Where is balance? -- Re: Academic priorities
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From: jmfbahciv on 7 May 2005 05:51 In article <d5fpp8$jn2$1(a)nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, Andrew Swallow <am.swallow(a)btopenworld.com> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >[snip] >> >> We seem to have a culture clash. On farms, kids get up at dawn >> and work for a couple of hours before going to school. :-) > >It is the city schools in the bad neighbourhoods that require children >to be searched for weapons everyday on arrival. It isn't the city schools that have the massacres. Inner city kids seem to still have constraints to their violence. This doesn't seem to be true of middle class spoiled brats. /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
From: jmfbahciv on 7 May 2005 05:56 In article <1b1x8k8o11.fsf(a)cs.nmsu.edu>, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes: > >> In article <d5d3fh$rp7$1(a)nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, >> Andrew Swallow <am.swallow(a)btopenworld.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >[snip] >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> <clap, clap> I talked about this with Mom last night. I >> >> apparently lied when I told the story about my nephew. It >> >> wasn't a butter knife but a screwdriver which he had >> >> put into his pocket after fixing the lawn mower and then >> >> went to school. By all means, let us teach kids not to >> >> fix anything. >> > >> >Screwdrivers are a different matter. The woodwork room should be >> >equipped with screwdrivers and the children made to return them at the >> >end of the lesson. >> >> What lesson? The kid was fixing his mother's lawn mower before >> he left for school. I can't tell you how many times I've find >> various tools in my back pocket because I'd finished using them >> and went on to other things. > >And, of course, my son always has a small screwdriver in his clarinet >case (a screwdriver which was confiscated as a potential weapon once >when the band was getting on an airplane). Good grief. But the clarinet wasn't? /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
From: jmfbahciv on 7 May 2005 06:09 In article <d5gfn1$5k3$3(a)osl016lin.hda.hydro.com>, Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen(a)hda.hydro.com> wrote: >Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? > >SAS, KLM, BA, Lufthansa, Continental, plus probably a few I've forgotten: > >Taxfree bottles! And then there all that stink that they like to sell. /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
From: Sander Vesik on 7 May 2005 15:22 In comp.arch rpl <plinnane3REMOVE(a)nospamyahoo.com> wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? > > I suppose you could ask the pilot What for? just put it in your carry on luggage. Its not actually prhibited. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++
From: rpl on 7 May 2005 23:08
Sander Vesik wrote: > In comp.arch rpl <plinnane3REMOVE(a)nospamyahoo.com> wrote: > >>Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> >>>What airline do you fly that has large glass bottles? >> >>I suppose you could ask the pilot > > > What for? just put it in your carry on luggage. Its not actually > prhibited. > referring to a couple recentish cases where crewmembers got pulled for drinking too close to takeoff time. pat |