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If Haysi Fantayzee had never released another record they would
have been assured of Pop immortality on the strength of their hard-to-forget
rendition of John Wayne Is Big Leggy on BBC TV's Top Of The Pops
in August 1982. The song, an alleged debate between John Wayne and
his squaw on how to solve the marital problem posed by the size
of his stomach, deliberately left the final detail of the solution
they arrived at blank in its lyric: "People kept saying we
were writing nonsense lyrics but we didn't explain anything because
if they knew it wouldn't get played." (Kate Garner), but when
Kate and her partner Jeremiah appeared live on 'Top Of The Pops'
the nation was left in no doubt whatever about the technique they
were suggesting the late cowboy employed in order to oblige his
squaw. "By the time people found out what it was about, it
was too late for the radio to stop playing it and too late for people
to stop buying it." (Jeremiah Healy).
In fact, John Wayne Is Big Leggy reached the edge of the British
Top 10 before drooping (sorry...DROPPING) down the chart and provided
a successful debut single for both Haysi Fantayzee and the newly
formed Regard record label. Above all, those TV appearances imprinted
the Haysi Fantayzee image quite indelibly upon the public consciousness.
Kate Garner and Jeremiah Healy were, for one reason or another,
the kind of people you just didn't forget in a hurry. Kate, all
slender exposed flesh and tarantula dreadlocks, and Jeremiah, the
Oliver Twist waif with snake hips and a leering invitation to commit
some kind of offence, presented an image like no Pop duo had ever
done before.
Add to this the fascination of a third 'mystery' member -Paul Caplin-
writing and playing all the music yet never appearing in publicity
shots (the one exception being the Holy Joe picture disc where he
completes the Unholy trio) and it is hardly surprising that Haysi
Fantayzee were everybody within the music business' tip for stardom
before they had done much more than pose for photographs.
Haysi Fantayzee were formed early in 1981 by model Kate and her
musician boyfriend Paul -at the time trying to get away from EMI
band Animal Magnet- with the idea of trying to draw together elements
of Pop, Reggae, Jazz, Disco, and Rap musical styles and packaging
the resulting stew with a strong individual image that got away
from the general blandness of the current music scene. At first
this image was intended to rely on Kate's obvious sexyness using
it, not in a coy way like all the other female singers, but openly
and unashamedly: "I like eating and drinking and I love sex.
I can't see what all the fuss is about. They're all perfectly natural
functions- people should enjoy sex instead of being afraid of it."
(Kate Garner).
The game plan was that Paul would remain in the background with
Kate projected as the star, but it quickly became obvious that even
this was not enough to give their music a wide appeal.
Meeting up with Jeremy Healy provided the missing ingredient for
Haysi Fantayzee. Jeremy- soon to be Jeremiah- Healy was 19, seven
years younger than Kate and Paul and had been at school with none
other than George O'Dowd (himself soon to be Boy George, of course)
in South London and shared with ex-school chum George a strong interest
in fashion and aspirations to be a singer and star, not necessarily
in that order. With his white dread plaited hair and eccentric Hillbilly
style of dress, Jeremiah had his own individual visual impact and
his snake-like body provided a male mirror image of Kate which would
give Haysi Fantayzee universal sex appeal.
Through the second half of 1981 and the first half of 1982, the
trio began writing songs and, above all, establishing the Haysi
Fantayzee image from which all else including the music would take
its cue. Dressed as His and Hers dreadlocked Dickensian waifs (with
a touch of fetishism on the side) in clothes designed by Kate, Haysi
Fantayzee were getting features in the music press without having
played a note in public and the visual impact of the front duo was
fully exploited to obtain a recording contract.
Haysi Fantayzee are possibly the first recording artists in the
history of the industry to obtain a contract largely on the strength
of their impact on video rather than on the live stage or demo disc.
Shrewdly, producer/musical director Paul Caplin and manager Graham
Ball decided that Kate and Jeremiah had to be seen as well as heard
and made a low-budget video of the song Shiny Shiny and took that
round to the record companies along with a wad of publicity shots
rather than the conventional demo disc.
It was difficult to ignore the scantily-clad Kate or the gyrating
Jeremiah and several companies offered expensive studio time tryouts
in order to keep Haysi Fantayzee interested in signing for them.
The group took everything they were offered and held out for the
best deal to come along. Even a rumor that David Bowie had expressed
an interest in producing them failed to lure them into the arms
of a record company until, to the surprise of all, Haysi announced
that they had signed a deal not with one of the major lables interested
in them, but with a brand new company that had yet to release it's
first single- Regard.
