Terran Franklin

I saw this article that really caught my eye, and really gave me pause on how much school can get in the way of an education. Especally if the child happened to have a disability (such as Auditory Descrimination or Autism) or—worse—if you were like me as a kid and had Aspergers and nobody even cared to notice.

I’ve talked a lot about my own experiences, where my own ‘major malfunction’ went undiagnosed until well into my thirties. I went from a kindergardener taking classes in the first grade to a sixth grade social promotion case who the principal wishes were his son, “just so he can slap my face”. And I put it in quotes because he actually said that to my face in the cafeteria. That was the extent of what I learned in those six years.

Now take that experience and add shit that even a dominatrix would shudder over. Sure, they’d consider tying people up and restraining them to racks and beds and crap would be de rigor of their work…but would they do that to someone who hasn’t even seen puberty yet?

A Public School principal would. And if they kill somebody, so be it.

Item: Since hearing, states take little action on restraint in schools

This takes the previous horror story of Survivor-like Tribal Councils for a five-year-old—Jeff Probst should sue—and pushes them to the next degree. Never mind having someone stand in the hallway to cool down, a practice I know a lot about. Now they toss kids into closets—we’re taking areas only the janitor should be in folks—for even the most minor of offences. And if they can’t get a kid to sit perfectly still they’ll make them conform to their wishes…by sitting on top of them. Sometimes when they’re face down on the floor!

Note: These might be kids who doesn’t quite got the knack of communicating to anyone, much less an adult, and it goes into the negatives when that adult is an authority figure, and may not be intentionally acting out or causing trouble in the slightest. In their young minds, the teachers are pretty much doing this just out of spite, and with the approval of any peer watching no less.

Another note: If it’s done to a terrorist, it’s a fucking war crime! If you do it to someone in the street, you’re hauled into jail and then a lawsuit gets planted on you! Do it to your own child and it’s abuse! Do you honestly say that it’s all right and perfect for a teacher or a principal to do this to any one 30 years plus younger than him and call it discipline? If you can, then please, for the sake of humanity, kill yourself. And if you work in education and think that, do your immediate supervisor and THEN do yourself. Society has no need for such fucktards.

In the above mentioned article California Rep. George Miller (A Democrat of all people) state that this shit needs to stop, or at least regulated. “Without a fedual Standard to set the bar, it’s the Wild West.”

Sorry, Rep. Miller, but you’re a bit off. We’re not talking Wild West here. We’re talking about this:

Imagine Jack Nicolson younger than 10 in this scene. And believe me, if the schools can get away with ECT and lobotomies to get a kid to be their little sheep, they will.

And in New York, they have!

It’s scenes like this that makes me believe that this inclusion trend to put ‘special’ kids in with the normal class is one of the worst ideas they’d even come up with. Most of the teachers in even the better schools are ill equipped to deal with the kids who have these problems, only to be made to believe, like myself, that he or she is just ‘bad’. And then they had to deal with stuff that only appears in classic movies on mental illness. And you’d wonder why they eventually get a gun.

For more information, with considerable less drama from me, go to http://www.wrightslaw.com/ and look under Abuse and Restraints in Schools. You’ll find that what I said is just the tip of the iceburg, but my comparison is just as apt.

in novel writing, (There’s a review that is soooo getting into Book #2 of BAM, you hear me, Silvia?) I need to remind you that there are dozens of verified hacks that make me look like fucking Shakespeare…and they’re selling like hotcakes.

Here is the writing mindset of one such hack:

Ah, yes, the dreaded Chris-chan method.  And how many kids are mindless enough to give her money for her tripe?  In spite of what happens below my belt when I’m in composition, I have never gone so far as to jerk off with one hand while typing with the other.  God willing, I never will.  I touchtype with all ten fingers.  I write with an IM window or two open as I hash ideas and keep myself honest with, I use more blood and cussing than glitter…and people claim that I make Jesus cry?  And then go over and fap to Twilight and New Moon?

Why am I expecting Meyer to take one look at me, show an repulsed expression and go “Yiff in Hell Furfag” if we ever meet?

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Well, now that NaNoWriMo is done (thank God; I almost fell 2K words short on the last week, and eventually had to put in the legal shit and the comments to just tip that counter over the 50K threshold) I can get back to business as usual, which involves some chatter about the nation and the world around me.

Item:  Honduras

The reason why I keep this Central American country in my radar screen is because I have a friend who lives there.  A friend who’s a rabid Scarlet PI fan and is writing a SPI book of his own.  So I really have a concern where there’s trouble down there.

And trouble came in the form of Manuel Zelaya, the former president there.  He was caught doing a dick move earlier this year, when he attempted to use emergency powers to change the constitution—it’s a democratic republic in Honduras, FYI—to suspend a coming election and give himself an longer term in office.  That’s called ‘Pulling a Chavez,’ after the Venezuelan douchbag who’s balls Zelaya’s sucking.  Or if you’re Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pilosi, something you’d do the first thing from the Oval Office.

