ivan

but shelbyville has a charter school!!!

i'll be there, clad in trash bags n' packing technu

my econ 201 grade might be damned valuable information for anyone wishing to gauge my ability to comprehend the supply n' demand curve

perhaps in the back of the shop class? nah, i don't actually work in vantucky!

well, if there is an omniscent, all-powerful dog, everything does happen according to his say-so, no? poor boy's just addressing his cognitive dissonance!

i'm voting tonight, for no other reason than to keep bastards like you from calling and knocking on my door

like a school w/n a school - they have a focus (engineering at my current, i went to a chemistry/biology one as a kid) and an application process (they're run basically like college classes so you need the skills and grades to make it worthwhile), and they usually only are for a portion of the school day, after which you take regular classes like art n' history n' whatnot. kids in this district also can do "running start," where they spned much of their day taking classes at a local community college

my public school district has some of those things like: - a skill center (for learning firefighting, nursing, automotive tech, catering and a # of other trades) - an engineering magnet school - an alternative high school (for kids who really just don't fit into the mainstream and need a light touch) - a branch of a local credit union manned by students

shit, that's just the tip of it! i named my son Æþelwulf, firfuksakes!

it is a goddamn tragedy that no one's ever managed to make a decent movie out of the story - don't know why exactly, something about it defies film - much of the beauty of it is the literal poetry - the ringing alliteration resounding always in rare auras

there is, of course, already a bit of segregation w/n many public high schools themselves - AP programs pretty neatly concentrate the folks w/ problems like you describe into the "regular" classes (and that's my rice-bowl! ) - folks like me than have to figure out how to make it work best for that crowd (hint: as much as it hurts me, we don't get to read much hobbes, locke n' smith in all their glorious length ) still, just like "breakfast club," even the smart bitches gotta rub elbows w/ the proles occasionally in shop n' pottery class, and that's probably a good thing (shit, the biggest trouble i got into in school was always in those classes, and that's what made them great! they also helped reaffirm my raging adolescent sense of superiority ) the bottom line is, society must deal w/ it's problem elements, the cripples, bastards and broken things that are, for better and worse, part of us (and hopefully not by just building the walls of our prisons higher and higher and higher)

how am i not held accountable? parents can (and do) routinely request to meet/communicate w/ me and to explain my course, procedures, and evaluations of their kids, my school must honor the legal requirements of iep's or face lawsuits, the district must routinely get the community to approve bond measures, etc. also, how is it a monopoly when there are, in fact, alternative private schools?

word. i still can't for the fucking life of me understand why new yorkers, so tough n' aggressive in every other way, all had their panties in a bunch about putting them bad boys on public trial in their own state, to get justice within sight of where those dipshits' did their crime...

what makes you think they haven't already? ivan loves big brother.

alright, i couldnt' help but start listening and found it about 1:30 - my memory wasn't quite spot-on, but then little about me isn't mediocre [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh3G6fwyFyY&feature=relmfu

it's from seamus heaney's masterful translation of "beowulf" - beowulf is, by the by, the oldest surviving written work in olde english (drink!) - only 1 copy exists, dating from the 8th century or so i think - it no doubt existed in the oral tradition for a long time, and is a fascinating snapshot of an era when ultra-kewl barbarians were being tamed by the fucking Shaved Men - wondrous metaphors merging savage slaughter w/ christian poetry abound throughout the text i can't stress enough the importance of HEARING the poem - it was not meant to be read, but recited in mead halls by scops, bards who collected the poems and passed them on to their sons, who they trained in the art of exhaustive memorization - here heaney recites his own translation: [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRZJ_aCakns you'll have to find the exact passage you like, which comes shortly after the hero, beowulf, has killed the first monster grendel, only to have his mother come and murder another boat-load of boy-o's in revenge - he kills ashere, the king's best friend, prompting beowulf to say: "wise sir, do not grieve it is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning for every one of us living in this world means waiting for our end. let he who can achieve glory before death. when a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark."

democracy is not possible w/o compromise, kev. how do you propose to solve that most basic conundrum?

it made the indians ! and me, for that matter, i remember eating plenty of that classic repo-man generic shit when i lived on army bases - the potato chips were better

but it's still the assumption that private schools will be better - for the lower income folk, the first concern is basic security - private-run prisons don't seem better at preventing riots, do they? how does the charter school on the other side of town help you if a) you have to pay to get all the way over there and b) once you arrive, it has the same herd of deranged lunatics who fled your public school? and if the reality is the charter school can just refuse to admit the lunatics, isn't that just converting hte public school to a full-on prison itself? it's not surprising inner city folk are pro-charter/vouchers - folks on the top of burning buildings often jump - it's not like it helps though...

i suppose - the government could also just run its own soup kitchens, but since the private infrastructure already's in place, why bother? that certainly isn't the case w/ public schools.

This is extremely environmentally toxic. But I suppose Ron Paul DOES want to abolish environmental regulations, so.... And Obama has kept Gitmo open so I guess its all relevant. and how is it that he hasn't hauled you off there yet, freedom-hater! (or ron paul, for that matter)

you can always climb illumination rock

i'm eternally offended by the negative connotations associated w/ quite possibly the most brillian solution to casual footwear ever concieved sandals w/ camel-toe thong action

her name was gorgo. you'd think the name was the worst thing about her...'til you found out it was leonidas's cousin - nothing like snapping up yer dead uncle's little girl for your own boudior - i somehow doubt she looked like cersei lannister either

not the first bad accident at vantage involving gear doing fucked up shit at any rate...