mother of god.

[phosfate]

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/45/ma_153_01.html

Comments

[renn.livejournal.com]

Good God!

Well, so much for letting the Fuss go to public high school. (Not that the issue would come up for 8 more years, but still....)

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

No child left behind....in our need for cannon fodder.

I can't begin to state how completely disgusted this makes me.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

SPARKLE!!!

Another country heard from

[cybertardis.livejournal.com]

Welcome to our new fascist state.

--sah

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

::breaks down crying::

I can't mommy. I can't!

[mamahooch.livejournal.com]

*promptly throws up*

But-- I-- this-- they CAN'T--!

*throws up again*

[herdivineshadow]

O_o


That's like... uberbadness.

::is glad she isn't in the us::

WELL HOLY FUCK.

[kielle.livejournal.com]

...urge...to shoot president...rising...

Thanks, Ann. I'll make a stink about this in my own journal when I get home. In the meantime, I suggest that EVERYONE call their old alma mater and warn them. Immediately.

[ahli.livejournal.com]

The pupil of your eye looked vaguely hexagonal. I am impressed :D

Re: WELL HOLY FUCK.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I don't think my alam mater wants hear from me. Ever again.

[herdivineshadow]

hehe yes. though you can't really tell, i was wearing silver contact lenses... that's why my iris isn't dark brown in that picture...

"Or Maybe If the Kid Died, We'd Take Them Off Our List"

[ex-verdandi713.livejournal.com]

"Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents object."

So much for the "pro-family" party, eh?

Be glad about it, actually. Enough of these stunts and maybe people will figure out there IS a difference between Democrats and Republicans.

[firebird308.livejournal.com]

::explodes::

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::fetches a damp cloth::

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna read the article, because being pregnant makes me throw up enough, thanks, so can somebody tell me if my suspicion that private school students get left entirely out of this is accurate? The expensively privately educated Common Reader wants to know.

[tangletoy.livejournal.com]

Why... I don't see... gah!

We gave up too many freedoms with this president. Especially after September 11th. People wanted to feel safer, so they turned a blind eye thinking why not. This is why not. If you give the government an inch, they break your legs and drag you a mile.

Re: "Or Maybe If the Kid Died, We'd Take Them Off Our List"

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Oh it's totally pro-family. Nothing, absolutely nothing, brings people together like a common enemy.

Re: "Or Maybe If the Kid Died, We'd Take Them Off Our List"

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is a question I know the answer to. They sometimes don't take the kid off the list for such a minor thing as death. Imagine the fun for the mourning family.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's tied to federal grant money for public schools.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

That soldier's hair was too damn long anyway. they'll never take her.

Chip off the old blockhead

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

The boy is his daddy's son. If the kid dies-Compassionate Conservative my ass. I love how the Republicans are always saying "Less Government Interference!" and yet pulling this shit. Apparently, the LGI concept only applies to resource extraction and labor issues. Also noticed the anti-gay tie-in. Most school who deny the military access do so because of its anti-gay discrimination, so basically they've found a way to financially punish any public school that stands up for gay rights.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I went ahead and read it... so I got to find out for my own little self the brand new way in which the children of the elite get to have so very much of a nicer time of it.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Home schooling is looking better, and better, and...

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing how the public education system does all the convincing for you?

Re: Chip off the old blockhead

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Okay, I hate to do this, except that I don't because I sorta enjoy being confrontational, but at least in SF the gay discrimination issue is a screen for rampant dirty hippie-ism. They're not denying the military access because the military discriminates against gay people; they're just gleeful that they found a politically unassailable excuse to not let 'em on campus. If all the Joint Chiefs of Staff come out of the closet tomorrow, SF Unified isn't going to call up the recruiting offices and say COME ON DOWN.

[lembas.livejournal.com]

I am very glad I am not going to school in the US.

Mind you, I've never even actually attended an actual high school per se.

*kof*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Okay, I hate to do this, except that I don't because I sorta enjoy being confrontational...

You probably wish to continue this particular line of discussion in your own journal.

Re: Chip off the old blockhead

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

I'll have to take you word for that, being that I know nothing about SF local politics. However, I know that is not the case for the Portland School District (my hometown), and I would suspect this is not the case for other school districts that enacted similar bans.

Re: *kof*

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Happily. If there's discussion to be had. I didn't mean to be journal-hijacking, honest. Please stop looking at me like that.

Re: Chip off the old blockhead

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Look on my journal under "Ann Larimer is the Boss of Me."

Re: *kof*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::nods::

Groovy.

::whispers really loudly::

_{IT'S JUST THAT SOME OF THESE DAMES...THEY KEEP SOCKS FULLA QUARTERS IN THEIR UNDERSHIRTS.}

Re: *kof*

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

That explains the jingling.