[ale] [OT] Re: Cobb Laptop Deal

[Mark Wright]

Guns and alcohol have been with us in the public arena always but  
just my limited experience where a few kids smoked on campus and a  
fewer did drugs off campus there were never any issues with guns.  My  
daughters school had to cover up two very public gun incidents last  
year and my daughter got the chance to hold a gun while a friends  
locker was being searched.   They were looking for drugs.  The school  
authorities are completely in the dark about the number of weapons at  
that school any given day.  I Would bet money that if they locked  
that school down and searched every locker they would be shocked.


On Aug 15, 2005, at 5:37 PM, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> <<snip>>
>
>> As you can see this is a sore point to me and I am restraining
>> myself!  My daughters go to a respected public school up here in cobb
>> and I don't think it would be much of an exaggeration to say they
>> there are probably as many guns and containers of alcohol in that
>> school as there are computers.  I am dead serious.  I have pulled one
>> of my kids out and wish I had the money to school all my kids
>> privately or at home.
>>
>
> In other words - almost nothing has changed in school since the  
> dark ages.
> I went to a private school in the '60s. Plenty of fire arms, and the
> senior class got pretty loaded Friday noon. My father's tales of high
> school in the early WWII war years suggest that there were _fewer_  
> guns,
> and somewhat less alcohol, but just about as much vandalism and  
> general
> trouble.
>
> Family tradition has it that a great-grandfather taught with a 38  
> on the
> desk for a week, to let the farm boys who were larger than he know  
> that he
> did _not_ intend for them to try out his manhood in combat.  
> (Fighting with
> the teacher has a long history in this country I'm told.)
>
>
>> ...But really I'd like to see Apple sell the government a butt load
>> of laptops.  I just think that if they welded all the cases together
>> in an interesting way and put them on display at the capitol rotunda
>> our kids would have a better chance of learning something.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2005, at 8:37 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> OK, I've given a silent ear to all the recent noise on the Cobb  
>>> laptop
>>> proceedings, mostly assuming it was normal political wrangling.
>>> Anyone
>>> with an interest in Cobb have any good insight to this?
>>>
>>> http://wsbradio.com/news/081505cobblaptops3a.html
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> -Jim P.
>>>
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