On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:56:10 GMT, blake murphy
> wrote:

>On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:31 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Andy wrote:
>>> Nancy Young said...
>>>
>>>> But how did you cover your school textbooks when you were a kid??
>>
>>> I remember doing that at the beginning of the school year!!! Thinking
>>> back, I don't remember why.
>>>
>>
>> You had to! To protect the books. Heaven forbid you
>> showed up at class day 2 without them being covered.
>>
>> nancy

Sounds Catlick to me. I went to a backwoods country school and never
had to cover my books.
>
>times have changed. now the teachers are afraid of the kids.
>
True dat... so is the administration. Everybody thinks they can do
the job better than the people hired to do it. I say teach for a year
and we'll talk.


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