Toadfish Monastery

Glad someone agrees with me... was starting to think completely coocoo

Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on January 09, 2012, 05:36:40 AM
You said you put mini!Stelli into private school because she's doing better there, yes? Is it because the class sizes are small enough that teachers can pay more attention to her? Is the quality of instruction all-around better than in the public system? Better, more up-to-date books?
Did you ever wonder why the public school couldn't offer her that?

No. I put mini-Stelli in private school to avoid the Bible harassment.
Because I want her to be a free thinker and because the Montessori method is something I believe in.

one year in public school and she could hardly read
6 months at Montessori and she reads chapter books

more money to schools? not sure about it because of the use they make of it it's not necessarily productive for the children and the money just never seems enough...
on top of the taxes there is the almost weekly charity case for t he school...

I wonder what would happen if we half the Military budget and give the other half to education...

Thank you for all your valid and to the point answers.

My question though was to clarify what NSA or friends with benefits actually is....but it was more to understand where does the line stand.

I admit that I have been in a few of these "arrangements" (Bob I love the new term ) and it always ended up that the other party violated the rules of engagement by jealousy or declaring feelings...

now it might just be my darn stupid luck or maybe there is no really such thing as NSA or friends with benefits and, if there is, it has an expiration date??

Can someone please explain to me how can you tell  the difference between a friends with benefits situation and a romantic involvement is???

I mean... you read things like : "I want a friends with benefits situation, to hang out, go out to dinner and activity partner"...

that sounds like a relationship to me...

what you siblings think?? )

Quote from: Scriblerus the Philosophe on January 07, 2012, 01:13:13 AM
You're welcome to your opinion, of course, but that doesn't excuse the system break down (and imo, excuse your taxes). And again, you still benefit from it, if indirectly. Also, your choice to educate your daughter elsewhere is *your* choice, which imo does not mean you get to not pay taxes that fund local schools. Just because you choose to send your girl to a private school doesn't mean the kids in your neighborhood should suffer.

Scribe,

people move in and out of neighborhoods, cities and states all the time...

I don't see schools closing down because of that...

Taxes are imposed for services to the public...
example: you do not have to pay for city sewer taxes if you have a property outside of city limits that is not hooked into the city systems.

you do not pay for services you do not use... this is the only case you do

Quote from: Aggie on January 06, 2012, 03:54:54 AM
I don't have kids, and I am happy to have my taxes go to fund public education.  If they didn't, we might end up having to underpay teachers to the point that it's a shameful career choice, and end up with some gawdawful broken-down sham of a school system like.....



_{um, nevermind. pardon the untaddy outburst}

that's already here... where only kids that are having difficulties are given attention and the other need to fend for themselves (no child left behind passed under GW Bush)

where a public school allows the first amendment to be trashed and set on fire when they let bible trumpeters on the ground and have my daughter come home with a bracelet that says "Go to Church or go to Hell"...

sorry, we will have to agree o disagree on schools

I would opt for the option of not paying school taxes to the State (or get a tax refund) if your child is going to private school...

I find my daughter does much better in Montessori and I am paying a tuition that not cheap... why do I have to pay taxes to the State too???

Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on December 30, 2011, 03:15:04 PM

Quote from: anthrobabe on December 29, 2011, 09:30:03 PM
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By then their eyes are glazed and I can mosey along happily.

To quote Don Hendley's song "Dirty Laundry":

"Like cows at a passing train..."

Now that would be amusing

MWHAHAHAHAHAH! 

ehhehhe... as usual Opsa, you have the most charming way to be right

I guess there were more then just her affirmations that bugged me...

Yule is what I celebrate (or Natalis Solis invictus, solstice whatever you want to call it) and it is the return of light on Earth... and the main thing is that date for Xmas was chosen exactly to coincide with the pagan festival and shun it...

in the end though, I'd rather not even try to educate zealot because it's a waste of energy

I can peersonally testify that the data about Italy and France is dead wrong MWAHAHAHAHAHA

I am moving to Canada at this point lol

Quote from: Griffin NoName on December 26, 2011, 02:47:07 AM
(or do some adults still believe in FC?).

I believe in him... just not the Coca-cola version that was brainwashed into society's minds since the 1930s...

I believe in the original one... from the Norse tradition...and that Father Xmas (Or more truthfully - Father Winter.... is not about commercial consumptions of goods )

That' a good one bob...

I shall keep it in my for the next zealot  with they catch me in one of my days off

Now that I am thinking of it... these people make good target practice for my dry sarcastic jokes

Quote from: Aggie on December 24, 2011, 05:50:40 PM
Apparently the Mouse has the kiss of death.

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!

the most revolting of the all is the Sarkozy/merkel one although I must admit that they do belong to each other lol

@Pisces

I was very very very tempted by #4, with the additional 1st amendment violation aggravation to really make the the store manager perk his ears (ie. civil rights law suit/bad publicity etc).
Then I thought that I really do not want the bad karma of having someone fired at "Xmas"

@DavidH
I know, right! I use to make fun of the American preachers at Oxford circle trying to redeem us one by one...
should really move back to the UK 

In the end though I guess the best way to handle is to go your way and know that


(AWWW I always wanted to use that smiley!)