laekin ([info]laekin) wrote,
@ 2005-01-21 13:53:00
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Yeah, I know I'm going to catch it for this but... OMG someone remove this person from the gene pool before he reproduces. I can't even begin to map out the level of whining, non-responsibility taking soooopppiiidddiitttyy this represents. Honestly!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/21/homework.suit.ap/index.html


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[info]mirichan
2005-01-21 07:19 pm UTC (link)
That reminds me of the story a few weeks back of the student who did not want to buckle up and had sued for that right... and who died in a subsequent car crash. And 17 is not "a child"... he's on the way to become something but oh... obviously without the minimum of efforts he can do.

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[info]laekin
2005-01-21 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Honestly Manon, this is so...incomprehensible to me I can barely wrap my mind around it.

It appears to me that way too many people have forgotten that the American School calander was designed at a time when children were needed to work in an agricultural society, hence the three months off in the summer. Now we appear to have young people who believe those three months are their God Given Right and not only is that a load of crap but it does nothing to prepare them for the reality of the workplace. I mean if I went into my boss's office and said I wanted June-August off I'd get handed my pink slip and told not to let the door hit me on the way out.

And that the parent...the parent encouraged this sort of irresponsible action?????

Some people need to be taken out back behind the woodshed and beaten with a Clue-By-Four for a good 20 licks.

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[info]mirichan
2005-01-21 07:36 pm UTC (link)
There's a mentality of not accepting constraints and sue for anything that smacks (in their little minds) of censorship. Guess that 3-months off IS God-given right to the US students... and explain the poor academic results of many when compared to other places like *cough* Japan *cough* (not that I think theirs is perfect... man it must be awful living with that level of stress).

The problem, of course, is the lawyers ^__^

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[info]laekin
2005-01-21 07:37 pm UTC (link)
They're representing themselves.

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[info]mirichan
2005-01-21 07:38 pm UTC (link)
... and cheap too ^_^

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[info]laekin
2005-01-21 07:39 pm UTC (link)
They need to stop wasting my oxygen.

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[info]datenshiblue
2005-01-21 08:13 pm UTC (link)
honors pre-calculus homework


...he's an honors student...

*facepalms*

send him to work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week in a Thailand sweatshop with kids half his age, then ask him about stress...

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[info]laekin
2005-01-21 08:35 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, the honors student part made me cringe as well.

I'm in the court that supports year round school with more smaller breaks rather then these tight schedules and then a long three month period where the information gained the 'year' before is lost.

It's a simple fact if you don't 'use it' you lose it and about 2/3rds of the fall semester is spent recouping from the summer break.

Unfortunately life isn't a 9 months on 3 months off proposition and if kids are coming through the school system thinking this is supposed to be their law given right? Oh heaven help us.

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[info]spinshadow
2005-01-28 06:51 am UTC (link)
Wow. *is soooo far behind on her flist* I wonder what my mom thinks about this (she just left an administrative position in Milwaukee schools to finish her PhD).

What gets me about this is that, being pre-calc (honors, no less), this is something he volunteered to do. Honors courses leading into senior year often have summer assignment and he had to know that. I can't believe he didn't know about it before signing up for the class. *shakes head* Kids today....

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