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>>They do this for security reasons and so they can check for dangerous
>>substances. Since 9-11, nobody's taking any chances. A woman came into
>>my office with a plate of homemade treats. There's banana bread and iced
>>gingerbread bars and something called "cow plops" which is a non-baked,
>>peanut butter based concoction of rolled oats, coconut, and cocoa. I am
>>currently inspecting these homemade items for safety. It will take a
>>couple more hours before they're fully certified to take home.
>
> The world has gone mad !!

We lived in NY and moved there the year following 9-11. Talk about mad! I
can't say that I blamed them but... The kids were only once allowed an
outdoor recess. That was the end of school party and they only allowed that
because most all of the moms were there so there were plenty of adults to
watch the kids. But the kids were so accustomed to being good and not
running or doing anything that might cause injury that they just clung to us
and would not play.

They did have gym class but mostly they only danced. The school deemed that
running and jumping were both things that could cause injury. Of course,
dancing can cause injury as well but apparently they did not know this.

And the poor kids were subjected on a daily basis to loudspeaker
announcements telling them that they were never safe and to always be on the
lookout for bad people. And us living in military housing, were given the
same warnings at home. We could never be at ease, if you will. Wasn't a
fun time and I was very glad to move from there.

"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 12/19/2013 2:57 PM, wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:55:29 -1000, dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/19/2013 2:40 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>> On 12/19/2013 7:37 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>>>> Where I am, they don't allow parents to bring anything that is
>>>>> homemade.
>>>>> It has to be store bought.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheri
>>>>
>>>> Not that I know anything about this... but is store-bought so much
>>>> better?
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>> They do this for security reasons and so they can check for dangerous
>>> substances. Since 9-11, nobody's taking any chances. A woman came into
>>> my office with a plate of homemade treats. There's banana bread and iced
>>> gingerbread bars and something called "cow plops" which is a non-baked,
>>> peanut butter based concoction of rolled oats, coconut, and cocoa. I am
>>> currently inspecting these homemade items for safety. It will take a
>>> couple more hours before they're fully certified to take home.
>>
>> The world has gone mad !!
>>
> I should clarify that my safety testing procedures consists of me pigging
> out on the treats in question. I'm fairly certain that the lady does not
> want me dead or means me any harm. If she does, she certainly hides it
> well.
>
> OTOH, things have certainly changed since I went to school and even from
> the days that my oldest son was going to grade school. These days,
> everybody's afraid of getting sued or blamed for something. School is all
> about guidelines and rules and being fearful. The teachers have to worry
> about the kid's allergies, feelings, and safety to a higher degree than
> they ever have. Forget about Johnny not reading, they have to consider
> Johnny coming to class with an assault rifle and blowing away the faculty
> and the student body. As you say, the world has gone mad.

Let's not forget the *** people! They start talking about that here in
Kindergarten. They have books with titles like Two Mommies and Two Daddies.
They want to make sure that all of the kids are okay with this, I guess
because there might actually be some kid in the class who has this. Not so
much that they are trying to teach of sexuality at that age. No, that
starts at about in the 2nd grade where they are taught which body parts it
is not okay for someone to touch.

And all this did was lead to mass confusion. Daughter came home and told me
that two kids had sex in the gym right there in front of everyone. She
immediately knew by my reaction that she had said something wrong.
Apparently a 2nd grade boy had kissed a 2nd grade girl. He is lucky that he
didn't get the treatment that the other little boy who was recently on the
news did!

I'm not saying that teaching the kids this stuff is a bad thing. It's just
that... When did it start being the school's place to do this? They don't
teach them keyboarding skills until high school and even then it is an
optional class. They just expect the parents to teach them all about
computers as soon as they come out of the womb. Well the first time I was
presented with a thumb drive... Well, actually I gave it away! I was
gifted with one. Had no clue what it was or what to do with it. My dad
told me to put my pics on there. And me not being a pic person, had no
need. I do have some pics on this computer but not nearly enough to worry
about them taking up too much space.

