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SteveDallas · 09-09-2009, 04:52 PM

What it's really demonstrating is FUCKING STUPIDITY. 84 pencils??!?!?! Eighty Fucking Four?!?!?!? Even if we stipulate that the best way to operate is a communal stash to which everyone contributes, why 84? Why not 75? Or 90, which perhaps makes numerical sense for a 180-day school year? Besides, who decided you had to buy all your supplies for the whole damned year at once?

In addition to the values of communism, it's also teaching the values of conformity. Why should your daughter have a "special" protractor? Or your son a "fun" pencil? They can damned well use a random one out of the bin like everyfuckingbody else. I'm surprised they didn't mandate specific brands, sizes, and colors in order to maintain the proper decorum amongst the classroom. Some years they've asked our kids to buy specific color notebooks and/or folders... I understand it's so they can say... OK, all math stuff goes in your yellow notebook... then for math everybody can just pull out their yellow notebook. But goddamn people, if it gives the kids just a small shred of pleasure during the school day to have a notebook with a puppy, or a baseball player, or a movie star on it.... do you really think your little automatons can't remember which one is the Hannah Montana notebook and which one is the Zack & Cody one???!?!

AARRRHGHGH don't get me started. "What Not To Wear" already came damned close to get me spewing off about mindless conformity in contemporary American society. But I was too damned lazy to put it all down.

I'm sorry. I'm off my meds today, and I spent an hour at Staples last night getting the graph paper Miss Dallas needed for her algebra homework. (Apparently high school supply requirements are less numerous, but given with less advance notice.) I could write more, but I'm getting incoherent and tangential and etc. etc. blah blah.

09-09-2009, 04:52 PM	#4595
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	What it's really demonstrating is FUCKING STUPIDITY. 84 pencils??!?!?! Eighty Fucking Four?!?!?!? Even if we stipulate that the best way to operate is a communal stash to which everyone contributes, why 84? Why not 75? Or 90, which perhaps makes numerical sense for a 180-day school year? Besides, who decided you had to buy all your supplies for the whole damned year at once? In addition to the values of communism, it's also teaching the values of conformity. Why should your daughter have a "special" protractor? Or your son a "fun" pencil? They can damned well use a random one out of the bin like everyfuckingbody else. I'm surprised they didn't mandate specific brands, sizes, and colors in order to maintain the proper decorum amongst the classroom. Some years they've asked our kids to buy specific color notebooks and/or folders... I understand it's so they can say... OK, all math stuff goes in your yellow notebook... then for math everybody can just pull out their yellow notebook. But goddamn people, if it gives the kids just a small shred of pleasure during the school day to have a notebook with a puppy, or a baseball player, or a movie star on it.... do you really think your little automatons can't remember which one is the Hannah Montana notebook and which one is the Zack & Cody one???!?! AARRRHGHGH don't get me started. "What Not To Wear" already came damned close to get me spewing off about mindless conformity in contemporary American society. But I was too damned lazy to put it all down. I'm sorry. I'm off my meds today, and I spent an hour at Staples last night getting the graph paper Miss Dallas needed for her algebra homework. (Apparently high school supply requirements are less numerous, but given with less advance notice.) I could write more, but I'm getting incoherent and tangential and etc. etc. blah blah.