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:shrugs.: nobody thinks of Whores as people anymore.... they are objects. they don't have family. they don't have feelings, or their feelings don't matter. they are all either sluts, drug-addicts feeding a habbit, or the hopeless fringe-people who are beyond saving. leastways that what everyone thinks.

so treat'em that way. kill a hooker, get you're money back. free b*****b, and no squeeling; or, you have pent-up aggression? beat up the poor whore over there. nobody cares. even if someone calls the cops, she's the one who'll go to jail, not you.

sad doesn't even begin to cover it... the worste part is the pimps. just another example of capitalism at it's worste. now the girls don't even see a penny of the money that THEY GAVE THEIR BODIES FOR! for crying out loud, it's a disgusting world we live in...

Yeah, I think it has been 3 years ago, or maybe 4, one of our local schools started handing them out to 4th graders. 4TH GRADERS!!! Sex ed doesn't even start until 6th grade around here!

Anyway, it was a school with one of the highest minority ratios and in one of the lowest income areas. YEAH! So that's what we want to do, give these children the idea to go out and make more welfare babies instead of getting an education! Stupid bastards stare ...

It started after a survey about drugs, alcohol, and sex. They figured condoms wouldn't strain the school budget as much as providing a necessary extra class to the younger kids. AND HEY! If a few 4th and 5th grade girls end up out of school for it, well, at least they won't have to deal with them. It's bull s**t.

Well, I honestly didn't mean to point fingers at the teachers, but at the system. Allot of the kids in that particular school are in temporary homes, and the others are in homes that the parents are more than likely too stoned to remember they have kids.

My point is that these are the only people that have a real opportunity to make at least some difference to these kids and they utterly fail. They are contributing to the problem in their area, and the state doesn't even step in. In fact, the state cuts even more funding. Like THAT'S a solution.

I know a couple of young teachers at this school, and they say that most of the students are sponges- wanting to learn, and smart as all get out, but there is no backing from the state to help them out any more. They are a lost cause in the government's opinion. So each year, because there are no resources to back new educational programs, there is less actual education happening, thus the next year more funds are cut.

So, instead of cutting funds to the sport programs (their only major attention grabber), they neglect more important things that would help the whole student body. The board is truly the ones to blame there though.

The real kicker... most of the missions programs in the area advocate against sex ed in schools, and because the parents and guardians want to keep the free church goods in the area, they act like the church is "making a difference" and go along with whatever the church says. (I have volunteered in these places, I have seen it) Anyway, they drive around with the bumper stickers, and carry the pamphlet, and a few even go to the town meetings and school board meetings when the churches advertise , well to put it bluntly, a flash mob. I don't think many of the people care one wit what goes down, they just like being part of the frenzy and drama. They just want to see what who says to whom. I think even many of the churches who orchestrate this know this and just take advantage.

Honestly, if I were to point fingers, the last people I would point them at is the teachers. I do blame parents first, and politics allot, but teachers have to be careful what they do anyway. They can't just start teaching something that needs to be taught. They have to have the state's and the school boards approval. I still want to know how handing out free condoms was so easily approved when actual sex ed couldn't be

I wasn't trying to get snippy or anything. I was just saying that I see a pattern of the teachers blaming parents and parents blaming teachers, and NO ONE taking responsibility.

I'm so glad that my husband and I have chosen to home-school our daughter. My sisters-in-law have been homeschooling for most of their educational careers, and they're great at it. They actually get a HUGE budget every year for supplies and projects, and tons of opportunities for field trips. Maybe its because there's no property tax or liability insurance or janitorial staff to pay for home-schoolers (they still pay for teachers, about one for every 30 students, just like in classrooms). I'm actually excited to shop at the Learning Store when she starts school.

And it seems like we already have sex-ed out of the way! stressed

I did see one website that I thought might help, I sent it to you alreday... other than that, there are alot of self-publishing options. wish I were more helpful... xp

but yeh, Homeschooling definitely beats sending kids to some brainwashing facility for 13 years of their life. >.> I'm at least going to homeschool any children of mine through 7th grade. after that, I'll let them see how they feel about it, but yeh. I won't stop being a part of their education even if they do decide they wanna go to public school.

danged money-based economy.... iii-_- materialism, dependency n excess, and the pursuit of luxury.... it's disgusting. whatever happened to Values? Morals? Hard-Work? Self-Governance? bah! stressed

curses, this world-order! gonk

hmm... :sighs.: iii-_-

well, I've been thinking about how to get support for my Policies when I run for public office. I realy hope to get into either the House or the Senate, but it's gonna take like 5 or 6 more years (the next election that I'll be old enough to run).

I don't want to make my own Political Party, because campaigning would be far too expensive... however, if I could pull a Tea-Party, and make a nation-wide unnoficial Political Party functioning within, and supported by, another already established one (the only 4 decent choices being the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, or Independents), I might be able to make waves... maybe even jump-start my own Party.

I just hope to get enough like-minded people in Congress to Represent the Policies I have in mind.

HURRAY! biggrin :hugs you excitedly.:

and hurray, you are online too! I think that's a hurray, anywa. sweatdrop see, the phones are in need of charging today. xp