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WCDT: 2006-2010 (5-9 Sep 2011)

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pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Andy147 on 10 Sep 2011, 11:54 ---This is probably a stupid question, but... why did you spoilerify a poem by your mother? What could it possibly be spoiling?
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A whim...  Oh, to avoid distracting from the main point of the post.  Or something.   Don't make me think so late at night!

Wagimawr:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 10 Sep 2011, 14:12 --- oh, you know the joke, fill it in your iSelf.
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iDon't think iDo.

Skewbrow:
The stories of 1hr+ school bus rides to and fro made me realize that we simply adopted a different solution to the problem of educating kids in sparsely populated areas. Build a lot of tiny schools (20 students or less not unheard of). An expensive solution in some ways, and the stories of these old schools being abandoned have been common now that politicians and administrators are sold on the idea of "bigger is better". Surely this has been tried in the U.S. as well (thinking "Little House on the Prairie"), so nothing new there. May be I have just been lucky to live most of my years around a town of roughly 200000. The longest trip to school I've ever had was 13 k : 10-15 minute walk at both ends and a 15minute bus trip in between. By local standards that was an exceptionally long trip (my younger sister only had a 2½ k walk, but I had started at another school, and chose not to transfer when we moved). Proximity of a school was given a lot of weight, when missus and I were shopping for a home.

DSL:
What Skewbrow describes was exactly the case in the  part of Ohio i. Wich I grew up, and in most other areas of the Midwestern US as well. I've seen maps of my township showing a (usually one-room) school building every couple of miles around the middle of the 19th century. Not even the foundation stones remain of most of those buildings. As population grew and more and more became expected of schools ( either from societal want or governmental fiat) the one- room schoolhouse was less able to cut it. I has a bus ride of either five minutes or 45 minutes, depending on which direction Bus 19 ran its route. Sometimes when I knew i wa getting the short (long?) end of the stick and it was a nice day, I walked, and didn't always tell Mom. In the early 80s, it was still a nice walk in the country. With the traffic on that road nowadays, it would be insane.

Akima:

--- Quote from: gangler on 10 Sep 2011, 08:57 ---Then there's the fact that it's a hot drink. Often served more than hot enough for a child to severely burn themselves.
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Really? Seriously? A 13-year-old can't manage a hot drink without burning themselves? I didn't drink coffee at 13, but certainly made and drank tea (OMG she's boiling a kettle! Call Social Services!).

As for the supposed evils of caffeine, parents seem quite happy to let children way younger than 13 guzzle caffeinated, sugar-loaded soft drinks. Chai (simply another word for tea) certainly contains caffeine unless it is some special decaffeinated brew. In places where generally tea is just called "tea", chai normally means spiced tea, and the tea in that is normally quite strong so that its flavour is not covered by the spices. Incidentally, hot chocolate and cocoa also contain caffeine, as does most bar chocolate.

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