and make the Quick Reply box bigger? Sweet.

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Hokanu
Duty is a magnificent blessing because it is the sign of trust from the universe.
END OF LINE.

I cannot duplicate this brilliant feat of glade legerdemain.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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It's a webkit engine thing. Chrome/Safari. Someone decided <textarea> should be resizable at will, which I take advantage of nearly every time I post. Firefox 4 seems to have it as well, but I'm not sure if that's OSX on my iMac forcing it, or if the gecko engine actually added it.

Heh, I thought everyone already knew about that. It's been there for a year at least.

I'da pulled up Neil Armstrong's Wiki page and left it on her monitor when I was done.

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Holy shitsnacks!