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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:16 AM Original message |
if you want to feel discouraged and sad watch the TV reality show |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. I haven't, but it reminds me that K-12 schools are a joke |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
2. Oh great, now we're going to bash public education over what was depicted on a GD "reality" show |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. have you seen the shows? if not, how can you complain? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. No, I haven't seen this particular show, |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Even if it did have anything to do with reality, no 'entertainment' |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. Well, the one who whined about school starting too early is SOL. Get up earlier if your |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
15. you should at least watch it once just so you know |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. kids who dont want to be in high school should be dropped. why ruin it for everyone else? nt |
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blonndee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
6. That is exactly how the spineless principals behaved at the HS where I taught for two years. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
7. And so it continues..the war on public education. |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. I'm not at war with public schools, I'm pro public schools |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. And you think a reality show is a good example? |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. probuably no different from what parents and pupils and teachers see every day across the country |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. So they take more money away to rescue Catholic schools... |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. people are going to give their opinion regardless of what attacks you give them |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:42 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Public schools are almost over. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. not griping about them all, just the ones that suck, same as you gripe about the others that suck |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
39. if the catholic schools are giving a better education and are working for the kids then why not |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. You seem to think freely with my tax money. |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #40 |
45. same could be said for you, you seem to think its okay to waste mine |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 02:04 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. We had good public education until they defunded it. And badmouthed it. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 03:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. That is weird thinking. Public is public....should not support religious schools. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #20 |
42. I don't think that is true at all |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. it is an example and should be paid attention to |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Kind of like Wife Swap? |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. the families on Wife Swap are real american families |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Hand-picked for ratings. |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:35 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. even if hand picked they are still real american families living in |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #30 |
41. Yeah, and Tom Hanks is a real American also, |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. Oh geez, you are far, far gone arent' you. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:44 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Interesting article indeed. Thanks for sharing |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. No problem, |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. No, it isn't real, get that through your head |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. its your head (mind) that has closed doors, not mine |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:45 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. Closed doors? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
10. AND as they take money from public schools to rescue religious schools |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. +1 |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
11. "the recent W.H. talk on good teachers." |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
13. Sounds a lot like my high school. |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
14. For what it's worth, I've heard several teachers with a negative view of head-teachers in general. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Yes, many principals are indeed promoted upward... |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:03 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. that my be true but not 100 percent. I had a grade school principal |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. That you, as a student, interacted with her, may be significant. |
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ensho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. she was great. she also taught us music and folk dancing |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
38. So-called "Reality Television" = human cockfighting |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
43. I think it all goes back to the parents |
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Sinti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
44. Reality TV is not reality - though it may try to reflect it enough to suspend disbelief |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
47. principals are allowed to "paddle" kids? in which state? not in mine. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
48. I don't have any desire to be sad or discouraged, |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 02:28 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Yes, he is a "union-buster." He is confronting unions already. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 08:14 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I never thought I'd live |
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liberal_at_heart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-24-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
52. Our school district is finally getting tough on parents |
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