Where is balance? -- Re: Academic priorities
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From: David on 4 May 2005 03:19 On Tue, 03 May 2005 20:22:11 -0500, Larry Elmore wrote: > Del Cecchi wrote: >> "rpl" <plinnane3REMOVE(a)NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:l4-dnSlZ2LV7MOvfRVn-3g(a)rogers.com... >> >>>Kevin G. Rhoads wrote: >>> >>>>>BTW, the original justification for schools was to have a sufficiently >>>>>educated electorate to vote intelligently on the issues. In this they >>>>>have failed miserably. >>>> >>>> >>>>I think it is much worse than that. Public schools these days are not >>>>just failing to help solve the problem, they are active contributing to >>>>it. (One example: "zero tolerance") >>> >>>zero tolerance of what? bringing fully automatic weapons onto school >>>grounds ? >>> >>>rpl >> >> >> Zero Tolerance of anything "resembling" a weapon. Search on it. Children >> have been suspended for small (inches) plastic toy GI Joe guns, knives >> suitable for peeling a peach, drawing pictures of guns, having bb guns in >> their cars, having any kind of pocket knives. >> >> Perhaps you should learn something before speaking. > > Most recently a large burrito was the grave danger. > > http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-04-29-burrito_x.htm Recently the US president (and vice-president, I believe) were sent running to their underground bunker by a suspicious looking cloud...
From: Andrew Swallow on 4 May 2005 03:28 Larry Elmore wrote: > Casper H.S. Dik wrote: [snip] >>And a butter knife isn't even a knife; it has "knife" in its name but that >>doesn't make it a knife in the sense of "dangerous object with sharp edge >>or point". > > > A high court in rapidly self-emasculating England has ruled that a > butter-knife is indeed a dangerous offensive weapon... A butter knife can take an eye out. Sharpen it, as happened in the legal case, and you can stab between the ribs damaging the vital organs. Andrew Swallow
From: Jan Vorbrüggen on 4 May 2005 03:35 > A butter knife can take an eye out. So can my fingers. How do I leave those at the reception desk? Jan
From: Andrew Swallow on 4 May 2005 03:40 Jan Vorbrýggen wrote: >> A butter knife can take an eye out. > > > So can my fingers. How do I leave those at the reception desk? > > Jan Just the nails. ;) Andrew Swallow
From: Casper H.S. Dik on 4 May 2005 04:58
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen-not(a)mediasec.de> writes: >> A butter knife can take an eye out. >So can my fingers. How do I leave those at the reception desk? And spoons and forks can too. It's that I don't have much of an inclination to mess with airport security, but whenever I fly KLM I get a metal knife/fork/spoon. I wonder what would happen if I take one out of the plane and then try to take it back on the return trip. Casper -- Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth. |