Mitt says he'll fire Big Bird! - Page 5

Wasillaguy · #41 10-05-2012, 01:43 PM

If programs such as Sesame Street are such a big help in teaching our children, why has the graduation rate never again reached the peak it hit in 1970?

Sesame Street debuted in Nov. 1969.

I remember the teacher wheeling in the television once a week when I was in middle school, for "The Electric Company", a show targeted at a slightly older group than Sesame Street. It was lame and always seemed to me like it was meant for the kids in special ed. The teacher would go sit in the back of the classroom and sleep.

piece-itpete · #42 10-05-2012, 01:47 PM

The 1st season or two of Sesame Street has a parental warning on it - the Grouch smoked cigars.

Pete

bobabode · #43 10-05-2012, 01:47 PM

Did you sleep in this morning, Was?

Wasillaguy · #44 10-05-2012, 01:53 PM

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Did you sleep in this morning, Was?

Can't. I'm not a teacher with a taxpayer funded pacifier to stick in front of my customers.

bobabode · #45 10-05-2012, 02:01 PM

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Can't. I'm not a teacher with a taxpayer funded pacifier to stick in front of my customers.

Heheheh!

Just funnin' with ya.

Boreas · #46 10-05-2012, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

If programs such as Sesame Street are such a big help in teaching our children, why has the graduation rate never again reached the peak it hit in 1970?

Sesame Street debuted in Nov. 1969.

I remember the teacher wheeling in the television once a week when I was in middle school, for "The Electric Company", a show targeted at a slightly older group than Sesame Street. It was lame and always seemed to me like it was meant for the kids in special ed. The teacher would go sit in the back of the classroom and sleep.

That's why. If the teacher didn't give a shit, why should the students?

John

Charles · #47 10-05-2012, 08:23 PM

If Big Bird can't fly by now...let the possum's eat 'em.

Can't set on your ass in the nest forever.

Chas

bobabode · #48 10-05-2012, 08:28 PM

Hiya Chas. Been a while.

JCricket · #49 10-05-2012, 10:45 PM

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Didn't say that. I just don't see why the Feds have to be involved. If PBS cannot raise enough money on their own from the private sector to operate it seems to me they have a problem. Taking money from everyone by force of law to satisfy a few doesn't work for me.

It sure satisfies Romeny though.

Isn't liquidating corporations and making a hundred million on them while closing the doors and putting workers out on the street the same thing?

finnbow · #50 10-05-2012, 10:52 PM

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Didn't say that. I just don't see why the Feds have to be involved. If PBS cannot raise enough money on their own from the private sector to operate it seems to me they have a problem. Taking money from everyone by force of law to satisfy a few doesn't work for me.

That's the nature of taxation, appropriations and spending in a democratic society. There are dozens of things you and I pay for that we don't want, don't use, or don't need. A $ 1 Trillion dollar Iraq War comes to mind.