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[Wambangalang]

im fucking scared if i misspel something now

[Trathena]

im fucking scared if i misspel something now

Hee! Your post reminds me of this site:

http://www.iamfuckingterrified.com/

[SJN1279]

Thanks for backing me up Trathena. I agree with your reply to Nick; it's a retarded argument made by a bunch of American idiots. The sad thing is that he's actually a teacher. I just decided I'm home schooling my kids!

I'm a high school physical education and health teacher. In my health class, I could care less if my students can spell chlamydia 100 percent correctly on an exam. I just want them to understand the dangers of contracting such an illness, so that they can avoid problems in their life.

I have many faults, but I can honestly say I'm a damn good teacher. I care about my students welfare and make myself available to be an advisor whenever they need one. That's what teaching is all about.

By the way, using the word retarded makes you look ignorant. For someone who claims to be so educated, you should know how disgraceful of a word it is to use in casual conversation. There are many students out there with various learning disabilities, and whenever you use that word so readily, its a slap in the face to them.

[Trathena]

I just decided I'm home schooling my kids!

I don't have children, but I've known for over a decade that if I had them I'd home school them. I know that most home schoolers do it to protect their kids from evilution, but I don't care.

May I ask? You've said a few times that this is the "only" live board left. Is this one shutting down? (I haven't been there in a long time, so I wouldn't know.)

[SJN1279]

I don't have children, but I've known for over a decade that if I had them I'd home school them. I know that most home schoolers do it to protect their kids from evilution, but I don't care.

May I ask? You've said a few times that this is the "only" live board left. Is this one shutting down? (I haven't been there in a long time, so I wouldn't know.)

I'm not a fan of home schooling. I feel it limits socialization with peers and slows a child's maturation process.

SOY is alive and well.

[Trathena]

I'm not a fan of home schooling. I feel it limits socialization with peers and slows a child's maturation process.

Yeah, I've always heard that. But there comes a time when you have to decide: do I want to raise a kid who is always great at parties, but has no critical thinking skills and never reads? Or do I want to raise a thoughtful, intelligent, interesting geek?

I'll choose the geek.

Ok, I know I'm not treating your post with the respect it deserves. Public education--in my opinion--is broken. Hell, maybe I'd send my kid to a Quaker or Montessori school. Or a college prep high school. But I don't have kids, so I should shut up now.

Thank you for taking my caustic post in stride. You seem like a nice guy (except for the "why don't you move" post). But man, I hate me some censorship. However, I've never moderated a forum, so I can't begin to put myself in your shoes.

But stop censoring!

[Badman]

Maybe you should find a new country to live?

Running away never solved anything. I'll stay here but I do plan to visit Scandinavia. Norway or Sweden really appeal to me... If the scholarship goes though. I'd love to study the Church of Norway.

[Badman]

Woah... Homeschool? I love Trathena's comment about "Evilution," it is so true!

I would never homeschool. I made it through the system and I don't party, drink, smoke, or swear so I believe my kids could do it. Plus being around all the germs buffed up my immune system to the point where I believe I am dang near invincible.


This post has been edited by Badman: Dec 5 2007, 10:08 pm

[Wambangalang]

i think your children will be homeschooled whether (or is it weather, jesus, jesus fucking christ) or not they go to a public school if thats what you want for them. Whatever they learn at school, they will come home and if you put the time and effort in you can instill in them the sensibilities and life lessons that will assist them away from school hours. Unfortunately, some parents are more interested in doing their own things rather than being true carers for their children, which encompasses a lot more than simply feeding and sheltering them.

Learning mathematics and english and all the rest of it really is not going to curb a child's personal growth into something beyond the competitive violence that this kind of schooling breeds. This can only be passed on at home, within the family. I went to a public shcool and did fairly well, but i can honestly say that the humility and compassion for others that my mother passed on to me has done a whole lot more for my personal content for life than school ever could. I really dont care if im rich (which im not) ever, i am happy to not have that terrible need to own the biggest house or the nicest car, which is inevitably what our education systems set us up for.

[Wambangalang]

i can honestly say that the humility and compassion for others that my mother passed on to me has done a whole lot more for my personal content for life than school ever could.

before anyone says it, im well aware of the irony of that sentence considering my behaviour sometimes, but comon, this is a message board. everyone here knows very well that despite all the hostility that takes place here, if we all met up in real life we'd hold hands in a big circle and sing kumbaya!!

[Existentialist]

What a sad state we have reached in America when our "great" teachers are the ones who teach people the dangers of contracting diseases that everyone knows are bad. If you honestly believe your students don't know more about sex than you do (I've seen pics of you) then you're fooling yourself.

As far as homeschooling, you (Nick) are obviously not very aware of modern cognitive and social psychological research which demonstrates that social skills are not only capable of, but often are developed outside of school. I wouldn't expect you to know much about the research, since I doubt you've ever read a piece of scientific literature in your life. And no, I was not home schooled.

As far as my use of retarded, you should be ashamed of yourself for associating it with people with mental retardation. The word retard comes from France, where it means slow. People with MR are mentally slow. People who are merely retarded can be retarded in any way the speaker imagines, including in education. So to a scientist, the ones who determine whether or not a person is mentally retarded, saying someone is "retarded" has none of the connotations that it does to your everyday idiot (you).

This post has been edited by Existentialist: Dec 6 2007, 12:03 am

[LiveRoCkS77]

Thanks for backing me up Trathena. I agree with your reply to Nick; it's a retarded argument made by a bunch of American idiots. The sad thing is that he's actually a teacher. I just decided I'm home schooling my kids!

LMFAO......I can't believe people would actually challenge spelling or grammatical errors without making sure and using a spell check on their post first.

Before you chastize Americans for being idiots, you should take a gander up here. You guys may be "dumb" so to speak, but we're definately the "dumber" in that equation. Shoot somebody up here in front of a bunch of schoolkids and that earns you a whole 18 months in prison. Rape your neigbors three year old daughter repeatedly and you're gone for 2 years less a day!!

Not to mention the idiotic French jackasses this country keeps electing as its' leaders. I could go on and on but I think you get the picture.

[Pokey]

im fucking scared if i misspel something now

It's ok you're not American, us Australian's are the smartest people in da hole world.

It does extend to a lot of nations really, but I guess Ex can only comment on what he knows and has grown up with.

By the way I came back in here to specifically post about Idiocracy, what a great movie! I could watch the first 5 minutes of that over and over.

[Badman]

You know who else has bad grammar? Live.

I took an hour (of payed worktime!) and went over every album to find all the errors. I went easy on them...
Examples:

"I wanna dance with you" <--- not bad, same beat if it was "I want to dance with you"

"Love like I ain't never felt before" <--- doesn't work.

"Thought I was Bulletproof, 'til the blood pooled" <---- bad, "Until" won't fit in the beat.

Lets see the results!

SFBM:7
BOP:5
V:7
TDTH:9
SS:3
TC:1
MJ:4
DoaD:2

That is 38 songs with at least one error... interestingly enough, the commercially acceptable albums had better grammar.

This post has been edited by Badman: Dec 6 2007, 4:04 pm

[Wambangalang]

you need to get laid