Another academic poo story

While a mate was at Imperial College many years ago he was in the Union Bar and in strides the College Loony. "If I crap in my pint of Lager and then drink it, who's going to buy me another pint?" Many hands go up, so Loony buys himself a pint, gulps a third of it to make room and then heads for the basher. A couple of minutes later he returns proudly brandishing his glass with promised floater standing therein. A few seconds later the deed is done, and those that haven't run to the basher clutching their stomachs and/or mouths are buying the drinks as honour demands. As a grand finale / encore Loony eats the turd before starting on the free lager. It was of course a mars bar but I'd defy anyone to tell the difference after a couple of minutes immersion in watery college beer.

Students Use Vouchers to Flee D.C. Schools

Rus: BEST WAY TO START MY DAY! YES YES YES!!!

For me, it's where so much good (and awfulness) began -- fighting for vouchers, Proposition 174, in California. So early this morning, this news just brings fast brief tears to my eyes -- of joy.

And right on up to the nearly the last moment before my move, I was working with a woman in Oakland who was fighting the school district -- why? To protect her son. Someone who knew of my past involvement in "education" issues.. had the woman contact me... In fact, the "someone" is someone who heard me speak in Oakland on vouchers, years ago. 1994. Or was it earlier.. Time for some java.

Bullies not only in the pub ed system, but the teachers aren't much better (some of them). By law, these teachers assert they are unable to protect children from BULLIES. How can any child learn in a situation like this? And since Dem Ed policies trend toward serving educational "meat" at the lowest common denominator.. this causes troubles, encourages trouble for children. Children get bored. And further, under the feminist-revised school system (catering more to girls than boys) -- boys get into a lot more trouble!!! And sure enough, it is always Dems screaming about HIGH PRISON RATES -- especially for males. And especially in inner-cities schools. And so, I could only see "schools" as early prison training for males. Created by Dems, run by Dems, complained about by Dems.

Considering how "intelligent" Dems think themselves are.. one might think the Dems could see this CORRELATION. Fact is, they don't care to see it.

Rambling... But here's the story!


WASHINGTON - As the school year begins, more than 1,000 students are using a new voucher program to escape troubled public schools in the nation's capital.

Officials running the nation's first federally funded voucher program said Wednesday the response was overwhelming. Seventy-four percent of students who applied for vouchers and were determined to be eligible are enrolled in participating private and parochial schools, and more applications are under review.

"We have 1,011 students that have been placed in 53 schools," said Sally Sachar, president of the Washington Scholarship Fund, the nonprofit group administering the program for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Department of Education.

Voucher advocates hope the experiment in the capital city, an idea debated in Congress for years before its passage in 2004, will energize the school-choice movement nationwide.

The Bush administration views vouchers as a way to empower parents and free students from struggling schools. Bush has proposed another $50 million for vouchers initiatives next year.

Critics, including Democratic presidential contender John Kerry, say vouchers strip money from public schools and funnel it to private schools that face little accountability.

Rus: So, John Kerry now supports the "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT"? The NCLBA is the first "pub ed" accountability standard put into place in as long as I can ever recall. Till this time, there has been no ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUB ED.

YOU GO!, DC PARENTS! FLY, SOAR!!! LEARN, CHILDREN.... GROW!! BE SET FREE FROM IGNORANCE AND EDUCATIONAL SUFFERING!

Oh yea.. My heart is soaring for them.

Gargantuan

Not as bad as one I read earlier but while at a previous job there was a rather large chap (read: fat as fuck) who constantly stank out the sales floor, one time so much that the MD actually had to give him a stern talking to.
I was working at my desk on the ground floor and noticed that there was water running down the wall, turned out that not only had he blocked up the trap he was using but had wedged the enormous piece of shit in the main sewerage system somehow backing up all of the plumbing in the building!
Took a while to sort out as because it had managed to slime its way out of the building and into the public systems the Council had to come and shift it.
That day from that point on was known as 'The Hunt For Brown October'.

Woof

My old man used to be a copper, he was called out to a burglary once at an old womens house, when he arrived she let him in and an Alsation dog followed, the dog proceded into the living room and sat in front of the fire,
my dad started talking to the old woman, during which the dog took a shit on the carpet, the old woman didnt say a word,
when he went to leave he was just about to get in his car when the woman shouted "Are you not going to take your dog with you?"