Thanks all -- it is most gratefully appreciated.

Belated hairpats, Theo!

msbelle, do the teachers expect the kids to fill in their assignment books on their own (as in, not all at one time, together)? If so, you might have to actually ask for a conference to discuss them checking it daily to make sure work is written down. We had to do that with Jake.

New York Kitty

It’s rare to see a cat walking around Midtown Manhattan, but the cat from Scott’s Flowers on W 37th can often been seen on the sidewalk, hanging out and chasing pigeons.

So Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan Assistant Attorney General that was stalking and slandering the current U of M student body president who is openely gay, was fired today. Now, of course, there is an uproar about how people cannot be fire for free speech! IT'S AGAINST THE LAWS!!

Are people, in general, just really that ... dumb? Do they really beleive that you can go out and be a giant prick fuckass bigot and that the First Ammendment will protect your JOB? Even if you being a giant prock fuckass bigot REFLECTS ON YOUR EMPLOYER?

Really? People think that?? Lots of them?

I weep for ... everything and everyone.

Interrupting Aims's understandable outrage to say you have email, lady.

Yes. They think freedom of speech also protects conservative commentators from losing their jobs as well and Rush Limbaugh's right to buy a football team.

So Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan Assistant Attorney General that was stalking and slandering the current U of M student body president who is openely gay, was fired today. Now, of course, there is an uproar about how people cannot be fire for free speech! IT'S AGAINST THE LAWS!!

Yeah, just like it's "free speech" for a pharmacist to deny birth control to his patients for religious reasons.

Shirvell also appeared on a segment of the Daily Show -- he reminded me very much of that judge who was suing a teeny family-owned dry cleaning store for losing his pants. IOW, clueless to how this appeared to anyone else.

Amy, they write homework and in-class tasks up on the board during each session to be written in the assignment books. Mac's often comes home empty, and I have commented on it. I have a conference with them on the 11th. And I get them not wanting to have to check a kid's book, they are trying to teach responsibility, mac is failing that lesson.

Are people, in general, just really that ... dumb?

Ignorant of 1st amendment rights and what they mean? Yes. Very much so. I don't think the ACLU will be taking up the cause on this, at any rate.