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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Ilaine who wrote (68914)12/27/1999 4:04:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
What a fascinating read!!! And yes, yes, yes. I agree completely that we can not expect our schools to not only teach academics, but to overcome and even reverse the damage of some early childhoods.

Isn't it sad that given the opportunity to really make a difference, so many choose to try to make political, racial and even personal financial gains from it? And how few seemed to think any of it THROUGH! Gimme, gimme, gimme....

I did wonder about building zoos, OLympic pools with underwater viewing rooms, UN facilities that actually have translation capabilities, TV studios... These do not seem to me what would provide the parity they wanted for the underprivileged. When I got to college, whether I had taken my French in a high school with a full lab (I didn't) or my biology with a teacher who did more than look at a grasshopper under a microscope(I didn't)was unimportant; what mattered was that I had a strong grounding in the tools necessary to continue learning and a love of the process. And for this you don't need a wildlife sanctuary or a robotics lab. Somehow it all missed the point. But why? What IS the answer then?
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