Now hold on just a second. I completely disagree with your sweeping (false) accusations that the only things on teachers' minds are paychecks and summer vacations. Obviously, you don't know what teachers make. If teachers were in it for the money...they wouldn't be teaching. Teaching is one of the lowest paid professions, so in order for someone to willingly teach, they have to have their heart in it in. In my experience with teachers (and believe me, I have loads of experience with them as both my parents were teachers) they are some of the most caring and devoted people ever. Sure there are the random outliers that aren't so great, but overall teachers are a great postive addition to soceity. Oh, and summer vacation? You should know, they work and plan for the next school year most of their summer, and don't get paid any more for that.
Yet the 1st Amendment clearly states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . ." We are not a Christian nation, nor should we be. We should allow people to freely practice whatever religion they want, and not look down upon them for thinking differently then we do. That's America's problem...narcissistic, egotistical people forcing their beliefs upon people who already have their own beliefs.
And Hugo Chavez never said he wanted to "destroy us"...he didn't like Bush not Americans or America...two very different things. Obama wants to start a clean slate with these nations, and extend a hand of friendship and start over, start from scratch. He's not trying to bankrupt our nation---he's trying to help it. But it's people like this, and supporters of the "Tea Parties" who won't even give Obama a chance to let his plan even start to work before shoving their noses in the air about it.
11-11-11 refers to when the armistice was signed that ended WWI at November 11 at 11 am (the 11th month, on the 11th day, in the 11th hour). This is where the orginal Veterans' Day came from, originally called Armistice Day as WWI was supposed to be the "war to end all wars."
Just thought I'd pass that piece of knowledge along. :)
Young people don't all want something for nothing and don't all think everyone owes them something. If a kid does something bad it gets splashed across newspapers for days so you hear about it over and over again...but when a kid does something good...they MIGHT get a paragraph about them in the middle of the paper once--if ever.
Please don't judge young people based on what you read in the newspaper--its not fair to the young people.
Isn't it better to be safe and have more officers than nesscesary? There were tons of people in that hallway, and tons more coming to see what was happening...if that fight had gotten way more violent than it had, all of those kids might have been unintentally hurt too.
Ok--I was reading the 'Tell Willie' and unfortunately stumbled across the person who obviously never talks to anyone if they think they don't look 'suitable' (If a child wears a cowboy hat, he/she is definitely a beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking redneck...etc.)and had to comment because it really struck a nerve. Are people really like this today? If they are, I am ashamed to live in Seneca! How people appear, as Willie stated, means nothing. People who dress in black aren't evil and they don't (this got a laugh from me)"practice mind control on their classmates." I mean come on! If everyone is as this person seems to believe, then there are obviously no good people among 90% of the population (they didn't sterotype the rest--although ,I'm sure if they did they would soon discover, they were the only 'good, righteous, kind' person in the whole world---which seems a little doubtful to me).
To the person who is so upset about school being out on MLK Day and not on Memorial Day, I see your point, and I do believe they should be out on Memorial Day as well. However, don't you think there is a better way of going at it then calling it ridiculous and absurd? I mean really. Calmly and rationally make your point. Martin Luther King is a hero for standing up for what is right when no one else could or would and I am proud to have a holiday in observance of him, and in my opinion, you should be too.
Posted on May 8 at 9:31 a.m.
On Parents need to support teachers
Now hold on just a second. I completely disagree with your sweeping (false) accusations that the only things on teachers' minds are paychecks and summer vacations. Obviously, you don't know what teachers make. If teachers were in it for the money...they wouldn't be teaching. Teaching is one of the lowest paid professions, so in order for someone to willingly teach, they have to have their heart in it in. In my experience with teachers (and believe me, I have loads of experience with them as both my parents were teachers) they are some of the most caring and devoted people ever. Sure there are the random outliers that aren't so great, but overall teachers are a great postive addition to soceity. Oh, and summer vacation? You should know, they work and plan for the next school year most of their summer, and don't get paid any more for that.