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   > From what I have read and heard SB's are very important today with some   
   > of the things they are teaching little kids who have no idea about anything,   
   > unless they were properly taught at home.   
   > When I started school my mother had already taught me to read and write   
   > as others in the class had been taught.   
   > Today everything seems to be pushed off onto the teachers "that's their   
   > job" is too common today.   
   > Plus you have so many single parent households and that parent is either   
   > working or a lay about who can care less.   
   > Then the kids come home with all sorts of crazy ideas they are taught and   
   > only then do some parents become involved.  Sometimes when its too late.   
      
   True enough; our SBs are more just administrators of the funds given to them   
   by the provincial Ministry of Education.   
      
   I, too, was reading & doing math at a 4th grade level when I entered school   
   --  threy gave mymom heck for this.   
      
   It wasn't common -- I was the only one for many years who was keeping up or    
   statying ahead of curriculum -- my mom also taught me to look up infrormation    
   for myself in the two encyclopedia sets we owned. (one, The World Book, was   
   the school standard, the other was a very high end one: the Encyclopedia    
   Britannica, with annual Yearbooks(updates); I would sit & read the Britannica    
   for hours on end, at an age when my peers were still reading "picture books."   
      
   So happy my mom and dad taught me to think for myself - it's so critical now,    
   but it's sad to know how rare this is. Being as I have to live with the   
   idiots  these people elect. Frustrating.   
      
   I still love learning & am as happy reading dictionaries & encyclpedias as    
   novels.  My son prefers encyclopedias to novels.   
      
   Maybe I'll look into our klocal school board a bit more closely -- theyere is   
   a good bunch on there now -- I've had the privilege of addressing them at one   
   of  their meetings on an issue I hold near & dear.   
      
   It didn't pass the motion to be adopted, but I thoroughly understood the    
   reasonings involved in the negative votes, & respect all who voted, eitherway.   
      
   If & when I am 100% right & promoting an idea that is incontrovertibly the   
   best thing for the district, then I'll consider it important they all agree   
   with me.   
      
   I still beliegve what I was promoting was.is 100% right, bgthat the SDB   
   wasn't  qyite rtyhe right vebue -- I had a better result addressing Mayor &   
   Council, &  obtaimning their enthusiastic support (whjich was worth far more   
   than the SB's  anyway)   
      
   My country, my government, my privilege/responsibility to keep tabs on the    
   DELETEDs!   
      
      
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