For that first single the song John Wayne Is Big Leggy was chosen
as an 'A' side. Although widely thought to be a nonsense song, John
Wayne bore all the hallmarks of Haysi Fantayzee and, in particular,
it's lyric writer Jeremiah.
Above all it was fun and it was related to sex and also anti-Americanism
and anti-Hero worship. Anti-Americanisn and anti-hero worship being
Jeremiah's own special obsessions.
The direct inspiration for John Wayne the anti-tribute was the
book Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger, which among other things,
revealed cowboy star John Wayne to have been a man of fairly extreme
right-wing and racist views. This, combined with the fact that John
Wayne figures as a hero for so many Americans, inspired Jeremiah
to write a song ridiculing America's hero as grotesquely as possible.
As expected, John Wayne was a hit and Regard were quick to follow
it with another Haysi single- Holy Joe- but, despite the momentum
of the first hit, an attractive picture disc, and a video, Holy
Joe failed to make any real impression on the charts. A failure
which critics were keen to attribute to a lack of musical substance
in the Super Image group but which Kate blamed on production rather
than any lack of original ideas. "We had a lot on the demo
of the single which was left out. We had lots of High Life guitar
which was chopped out."
Critics were soon silenced, however, when Haysi hit again with
their best song to date -Shiny Shiny- and proved that they were
capable of much more than one novelty song by making an LP of their
own compositions.
Without needing to rely too much on its (excellent) video, Shiny
Shiny repeated the success of John Wayne. Like the earlier song,
there was more to Shiny Shiny than the nursery rhyme chorus.
"'Shiny Shiny' is about the aftermath of the bomb dropping
but it's done in a very flippant way." (Kate Garner).
Such an attitude is typical. Haysi Fantayzee are mostly about having
fun and not worrying too much.
"There are too many people in this country moaning on about
things. It's time we started enjoying ourselves." (Kate Garner).
The spontaneous approach that characterises Haysi Fantayzee's lifestyle
and career is well ilustrated by Jeremiah's explanation of their
first album's apparently significant title.
"We were on a radio show and they asked us what our first
album was going to be called. I hadn't a clue but everybody was
looking at me for the answer. I had to come up with something very
Hence, the first Haysi Fantayzee album became BATLE HYMNS FOR CHILDREN
SINGING. What does it mean? Not even its inventor knows or cares.
And that's typical Haysi Fantayzee.
Haysi Fantayzee may not be stretching the borders of pop music
as an art form but they are having a lot of fun being pop stars
and doing their best to communicate some of that fun through their
music. An attitude perfectly summed up by Kate's comment on the
reaction to John Wayne Is Big Leggy during their first venture into
the America that made him its hero in December 1982.
"I don't think they really understood the words, but it was
good to see them happy."
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I Love Bees Game a Surprise Hit
Following Wednesday's third presidential debate, an out-of-place poster with a large cartoon image of a grinning bee appeared on the wall of a room packed with spinmeisters brandishing Bush-Cheney and Kerry-Edwards signs.
Most people who saw it on CNN that night probably didn't even notice it, but fans of a game called I Love Bees knew it was a shout out to them from a team of the game's players at Arizona State University, the site of that evening's debate.
I Love Bees is the latest and perhaps most ambitious of the growing genre known as alternate-reality games. In it, widely dispersed players coordinate to find and answer thousands of ringing pay phones all across the United States and provide correct answers to recorded questions.
When all the answers have been supplied, the latest episode in an internet-based War of the Worlds-esque radio serial is unlocked and made available to its rabid fans.
"I think it's a new form of interactive entertainment that is still in its infancy," Steve Peters, who runs ARGN, the leading clearinghouse for information and discussion about alternate-reality games, said of I Love Bees. "It's a new way of storytelling. We've had novels and movies, and these things kind of blur the lines of fiction and in some ways invade the real world."
For those who obsessively play I Love Bees, the point is to take part in the creation and distribution of the radio drama. To do so, players log onto the game's website each week to find the latest clues and a list of the pay phones that will be called."
The site lists the GPS coordinates for each phone and the time it will be called. More than a million unique visitors have come to the I Love Bees website, the game's designers said.
Six main characters from the year 2552 prepare for a great war in the storyline. Each time a player correctly answers a pay-phone question, he or she is treated to 30 seconds of new material. Over the course of the game, the plot unfolds, revealing a menacing alien army that threatens 26th-century Earth and only intervention from the past can help.
