- Want to know how fast you can make me change the radio channel or fast forward through a podcast of a radio program? Just have the general population call in to weigh in on a complex issue.
- “And that’s my opinion on a subject that people who’ve studied it for their entire adult lives don’t really understand. Let’s go to the phones. Dave from Moosesnort, you’re on the air. What does your life as a rhino proctologist tell you about the situation in Iraq?”
- I have a wonderful wife. I asked her to get me a ginger ale at the store, and when they didn’t have any, she brought me a six pack of good hard apple cider.
- Girlie Bear got up early for school today. Over two hours early. As in “My bus gets to the corner at 6:43, so I’ll get up at 4:30”.
- I don’t care how much she looks like me, I’m beginning to wonder about that girl.
- Which is cheapest?
- A) Sign for a mandatory tablet computer for Girlie Bear to use at school, and purchase the $70 insurance for when the thing inevitably breaks?
- B) Spend $50 on a cheap Android tablet that will probably last the year, and tell Girlie Bear that I am only buying one, and that she will be responsible for the next one.
- C) Send her to a convent where they still learn history through oral tradition.
Thoughts on the Day
Posted by daddybear71 on August 13, 2014
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Shane W
/ August 13, 2014Definitely the convent. A whole lot less stress the next few years. Lol
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nixfu
/ August 13, 2014I am soooo anti-technology. You know why? I am an IT professional and I know it’s all a bunch of junk the educators are telling parents. It’s a distraction. Kids don’t need tablets to learn in school. They don’t need computers in the classrooms wither except for the teacher to use.
It’s just more symptoms of an education system that can’t teach the basics by throwing money after money at something that used to be done better with a stick of chalk and in a one room building.
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daddybear71
/ August 14, 2014I tend to agree. This is part of their “no books” agenda. Basically, Girlie Bear doesn’t have the option of using a paper textbook for most of her classes. Lack of a tablet means no way to do homework or study.
The trend to put technology in the classroom, whether it works or even makes sense, is starting to reach the point of diminishing returns. For some things, having a computer handy makes sense. For basic math and reading, it doesn’t.
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Drang
/ August 14, 2014“C”.
Although having her show up with a steno “tablet” would be amusing…
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MSgt B
/ August 14, 2014All things considered, the convent is your best bet.
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oldnfo
/ August 14, 2014Convent… 🙂 saves money on shotgun shells too… ;-D
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daddybear71
/ August 14, 2014OK, I’m putting into a call to the Little Sisters of Mercy to see what we can do.
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Evyl Robot Michael
/ August 14, 2014C sounds like the safest bet, although she’ll probably be mad at you for a while.
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