Everyone shouldn't get a trophy: This guy gets it.

Ask them to hire everyone that interviews as you are all very sensitive.

 

I'll tell them they can count on a call from my momma.

 

Call to the school or to local talk radio?

 

I'm a big believer in earning things. Those that earn what they get usually take more pride in what they have. In a team concept, that's huge.

 

That's insane. I'm trying hard to think of an area that hasn't improved in 40 years and coming up blank. Maybe literature or visual arts? That's all I've got, and it's probably because I don't know much about the latest developments in literature or visual arts.

I was really arguing more with the point I heard McCullough (Sr) trying to make than directly with you, which is a bit unfair.

 

i have some friends who work for public schools and here they actually hire someone to go around with said students. but i'm not ust talking about handicapted students. My friend once wondered why one kid had someone going around with him since he looked normal and she later found out the kid stabbed a sibling and apparently tehy got him on the disabled list..

 

Both. She gets riled up when Precious doesn't get his way.

 

I blame utube

 

but it's not as though every generation started at square one. they all inherited the knowledge from the prior generation. progress is natural. as i said before every generation has [itch bay]ed about the next one. so i guess the question is are we turning all our kids into [ussies pay] and if we are does it matter?

 

Do her parents want her in regular classes?

I ask that because one of my wife's friends is a teacher, and she has told us before that a lot of parents who have special ed/special needs kids are just flat out in denial about the situation and want to pretend their kid is "normal" (I use that relatively), and that is why they are in regular classrooms.

 

The speaker was talking about actual innovations, not improvement upon innovations. I.e... refrigerators didn't exist and then they did. Most all of the innovations we use today were invented between the 1900s-1950s. We've made things quicker and more efficient, but not invented many things one may consider revolutionary, outside of some important techie things. Transportation alone is a glaring case of minor improvements on things invented many many years ago.

Here's a quick example: Life expectancy jumped from 59 years of age to 69 years of age from 1930-1960 (30 years). From 1960-2010 (50 years), it went from 69 years to 77. Improvements, and an upward trajectory, but not the serious change we saw from the Depression through the 1950s.

 

no question about it. my wife regurally has parents that want their kids in AP and honors classes who are barely passing the regular classes. if you know any parents with autistic kids they are almost all in denile. in reality they are doing the kids no favors. the kids know they are different. telling them they are not isn't helping anything (not that i'm suggesting full honesty either).

 

In same ways this goes back to the example of if a guy is hitting .350, can you be upset with him if he only improves to batting .352 the next year?

 

I'll echo the sentiments that Jay brought to the table. There is a terrible disservice being done to Special Needs children everywhere. Of course this is because rules and regulations are being passed by politicians who don't have the first clue about what a classroom is like.

 

Kick him off the team.

 

It takes teh same amount of time to fly from NY to LA as it did 40 years ago, but i'd argue the internet and the advances in cell phones are rather huge innovations. advances in medicine even in the past 10 years have been signficant. just think about how many hospital procedures that are now outpatient that were once major operations.

 

No doubt about it. But why don't we have flying cars a la Total Recall. That's what I want droski!

 

Rememberer when the Segue was suppose to be the most innovative creation of the century?

 

A pretty high percentage of folk are too dumb for grounded cars. It'd be carnage if your average jackass had access to an airborne vehicle.

 

I don't know what you're talking about but I haven't walked anywhere in six years.