Reading is excellent, inexpensive fun. Portable, reliable, no need to charge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can even do it for free, at least used to. Haven\u2019t been to the library in a minute
(open on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10am to 11:15, and hurry up!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This may surprise you (Other Person, You) but I spent the majority of my recesses in elementary school with a book in my face, and not because someone hit me with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such may explain why I am the fount of social engagement that comes before you. No introvert here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading has always been a good thing, even if the book sucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
theKid is currently reading\u00a0\u2014 not by choice but for school \u2014 and must say \u2026 much impressed.\u00a0
Private school has its privileges.\u00a0 Like book fairs. \u00a0And academic accountability, for students & parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t like the \u2018lectric books, tho\u2019. What if the battery dies on the good part?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Methinks all this electronic doohickey whatnot is making humans dumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More information \u2260 greater knowledge {Proverbs 9:10<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n A seventh-grade teacher is leaving the profession, maybe to work at Costco (better wages\/benefits\/conditions \u2026 go figure) because most of his students were reading at a fourth-grade level, possibly even lower, yet still getting promoted because, well, reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t want to make the kid feel<\/em> dumb altho\u2019 completely, wholly, and entirely undereducated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mentioned somewhere around these parts that a student thought he was getting ready to graduate but had only completed enough credits for ninth grade \u2026 so at 18, he will be entering the equivalent of his second year of high school.\u00a0 And his grades weren\u2019t even the worst in his class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His mother, of course, blamed the educational system and its educators rather than own her failure as a parent \u2026 which is why the kid is functioning at a remedial level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pick up a book. Read to the kids. Check homework. Meet the teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Children exist because their parents (moms only&alone, in many cases) insisted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n So do right by them.\u00a0 Education lasts a lifetime.\u00a0 Don\u2019t allow ignorance do the same. \u00a0{Proverbs 22:6<\/em>}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading is excellent, inexpensive fun. Portable, reliable, no need to charge. Can even do it for free, at least used to. Haven\u2019t been to the library in a minute(open on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10am to 11:15, and hurry up!) This may surprise you (Other Person, You) but I spent the majority of my recesses … <\/p>\n