Read it. >)

[mugetsurocks]

"There is a group of kids who, despite incredible odds against them, seem to entirely educate themselves, at least for a part of their school time. We've taken to calling them "dropouts" and browbeating them as society's pariah, but an astonishing number of prominent people are drawn from their ranks. Ray Kroc, who put the zip in McDonalds, was, I

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[joeski42]

Glad to hear you reading John Taylor Gatto. Really interesting stuff there. I can't speak for his later works though, the guy seems to have turned into a bit of a radical, but A Different Kind of Teacher is pretty solid in my opinion...well, excluding the ending rant about household appliances....not sure what made him get off on that unrelated tangent in a book about the public education system.

Ironically enough, today in UCF's newspaper I was reading a "Man on the Street" feature about what students there thought about hurricane Wilma and if they were concerned about it. There was a total of six responses. One response read "I don't know anything about hurricane Wilma", another read "I don't have a clue if it's going to hit Florida or not", and then finally: "What's hurricane Wilma?"

Hah!

[mugetsurocks]

I remember last year..There was alot of worry, and preparation.. Now it's like no one cares. I havn't heard much about the hurricanes lately..But I couldn't get less then an earful last year.. Radio's here, Weatherchannel there.
Though I got to Wal-mart the other day, and there were so many carts in the parking lot, I thought some kind of uprising was going on.

[joeski42]

Well yeah...I predicted last year that after getting bum fucked by 4-5 hurricanes, the media was going to blow every gust of wind that came our way out of proportion. Shortly afterwards - or maybe it was a while afterwards - I started hearing predictions that '05 would be a worse year for hurricanes than '04. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now. So far nothing really bad has hit us.

So I'm not paying much attention to the media either, but I'm still picking up kibbles and bits of news.