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today's quote and other stuff
Mar. 8th, 2007 10:43 pmToddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy.
Tonight was school board meeting night. The highlight was that Samantha's chorus group sang the national anthem at the beginnig of the meeting. The lowlight was that the article on the charter school passed.
Afterward I had a really great conversation with Mike. He has to write a persuasive paper for his English class. He wanted to write it on being able to leave school for lunch, but (fortunately) someone else took that. He wrote a scarasm-heavy (I've no idea where he gets that from!) three pages on the need for more government assitance for school. I questioned him on what was his point, because he was dancing all around it without coming out and saying what it was he wanted.
We talked some about a lot (he's got a developing taste for tangents, gee, I wonder why?), and finally he was able to articulate that what he wanted wasn't opportunity, it was to be able to choose the opportunity he liked. He wanted enablement. And he's smart enough to understand the money is only part of that. So I told him to write about that instead. The need for the school to communicate with parents more often and more directly. The need for more parental oversight and assitance. The need for not just money from the government, but direction and real enablement.
I don't expect him to solve in a few pages what has been an on-going debate in this country for nearly 50 years. But, it's so very cool that he thinks he can.
Tonight was school board meeting night. The highlight was that Samantha's chorus group sang the national anthem at the beginnig of the meeting. The lowlight was that the article on the charter school passed.
Afterward I had a really great conversation with Mike. He has to write a persuasive paper for his English class. He wanted to write it on being able to leave school for lunch, but (fortunately) someone else took that. He wrote a scarasm-heavy (I've no idea where he gets that from!) three pages on the need for more government assitance for school. I questioned him on what was his point, because he was dancing all around it without coming out and saying what it was he wanted.
We talked some about a lot (he's got a developing taste for tangents, gee, I wonder why?), and finally he was able to articulate that what he wanted wasn't opportunity, it was to be able to choose the opportunity he liked. He wanted enablement. And he's smart enough to understand the money is only part of that. So I told him to write about that instead. The need for the school to communicate with parents more often and more directly. The need for more parental oversight and assitance. The need for not just money from the government, but direction and real enablement.
I don't expect him to solve in a few pages what has been an on-going debate in this country for nearly 50 years. But, it's so very cool that he thinks he can.
