Category: family fun

links for 2007-12-15

misunderstood message

The father of a 13-year-old cheerleader says school officials overstepped their bounds when they suspended his daughter for taking a cell-phone photo of another cheerleader getting out of the shower during a sleepover in his home. “This makes me realize how little control I have over my daughter when the school district can take action something that happened at my home on a Saturday,” says the dad.

Not sure he’s getting this.

The father of a 13-year-old cheerleader says school officials overstepped their bounds when they suspended his daughter for taking a cell-phone photo of another cheerleader getting out of the shower during a sleepover in his home. “This makes me realize how little control I have over my daughter when the school district can take action something that happened at my home on a Saturday,” says the dad. (Houston Chronicle)

[From School suspends girl for taking cell-phone photo at sleepover]

I can agree that they the suspension is out of line, but consider the truth of this: “This makes me realize how little control I have over my daughter.” And I suspect it’s not the taking of the photo that’s at issue but the sharing of it at school.

links for 2007-12-01

something I didn’t hear enough of

Driving home from school, I think, I heard this on KEXP from their time at the CMJ expo in New York. I didn’t realize they also had a podcast of their live performances.

Driving home from school, I think, I heard this on KEXP from their time at the CMJ expo in New York. I didn’t realize they also had a podcast of their live performances. It’s awfully close to too much of a good thing, this KEXP . . .

45

Today marks 45 years for me.

When we’re growing up we can imagine years like 18, 21, 25, 30 but beyond that, who knows? Is it all just one undifferentiated mass of obsolescence, senescence, and decline?

I hope not. It doesn’t feel that way.

Going cabin camping tomorrow for a couple of days, as its spring break for the young ‘uns. Of course, it’s tipping down with rain, so we may have a very cozy time indoors. We’re not going far so we’re not looking at too much hardship if spring keeps on as it has done (freezing on Monday, 80+ on Friday).

Now playing: This Will Be Our Year (Mono) by Zombies from the album “Odessey & Oracle” | Get it

scapegoats in waiting

From comments on the brain trust assembled by General Petraeus: some see a repeat of McNamara’s Whiz Kids — long on education, short on real experience — while others see them as scapegoats in waiting:

Oh, great: what better strategy than to say, “don’t call Bush dumb–we sent SEVEN PhDs into Iraq and THEY couldn’t solve it either! So there, you hissy-pissy Bush Bashers!”

It could be spun as, “of course it failed–you had THINKERS and FEELERS in there, instead of solid-steel airtight military minds!”

What better way to further discredit the idea that education is useful for things. “PhDs–hah! They couldn’t win the war in Iraq with PhDs. Don’t gimme any PhD crap. Shoulda turned em into glass in 2003. The PhDs LOST this war! Burn the universities–they’re to blame!”