The most exciting element of the game for some players is the possibility that they will get one of the rare live calls in which the drama's actors talk to whoever answers the phone and then incorporate the conversation into the show itself.
"It was very odd and very cool," said a San Francisco player named Lenore, known among the game's players as hmrpita. "Because you've been getting recordings all this time, and it was quite different to speak with a voice actor. She was pretty good. I got really into it, probably too into it. I felt like the characters were real."
One of the consistent elements of alternate-reality games is the so-called curtain that maintains players' suspension of disbelief, even as they take part in futuristic dramas. The first alternate-reality game was a multimedia creation called Beast in which players entered the world of Steven Spielberg's film AI in 2001.
Since the advent of that game, the genre has grown to the point that often four or five games might run at any one time. In each case, the games' designers take players on a journey that usually requires web-based sleuthing, coordination with others in faraway places and the willingness to do weird things in public.
"We're going all out on this," said Preston Thorne, an I Love Bees player from Boise, Idaho, who goes by the in-game name Lt. Weephun. "On the last one, we needed 250 people. We were short. We weren't getting anywhere near that. So we headed out to the mall, found a pay phone and got (strangers) to stand around and salute (for photos). Here in Boise, we got 60-plus people to stand around the pay phone and salute."
It's interactivity like that that makes endless 20-hour days worthwhile to I Love Bees' designers, who insisted on anonymity.
"The thing that makes this form of art interesting and unique is that it depends upon a collective audience," said one of the designers, who called himself Puppetmaster 2. "It evokes a shared community who talk together and puzzle together and try to figure out what's going on, and become immersed in the world and the story.... This experience goes on for three months. It's pervasively in your life, so the suspension of disbelief is a bubble that extends out in the rest of your life and the rest of the community."
To Thorne, who became notorious to many of the game's players for figuring out where the Sleeping Princess, one of the characters, was hiding and then turning her in, keeping the curtain in place is crucial.
"The instant I went from Preston Thorne, trying to play a game and answering a bunch of telephones, to Lt. Weephun, crew member of the Apocalypso helping Melissa complete her mission, it was a huge epiphany, and it made the game a lot more fun," he said. "And if we had any direct communication with the Puppetmasters, it would be less fun."


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When they return to classes next month, Albany public school students will face new restrictions on clothing and cellphones. What do you think of the changes in the school district's code of conduct?  Read story.
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Why not?! School is a business- dress semi decently and why would you be on a cell phone druing class anyway? Too lax- and please pull up your pants!!
Are such rules needed? Undoubtedly! But, I am 100% certain that when the teachers enforce the rules (spending inordinate time doing so), there will be significant opposition by the students, who will refuse to adhere to them. When referred to the next level (middle administration) for enforcement, the student will either be sent back with "slap on the wrist" or the teacher will be told to deal with it without administrative involvement. The teacher will then get a reputation of "complainer" by administration, who will make teaching even more difficult. The teacher would then suffer transfer, reassignment or possibly termination for actually enforcing the rules. Eventually the rules will be ignored or glossed over ( just like the cell phone rule for drivers). How am I so certain? I taught for 34 years and saw this type of action several times each year!
How about something important like morals, conduct, etiquette…
Why not require that everybody attends school naked? Everyone would be equal, no place to carry a cell-phone and some of those wide-loads I see coming out of the school might actually get in shape.
Are we talking about school or prison? Students need to dress a particular way in order to be accepted by their peers. Everyone has a cell phone now days. If employers allow them why not the schools? Are the schools downsizing? Teachers want to teach – not police.
What took so long? Why on earth has it taken this long to enforce code of conduct procedures followed by just about every other HS in the state? The comment from the blogger about responsiblity..I can't stand when people are defeated before trying. Quit whining, at least it's a start…
I think its about time. If the kids dress with clothes that fit them maybe they might act like adults. There should be no phones during class. If there is an emergency call the school like everyone else used to do
It's about time. When these kids get out of school 99% of the places they go to work are going to have some type of dress code. Whether it be fast food or an office. Might as well get used to it. As far as the cellphones go they should be made to be kept in their locker. There is no need for some to have a cell phone or Blackberry during the school day.
As far as comment number 5, if everyone dresses the same then there is no need to dress to be accepted by their peers because their peers will be following the same guidelines. And with that said they aren't requiring students to wear uniforms just asking them to dress more respectable. Also, employers allow cell phones because it's part of business. When they aren't part of business not all employers allow them… my family runs a restaraunt where they are not allowed to be used unless on break.
Go a step further: school uniforms.