Then once daughter entered school, we bought one faithfully each year or
many years just used the empty one from the year before. Then one day she
actually came home with some info in it and had to plug it into my computer.
And I was like... Uh... Duh... Of course husband knew all about them
having used them at work. But I hadn't a clue and the teacher only
instructed her how to put the info into it. Not what to do when she brought
it home.

Then there was the Power Point thingie she had to do. Thankfully she had
whatever software was needed for that on her own computer because I don't
and I have no need.

And what's up with the weekend due dates for homework? Now they have a
website called turn it in dot com or some such thing. So they can have
stuff due at 2:00 p.m. on a Sunday! No longer are we free to do what we
want with our weekends! Sure I can see them requiring homework to be done
on the weekends. But to make it due then? It's like... Oops! Need to
make this a quick lunch then get to a computer with an Internet connection.
I don't think this can be accessed by phone, but maybe it can. Some things
can. Not the math book though. And since they are going bookless now, she
was unable to do her homework for three days when Frontier was having
problems in this area and we lost our connection. And now the electric
company is doing upgrades so we are subject to outages for perhaps a month.

My friend said to me "Well... What about kids who HAVE no computer?" I
just laughed. She is the only person I know who doesn't have one. There
are actually two in her house and she does have Wifi. And she does
routinely have me or someone else look stuff up for her on the Internet. I
think if she did actually have a computer she might decide to use it a lot.
I used to be like her. Didn't think I needed one. And now can't live
without it. Thankfully I have an Ipad and a smart phone!

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:51:10 -0000, Ophelia wrote:
>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:45:50 -0700, graham wrote:
>>>
>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:14:47 PM UTC-8, georges wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> WTF is wrong with the standard of education in this country? My
>>>>>> parents
>>>>>> both
>>>>>> left school at the age of 14 and knew when to use the verbs "to
>>>>>> bring"
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> "to take".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >I found out yesterday afternoon that my kids need to TAKE a dozen
>>>>>> > breakfast items each to a chorus breakfast party tomorrow at 7:45.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you insane? Bring means to take along with you.
>>>>>
>>>>> The OP's kids needed to bring food to the breakfast party, i.e. if
>>>>> they
>>>>> showed up foodless, they would thwart the purpose of the party.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually, he's quite right.
>>>
>>> C'mon George/Graham. Don't start the sock puppeting. We have enough
>>> kooks already!
>>
>> Nah you got that one wrong. I know Graham and have done so for years.
>
> Then it must be Graham's evil, live-in twin.

LOL
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http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/shop/

In article >,
dsi1 > wrote:
>On 12/19/2013 2:40 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 12/19/2013 7:37 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>> Where I am, they don't allow parents to bring anything that is homemade.
>>> It has to be store bought.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> Not that I know anything about this... but is store-bought so much better?
>>
>> Jill
>They do this for security reasons and so they can check for dangerous
>substances. Since 9-11, nobody's taking any chances. A woman came into
>my office with a plate of homemade treats. There's banana bread and iced
>gingerbread bars and something called "cow plops" which is a non-baked,
>peanut butter based concoction of rolled oats, coconut, and cocoa. I am
>currently inspecting these homemade items for safety. It will take a
>couple more hours before they're fully certified to take home.

I minutely inspected several cookies earlier this week. Ground them
fine, applied hydrochloric acid, and reduced them to their constituent
nutrients. Discarded anything non-nutritive.

Cindy Hamilton
--

On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:52:20 AM UTC-6, Casa Sabrosa wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 9:05 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>
> > Yes, indeed
>
> You're the master of the two word toss-off, dear...

She can toss off Roy while he fantasizes about Angela's "meatless crumbles."

--Bryan
"Julie should give hubby a BJ for x-mas, and a threesome with her
bratty daughter." --Brooklyn1 in rec.food.cooking 12-17-2013

On 12/20/2013 7:32 AM, Bryan-TGWWW wrote:
> On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:52:20 AM UTC-6, Casa Sabrosa wrote:
>> On 12/19/2013 9:05 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, indeed
>>
>> You're the master of the two word toss-off, dear...
>
> She can toss off Roy while he fantasizes about Angela's "meatless crumbles."
>

You can bend double and blow yourself, right?