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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMemo to Three Year Old Slackers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-greene/memo-to-three-year-old-slackers_b_5698928.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063To: American Three-Year-Olds
From: America's Education Reform Thought Leaders'
Re: Get to work, you lazy slackers
It has come to our attention that your older brothers and sisters have been showing up to Kindergarten completely unprepared for the requirements of a rigorous education. It is time to nip this indolent behavior in the bud. You probably don't even know what 'indolent" means, do you? Dammit -- this is exactly why Estonia and Singapore are challenging the U.S. for world domination!
It's time for you to understand -- the party is over. We waited patiently for you to get potty trained and weaned off breast feeding on your own schedule, and that was probably a mistake because it led you to believe that you could just do things when you're good and ready. Well, no more. We're on to you. We saw you spend all that time crawling instead of walking because walking was just tooo haaard. Wah, wah, wah. We're done coddling you. The state has a schedule for you, and you are damn well going to get with it. You got to float around all free and easy in your Mommy's non-rigorous womb, and that's enough time off for anyone.
From: America's Education Reform Thought Leaders'
Re: Get to work, you lazy slackers
It has come to our attention that your older brothers and sisters have been showing up to Kindergarten completely unprepared for the requirements of a rigorous education. It is time to nip this indolent behavior in the bud. You probably don't even know what 'indolent" means, do you? Dammit -- this is exactly why Estonia and Singapore are challenging the U.S. for world domination!
It's time for you to understand -- the party is over. We waited patiently for you to get potty trained and weaned off breast feeding on your own schedule, and that was probably a mistake because it led you to believe that you could just do things when you're good and ready. Well, no more. We're on to you. We saw you spend all that time crawling instead of walking because walking was just tooo haaard. Wah, wah, wah. We're done coddling you. The state has a schedule for you, and you are damn well going to get with it. You got to float around all free and easy in your Mommy's non-rigorous womb, and that's enough time off for anyone.
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Memo to Three Year Old Slackers (Original Post)
ashling
Aug 2014
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LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)1. As far as I know, Estonian kids start school at age 7
I have relatives there.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. Very clever.
btw...is Head Start gone?
Was a pretty good program back in the day.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)3. This part is very sadly true:
Look, kid. Everybody wants you to be Kindergarten-ready, so you've got to practice sitting inert, taking senseless tests, and being properly compliant. You need experience in going days at a time without playing, and I'm a little concerned that your napping is getting out of hand. And don't think your teacher is going to let you off the hook -- we know how soft and wimpy she is, and we've taken care of her.