Stealer of Dreams said:
So...who's watched The Pretender??
Nothing like brainwashing our kids to think like someone else thinks they should think. (*ouch*)
My wife and I just had a little disagreement because my 10-year-old wanted to watch CSI:Miami and the Waterboy. She chose something completely different because she didn't think either was appropriate. I told her that I thought CSI was a better choice, because there, at least, he's getting to use some analytical thinking... To quote WD, "'cause the Waterboy just SUCKED!" I can see her point about the gore factor (Oh, no! Not real life!!), but I'm one for using your brain, and the sooner you learn it the better, I guess.
You're right, though, this is BS. I tell you what -- you want to get rid of classroom violence, give the teacher the power back to DO something about it. If a student acts up, there's nothing like a good, powerless, teacher to set things right. Sorry, that was sarcastic. Besides, all this starts in the home. If the parents have lost that much control, it sounds like they were too busy with their own lives to have kids then. Irrisponsible parents shouldn't be allowed to punish their children for their own lack of participation/influence in their children's lives.
Wow...my windows PC just comitted suicide...damned XP just threw a runtime library... Sorry -- that was a little random...(typing this on the linux box...nary a crash in the last year, thank you)...
Guess I just get EXTRA cheesed when I hear about parents trying to fix their lack of ownership of the responsibility of raising a child by shipping them off to have their minds destroyed by people who just got done reading all the Behaviorist modification crap I had to learn in Psych 43...
Ack. Now, I REALLY, need to go bed. BAH!