Discrimination? - Page 5

Clodfobble · 05-08-2007, 10:43 PM

If you're learning formal ballroom dancing, then your gender matters to how you dance. The man leads, the woman follows (yes yes, backwards and in heels, yadda yadda yadda.) As a man, learning to dance means learning to lead. If you dance with another man, either you or he is not learning the skill you are supposed to be learning.

bluecuracao · 05-08-2007, 10:48 PM

They can easily take turns, whether it's girls or boys dancing together.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-08-2007, 10:58 PM

No, no, no. High School isn't about altering the things to accommodate individual preferences. High School is about learning, go along to get along so you'll be ready to kiss ass in the corporate world.

That said, it's not discrimination if everyone has the same orders.

piercehawkeye45 · 05-10-2007, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

No, no, no. High School isn't about altering the things to accommodate individual preferences. High School is about learning, go along to get along so you'll be ready to kiss ass in the corporate world.

That said, it's not discrimination if everyone has the same orders.

Its this type of thinking that is killing American youth and turning them off of school. America school's are absolutely horrible and are only going to get worse because they make it boring so you can prepare for the "real world" instead of actually learning and making the material interesting.

It is pathetic.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-10-2007, 07:30 PM

Pathetic maybe, but not new. They've been that way for about 60 years. I believe it was the boomers flooding the system that started it and the rush to the burbs sealed the deal, for the cities and burbs.

Before WW II going to college was rare and if the job you were shooting for only required an 8th grade education that's when you quit school. Parents felt that was normal. Post war GI Bill parents saw education would bring more wealth and wanted their kids to go that route.

Child labor was more universally frowned upon in most areas and plus there was initially a shortage of jobs. Keep the kids in school through 12th grade and see if they could make the cut for college, buck up the local sports teams and keep them out from underfoot.

bluecuracao · 05-08-2007, 11:04 PM

Muahahaha...that's the price I paid then. Learning how to kiss corporate ass never took with me.

piercehawkeye45 · 05-10-2007, 09:19 PM

I personally think we should redo the education system to stop producing drones and start making free thinking individuals.

monster · 05-10-2007, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

I personally think we should redo the education system to stop producing drones and start making free thinking individuals.

Ooh, Open School Time

(my kids go to an Open School)

bluecuracao · 05-10-2007, 09:32 PM

Open schools are great--I went to one for elementary school. I could never understand why more schools didn't use the same model.

monster · 05-10-2007, 09:41 PM

I don't either. i have noticed that several of the local charter schools are adopting an open schooling approach.

wolf · 05-25-2007, 10:21 AM

I'm confused. Are you the same Ibram who posted this in the why I'm happy today thread?

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Dance in PE yesterday. First we did swing, which was fun - its impossible to be anything other than hyper and happy listening to swing - and then we waltzed, and I danced with the cutest girl in the entiiiire school.

Unfortunately, shes also the most in-love girl in the entire school - with the most popular kid in the grade.

Girls aren't so bad as dance partners anymore, eh?

Hime · 05-25-2007, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I'm confused. Are you the same Ibram who posted this in the why I'm happy today thread?

Girls aren't so bad as dance partners anymore, eh?

I think Ibram mentioned earlier in this thread that he had posted that, and that he enjoys dancing with girls.

The question is about the policy.

smurfalicious · 05-25-2007, 10:36 AM

I think it's discriminatory to refuse to dance with a partner of the opposite gender. Or the same gender.

Now, please, Louise, pull me up from my knees. I'm getting too old for this.

Rexmons · 05-25-2007, 11:46 AM

If at least 51% of the people are doing it then it's considered "normal".

piercehawkeye45 · 05-25-2007, 04:44 PM

Ibram is bi-sexual wolf.

05-08-2007, 10:58 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, no, no. High School isn't about altering the things to accommodate individual preferences. High School is about learning, go along to get along so you'll be ready to kiss ass in the corporate world. That said, it's not discrimination if everyone has the same orders. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-10-2007, 07:30 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Pathetic maybe, but not new. They've been that way for about 60 years. I believe it was the boomers flooding the system that started it and the rush to the burbs sealed the deal, for the cities and burbs. Before WW II going to college was rare and if the job you were shooting for only required an 8th grade education that's when you quit school. Parents felt that was normal. Post war GI Bill parents saw education would bring more wealth and wanted their kids to go that route. Child labor was more universally frowned upon in most areas and plus there was initially a shortage of jobs. Keep the kids in school through 12th grade and see if they could make the cut for college, buck up the local sports teams and keep them out from underfoot. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 05-10-2007 at 07:37 PM.

05-10-2007, 09:41 PM	#10
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	I don't either. i have noticed that several of the local charter schools are adopting an open schooling approach. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

05-25-2007, 10:36 AM	#13
smurfalicious Tool. Not the band - you are one. Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: 501 Northlake Blvd., North Palm Beach FL Posts: 329	I think it's discriminatory to refuse to dance with a partner of the opposite gender. Or the same gender. Now, please, Louise, pull me up from my knees. I'm getting too old for this. __________________

05-25-2007, 11:46 AM	#14
Rexmons - Kavkaz United - Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 613	If at least 51% of the people are doing it then it's considered "normal". __________________ "Life's a bitch but God forbid the bitch divorce me..."

05-08-2007, 10:43 PM	#1
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	If you're learning formal ballroom dancing, then your gender matters to how you dance. The man leads, the woman follows (yes yes, backwards and in heels, yadda yadda yadda.) As a man, learning to dance means learning to lead. If you dance with another man, either you or he is not learning the skill you are supposed to be learning.

05-08-2007, 10:48 PM	#2
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	They can easily take turns, whether it's girls or boys dancing together.

05-08-2007, 11:04 PM	#6
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	Muahahaha...that's the price I paid then. Learning how to kiss corporate ass never took with me.

05-10-2007, 09:19 PM	#7
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	I personally think we should redo the education system to stop producing drones and start making free thinking individuals.

05-10-2007, 09:32 PM	#9
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	Open schools are great--I went to one for elementary school. I could never understand why more schools didn't use the same model.

05-25-2007, 04:44 PM	#15
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	Ibram is bi-sexual wolf.

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