Hello Again… it’s FRIDAAAAAAAYaaaah!
And we had a victory Thursday night in
And now we plunge back into the icy waters of the pre-election cold-shower contest. See who can dampen the other camp’s spirits the most. Long since has the sense of good sportsmanship departed the scene. [ Perhaps it got started when one legislator beat another into senselessness and hospital on the floor of the Senate years ago… he happened to be a South Carolinian. ] But we’ll let that pass – moaning about it only makes things worse.
Makes me even more look longingly at the British who limit their campaigning to about a month before the election. Judging by this election season which seems to have been on the move since November of 2008, we could sure use some relief. I guess we’ll have a long time to think over our sins of omission and commission as we dig ourselves out of the hole the President and his minions have helped us all dig. Please hand me that ladder… I’m gonna climb for a while!
Anyway… what’s really costing irreplaceable treasure is the terrible loss of learning among our young people. It’s more than a monetary loss or even one of opportunity – for money and ‘make good’ opportunities can be recovered at least in some fashion. But the experience of growing up… of *finally* figuring out how long-division works (rather than getting Dad to do it on his calculator… or my calculator-computer-phone-TV-iPod set.) Those kinds of joys can never be recovered entirely.
But perhaps we do not know the joys awaiting us in several places… I know that even though I still enjoy visiting a good library… and we have one just a few blocks away … even more do enjoy being able to do at least some rough research with my computer in my home office. I can get some of the bigger pieces of research rock out of the way… when you’re sitting down to write something to a friend… even if you don’t yet know who the friend is – that is a joy in itself.
All that to say the losses that really distress me the most are not the $$$ I may not have made, or even the places I may not have seen --- over time those things can be sampled or perhaps we find out it wasn’t so attractive after all… (about 90 % of H’wood stories.) I’m just feeling sorry for the kids to miss out on learning… on discovering – finding out what a joy it is to find out for something on your own. No need to get ‘puffed up’ about it… just enjoy the moment and pass it along to someone who isn’t so far along yet.
Have a great weekend… looking unto the Lord Jesus – “The Author and Finisher of our Faith … who for the JOY that was set before Him… e…. “ How about looking that up and finding out how it ends yourself?
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
THE WRONG ONES ARE WALKING THE PLANK
Just a Minute: -- Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools stepped down Wednesday avoiding replacement by the American Federation of Teachers. They will demand their choice of Chancellor, and will thus stifle the reform actions begun by Ms Rhee.
Charter schools in the District have been under attack from the AFT for fear their stranglehold on the schools will be broken. The evidence is the thousands of young black scholars who wanted to attend the improving schools, but were sidetracked by leverage meaning, holding back excellent teachers in favor of poorer performing ones.
Parents of the children, in
School parents have only themselves to blame for failure to see their schools improving and their children learning.
<> I’m Jack Buttram.
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