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This kid rules
« on: June 24, 2005, 06:34:09 AM »
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2005, 10:24:38 AM »
Seconded.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2005, 11:55:06 AM »
Wow, that principal and teacher did not handle that well. Poor kid.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2005, 02:04:08 PM »
Simply amazing. Someone should tell the people at that school that forced patriotism does nothing but prove that a country is less worthy of being proud of. I would like to see their reactions.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2005, 02:19:37 PM »
The Kid was acting like an 8 year old Kid.  
BFD
The administration over reacted.  However the Paren and author of the Blog showed sincear disresepect to the country in his statements.  
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Kid Ok
Parent =doofus
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2005, 02:24:31 PM »
oh, I don't know that I agree with that assessment of the parent's reaction.

It was funny. She laughed. The school wants to force patriotism. and as much as I love my country and want others to do it, suspending someone for not agreeing with you is extreme, even if the kid had been in HS. So the parent thought how silly that principle was.

Sounds to me more like she was just laughing at the situation.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2005, 03:19:01 PM »
Oseleon, I can see your not a brit right away. Even the most patriotic british (I count myself as heavily that way) will mock britain mercilessly if he can. I know a civil servant who constantly crack jokes about how crap britain is. And to us, the repeating of an oath of allegance is hysterically funny, such poo-faced need to be solemn about something we always poke fun at. (That habit is why 150,000 people put 'jedi' as their religion last census, to mock the whole thing). You'll find a lot of jokes at british culture in Prattchet, Monty Python, etc.

Of course, if you as a foreigner were to come to Britain and crack jokes about how crap we are, you'd get lynched, or at least get less than stellar customer service.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2005, 04:09:55 PM »
Wouldn't we get that anyway? Zing!
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2005, 04:37:48 PM »
There was some laughing at the situation but there was also lots of "America is bad because we're at war in Iraq, can't we all just get along" rhetoric.  She wasn't trying to convince anyone it was just obvious that all right thinking people agreed with her subtext on that point.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2005, 04:45:03 PM »
uhm... no.

she said
"Hey Lady, it's a big universe. Why should we pledge allegiance to a mixed-up country? Why shouldn't my son embrace the potential of stardust?"

so she said it was a mixed up country. That's unpatriotic? That cruel? I'm sorry, I don't see it.

The only thing I can see is that "Why should we pledge allegiance." But keep in mind that this is in the context of a kid who is psycho over Star Trek. That's what he was pledging allegiance to. I think any charges of hating america or political subtext are a severe over-reaction.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2005, 04:54:37 PM »
     I think that you are reading too much into her thoughts Skar. She never mentioned anything about the war in Iraq. It seems like you assumed that because she said the country was "mixed-up" that she was saying that because of the war in Iraq. There are any number of possibilities as to why someone would say that.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2005, 10:33:20 AM »
Yes, but realisticly we know what she was aluding to
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2005, 10:58:13 AM »
Realistically we know how to spell, and how not to jump to vastly overblown and inflamatory conclusions.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2005, 11:15:38 AM »
I don't think you can claim to know what she was alluding to. There's no content I've found at  all (in her comments or in the blog itself) that she's talking about anything specific at all.
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Re: This kid rules
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2005, 11:17:15 AM »
Oh come on, Ent -- you've been around here long enough to know that's not realistic.
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