Remember Elementary School...?

I was sitting on the couch reading Shayla's "Monday Letter". It's a letter that is sent home to the kids parents on each Monday. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the list and the cynic in me came out when I got to item number 8 which read, "8. In Language/Penmanship we will practice writing our letters." and then item number 10 which read, "10. In Math we will work with numbers."

No Duh.

Something that disturbed me about the package the teacher sent home, which I guess was the class handbook, was the number of grammatical mistakes contained within its pages. Now, I'm no William Shakespeare, but for the love of Pete, if you're teaching kids in school, you should at least know how to run the frickin' grammar checker and spell checker in Microshaft Word, don't you think?

That's something else... it's been... ummm... 24 years since I was in second grade and now that I look at this Monday Letter, the letters look all "klunky" like it was done on a real typewriter. You guys remember that? When you would get copies made, and they would come out purplish blue from that cheap-o grade school copy machine?

Those were the days right there.

It's kind of like when we got to watch those reel-to-reel movies with the tape deck audio. Indeed that was the technology back in the day. We all survived. Didn't we?

You should see the list of rules in the handbook. Apparently there is this new discipline system that involves the use of "Card Pulling". There are 4 types of cards. A "Good Card" is a Yellow card. Does that make sense to anyone? What ever happened to the good ol' standard of "Green, Yellow, Red,"? I mean in every real world aspect Yellow indicates warning. Not "Good". At least the red card means "Bad". Craziness.

I'm sure I'll have more things to talk about as the year goes on.

Peace out.