Nightingale

after my FJC, I always requested instructors, so it wasn't a surprise.

LOL! Asking if someone's gay isn't an insult!

it's a blood-from-turnip situation. you can't take assets the guy doesn't have.

do you have uninsured motorist insurance?

Blue skies, Superman!

Marriage, if you go back to its origins, was based on property, social station and politics. Procreation didn't have much to do with it. If a union was infertile, an heir was declared, usually a cousin or fosterling.

hmm... if it's me, I didn't get any email...

I'm sitting here post-whoring and watching reruns of Stargate:SG1. sigh.

if it works for them, fine. it's not my problem. what they do or do not do has absolutely no effect on me whatsoever, therefore, I don't care.

I really don't give a damn about what goes on in other people's bedrooms or households. Not my business.

frankly, as long as all parties involved are consenting adults, I don't have a problem with it.

out here, public school pays much better than private, which is why a lot of private school teachers are uncredentialed and underqualified.

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There aren't as many "failing" public schools as you'd think from watching the news. even LAUSD, which is usually cited as an example of a failing district, has many more successful schools than it does problem schools. The problem schools are generally in rotten areas of town, and the kids face all the troubles that I listed a bit farther up in the thread. The majority of the problem doesn't lie in the school, it lies in the environment the kids grow up in. The parents in those areas don't have the time or usually even a car to drive their kids to a parochial school. Parochial schools don't usually exist in really bad parts of town. Los Angeles public transportation sucks. It sometimes takes two hours on a bus just to travel to a different zip code. I went to the archdiocese of Los Angeles website and punched in the zip code for downtown LA. there are NO catholic elementary schools in that zip code. I think a voucher program would be a good idea IF it would do what you claim it would. However, the majority of evidence is to the contrary.

well, with regards to the history of marriage and homosexuality, I'd suggest you do some reading about ancient greece and rome, and then we'll chat about that, ok? and, man + woman doesn't always equal child. many people are married and choosing to remain childless. by your argument, should they also remain celibate?

If I had kids, I'd send them to public school. Parochial schools are generally behind in math and science. My uncle is Dean of the School of Education at a Catholic university and was ordained a jesuit priest. He used to teach at a catholic high school. He advises, when asked, that kids be sent to public schools as opposed to catholic because public schools offer better quality of education, and religious education can be found through church programs. My aunt has a PhD in education from USC. She teaches at a catholic university. She's very catholic and attended catholic schools herself. Her kids go to public school. There's a catholic school right down the street, but my aunt chooses to drive them farther to attend the public school, because she feels it offers her kids a better quality of education. My mom used to teach at a catholic school. My brother and I went to catholic school, until my mom started working on her credential and master's degree at USC, and learned more about the public school system. My brother and I were then switched to public school, and, having attended both, I feel I got a much higher quality of education at the public schools. My mom now teaches at a public school, was just appointed head of her department,, and raves about the superior educational programs, more qualified faculty and better administrative support. I used to teach at a catholic school. I've done volunteer work at public schools. I have a master's degree in education from a catholic university. I would never advise anyone to send their kids to catholic or parochial school. The quality of education simply isn't as high as the majority of public schools in this area, LAUSD included. A private school may be a good option, but parochial schools are seldom the best educational optionn (yes, there are a few exceptions). Religious higher education is often superior than public universities, but elementary and high schools are often lacking in quality educational programs, qualified teachers, and educational texts and other materials.

but people fifty years ago were saying that a marriage between a black person and a white person wasn't a marriage either, for almost the same reasons you cite (breakdown of the family, etc...) same argument, different generation.

but since most of the members of the species lean towards hetero, homosexuality obviously doesn't jeopardize the survival of the species.

well, many people don't want their tax dollars to support religious schools, especially the ones that teach "creation 'science'" I don't have a problem with tax dollars going to accredited private schools. I do, however, have a problem with tax dollars going to religious schools. You want someone to teach your kids about church, you pay for it.

it's that they can't help WHO THEY ARE, not what they do. And you feel that they should be celibate because of what your religion tells you... um... what if they don't follow your religion?

mostly ambi. I can write lefty but have to think about it because I don't practice it. Writing righty is easier, because you don't smear the ink. I can bat and throw with either hand, spar lefty, and paint with either hand.

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hehe... www.nightingalesnest.net I didn't find my hackey first time either.

that's a pretty common container size.... maybe you could just sell the container and main?

exactly! and that's why vouchers won't work. A voucher for hundreds of dollars isn't going to help when sending a kid to private school costs thousands. the solution is to fix the system we have. Perhaps, provide low cost daycare so older children can do homework and younger ones have a safe place to go after school? Most of the kids I worked with in low performing LAUSD schools had the following problems: 1. nowhere to study. they shared small apartments with their moms, grandparents, siblings, and sometimes another family too. they simply had no quiet corner to use to get their work done. Going to the library wasn't an option... there aren't many around. 2. no time to study. high school kids are working to help pay the rent. junior high kids are babysitting younger brothers and sisters. 3. no parental support when they finally got a moment to do homework. either the parent wasn't home or wasn't educated to a level to help out, and was possibly english limited. 4. worrying about other things. When there's no food, the power's out because you can't pay the bills, or the landlord's posting eviction notices, it's not easy to concentrate on homework.