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2006-07-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

From the high school frontlines in the culture

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

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The key word is "fairly," of course, since many of the rational decisions we make at 22 look pretty silly at 33 and can be breathtakingly dumb by the time we reach 44. By the time we reach 55 they've been lumped in with the other sins of our youth, something to chuckle over, unless the consequences included jail time or loss of a limb.

Or having helped to elect Jimmy Carter.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-08 03:17|| 2006-07-08 03:17|| Front Page Top

#2 By the standards of the Kos Kiddies, he/she did pretty well with the spelling and grammar. Apparently proper English is a right wing thang, now.

I still would have sent it back to the teacher with plenty of red ink on it, only because he/she had that rule about girls always being nice, and I want to let her know my son wasn't growing up in a "dysfunctional family".

(I guess I'm becoming more conservative by the day. Damn you, RB!! ;) )

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-08 04:16|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-07-08 04:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I've always wanted a dysfunctional family.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-08 07:48|| 2006-07-08 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Geesh!
Who would have though that a health teacher(the easiest college degree of all times) would have the expertise to dispense Family Behavioral Health tips to children. Shouldn't she be teaching about drug abuse, nutrition, safe sex, you know, like they have since the beginning of time?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-08 10:37|| 2006-07-08 10:37|| Front Page Top

#5 When my kids were small, and had to go to the Doc for shots, they were asked: "Does your family keep guns in the house?"

I said that's none of your fucking business.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-08 10:48|| 2006-07-08 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 What gets real scary is then they get the power to enforce their family values on the rest of us.

This health teacher might not have any problems calling Child Protective Services and report an 'hostile environment' (as in OMG - the father spanks his children on the butt!)

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-08 11:19|| 2006-07-08 11:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Still, it does have that vague Urban Legend feel.

Posted by 6 2006-07-08 11:57|| 2006-07-08 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Or having helped to elect Jimmy Carter.

Ouch! That one hits too close to home (that was the first election I voted in).

I rationalize that now by saying that without the dismal Carter years, we probably would never have elected Reagan (even though I didn't vote for him - sheesh, I was a pathetic LLL back then...)

Posted by xbalanke 2006-07-08 12:14|| 2006-07-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 xbalanke, yet you've grown up. ;-)

There is one thing... It is possible that I am projecting a tad, but... when I were growing up behind the Iron Curtain, at the age of 14, I could see through al that leftist crap. No, I was not exceptionally bright, anyone with 2 brain cells could.

I think that something similar may be happening with the youngsters, say between 14 and 19, they do not eat that librul crap as readily as one may presume. At least those of them that do not have attrophied thinking abilities.

Sure, it may be in part a result of the teenage rebelion, opposition for the sake of being different. But seems to go a bit deeper than that.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-07-08 23:32|| 2006-07-08 23:32|| Front Page Top

#10 PIMF, al = all.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-07-08 23:34|| 2006-07-08 23:34|| Front Page Top

#11 twobyfour - you were exceptional by American standards - times have changed. American kids are internet-oriented rather than growing up watching their parents' MSM news. My 18 yr old reads my National Review mags rather than People magazine...perhaps that's why he joined the Army ;-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-08 23:45|| 2006-07-08 23:45|| Front Page Top

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