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Ed-u-ka-shun & small town living.
Contributed by: Tonee Lawrence   on 5/17/2007

i grew up in a small town... and i'll admit that we learned more plays about that weekends football game then history. my graduating class was a whoppin' 29 kids, and i was 6th in line for valedictorian. yay me.

aside from my poor general education, i was able to actually get out of that sheltered life, move, actually get multi-educated, move again, move again, move again (as college kids do), have a kid then meet and marry the man of my dreams, move again, get pregnant, move again, move again.............. buy a house, finally- and feel stable. you could say my cube is on the ground... chained to a concrete pad with a great big pile of 'life' on top of it. (i'll explain the cube later... maybe tomorrow.)

these teensy-tiny small towns (still in colorado) breed kids that know nothing about the real world, i.e. sex, disease, work, money, taxes, bills, etc. now i know that it's not all the school's job to teach this stuff... but this small town is oblivious to real world situations.

i'm part of a tight online community whose members are those who have lived in the small town before, or currently. today i'm reading about what's going on and apparently there is a school board meeting tonight. i despise this school board. well the genius' decided that there is only room for 'G' rated movies amongst junior and senior grade level students. this means that yogi bear will be teaching them about sex, drugs and rock-n-roll... or the characters from looney tunes will be teaching those kids about what could happen and the consequences are about AIDS.... or the care bears can teach them about the holocaust.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! shrek isn't even rated 'G'

really isn't not any of my business... but shouldn't then be focused on rather what's being shown to the students to make them feel this way, rather then taking away all the important issues a student can learn from a good flick?

i thank God everyday for guiding me away from that crappy town. my kids will get a good education, if anything way better then i did, with many many more options to persue. i dread going back, but my friends and family are there and i heart them. my bff can make me laugh when no one else can and she tells me my history (she's 17 years older then I am). she tells me things about my dad that i never knew. (for the record my dad disappeared in 1999, you can check it out on unsolved mysteries' websiteif you like- Dale Williams).

anyway.... thanks for reading... i hope for all those students sake of education... they oppose the movie crap tonight....

-toe


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Tonee Lawrence

Denver , CO

Tonee Lawrence has posted 11 blog entries and 2 comments since joining on 5/16/2007. Tonee Lawrence 's average blog rating is 5.
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