I haven't read Obama's fathers day speech yet, I know I should. But I'm struck by what I've read about it esp in light of his earlier speech on race in America.
Ooh, speaking of politics, I was listening to NPR this morning, not sure what show, maybe Which Way LA? Anyway Scott McClellan was on it. Listening to him is like whoa. He carefully parses the word "lie" in such a way that he can differentiate lying from being "untruthful" and "deceptive." Fascinating. Also fascinating was hearing him hint at his support for Obama. It all felt very Alice Through the Looking Glass to me.
Full-fledged graduation ceremony in 8th grade which made sense to me since, at our school, the class split off so a significant minority (including me) ended up at one of the Catholic high schools, and the rest went to Joliet West (public school). As a result, it really felt like a new phase of my life was beginning.
Then the standard high school and college graduations, but no kindergarten one (or any other grades).
Eighth grade graduation was a pretty big deal; it's a transition into adolescence, and at that point, I had been in school like seven or eight years. But isn't Obama saying not that we shouldn't have the ceremony, but it's no honor if you haven't graduated HS? I mean, he's not directing his comments at high schoolers, right?
ION, Jesse, insent.
Yikes!
weirder still, is that he was kind of a jerk who made fun of me on the bus when we were little, so at the time I wasn't really sorry. He must have, when he was making fun of me, just read myths, because he told me I was so ugly I would turn people to stone by looking at them, like Medusa.
Then, in high school, I was really good friends with his sister for a couple of years.
And then, later still, I became really good friends with his mother.
And then I was more upset, because it really was hard on them as he was very troubled and sad, but very smart.
isn't Obama saying not that we shouldn't have the ceremony, but it's no honor if you haven't graduated HS?
Yeah, that's how I read it. Nothing to do with the ceremony itself, but reminding the kids that they shouldn't consider their 8th grade "graduation" an end point.
I didn't have a graduation until I was 17.
Me neither. I went from public school in 8th grade to private Catholic high school and was really confused (and jealous!) by all the girls who'd gone to Catholic school all along talking about their 8th grade graduations and what a big deal they were.
oh yeah, my comments were nothing to do with Obama's speech. Just that I hate K and 5th graduation ceremonies.
8th grade graduation is just about when we'd be leaving prep school for high, and that was a huge transition. Rocking it with the big kids, small all over again.
Read an inane quote in the elevator about Oprah saying that every (every!) mistake she's made has been because she ignored her inner voice. Yup, she has a 100% inner voice that she has the luxury to ignore from time to time.
How smug.
I should possibly get over that.
well maybe her inner voice has 20-20 hindsight, and likes to say I Told You SO.
