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To: JohnM who wrote (91356)	10/22/2008 12:13:28 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

Ah, I fear we have just invited another round of elitist accusations. :) I am off to swim my mile. I swim in lane 3. I never take 2 in honor of Lane. She inspired me a few months ago, and it's the first exercise I have enjoyed. After about 20 laps, I go into a kind of coma. CW always said he did his best thinking during swim practice. Not me. NO thought. ZombieRambi.

To: JohnM who wrote (91356)	10/22/2008 6:50:15 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541851

Most good parents know that the world we will inhabit in the 21st century will be a global market place, whether we in the US like that or not. If we do not equip our children with a first rate education, they will be competing against the uneduated labor of the world- and there is a lot of uneducated labor out there, and much of it comes mighty cheap. It is a terrible terribly disservice to fail to equip your child to meet this global marketplace fully prepared. A college education is not the only way to meet the marketplace, but if you aren't going that route, you better be planning your future with a trade school, or in an apprentice program. I do not see Palin doing any of this planning. She seems blithely ignorant of the challenges we face. I'm sure she could give me a good soundbite on it, but if you look at her support of schools, and science, and her preparation of her own kids, it's a sad sad picture. The world isn't clamoring for a whole bunch more college dropouts, or crappy second rate college students. I hope Palin gets hold of a copy of 2 Million Minutes. It managed to wake up my seniors to the perils of being uneducated in the global marketplace- maybe Palin ought to show it to her own children.