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The News. Yuck
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 09:58 amI got up a little earlier today. My husband and I are going to try car pooling to work now that he's on his new schedule. However, I didn't get up early enough to be ready. Women and their time consuming get ready practices! (I should mention that my husband can get ready in under 10 minutes and there is no way I am that good.)
So I read the news a little. People are so sentimental! I mean obviously, but I hate it when the news gets that way. Of course that's the idea. It's how you get viewerships. It's just when they create a big deal out of nothing really.
For example, the big Rachel Ray scarf of the Jihad! Every article I have seen also has a survey asking if the ad should have been pulled. Well it's up to Dunkin Donuts. They can pull ads if it hurts their retail! It doesn't matter if it is silly, folks, this is their marketing. The better question is "Have people over reacted to the scarf?" Maybe so. Have any of these news site linked the "terrorist" version for comparison? No. So how am I to make any sort of conclusion about whether or not this scarf is terrorist? I'm just to make an emotional decision that Rachel Ray should be allowed to wear whatever she wants and Dunkin Donuts can't decide they want to make money! Sigh. And then people will comment calling people outrageous names because they don't see anything wrong with the scarf. One person even said they were going to boycott Dunkin Donuts for pulling the ad. Just plain silly. Without the emotionalism this is a non-story. Dunkin Donuts pulls ad because it offended some and you wouldn't bat an eye at that. Rachel Ray's terrorist ad pulled and now you are clicking in a frenzy!
Kid voted out of his class. I agree this is appalling that he would be voted out of his class. At the same time, it says he was in the process of being diagnosed. I don't want to put all of the blame on the parents as the teacher did play a hand in this, but did his mother even tell the teacher this was going on? A different article that I read said that he'd been more violent to the other students and had been taken to the principal on many occasions. My cousin has Asperger's and one of my husband's cousin's kids has Autism. It something that should be taken seriously no doubt. So I wonder if the parents had taken it seriously. It seems to me they had not since there had been so many trips to the principal. Yes, I'm sure they were emotionally distraught, but do what is right for your child. Give folks the heads up! Now if the parents had a conference with the school and let them know, then all of the blame rightfully rests on the teacher. Something just seems really fishy. If I had a kid who was acting out and had been told and told repeatedly the proper way to behave, I would support the teacher disciplining. I just see myself being a lot more proactive about my kid going to the principal on a regular basis. It wouldn't get to that level where the teacher felt she needed to discipline him.
By the way, I went to the school when I was in kindergarten and first grade. It is now basically a private school and was pretty nice when I went about 23 years ago. State of the art!
Hope I didn't offend. It was my intent to question these stories which seemed to have a lack of actual investigative questioning rather than say these stories are absolute rubbish. They were just poorly worded and/or poorly investigated.
Off to work I go!
So I read the news a little. People are so sentimental! I mean obviously, but I hate it when the news gets that way. Of course that's the idea. It's how you get viewerships. It's just when they create a big deal out of nothing really.
For example, the big Rachel Ray scarf of the Jihad! Every article I have seen also has a survey asking if the ad should have been pulled. Well it's up to Dunkin Donuts. They can pull ads if it hurts their retail! It doesn't matter if it is silly, folks, this is their marketing. The better question is "Have people over reacted to the scarf?" Maybe so. Have any of these news site linked the "terrorist" version for comparison? No. So how am I to make any sort of conclusion about whether or not this scarf is terrorist? I'm just to make an emotional decision that Rachel Ray should be allowed to wear whatever she wants and Dunkin Donuts can't decide they want to make money! Sigh. And then people will comment calling people outrageous names because they don't see anything wrong with the scarf. One person even said they were going to boycott Dunkin Donuts for pulling the ad. Just plain silly. Without the emotionalism this is a non-story. Dunkin Donuts pulls ad because it offended some and you wouldn't bat an eye at that. Rachel Ray's terrorist ad pulled and now you are clicking in a frenzy!
Kid voted out of his class. I agree this is appalling that he would be voted out of his class. At the same time, it says he was in the process of being diagnosed. I don't want to put all of the blame on the parents as the teacher did play a hand in this, but did his mother even tell the teacher this was going on? A different article that I read said that he'd been more violent to the other students and had been taken to the principal on many occasions. My cousin has Asperger's and one of my husband's cousin's kids has Autism. It something that should be taken seriously no doubt. So I wonder if the parents had taken it seriously. It seems to me they had not since there had been so many trips to the principal. Yes, I'm sure they were emotionally distraught, but do what is right for your child. Give folks the heads up! Now if the parents had a conference with the school and let them know, then all of the blame rightfully rests on the teacher. Something just seems really fishy. If I had a kid who was acting out and had been told and told repeatedly the proper way to behave, I would support the teacher disciplining. I just see myself being a lot more proactive about my kid going to the principal on a regular basis. It wouldn't get to that level where the teacher felt she needed to discipline him.
By the way, I went to the school when I was in kindergarten and first grade. It is now basically a private school and was pretty nice when I went about 23 years ago. State of the art!
Hope I didn't offend. It was my intent to question these stories which seemed to have a lack of actual investigative questioning rather than say these stories are absolute rubbish. They were just poorly worded and/or poorly investigated.
Off to work I go!