I bet most of the people here went to school in the pre-cell phone days. If you wanted to make a phone call it was at a bank of pay phones and you only had a few minutes to make those call, but who where you calling? I don't see any problem with no cell phone use. Obviously, if somebody is taking over the school 911 would be a wise choice of calls to make. You don't need to texting somebody in the middle of history class!
Dressing. Wow, if I wore my pants down around my butt (keyword is down, being under) my folks would have kick it. Why are these boys .. can't call them young men yet since most them still act like children. Do any of them know that they're embracing a prison culture dressing like that? Its not cool and personally its kinda disgusting for obvious reasons. Why is it prison culture, well being if you where in prison you get no belt for it can be used as a weapon or to hang ones self. Thus the pants hang low. Guess somebody thought this would be a cool idea, I'd say they guessed wrong.
Girls, once again .. not young women because some of them can't act right. They should dress more tastfully. Leaving more to the imagination is the besting thing. Guessing drives guys crazy! You can dress tastfully without being labeled a prude! You can still look cute without looking trashy.
The comment from #3 "How about something important like morals, conduct, etiquette…" That should have been taught at home! You should at the high school level by then know how to solve things without resorting to violence (anger management). This little rule not only applies to physics but life as well and it's 'for ever action there is an equal opposite reaction.' Some of this mess can't be blamed on the school but rather the parents and then some on the state. You can't disipline your child like you could 20-30 years ago.
But Kudos to the school .. I hope they can keep things enforced and not let it slack!
This whole ordeal about setting codes of conduct is a long awaited direction for making Albany City Schools compliant with the rest of society. Being disadvantaged economically shouldn't equal government handouts. Ever since our country's founding in 1776, the goal was to earn your place in the world and defend our freedom. There are lot of good kids that do what they are supposed to do and go to school and learn. If the others want to act like criminals, expel them and send them to a boot camp, it will be the greatest lesson they can learn since they are not getting it at home. When we stop worrying about criminals, maybe we can invest an already high tax dollar rate to the kids who go beyond their goals, and wind up finding themselves as citizens. Those are the kids we need to reward, not punks who carry cell phones, blackberry's, dress for filth and carry weapons to harm others. Until Albany gets its act together as a district, it should enforce strict discipline and force students to comply with the code of conduct and laws of our society or send them to Iraq. Enough already with the "poor me" attitudes we read about. No cell phones, no electronic devices allowed in a classroom paid by TAXPAYERS and no dressing like a bunch of criminals. Go to school to learn, otherwise get a job at a fast food restaurant or laundromat and talk all you want. Ridiculous. Grow up Albany!
#4, nice. Racism on the TU blogs? No way, but fatphobia is just peachy. Fat students in high school are ridiculed enough.
Are you people serious. There are bigger issues going on here! You all want to start from the outside. It's what's inside that counts and will help define how you dress and act. Albany does a terrible job of getting the best out of, yes, underprivileged children. Let's show these children that it's worth getting an education by offering them real jobs in this community. I go ever where and it seems like there should be a sign posted stating "no minorities need apply…because we WON'T hire you." Children need to feel good about themselves and when they do it will show in their appearance. It seems that these children that are dressing like "criminals" (what does a criminal dress like?) should be given a fighting chance. Stop worrying about what's on the outside. Stop treating these children like they're criminals.
Read letter #2 again and you will know EXACTLY what will happen.
I was employed at the Albany High School library for 32 years (retired in June 2006). The no cellphone rule was constantly violated by many students. A confrontation often occurred when a faculty or staff member asked the student to put the cellphone away. The no coats in the classroom was constantly violated too. Students refused to put their coats in assigned lockers. This often led to confrontations in the classroom or hallway. Some teachers avoided confrontations by not enforcing the rules. After all, they are there to teach and not confront. Besides, teachers seldom receive the necessary support from school administrators. I was a librarian who enforced the rules. I was not afraid to confront students who violated school rules. I asked or had many disruptive students escorted from the libray. I seldom relied on administrators… . From 2004 – 2006 I was no longer a high school librarian. Instead, I was a library bouncer. You have no idea how many students skip classes and try to sneak into the library for refuge. You have no idea how disrespectful and mean-spirited some students can be when they are asked to obey school rules. You have no idea how many times administrators allow disruptive students to circumvent school rules because they fear a backlash from the community. I witnessed the decline of Albany High School: dummy down curriculum; unenforceable rules; lip service to appease the community; fights; verbal confrontations between students and staff; weak administrators; some weak teachers; low employee morale; etc. Teachers and staff who expressed a genuine concern about the decline at high school faculty meetings, Bored (misspelling is intentional) of Education meetings, labor / managements meetings, etc. were punished by the administration. Usually they were transferred to another job within the district or denied tenure. It is easy to sit at a Bored meeting and discuss the code of conduct for the new school year. It is not easy to enforce them. It is very, very difficult to enforce rules when so many students are intent on violating them. It makes a teacher or staff member want to retire or leave the district earlier than planned.
