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1. about 12 hours ago on Luann

   Emotional and physical toll is Much heavier.

2. about 12 hours ago on Luann

   I want her to be a pediatric doctor. Serving with Doctors with out borders or Save the Children.

3. about 12 hours ago on Luann

   Me too.

4. about 12 hours ago on Luann

   Girl scout training here: “Face is pale raise the tail. Face is red, raise the head”. I understand the difficulties of spinal cord injury, but this was taught to me back in the mid 1960’s.

5. 4 days ago on Luann

   There is no universal test to get a driver’s license in the USA. Depends on the state, or if it’s a commonwealth, the county.

6. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   I tell my students it’s to tell if there are gaps in my teaching.

7. 10 days ago on Luann

   I hope she does take the Circus Arts course in Italy. If not in Italy, then a good one in the USA. Clowning is a terrific skill set for a teacher to have. It teaches you to think on your feet and adapt to your audience when things go sideways. Add in improv and you have many of the class control skills needed by an early childhood educator. If she goes for librarianship, she will get a top-notch job as a YA or children’s librarian. True, shell have to get her MLS, but she can work her way through school as a library aid.

8. 9 months ago on Doonesbury

   It may also depend on when, and perhaps what state/commonwealth you were in. Virginia, among other wonderful actions, closed down the schools when desegregation finally got around to being implemented. It was called Massive Resistance. As a white kid, I never had a black teacher until I was in 9th grade. That was in the mid 1970’s.

9. 9 months ago on Wallace the Brave

   Seagull in the ad looks like Mr. Butts

10. 9 months ago on Doonesbury

    Any kid who grew up in the South in the 50’s through the 70’s knows darn well that the War between the States was a “war of economic sanction against the South” or a “war of Northern aggression”. I learned this “fact” in every grade I was in, 1st through 12th. I also remember being asked in first grade what I wanted to be when I grew up. I had two answers 1) a zoo keeper or 2) a horse breeder. I was gently laughed at and told girls couldn’t do such things and then given the choice of 1) teacher 2) secretary 3) nurse, until I got married. Machine learning designer/ Human factors in design (which is one of the things I became) wasn’t on the list. So they were sort of right. I didn’t become a zoo keeper or a horse breeder. Though my husband will tell you I have a zoo… In case it isn’t clear, I do NOT AGREE with the “Lost Cause”. I just grew up with it.