[MOSAIC] influences..

[William Roberts]

It's another backlash from all this testing, lack of looking at the big
picture or understanding basic concepts.  I've had more students say, "Why
don't we just drop a bomb on Iraq and kill all the terrorists?" this year
than any other.  When I try to explain about innocent women and children,
the kids go, "That's all fine and good, but we can still bomb them."  They
don't see the forest for the trees...

It's probably a government conspiracy where they are trying to undermine the
thinking processes of America's youth so they will not question and debate
the issues and will blindly follow whatever they are told....

Bill


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Subject: [MOSAIC] influences..


> One of the teachers at our school bought 10 brand new bikes with helmets
> and held drawings in 10 classrooms. She has no children of her own and
> decided to do this. She sat down with my class in the rug area and spoke
> to them about why she did this. She asked if there was anyone in the
> room who didn't believe in Christmas...one of the boys asked,
> (innocence? naivete? greed?)  "If I say that I don't believe in
> Christmas, does that mean I don't get any presents?"
> "...even a single drop of red will tint a can of white paint."  ---from
> /_A Short Course in Kindness _/by Margot Silk Forrest
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