Lets stop worrying about the clothes and worry about safety…real safety…an adult could wear a long shirt and that doesnt mean a thing! Honestly lets worry about paying attention to the kids falling between the cracks at our schools and leave the attire to the parents discretion. These kids know their school in and out…ways to get out without getting caught…ways to skip and no one calls the parents because there are no resources for the district to have people on top of that. We drop our kids off at school and they enter the building…that makes them the schools responsibility yet the get away with doing nothing, skipping classes during the day or just plain sneaking out for the rest of the day. I wish i could afford private schools i really do.
I work in a small country school in the lunch line as a cashier. We have a similar cell phone-dress code. My daughter told me it was semi-enforced the first year of it's exstance. Now with the explosion of texting, no one seems to bother the kids and their phones. You have got to wonder how many of those kids are texting the answers of test questions back and forth??? I see clothing violations all the time that are disgusting. If I stop to report them each time, I get yelled at by the principal for not getting the kids through the lunch line fast enough. I am not allowed to refuse to serve a child a lunch, so I can't refuse a child a lunch tray because of how they are dressed. You figure the problem out! There is not suport for these rules because it is easier to ignore them they figure.
I am just thankful that my daughter does not try my patience in this area and dresses properly and has not looked to bring her cell phone to school. Thank you, kiddo, for being the best!
Well now since this is happening.
There need's to be some classes on the history of thuggism in this
country and maybe this could stop the gang activity.
My opinion is this: I witnessed the decline of Albany High School over the past 30 + years. Students became / are disrespectful toward teachers and staff. They did not / do not see high school as a stepping stone toward social mobility and economic independence. They are easily influenced by gangsta rappers / heavy rock musicians who encourage them to rebel against authoritative figures (like teachers, staff and administrators. Some students become what they hear, see, read, etc. Poverty influences their behavior. However, past generations have lived in poverty (too) and were able / capable of overcoming their social and economic plight. Why? Because they wanted to. Education was a means to improve yourself. Teachers need to be challenged by their students, peers and administrators. Good teachers (also) challenge their students, peers and administrators. Weak administrators feel threatened by good teachers. They are challenged by good teachers to perform their administrative duties well. Albany High School has many good teachers and some bad teachers. The bad teachers are assigned to teach bad students (simplistic! I know). However, some good teachers are assigned bad students because they are (being) punished by weak administrators. This is the real (Albany School district) world. This is NOT a movie where a good teacher is assigned to teach bad students and they all pass the Regents' exams and go on to college to become: doctors, lawyers, police, firefighters, plumbers, electricians, etc. The school district's reformers are NO different from their predecessors. They practice nepotism too. They hire unqualified / under-qualified / qualified people too. They sometimes hire people who have no connection to the community. Sometimes they hire people based on their race and not their qualifications. Obviously, this does NOT pertain to everyone. But I see a trend based on community pressure. The community is pressuring the school district to hire people based on their race. The community is pressuring the school district to amend their code of conduct so fewer students are suspended from school. Their behavior is unacceptable for an educational institution. But the consequences are less severe. So! The suspension rate is lowered. The State Education Dept. reports that there are lower rates of suspension at Albany High School. The community believes that the district is doing a good job. Not! The rules have been changed; not the suspendable behavior. The Board can say to the community that we have made positive changes. They are re-elected. The Superintendent can say that I am on top of things. So her contract is extended for another 4 years. And everyone pretends that the worse is over. Not! Albany High School is a ghetto school. I am a native Albanian. I worked at Albany High School for 32 years. My heart is broken. I just hope that you believe me vs. the district's public relations dept.
P.S.: I won't be subbing ever.
Iften yew home skooled yer kids like us, thay would be proper Christens and yew woodn't have to wory bout skool violins.
I fear for the first person to try to take a cell phone from a student. Better have an ambulance ready. Who will ENFORCE that? How about Dr Joesph?
Who are you calling during school? Dress code is great. What has to be showing to be indecent? I thought underwear showing was public indecency. NO ONE wants to see your "dirty drawers"!
