Of course, the school system in the US (I'm going to assume you are in the US) treats all children as if they are all the same.
Children are dynamic. One child may learn one way, another may take months, or years to learn that same subject.
The Department of Education assumes that there is a "normal" that ALL kids should conform to. This is patent homogenisation of our "culture". And thusly teachers assume the same thing that all kids have to learn stuff at the same rate, and if one kid doesn't fit in all the round holes like all the other round pegs, he's "learning disabled" or "special". ADD is a disease created by exposure to a defective and arbitrary education establishment.
I'm a dyslexic. People call me learning disabled. Dyslexia is a gift. The ability to think visually is rare. And as a result of my "disability" I couldn't learn things at the same rate as the rest of the munchins. So first I was labeled "ADD" then "Passive Agressive" when I didn't want to play the games. They put me on drugs and all kinds of shit for no reason. I didn't pay attention in class because it bored the shit out of me. I didn't feel like jumping through the hoops, and genuflecting like the rest of all the other kids. It's assembly line mentality.
Do your kids a favor and pull them from State and Corporate controlled education. Anytime the government or big bidniss hands you a package that says "Free" on it, you had better listen for the ticking of a time bomb. Anytime someone tells you that your kid is damaged, and they aren't bleeding or drooling on themselves from actual mental retardation, they are going to follow up their prognosis with a perscription or a "treatment" to sell you. It's no big secret that the kids diagnosed with ADD often have above average intelligence. I see it as discrimination against kids that refuse to be boxed in a stifling and ultimately stupifying education system.
Do your kid a favor, take 'em off the Methamphetamine derivatives. When a teacher says, "I can't teach your kid, he's not co-operating/paying-attention/getting good grades" What they are really saying is, "I'm to rigid to change my teaching style to one that will educate and keep the child interested at the same time." The Human mind is only capable of learning around a dozen things a day. And even then, only the first fifteen minutes are crucial. So forcing your kid to sit in a classroom for eight hours a day is pointless when the kid is only going to be able to learn for two hours a day.
So instead they load your kid up on crank and tell you all the "progress" he's made in being a good little lamb just like the rest of the sheeple.
Next thing you know two people in suits will be knocking at your door demanding to know what you believe. "Hello. Do you use P2P? Here is the latest edition of Rolling Stone with a special article by Madonna on why you shouldn't share *.mp3's"
And I thought that Jehovahs Witnesses were bad.
I think it's real slick that they are threating people now. This means they are getting desperate to maintain their stranglehold on music artists. It's almost Darwinian. Natural selection has snuck up and bit the Music industry dinosaur in the butt. They are big, slow and ponderous. Like Microsoft they stifle innovation. Filesharing is the Velociraptor of the music world. It's predatory and ruthless.
Why do you think we have such corporate sponsored pop-music travesties such as Britney "Pepsi" Spears? Because people actually buy their garbage! With file-sharing only the strong will survive, and the RIAA and Music labels cannot continue to put one or two good songs on a CD with 16-17 "filler tracks" and make billions. The crap will not get listened to. People will download and burn only the good stuff and this will force the no-talent pop-stars on the shortbus back to Creative Inspiration special education school.
If you want people to pay 15 bucks for a CD you had damn well better put $15 worth of decent music on it. In the end we must realise that we have created this monster. We, the consumers, financed and permitted these people to build this empire and in the end we can only strive to take back what we have allowed them to annex from us. filesharing is one way of telling these people that enough is enough.
I am now off to download all of Madonna's work just for the hell of it. In the end she, and the greedy alcoholic neanderthals of Metallica have shown us the depths of greed that a person can sink to once you give them a taste for money and popularity.
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Of course, the school system in the US (I'm going to assume you are in the US) treats all children as if they are all the same.
Children are dynamic. One child may learn one way, another may take months, or years to learn that same subject.
The Department of Education assumes that there is a "normal" that ALL kids should conform to. This is patent homogenisation of our "culture". And thusly teachers assume the same thing that all kids have to learn stuff at the same rate, and if one kid doesn't fit in all the round holes like all the other round pegs, he's "learning disabled" or "special". ADD is a disease created by exposure to a defective and arbitrary education establishment.
I'm a dyslexic. People call me learning disabled. Dyslexia is a gift. The ability to think visually is rare. And as a result of my "disability" I couldn't learn things at the same rate as the rest of the munchins. So first I was labeled "ADD" then "Passive Agressive" when I didn't want to play the games. They put me on drugs and all kinds of shit for no reason. I didn't pay attention in class because it bored the shit out of me. I didn't feel like jumping through the hoops, and genuflecting like the rest of all the other kids. It's assembly line mentality.
Do your kids a favor and pull them from State and Corporate controlled education. Anytime the government or big bidniss hands you a package that says "Free" on it, you had better listen for the ticking of a time bomb. Anytime someone tells you that your kid is damaged, and they aren't bleeding or drooling on themselves from actual mental retardation, they are going to follow up their prognosis with a perscription or a "treatment" to sell you. It's no big secret that the kids diagnosed with ADD often have above average intelligence. I see it as discrimination against kids that refuse to be boxed in a stifling and ultimately stupifying education system.
Do your kid a favor, take 'em off the Methamphetamine derivatives. When a teacher says, "I can't teach your kid, he's not co-operating/paying-attention/getting good grades" What they are really saying is, "I'm to rigid to change my teaching style to one that will educate and keep the child interested at the same time." The Human mind is only capable of learning around a dozen things a day. And even then, only the first fifteen minutes are crucial. So forcing your kid to sit in a classroom for eight hours a day is pointless when the kid is only going to be able to learn for two hours a day.
So instead they load your kid up on crank and tell you all the "progress" he's made in being a good little lamb just like the rest of the sheeple.
Next thing you know two people in suits will be knocking at your door demanding to know what you believe. "Hello. Do you use P2P? Here is the latest edition of Rolling Stone with a special article by Madonna on why you shouldn't share *.mp3's" And I thought that Jehovahs Witnesses were bad.
Why do you think we have such corporate sponsored pop-music travesties such as Britney "Pepsi" Spears? Because people actually buy their garbage! With file-sharing only the strong will survive, and the RIAA and Music labels cannot continue to put one or two good songs on a CD with 16-17 "filler tracks" and make billions. The crap will not get listened to. People will download and burn only the good stuff and this will force the no-talent pop-stars on the shortbus back to Creative Inspiration special education school.
If you want people to pay 15 bucks for a CD you had damn well better put $15 worth of decent music on it. In the end we must realise that we have created this monster. We, the consumers, financed and permitted these people to build this empire and in the end we can only strive to take back what we have allowed them to annex from us. filesharing is one way of telling these people that enough is enough.
I am now off to download all of Madonna's work just for the hell of it. In the end she, and the greedy alcoholic neanderthals of Metallica have shown us the depths of greed that a person can sink to once you give them a taste for money and popularity.