m-net

On a local mailing list post, a mom wrote that she was annoyed that her child’s public school teachers told their kids that they were all voting No on 8. This was my response:

While I’ve very opposed to that particular proposition, I also strongly feel that public school teachers should NOT be revealing their own opinions on it. I think it’s great for kids to learn about the political process and to be given age appropriate ways of emulating the decision making process. That being said, having a teacher reveal their own particular stand on the issue (especially with something as hotly debated as 8 that has such huge ramifications) is stepping over the line.

In my (public) high school American Government class, during an election year no less, we were led by our teacher in discussions and debates about the various candidates, propositions, etc. But never once did our teacher tell us his personal view on it; he just gave us plausible starting arguments for either side of the debate and let us choose. Only on the last day of school did he tell us what his party affiliation was.

This line of thinking, however, only goes as far as the publicly funded school system. Private schools can and probably do teach a particular platform geared toward their affiliation. They’ve a right to it and even if I know I wouldn’t agree with the religious platform on some issues, I can’t fault them for doing so and wouldn’t be able to argue if I c hose to send my daughter to a private school.

This was a follow up response from someone else:

so…why are people even discussing the election with people that aren’t
even voting age is what i want to know? lol…..

*headdesk* x 1,000

It was so hard not to write back something snarky. SO HARD.

Every so often, I find gems of posts on Mommy communities. This is just an awesome snarkalicious post via CafeMom…

“I woke up gay this morning…”

Even more awesome (in a effed up way) are some conservative mamas who took it seriously.

 J has a formula for calculating whether or not you are in the ghetto. The formula includes at least one hair/nail salon, one liquor store, one check cashing place and one church in a X block radius.

While dropping off  our voter registration (HA! made it just in time!) yesterday, I did notice two liquor stores on the same f*cking block. And not only that, my sister pointed out something sure to make J cry blood tears. Not only were there two liquor stores on the same block, there was a church that was once a liquor store on the same block!! If that doesn’t get at least double ghetto points, I don’t know what does.