She would also blurt out, "I do NOT have enough time, or INK, for this!"

LOL She was talking out of her ass.

Dale says "you need an x,y,z in a three dimensional coordinate system-unless you were talking about flat landers"

I just lost some chardonnay. fail!

Another one from a friend: "Altitude and Longitude"

LOL

Kira does it as well-"hindsight is 50/50"

OH... lol I liked it so much I missed the bad metamorphosis. (Even though I did clean it up with my stellar TJ quote.) ("You're a money horse!!"....once said by a friend who mashed "You're a work horse" and "you're a cash cow"... I laughed for months.)

I'll give you a point anyway. hands can't bite-I hash metaphors all the time

Are you talking to yourself? :) (Head start... what's next? Take 'em at 2 years old??? And then one year old?? And then out of the womb?? Back OFF government...you can't have my kids!!)
Also:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have." Thomas Jefferson

I'll give you a point if you pick it up

I picked up on the Headstart thing too. As much as I disagree with the policy, the hand that feeds you-also bites you. no one is spared from this simple fact. ask Bill Gates

Please tell me you are NOT making an argument for the status quo. I've been hearing these types of comments a lot lately regarding how schools are run...as if there isn't a better way to do things than the way they've been for so long. We are smart people with ideas who can figure these things out. "Still allowed to bring bag lunches"..???..Soooo, what you're saying is, in some cases...parents are still "allowed" to feed their on kids. Do you hear yourself?

From my research, this is about Head Start programs only and it's a policy that has been in place for a while. It's in place for a variety of reasons, but they mainly boil down to the fact that most of the people who put their kids in Head Start programs are already dependent on the government. Children in standard public schools are still allowed to bring bag lunches (for however long that lasts).

why? we did not always have it. why does education need to be public? have you read Marva Collin's book?

The way schools are run....they way they've BEEN run for the last 50 years or more..IS wrong...and it's getting expediently worse by the minute. The Gov/State are not parents and do not have the right to take children for the bulk of everyday to teach them to march in a line and to learn to be like everybody else...in a room full of 30 other kids where it takes 6.5 hours a day to learn what any adult could teach a child in 2-3 hours without all the other riff raff going around them. It's also not the Fed/States job to FEED them...

It's a shame they blackened out the names and phone numbers so the rest of us could overload the phone lines (just in case they had a less than stellar response from the parents).

I think so too... I went off on one of my touchy subject rants.

I think that's EXACTLY how it should work. The Feds clearly are incompetent at managing anything. Stay out of our kids heads, stomachs, etc.

Run for the Gulch before then.

I think this is just a blog one of the moms have. My guess is the press didn't even cover this story.

scared to think of how bad it'll be when we have kids and they're old enough for school.

Conditioning of the masses. So many kids are on the free lunch program already it probably didn't affect too many...and those, apparently, didn't raise a stink big enough to make a difference. The self-responsible are sooooo outnumbered by moochers. Too bad this article didn't cover all the garbage bags full of thrown out food that go in the dumpster everyday. Shine some light on THAT tax payer funded colossal waste. I send end the free lunch program all together....no...end public schools all together...