MooPig Opinions and Editorials Department :: " Middle School and Guns"

It's all a Set Up
By Patrick Darnell  |  Oct 24, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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Comment:
... You take a child out of a nurturing elementary environ, force them into a factory setting, [middle school] while the child is going through puberty and trying to manage strong hormonal injections of estrogen and testosterone, while girls are starting their periods, and older kids and teachers are there like predators who pounce rather than nurture... it is no wonder that adolescents are psychotic, by definition they are so. Then make guns available from dad's collection, and bullets to boot... psychosis plus lots of guns equals disaster.

I have a suggestion: turn all the middle schools into farms. Introduce all middle schoolers to the wonder of animal husbandry and growing things.

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Students learn math by studying hens laying eggs, and chemistry by milking cows, and about themselves while watching animals in cohabitation, and receive a liberal arts education watching animals reproduce.

Screw all the lawyers with there new-fangled CORE programmed learning, and STAR tests, and bullshit. Teachers today are referred to as "Facilitators." This is a crime against humanity.

Put America back in the agrarian state it belongs in. Put some backbone in our kids, instead of insidious, malfunctioning, brain drama.  


I have spoke!

[Picture LINK] Kids picking spinach ...


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http://mtprnews.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/farm-to-school-meets-lawn-to-lunchroom-at-somers-middle-school/
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-suspended-school-toy-gun-family-property-article-1.1465745
http://www.grootbos.com/en/blog/eco-tourism/spaces-for-sports/dibanisa-lesson-4-sustainable-farming-in-fynbos

MooPig Home School Department :: "Houston's Best High School"

Catholic Case for Home Schooling
Collected by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 6, 2013  |  Bryan TX

These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston - Page 1 - News - Houston - Houston Press: "The Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions is this area's best public high school. It produces studious, high-achieving, self-assured brainiacs. The student body is a model of diversity: half the kids come from poor families, and students are evenly divided among African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics." (Todd Spivak. Thursday, Mar 2 2006)

We at MooPig Home School Department chose this article because of the author of the piece: Todd Spivak. Reference needed to MAD Magazine, required for disambiguation of that remark.

" ... MADtv (season 4) Pat Kilbane appeared as the Coffee Guy and the spokesman for Spishak, and performed his Howard Stern impersonation; (wiki. Mad magazine. LINK)

You see, SPIVAK sounds like SPISHAK ...
 'via Blog this'

" ... In 2010, the magazine's oldest and longest-running contributor, Al Jaffee, told an interviewer, "Mad was designed to corrupt the minds of children. And from what I'm gathering from the minds of people all over, we succeeded." (Michael Mechanic | Fri Sep. 24, 2010. LINK)

So, whatever Houston's finest high school does for students, MAD un-does it.

This post makes no sense. And that's all the News when you don't want it.

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http://www.houstonpress.com/2006-03-02/news/these-kids-go-to-the-best-public-high-school-in-houston/
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2010/09/interview-al-jaffee-mad-life-snappy-answers

Earl Rudder High School, Bryan, Texas Opening Ceremonies

By JANET PHELPS
Published Saturday, September 06, 2008 6:05 AM

'The best of our values'

Before Anne Rudder Erdman attended the dedication ceremony for the school named in honor of her father Friday, she visited the cemetery where her parents are buried.

Erdman said she spoke to them about James Earl Rudder High School.

"They would have just loved it," the older surviving daughter of Gen. James Earl Rudder said Friday. Rudder High is built on values the former president of Texas A&M University lived by, she said, which makes the students and teachers there like family.

"It's just like our family has grown exponentially," she said.

Rudder High students, staff and administrators were on hand Friday afternoon as Bryan's second high school was dedicated in memory of the World War II hero. Rudder's four surviving children, along with U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards and several city officials, attended Friday's event.

Spectators crowded under the limited shade provided by the school awning, surrounded by Rudder's Rangers, an elite unit of the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets named after Rudder's World War II unit.

Edwards, a friend of the Rudder family who received the Earl Rudder Award while at Texas A&M, told the crowd Friday that he hoped Rudder's values would inspire the families and teachers at the school.

"Earl Rudder High School is far more than this beautiful brick, glass and mortar, because a school represents the very best of our values as a community," he said. "We can never fully repay Earl Rudder for his combat service, but you honor him and his family by being good stewards of our children's future."

More than 600 freshmen and sophomores have enrolled in Rudder since it opened two weeks ago. Principal Hugh Piatt has named hallways after the Rudder's Rangers' values: integrity, dedication, perseverance and a commitment to success. He said the students have already bought into the values of the school.

"As you say it once, it's just a word to them," he said. "But they start hearing it on a daily basis, and somewhere along the way, hopefully, it clicks."

The school will expand one grade level each year. The $51 million facility will ultimately serve about 1,600 students.

Terry and Linda McFarland, who attended the event Friday, said the school offers their 16-year-old daughter a close-knit community with small classes.

"It's just a once in-a-lifetime, historic occasion," Linda McFarland said.

Her husband agreed: "We're just very proud of her and very proud to be at this school."