Hello TIM!
18 May 10 05:10, you wrote to me:
I wasn't going to get into this thread.....but from many years of observation, I see our education system as broken, and probably beyond repair.
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Yes I know... Hell kids have to carry graphing calculators to school with RC>them, else they might risk a incomplete, whereas there was a time right RC>after the handheld calculator came to the masses, that to carry one meant RC>severe sanctions. (confiscation, detention, suspension etc)
However I do not believe that all our teachers are the problem as Klahn RC>and Wilson wish to presume.
However like typical liberals, all they want to do is pass students for RC>sowig up to class, who cares if they know the subject matter.
Unless you are in uniform you are not supposed to wear an
American flag as an article of clothing.
Unless you are in Mexico, the waving of a Mexican flag in
America, in celebration of some obscure Mexican event that
didn't even occur in America, is not just silly, its (in my
estimation) deliberately insulting.
If it's an Irish flag is it OK?
Silk screened on a t-shirt?
The biggest problem with Cinco De Mayo being celebrated at
all (never mind being celebrated in a foreign country where
the event didn't even take place) is, its the celebration
St Patrick's day celebrates a saint who never heard of America.
of the winning of *one* battle in a war they ultimately
lost! Its the same as...say....Japan annually celebrating
Pearl Harbor Day,
Don't be sure they don't.
or Germany celebrating their `victory'
over Poland in 1939, even though both Japan and Germany
ultimately lost WWII, and at great cost to themselves.
A battle for freedom can be celebrated just for the courage
displayed. After all, the French citizens won their revolution,
but then lost it all anyway.
"I heard on the news tonight that the president of Mexico stood at the GG>White House with Hussein Obama, and on-camera condemned Arizona's GG>immigration law, saying it was discriminatory!"
"Hussein" Obama? Ok, I was with you on this message until you said that. GG>Talk all about your love for America and threats of people in America and GG>then you insult the president of the United States of America.
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