The competition for Harry Reid

[the last yatto]

HEY, HOW THE FUCK DID WE DO THIS SHIT IN THE 60s?  

Fear of the draft? As didn't only college students get to stay home?

Not sure how that pertains to grade schools.

If one is focus on going to college, one studies harder?

[Doktor Howl]

HEY, HOW THE FUCK DID WE DO THIS SHIT IN THE 60s?  

Fear of the draft? As didn't only college students get to stay home?

Not sure how that pertains to grade schools.

If one is focus on going to college, one studies harder?

Yes, because 3rd graders are concentrating on college.

[LMNO]

Peleus, stop trying to kill the thread.

[Jenne]

Oh, and while looking up that stupid news spot on the military primary school, I found the CA ed code that legislates parent involvement:

http://law.justia.com/california/codes/2009/edc/11500-11506.html

[Jenne]

HEY, HOW THE FUCK DID WE DO THIS SHIT IN THE 60s? 

Fear of the draft? As didn't only college students get to stay home?

Not sure how that pertains to grade schools.

If one is focus on going to college, one studies harder?

Yes, because 3rd graders are concentrating on college.

Well, actually, there's a "No Excuses" campaign for college readiness.  In this campaign, school districts require elementary schools to have college rhetoric, college advertisements, college campus media and college banners and other paraphernalia that herald there's a college presence on the elementary campus.  This is to encourage kids that anyone can be a college grad.

[BabylonHoruv]

I'm not worried about math and science..  the evidence put forth in those fields will be a driving force for all but the most heavily indoctrinated..  I firmly believe the children of the 70's and 80's are moving away from religious indoctrination at a steady enough pace to have it moved from the group think mind within the next 15-20 years.. 

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/99153999.html?showAll=y&c=y

It's going to heat up down south... we're already losing ground in Texas and according to some right wing blog Tennessee is next. Be prepared for a brutal war of attrition. Every time someone pronounced them dead they just keep coming back.

I'm not meaning to join the debate Vrtig0 here though. I'm not American and much of your concerns deal with American federal politics and every country has a different bureaucracy and therefore different challenges.
Though I will say if I was by some act of divine providence you guys made me American presidente (refuse to to be president) your military spending would be cut in half and lot, and I mean lot, more would be delegated to education, including post secondary. There would be also a lot more prostitutes around the white house.

The only thing that has ever had me leaning toward Creationism rather than Evolution was being taught evolution in high school.  The arguements sounded really silly.  If we can get some critical thinking classes working properly I think teaching the kids creationism might be the death blow for it.

[Doktor Howl]

HEY, HOW THE FUCK DID WE DO THIS SHIT IN THE 60s? 

Fear of the draft? As didn't only college students get to stay home?

Not sure how that pertains to grade schools.

If one is focus on going to college, one studies harder?

Yes, because 3rd graders are concentrating on college.

Well, actually, there's a "No Excuses" campaign for college readiness.  In this campaign, school districts require elementary schools to have college rhetoric, college advertisements, college campus media and college banners and other paraphernalia that herald there's a college presence on the elementary campus.  This is to encourage kids that anyone can be a college grad.

Yeah.  Shit.

Kids can't be kids, you know.  It might inhibit their faux-competitiveness.

[Jenne]

  I think it's meant to encourage kids whose parents don't ever TALK about college to already have it in their lexicon.

The kids whose parents want them to go to college are telling them that from birth, just saying.

[Doktor Howl]

  I think it's meant to encourage kids whose parents don't ever TALK about college to already have it in their lexicon.

The kids whose parents want them to go to college are telling them that from birth, just saying.

I didn't.  My kids made up their own minds.  When they were about 14 and 12, I told them that life is easier with a college degree, but that it wasn't absolutely necessary (I don't have one, and I'm doing fine).

[Jenne]

 I think it's meant to encourage kids whose parents don't ever TALK about college to already have it in their lexicon.

The kids whose parents want them to go to college are telling them that from birth, just saying.

I didn't.  My kids made up their own minds.  When they were about 14 and 12, I told them that life is easier with a college degree, but that it wasn't absolutely necessary (I don't have one, and I'm doing fine).

...my parents did the same thing.  And my brothers aren't doing so well--hit a glass ceiling by 30.  I'm sorta immovable on this.  Life experience has shown people like my dad were right that you can still CHOOSE to not go to college, but it's going to be a somewhat uphill ride if you do so.

[Doktor Howl]

 I think it's meant to encourage kids whose parents don't ever TALK about college to already have it in their lexicon.

The kids whose parents want them to go to college are telling them that from birth, just saying.

I didn't.  My kids made up their own minds.  When they were about 14 and 12, I told them that life is easier with a college degree, but that it wasn't absolutely necessary (I don't have one, and I'm doing fine).

...my parents did the same thing.  And my brothers aren't doing so well--hit a glass ceiling by 30.  I'm sorta immovable on this.  Life experience has shown people like my dad were right that you can still CHOOSE to not go to college, but it's going to be a somewhat uphill ride if you do so.

Your brothers need to lie on their resumes.  Just saying.

Dok,
Didn't get this job via the merit system.

[Jenne]

  Mom and Dad taught us school wasn't necessary, but damn did they hate for us to lie.

I think my brothers just obey Mom and Dad too much!

[Doktor Howl]

  Mom and Dad taught us school wasn't necessary, but damn did they hate for us to lie.

I think my brothers just obey Mom and Dad too much!

Because employers are so honest.   

[Jenne]

  Mom and Dad taught us school wasn't necessary, but damn did they hate for us to lie.

I think my brothers just obey Mom and Dad too much!

Because employers are so honest.   

Shh...there's some tr00fs M&D don't like to hear.