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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (93587)	1/13/2005 6:02:21 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I fully understood the science of weather by my 20s, because I needed to for my private pilots licence. When I read 'Black Elk Speaks', I was interested in his description of thunder as some sort of aetherial laughter that gave him great pleasure and peace ... although you'd have to read his text to get that. I believe his perspective is quite truthful also.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (93587)	1/13/2005 10:13:19 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 108807

"If we make our schools and texts any dumber to appease people's sensibilities (or pay homage to ignorance) WE ALL LOSE." Agreed, though it's not really the texts that are the problem. The problem is standards/expectations. They are set way too low. In GA, I blame it, at least in part, on the Hope Scholarship program, which requires a B average for eligibility, but pays tuition for any GA resident attending a state college or university. God forbid one teacher cost a kid his Hope Scholarship. My county school board (along with most others in the state, I think) even did away with the grade "D" so that a just-passing grade is a "C", which doesn't damage the GPA as much. They even admitted when they recommended the policy (against teacher wishes) that they were only doing it so county students could "get their fair share" of the money. On a related note, GA colleges' operating costs have been rising rapidly (there's little incentive to keep costs down if the legislature is paying the tuition for the students) while more HS grads are staying in-state for college, leaving less space for students paying higher out-of-state tuition. ... paved with good intentions.