Brown students complain homework is interfering with their activism. Poor special snowflakes. Wait until they graduate and realize no one’s hiring people with Art or Gender Studies degrees and they have to move back into mommie’s basement.
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I can't imagine a household where everyone doesn't read every day! It's hard for me to believe that NYT readers don't see to it that this happens in their kids' lives no matter what time of year. Of course the teachers are sending this stuff home mainly for the kids who are not reading and/or at risk of losing math skills over the summer, as well as to familiarize parents with what it is their kids should already know (hoping the parents take a look).When I was a teacher (K-4), I sent home a packet of math each year, and did my utmost to get kids involved in the library summer reading program and gave some reading sources like http://yourhomeworkhelp.org/pay-for-homework-to-get-done/. The whole thing would take 20-40 minutes a day for a month or so. Eminently doable. And I gave them to my kids too. It was a trivial amount of time, similar to the amount I required during the school year. It never interfered with their other summer activities, but then we are not urban competitive parents. We didn't overschedule their summers, and they still had hours most days of uninterrupted free time to be kids.
Not all of these S4B's are going to get a "job" in government. Those that don't are in for a very very rude awakening.
The economy
The recession has hit everybody really hard.
My neighbour got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can't afford batteries.
CEO's are now playing miniature golf.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she danced.
I saw a Mormon with only one wife.
If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
McDonald's is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.
My cousin had an exorcism but couldn't afford to pay for it, and they re-possessed her!
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.
A picture is now only worth 200 words.
When Bill and Hillary travel together, they now have to share a room.
The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.
And, finally...
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call centre in Pakistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck.
Rodney, is that you?
Brown used to be a good school. I have several family members who attended. They stopped contributing money years ago.
Here is your choice, #1 Be a student, do the work, get a degree.
#2, Be a winy, sniveling, worthless piece of crap that the rest of us have to support till you OD on some drug.
Oh, those poor, poor, precious little snowflakes...
So now these useless pieces of flesh want us to pay for an education that they don't even want to work for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVjTdMrGqZ0
“My grades dropped dramatically. My health completely changed. I lost weight. I’m on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills right now. "
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Racists oppressing Brown students!