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On Aug 15, 2005, at 5:37 PM, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> <<snip>>
>
>> As you can see this is a sore point to me and I am restraining
>> myself!  My daughters go to a respected public school up here in cobb
>> and I don't think it would be much of an exaggeration to say they
>> there are probably as many guns and containers of alcohol in that
>> school as there are computers.  I am dead serious.  I have pulled one
>> of my kids out and wish I had the money to school all my kids
>> privately or at home.
>>
>
> In other words - almost nothing has changed in school since the  
> dark ages.
> I went to a private school in the '60s. Plenty of fire arms, and the
> senior class got pretty loaded Friday noon. My father's tales of high
> school in the early WWII war years suggest that there were _fewer_  
> guns,
> and somewhat less alcohol, but just about as much vandalism and  
> general
> trouble.
>
> Family tradition has it that a great-grandfather taught with a 38  
> on the
> desk for a week, to let the farm boys who were larger than he know  
> that he
> did _not_ intend for them to try out his manhood in combat.  
> (Fighting with
> the teacher has a long history in this country I'm told.)
>
>
>> ...But really I'd like to see Apple sell the government a butt load
>> of laptops.  I just think that if they welded all the cases together
>> in an interesting way and put them on display at the capitol rotunda
>> our kids would have a better chance of learning something.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> OK, I've given a silent ear to all the recent noise on the Cobb  
>>> laptop
>>> proceedings, mostly assuming it was normal political wrangling.
>>> Anyone
>>> with an interest in Cobb have any good insight to this?
>>>
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