60% of poorest children fail to reach

[sunshine]

good level of behaviour, says study"

If their parents had been educated and not had children at 12 or 13...

[SoGone]

How do they define "good behaviour"? I read some article about how in the 1940's, educators were worried about kids chewing gum in class, not standing in single file lines, etc. Now they're worried about heroin and unprotected sex and AIDS.

[mark]

Yeah, how do you define good behaviour - what's good to one person (helping an old lady cross the street) may be different to someone else (a kid going for a day without burning someone's house down!!!)...

I blame the teachers myself!...

[sunshine]

some parents should be castrated... that would be the end of it

[SoGone]

I'm all for mandatory sterilization of all people who:

- Vote a straight Republican party ticket
- Watch "American Idol"
- Have ever purchased a food labeled "Fat Free," thinking that it's somehow healthier for them


Qualifying for all three categories is grounds for mandatory exile to Pluto (which is no longer a planet).

[mark]

Some people should definitely be castrated, not just parents, a whole variety of pond-life society who pose as human beings!!!!...

[SoGone]

SoGone tends to agree.

[sunshine]

it's the british disease - welsh and scottish are ok)

never let the winter in

[SoGone]

My grand vision of sterilization knows no nationalistic or racial boundaries.

[sunshine]

good

[mark]

[sunshine]

cut it off

[SoGone]

...or at least wrap it up.

[sunshine]

could do