FASHION? How about decency- cover it up!! That is morals and proper social behavior.
#10 MrBig- I agree with you in that it "SHOULD" be done at home, but obviously, it hasn't been getting done.
#20 Iknow- LOL, that was great…
#20 Kids are now using musicial violins as weapons. They play that bad? The sound is breakin' my eardrum! Anyhow, thanks for the phonetics lessen (misspelling is unintentional).
It's the fashion industry that needs to be targeted – not the students. Cell phones can be hidden and set to vibrate instead. Kids are smart. They know how to fool adults. Whats going to happen if a student gets caught with a cell phone anyway? Detention – extra homework – parent/student conference – no recess – dont allow the student back into class? If there is going to be a punishment then the teacher has to meet with the parents first and if the parents dont want to meet with the teacher or dont show up – then the teacher cant punish the student. Not only will the teachers be policing the students but they will have to deal with fighting parents. Soon teachers are going to be required to wear bullet proof vests.
Ultimately the teacher is punished. Read #2, #15, #19. These were written by 2 Albany High School teachers with over 65 years of experience. These are true experiences and factual information. The opinions are based on experiences. Trust me!
Yep, damn fashion industry ! They've got to stop including knives, guns, drugs and gang membership propaganda with their clothes…
Hell, the kids can't be blamed, when they put these clothes on, they just go nuts-O !!!
Madeline – Any 15 or 16 year old who is obese, is not getting the exercise that a normal child of that age should be getting just by being a kid. If they are vegging out in front of a TV eating high fat food until they can't fit in the chair, then they need a kick in the butt. Old age and the and increasing girth that naturally occur don't need a head start in the young that will seriously interfear with their ability to reach old age. Their tender feelings will be small comfort when their heart seizes up in their forties.
Seems to me that all this is a distraction from the real issue(s).Obviously school administrators must show the powers to be that they are making an attempt at solving the problems they have.What I have yet to see is any attempt to REALLY do something.What I feel needs to happen is to get the parents involved.These kids who are the problem are the responsibility of the parents and NO one else.That my friends is where the answer lies.No easy task I know,however until the parents are held accountable for their lack of parental control over their children this problem will never be solved.Yes there are other underlining issues.Yes there are kids having kids,yes kids are using more violent ways to solve problems,yes there are gang issues,and we can go on and on.It all goes back to the parents.There is no way around it.All the after school programs,church functions,dress codes,cell phone bans,etc.,etc,will solve nothing when these kids have no direction from home.When dad is in jail and mom is smoking crack or drinking can we really expect anything different.Most of these troubled kids are mothered by a welfare recipient.So let's start there.How about when you apply for welfare you no longer can have kids.NONE!!!if you do you lose your crack money,oh I mean your monthly stipend.How about mandatory drug testing on a weekly basis,or better yet,randomly.How about making it mandatory to have or obtain a ged.You see there are solutions.Yes I know some would feel civil rights are being violated but that would be better than what is happening now.The cliche about beggars can't be choosy very much applies to this situation.Let's not forget about dads now either.If it can be clearly demonstrated that they are not fulfilling their responsibilities and are making kids like a factory and welfare is paying for them than lets solve that problem permanently.There is a procedure that can be done and if and when the time comes that they become responsible it could be reversed.Yes I'm sure some bleeding heart liberals are reading this thinking that civil rights are being trampled on.Well let's here their thoughts.The ones that are being tried now and are failing.The answers to problems like this aren't going to be easy.There are no quick fixes.We must begin to think outside of the box.People who have lived like these kids and have broken free are more likely where the answers will come from.I myself speak from that side and have some understanding to the problems that these kids are facing.It is not my intent to offend with these words only to spark some serious debate on this issue.
Have you seen the way some of the teachers dress? Some look like they just got out of bed and went straight to work. Kids arent looking at very good examples in the classroom. I dont know if Im talking to a parent or a teacher.
Clothes doesn't make the person. I'd be more concern about their educational background, experience, professional development, teaching methodology, social skills / interaction with students, etc.
Einstein needed a haircut. Whitman needed a shave. Mother Jones didn't wear makeup. Gandhi wore sandals. Mother Teresa's clothes looked the same everyday. Pope wears a dress. Winston Churchill wore rumpled clothing. Jesus would have made Mr. Blackwell's list every year of his devoted life.
Many kids aren't looking at very good examples or role models at home.


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3. "New Left versus New Media? Latin American Encounters with Social(ist) Media," Russell St Clair Cobb, Univ. of Alberta
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