Ricky Smith
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Re: Cry babies
said by ninjatutle  :Oh noes, these books are too heavy  Kids are already crying about books being too heavy. What are they going to say about laptops and the power bricks. You clearly don't have kids then. Now I don't know about that school but the new one here 4 Floors Buildings A-H. Now you try lugging your regular stuff, plus books, plus extra school stuff around we we'll talk. Luckily for me I just bring a laptop around with me so I don't need binders or note books.
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ninjatutle
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| Pff.
When I was in school, I had to walk 6 miles, each way to school. We had to share 1 book between the 4 kids.
We didnt have minivans where the doors open and shut without you touching you the handle.
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furlonium
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| said by ninjatutle :Pff. When I was in school, I had to walk 6 miles You forgot that it was UPHILL both ways  |
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Michieru
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Houston, TX | with 1 shoe and 1 sock that you couldn't wear on the same foot without being called "rich boy" |
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Ricky Smith
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Winter Park, FL
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What not 15 Miles both ways in a snow storm? Could you also get into movies for 25 Cents? When you were a kid you were spoiled.  I bet your parents had to walk 15 miles. But as it is with any generation when the current generation grows up and our kids are complaining about having to turn on the computer to learn as school may not be existent and we'll be complaining about having to walk up the street both ways in snow.
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA | Yes but no one complained back then. Now kids wont even walk 8 blocks to school.
Mommy must drive them and buy them rolling backpacks. |
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA
| what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid.
P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them. |
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ninjatutle
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| We had to worry about the boogie monster, polio, if we were going to have food for the rest of the week, if we were going to be invaded by a foreign power, nuclear war, if it were going to be a good crop season, etc.
1st graders can't even read, what do they need the large history books for? If kids these days are so smart, why is everyone complaining about the education system? Why do people write off the public school system and bypass them for private schools? We need to get back to the basics first. People got by 1,000's of years without computers. What makes the kids today so special?
Yes, lets give them laptops so they can go on MySpace all day long instead of just all night long at home |
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stomp357
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said by JamesPC :what did you have to worry about back then, where you carrying 25lbs of books when you were in elementary. If you can remember, I dont think so. Just because kids in 1st grade are learning stuff that you did not start until middle school, does not make them "cry babies". Its just a fact, the books required "NOW DAYS" is much too heavy for the average kid. P.S. enough with the sterotypes, this site is full of them. I don't know when, or where you went to school, but here the books that kids carry today are the same size, if not smaller for some subjects, than we carried back in the late 70's to early 90's. |
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PolarBear
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As ridiculous as EVERYONE'S rants may be in this thread, I agree with you on this, ninjatutle:
said by ninjatutle :Yes, lets give them laptops so they can go on MySpace all day long instead of just all night long at home Persnally, I think MySpace has gotten ridiculously out of hand with today's kids (I recently blocked the site on the home computer for my kid). Let's not give our kids yet another way to AVOID education, whether it be MySpace, or anything else.
Damn, in my day, the worst thing we had to worry about was peer pressure to start smoking cigarettes.
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annon2u
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You can come up with all the excuses you want but todays kids ARE cry babies. Everything is done for them by the parents. They fail, the parents complain to the school. How about making sure they do their assignments and that those assignments are turned in? People complain about the No Child Being Left Behind as being underfunded. The fact of the matter is that the government put a lot of money on this. Parents need to teach their children to be responsible, not to be sissies/cry babies. And the government need to abolish the welfare system. And if you don't think that kids are spoiled cry babies, be a teacher and you'll find out on your first day of class just how bad it is. |
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