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Memory is tricksy. Especially "earliest" memories! By their very nature, I think we tend to remember remembering them (and perhaps relating them to others in the past) more than we remember them directly. Or maybe that's just me.
My earliest memory (I think) is a scary dream. Here's how I currently remember it.
I'm in a crib. There's a lot of lightning or some kind of flashing. There's also some sort of music playing. Along the windowsill there is a row of owls dancing in sync with one another. From across the room, a human-sized Sylvester the cat is walking towards my crib. I'm scared.
That's all I can really say. Since I was in a crib I think it's a pretty damned early memory. I certainly don't have any other crib memories.
My uncle always says his earliest memory is a single clear image of his hand sticking a fork into an electrical socket.
I think 2 is a pretty normal age for longterm memory to tentatively take hold. My oldest non-nightmare memory is holding up my thumb and first two fingers and saying "one day I'm gonna be THIS old!" and my mom agreeing, but somehow I felt that hand gesture represented a number much larger than 3.
Ah yes. They do say that things are always a little different than how you remember them. Crazy, I could have sworn I remembered all sorts of plots and stuff.
My earliest memories usually have pictures relating to the event. The earliest one that comes to mind was my parents trying to put me on top of a boulder to pose for a scenic picture but I was scared out of my mind about being on top of a perilous rock without being held even though my mother was right below at the angle that I would like roll off. Then I remember being fascinated by the structure of a small succulent plant that was growing on top of the rock because it was the first time I had seen one.
Actually, I've just remembered being at nursery school (kindergarten for most of you). That's probably an earlier memory than Calbrena winning.
I'm trying to remember something earlier, but I'm not getting anything. I have lots of memories of nursery though, from making pasta shakers to drawing loads of pictures (I had my own gallery down the stairs) and visits from road safety awareness groups.
smeared ink wrote:To a large degree, that is true of private education in general.
i can understand wanting to have your kid in a place where the other kids have a sense of having something to lose as opposed to being in a place where there are a higher proportion of kids with little to lose that could influence your kid into fucking things up.
wanna study vs. wanna have an unprotected gangbang and pass the video around school.
not to say that private schools and public school don't both have bad influences, but the sense of probability is real.
in the private schools it'd probably be a lot of pill popping though...
I think the real problem with having private schools is it means that rich people don't put their kids into public schools, and public things that rich people aren't involved in don't get very much funding. Therefore public schools get worse, further justifying this idea that you have to put your kids into private school if you have the money. It's a shitty self-fulfilling prophecy.
smeared ink wrote:I think the real problem with having private schools is it means that rich people don't put their kids into public schools, and public things that rich people aren't involved in don't get very much funding. Therefore public schools get worse, further justifying this idea that you have to put your kids into private school if you have the money. It's a shitty self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well what I find odd is that private schools are still entitled to a certain amount of public funding as well. If it was full on private and rich folk taxes are going to public education as well and they pay big bucks for private school for their own kids without cutting into public funding then I don't have so much of a problem.
Rich people are bad. I reject your thesis that they will behave better because they "have something to lose." On the contrary, they know they probably won't face consequences.
Lord Golbez wrote:Rich people are bad. I reject your thesis that they will behave better because they "have something to lose." On the contrary, they know they probably won't face consequences.
Outliers in every category. Can't judge a class by its worst example.
Erik, was the average parental household income in your high school likely higher or lower than students in the east side school?
Now, compare drug use, pregnancy, and pipings/violence between the two. Wife went to east side school, saw a piping every couple months where some kid would get fucked up by a rival batch. Saw knocked up drop outs and misc stoner. I can attest to much of the same at my own school growing up. What was your experience?
I would love for rich folks' perceptions to be completely wrong, but without going into statistical analysis that I won't bother to do I couldn't really fully argue against that bias.
I've always seen it as "urban problems". I went to a tiny rural highschool where everyone knew everyone, and while we had a few jerks, there weren't really any gangs or significant bullies. Nobody ever offered me any drugs, and I don't even think there was anything harder than Marijuana going around.
On the other hand, our class selection was pretty slim.
