Student runs "Illegal Library" from School Locker

[Doktor Howl]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension.  

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

You know my feelings on that one Dok.  It is insane the things they are trying to teach our kids, even today.  While they admit to slavery and racism (since it was oh so long ago) the new target is the Holocaust.  It was more propaganda than actual truth.  I guess all those dead jews were just movie extras from Schindler's List.

Of course.  It was the single most documented event in human history, but that doesn't matter if you don't teach what happened.

Of course, if you don't teach what happened, you can do it again sometime, which is of course the goal.

[Suu]

I believe I've mentioned before that my 5th grade teacher told us that she believed the Holocaust never happened. That was an interesting episode of, "So Angela, what did you learn in school today?" Over dinner. Yep.

Coincidentally, also my last year in Catholic school.

[Doktor Howl]

I believe I've mentioned before that my 5th grade teacher told us that she believed the Holocaust never happened. That was an interesting episode of, "So Angela, what did you learn in school today?" Over dinner. Yep.

Coincidentally, also my last year in Catholic school.

Get 'em young, right?

[Suu]

Well, as you could imagine, my parents were enthralled.

10 years later, when they move to RI, I could hear them yelling down the coast over how the school district up here wanted to hold my brother back on the sheer fact he was educated in Florida AND ADHD, without looking at his records. My parents have a thing about education as a whole in the United States. I think they still want me to see about finishing my masters in Canada.

[Doktor Howl]

Well, as you could imagine, my parents were enthralled.

10 years later, when they move to RI, I could hear them yelling down the coast over how the school district up here wanted to hold my brother back on the sheer fact he was educated in Florida AND ADHD, without looking at his records. My parents have a thing about education as a whole in the United States. I think they still want me to see about finishing my masters in Canada.

Blarg.  When I moved from Newfoundland to Ontario, they wanted to hold me back because I had come from Newfoundland.

Dumb is everywhere.  Canada is no different.

[Suu]

Seriously.

It's also kind of funny, seeing my brother and sister, who chose to not pursue higher education and enter straight into the workforce, doing better than me, who has a degree and is working toward 2 more. Education isn't worth it's salt anymore if you got the skills people want. And people always want to be cooked for and their hair cut. I chose, poorly...

[Doktor Howl]

Seriously.

It's also kind of funny, seeing my brother and sister, who chose to not pursue higher education and enter straight into the workforce, doing better than me, who has a degree and is working toward 2 more. Education isn't worth it's salt anymore if you got the skills people want. And people always want to be cooked for and their hair cut. I chose, poorly...

Yeah, all my friends that went into college - well, many of them - are barely treading water.

I think it really annoys them that we gearheads fucked off all the way through school, and still managed to do well.

[Suu]

If the market wasn't so fucking bad right now, my mom, brother and I were seriously considering buying a restaurant together in Florida. I would have to give up any sort of "dream" I have, and take a loss for 2 years, and never have a day off again, but in the end I still feel like that would be a good idea.

[Doktor Howl]

If the market wasn't so fucking bad right now, my mom, brother and I were seriously considering buying a restaurant together in Florida. I would have to give up any sort of "dream" I have, and take a loss for 2 years, and never have a day off again, but in the end I still feel like that would be a good idea.

"If you want to make a small fortune in the restaurant business, start with a large fortune."
- Paul Schnieder.

Why not open a sewing shop?

[Suu]

Eventually. I'm actually doing okay this year as far as work goes, in fact, I just got SMACKED for work today, which is good news, considering I'm falling behind for rent going into school next week.

I need a professional environment to work in soon, though. Piles of fabric in my bedroom doesn't work. Then again, neither does an apartment missing drop ceiling and windows so...If I can find a comparable size place to live/work out of, then awesome.

[PopeTom]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension.  

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

You know my feelings on that one Dok.  It is insane the things they are trying to teach our kids, even today.  While they admit to slavery and racism (since it was oh so long ago) the new target is the Holocaust.  It was more propaganda than actual truth.  I guess all those dead jews were just movie extras from Schindler's List.

Of course.  It was the single most documented event in human history, but that doesn't matter if you don't teach what happened.

Of course, if you don't teach what happened, you can do it again sometime, which is of course the goal.

I thought the single most documented event in human history was Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding?

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension.  

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

You know my feelings on that one Dok.  It is insane the things they are trying to teach our kids, even today.  While they admit to slavery and racism (since it was oh so long ago) the new target is the Holocaust.  It was more propaganda than actual truth.  I guess all those dead jews were just movie extras from Schindler's List.

Of course.  It was the single most documented event in human history, but that doesn't matter if you don't teach what happened.

Of course, if you don't teach what happened, you can do it again sometime, which is of course the goal.

THIS.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension. 

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

This is so exactly it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Which was my argument when I went before the school board over my suspension.  

It is either our history or it isn't.  Are you going to sit there and re-write history to make it sound nice?  If that is the case, you may as well ban the bible because it is full of terrible things in history.

If you pretend that it never happened, and silence any reminders that it did (citing the badwrong language as your excuse), you can train other people into believing it never happened...Thus ensuring that the really damaging parts of racism stay, while the cosmetic, visible parts of it go away.

Sure, you ensure that racism will return like the tide, but isn't that a small price to pay to bury our collective feelings of guilt?

You know my feelings on that one Dok.  It is insane the things they are trying to teach our kids, even today.  While they admit to slavery and racism (since it was oh so long ago) the new target is the Holocaust.  It was more propaganda than actual truth.  I guess all those dead jews were just movie extras from Schindler's List.

Of course.  It was the single most documented event in human history, but that doesn't matter if you don't teach what happened.

Of course, if you don't teach what happened, you can do it again sometime, which is of course the goal.

Horrible truth.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Seriously.

It's also kind of funny, seeing my brother and sister, who chose to not pursue higher education and enter straight into the workforce, doing better than me, who has a degree and is working toward 2 more. Education isn't worth it's salt anymore if you got the skills people want. And people always want to be cooked for and their hair cut. I chose, poorly...

Yeah, all my friends that went into college - well, many of them - are barely treading water.

I think it really annoys them that we gearheads fucked off all the way through school, and still managed to do well.

Hell my degrees aren't worth the paper they are printed on these days.  Unless I decide to go back and take the teacher's course and teach but the problem there is I hate kids.  No win situation.