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Progressive bullshit
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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The owner has just gotten a report card emailed to him from his 10 year old daughter's "Progressive" school, an overpriced Montessori/French Immersion school for the presumably gifted children of wealthy and privileged parents.
It's one of those modern, fucked up affairs that rate everything from social interaction to abstract art, group play, and comparable vocabulary, there's easily 20 categories on it. And the grading, well, they've got they're own system, a series of colored buttons indicating the childs/prodigies progress in each area, there's a green button, yellow button, orange button and presumably (but not on this report card) a red button. But search as we may there's no key or legend on the report card, I look through it 2, 3 times.
And while the coloring is fairly intuitive, mapped, I imagine, after traffic lights, to the rich immigrant parent it's useless. He wants a description of the child's progress. A grade would be nice, swell even, but they don't do that anymore, numbers, people can figure those out, take offense, colors, well, that's a different story.
Eventually we find it, the key, legend, it's embedded in the body of the email, you gotta scroll to find it, not on the attached accompanying report card. These are teachers, educated people, a minimum of a BA, what in the fuck were they thinking? And the key, it's what you'd expect, exactly, bigger words than a lot of parents can deal with but they're trying to make clear the distinction between they "The Educated Chaperones of Tomorrows Genius" and you, the uneducated fuckwit of a parent. And if you'd argue you weren't a fuckwit, think about it, you sent them to that school, didn't you?
And you think, at the end, why even the key, why not have the comments directly in the "grading" box, why bother with the color coding, a written assessment is what it translates to, do away with the references and fill it in. But they're educated and so infatuated with all this progressive bullshit that they've forgotten all common sense.
The Poseidon Adventure
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Monday afternoon, January 2nd, take the daughter and the boy to see The Poseidon Adventure. By which I mean the original, 1972 version with Red Buttons and Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine, etc, etc.
Both brilliant and absolute rubbish, laughable fashions (that I'd kill to replicate), overly explicit dialogue, the complete adherence to all the moral conventions of disaster films. Gene Hackman does well, Ernest Borgnine bugs his eyes, Roddy McDowell, well, I'm sure it paid well. Just a good introduction to the world of bad classic disaster films, when it's over the boy's spent an hour and a half laughing while the daughter happily exclaims "That was good...how come I've never heard of it?...".
Oh, there's a lot more you've never heard of. Have to get her out to the Koot's to show her "Towering Inferno" and "Airport" and maybe "Earthquake" and, for a bit of comic relief (that she'll then understand) - Airplane.
Iceland curbing teen drug abuse
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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I like Iceland, another reason why:
Link: https://mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse
There are solutions to every problem, we lack only the will and intelligence to pursue them.
Roasted Heirloom Carrots
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Restaurants & Cafes
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Dinner, Model Milk with the daughter. Start with the Tartare, follow with the Sea Bass, The Roasted Heirloom Carrots, followed up with the Apple Pie.
$16.00 for 2 Carrots. The daughter declares them the best carrots she's ever tasted, but...$16.00 for 2 Carrots. The Sea Bass, whole, bones in, the Tartare delicately portioned without crackers or bread, the Apple Pie, generous.
The food is good, but perusing their website I notice the Chocolate Mousse lists "Bentonite" as an ingredient, and this prompts a little searching...a curious addition to any foodstuff...
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