OK schools go to 4 day weeks so that teachers can get second jobs

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Your post most certainly was pedantic quibbling over minor details willfully misinterpreted.



Which I didn't.



Ask without falsely accusing me of resentment and I will do so.

Or go back to the pedantic quibbling over minor details willfully misinterpreted that you prefer.

Tell us why you wrote what you did then.

The first few posts in this thread had a tone of this being something new, and I pointed out that it wasn't. Tom Sawyer understood it, but that was because he didn't decide to misunderstand it.

How is the detail that "you" paid for your lunch relevant to that point? Why does the reader need to know it?

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

The first few posts in this thread had a tone of this being something new, and I pointed out that it wasn't. Tom Sawyer understood it, but that was because he didn't decide to misunderstand it.

How is the detail that "you" paid for your lunch relevant to that point? Why does the reader need to know it?

You're the one who got pedantic enough to quibble about that minor detail and create a large derail out of it.

 

[laughing dog]

Your post most certainly was pedantic quibbling over minor details willfully misinterpreted.



Which I didn't.



Ask without falsely accusing me of resentment and I will do so.

Or go back to the pedantic quibbling over minor details willfully misinterpreted that you prefer.

Tell us why you wrote what you did then.

The first few posts in this thread had a tone of this being something new, and I pointed out that it wasn't. Tom Sawyer understood it, but that was because he didn't decide to misunderstand it.

Let me get this straight. You misread the thread and posted some irrelevant detail that most people knew, and then you got upset because someone paid you the compliment of assuming you introduced a subtle and relevant point.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

That's about as straight as a Gordian Knot.

 

[laughing dog]

That's about as straight as a Gordian Knot.

It's an accurate description of what happened. I'm sorry if it resembles the description of a petulant adolescent throwing a hissy fit.

 

[Toni]

My favorite part of one of the articles was critical that lower income students depend on school for breakfast and lunch.

Yup, our country is so fucked up, schools have become de facto soup kitchens for the poor because we can't afford to pay people enough money to feed their kids at home!

I remember this program back when I was a kid. I'd arrive at school and as I was walking past the cafeteria there were kids getting a free breakfast. I remember being one of the few that paid for lunch. This was a long time ago so this is hardly new. This was under Carter.

It's MUCH more widespread now. I remember free and reduced lunches from when I was a kid and I'm older than you are but no breakfasts at school. My kids graduated from high school 10 years ago and there was no breakfast, free or otherwise served in the public schools around here. This is a very working class town, with a high portion of students on free/reduced lunch, and more whose parents won't file the paperwork to get free/reduced because they don't think or want to admit that they need it.

It is much more common for kids to be in some form of day care or preschool or school from 7 a.m. or earlier until 6 p.m. or later, with much less time free to play than when my kids were in school and that was only a 20 minute lunch plus maybe 1 recess period. It's pretty pitiful considering that when I was in school, we had morning recess, half hour for lunch plus half hour for recess and afternoon recess and a good portion of us walked to/from school.

As a society, we are not doing right by our kids.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

I'm sorry if it resembles the description of a petulant adolescent throwing a hissy fit.

You shouldn't talk about Don that way, it's not nice.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Anyway, Carter was generally a good guy and a well-meaning person. Good on him.

President Twitler McCrazyPants, on the other hand, what a douchebag...

Now, as the intended point of bringing up a single ancecdote of something, it does nothing to diminish the point about a trend. Absolutely zilch.

 

[laughing dog]

I'm sorry if it resembles the description of a petulant adolescent throwing a hissy fit.

You shouldn't talk about Don that way, it's not nice.

I wasn't. Duh.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Duh.

Most intelligent thing you've ever posted.

 

[laughing dog]

Duh.

Most intelligent thing you've ever posted.

At least you understand 3 letter words.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

My favorite part of one of the articles was critical that lower income students depend on school for breakfast and lunch.

Yup, our country is so fucked up, schools have become de facto soup kitchens for the poor because we can't afford to pay people enough money to feed their kids at home!

I remember this program back when I was a kid. I'd arrive at school and as I was walking past the cafeteria there were kids getting a free breakfast. I remember being one of the few that paid for lunch. This was a long time ago so this is hardly new. This was under Carter.

It's MUCH more widespread now. I remember free and reduced lunches from when I was a kid and I'm older than you are but no breakfasts at school. My kids graduated from high school 10 years ago and there was no breakfast, free or otherwise served in the public schools around here. This is a very working class town, with a high portion of students on free/reduced lunch, and more whose parents won't file the paperwork to get free/reduced because they don't think or want to admit that they need it.

It is much more common for kids to be in some form of day care or preschool or school from 7 a.m. or earlier until 6 p.m. or later, with much less time free to play than when my kids were in school and that was only a 20 minute lunch plus maybe 1 recess period. It's pretty pitiful considering that when I was in school, we had morning recess, half hour for lunch plus half hour for recess and afternoon recess and a good portion of us walked to/from school.

As a society, we are not doing right by our kids.

I'm glad you understood my post.

Yes, it is more widespread now than it was in the past. That is something one can say about the current situation compared to the past during the fairly long life of this program. Of course at that time in my life I lived in a fairly urban environment so people were more accepting about accepting government assistance than they were in your town. There were several HUD apartment complexes nearby as well, and once someone is on one form of assistance it become psychologically easier to accept other forms.

All I really remember was walking by the cafeteria and seeing that they ate breakfast and wondered why they didn't do it at home. I did recognize the free or reduced lunches, but contrary to the opinions of the uniformed I wasn't resentful of it. I did see it though, showing that even if it has expanded in recent years it certainly isn't a new phenomenon. At that young age and not knowing much about government and taxes I wondered where the money for it came from, but didn't give it much more thought.

 

[starwater]

Your post most certainly was pedantic quibbling over minor details willfully misinterpreted.



Which I didn't.



Ask without falsely accusing me of resentment and I will do so.

Or go back to the pedantic quibbling over minor details willfully misinterpreted that you prefer.

Tell us why you wrote what you did then.

The first few posts in this thread had a tone of this being something new, and I pointed out that it wasn't. Tom Sawyer understood it, but that was because he didn't decide to misunderstand it.

Just because you think something is "not new" doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed.

Please explain why you resent someone getting a free breakfast when your parents paid for yours.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Please explain why you resent someone getting a free breakfast when your parents paid for yours.

Because I didn't.

Stop being swayed by some trolls who like to take minor points in my posts, intentionally misinterpret them, and blow their intentional misinterpretation out of proportion. Other people understood my point without having to dissect a deliberate misinterpretation to death in an absurd derail of personal attack.

 

[starwater]

Please explain why you resent someone getting a free breakfast when your parents paid for yours.

Because I didn't.

Stop being swayed by some trolls who like to take minor points in my posts, intentionally misinterpret them, and blow their intentional misinterpretation out of proportion. Other people understood my point without having to dissect a deliberate misinterpretation to death in an absurd derail of personal attack.

Stop being a privileged white dude.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Please explain why you resent someone getting a free breakfast when your parents paid for yours.

Because I didn't.

Stop being swayed by some trolls who like to take minor points in my posts, intentionally misinterpret them, and blow their intentional misinterpretation out of proportion. Other people understood my point without having to dissect a deliberate misinterpretation to death in an absurd derail of personal attack.

Stop being a privileged white dude.

Now I'm white again.

Do you have another user name on this site?

 

[starwater]

hopeless

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

You're funny. Also insinuating racial attitudes against minorities is usually considered a racist act on this board. You might get the racism-police jumping on you for that.

 

[starwater]

Are you a minority?

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Uh, yeah. So you just said a brown guy has white privilege.