> From what I have read and heard SB's are very important today with some
> of the things they are teaching little kids who have no idea about anything,
> unless they were properly taught at home.
> When I started school my mother had already taught me to read and write
> as others in the class had been taught.
> Today everything seems to be pushed off onto the teachers "that's their
> job" is too common today.
> Plus you have so many single parent households and that parent is either
> working or a lay about who can care less.
> Then the kids come home with all sorts of crazy ideas they are taught and
> only then do some parents become involved.  Sometimes when its too late.

True enough; our SBs are more just administrators of the funds given to them by the provincial Ministry of Education.

I, too, was reading & doing math at a 4th grade level when I entered school --  threy gave mymom heck for this.

It wasn't common -- I was the only one for many years who was keeping up or  statying ahead of curriculum -- my mom also taught me to look up infrormation  for myself in the two encyclopedia sets we owned. (one, The World Book, was the school standard, the other was a very high end one: the Encyclopedia  Britannica, with annual Yearbooks(updates); I would sit & read the Britannica  for hours on end, at an age when my peers were still reading "picture books."

So happy my mom and dad taught me to think for myself - it's so critical now,  but it's sad to know how rare this is. Being as I have to live with the idiots  these people elect. Frustrating.

I still love learning & am as happy reading dictionaries & encyclpedias as  novels.  My son prefers encyclopedias to novels.

Maybe I'll look into our klocal school board a bit more closely -- theyere is a good bunch on there now -- I've had the privilege of addressing them at one of  their meetings on an issue I hold near & dear.

It didn't pass the motion to be adopted, but I thoroughly understood the  reasonings involved in the negative votes, & respect all who voted, eitherway.

If & when I am 100% right & promoting an idea that is incontrovertibly the best thing for the district, then I'll consider it important they all agree with me.

I still beliegve what I was promoting was.is 100% right, bgthat the SDB wasn't  qyite rtyhe right vebue -- I had a better result addressing Mayor & Council, &  obtaimning their enthusiastic support (whjich was worth far more than the SB's  anyway)

My country, my government, my privilege/responsibility to keep tabs on the  DELETEDs!


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