The separate and equal branches of the government—remember that Honduras is a republic—refused to go along with Zelaya’s dick move, and when Zelaya just flicked them the bird and declared them meaningless, the government there proved that they’re not like the United Nations whenever a douche visits them.  The Judiciary declared him unfit to rule, and they sicced the military to boot him out, in his Hugo Chavez Underoos, I figure.

Now then, let’s turn away from the butthurt the other Central and South American countries which become Hugo’s bitches for a moment.  (This includes, Eric would be ashamed to admit, Brazil.  Do you really think that the Gracies would stand for someone pulling off a Chavez in their neighborhood.  Not without a couple dislocated limbs and choke-induced amnesia, they won’t.) Honduras’ constitution worked the way it should here.  When someone’s trying to pull off what Zelaya was supposed to do, (The term limit removal, not precisely being Chavez’s fluffer.) they’re going to call them in on it and tell him that you can’t do that, and if he doesn’t listen, kick him out.  It’s probably written in the fine print in their constitution:  Kick Out Anyone Who Becomes An Asshole.

Also, there’s the obvious:  What do you think would happen if Honduras gives in to the Central American consensus, not to mention a good amount of the world, and reinstate Zelaya back on his throne?  Who doesn’t think that this scenario would end up in tears?  Or blood for that matter?

Well, this week, they had their election, and Porfirio Lobo (Wha?  Did Eric have a relative there?) is now president-elect.  It’s more or less official there, even though people still demand that Zelaya be reinstated, who obviously declared Lobo as illegitimate as half of America declared Bush the younger.  (Of course you know what would happen if Zelaya is even temporarily reinstated.  He’ll go back to declaring himself lifetime president and call his followers to kill all the infidels who ousted him.  All to the sound of Chavez’s masturbation.

I’ll restate what I mentioned earlier.  Honduras’s constitution worked the way it should in 2009. Zelaya was becoming a dick, and because he couldn’t follow the rules, had to be ousted.  It was perfectly legal under their constitution to do this, regardless of what the other countries would think.  And if Honduras keeps the balls they showed in the coup, they keep him away from even a remote control, let alone their Oval Office, until Lobo is properly inaugurated.   Remember what your parents said about sometimes you have to do the right thing even though it pisses people off?  There’s a perfect example in Honduras.

Item:  Ba Rock Watch.

We all know what the extreme left wanted out of President Obama.  When Barack got to the Whiskey Hotel at January 20th, they wanted every soldier in both Iraq and Afghanistan leaving those countries, probably dropping all their inventories as tribute and reparations, by January 21st.  They were looking forward to showing the soldiers with their loogies at January 22nd, and were even looking forward to fapping at January 23rd to the tune of Afganistan’s version of the Kamir Rouge, blaming everyone in America for it as they come.  Some even had orgasms over Gitmo closing by Feburary so that they can have the show trials earlier than our current schedule, even to the point of kowtowing to their feet in the belief that they won’t slice the throats of someone so harmless as someone who’s licking their boots at the time.

(Sound like something I just pulled out of my ass?  I’ve just described Cindy Sheenan, folks.)

And then they wonder by December why nobody’s even showing up to save them from the next terrorists attack.  What happened in Fort Hood’s still up in the air.  I’m defining a fully-fledged ‘terrorists attack’ as something the size of 9-11, where civilians are targeted.  Fort Hood was just a crazy person shooting at soldiers, as horrific as that seems.  It doesn’t have the same shock of, say, him strapping bombs to himself and blowing himself up in Cowboys Stadium on a Sunday Afternoon.

Not even the Shrub’s that stupid to do something like that.  And definitely not someone like Barak Obama.  He doesn’t want to be a wartime president, no argument with me there, and he no doubt wants his boys to come home to a better welcome than what the soldiers got in the Seventies.  Even Barack wants kids to consider the military as a career to some extent.  (Remember what I said about the real reason why I didn’t serve?)  But he knows that America won’t stand for the status quo for an extended stretch of time with no end in sight.  Not even War Hawks want that.

So yesterday (1 Dec 09), despite the usual subjects in the extreme left caterwauling in the tubes, much like what some trolls wail about me putting books on Lulu,  (Honestly, I think Michael Moore tries to get me to stop writing and drawing on the web ‘for the betterment of the world’ when he’s not having another attack of Bush Derangement Syndrome.  The asshole.) Barack announced that he has approved of 30K more troops to be sent to Afghanistan to fight Al-Queda; an Afgan version of Iraq’s troop surge.  He also declared that he is planning the exit strategy in the future.  2011 is the benchmark, but he did say that he’ll move it if circumstances permit.

Boring that he is that night—especially when he’s letting the teleprompter doing the talking—at least he’s doing something that’s somewhat sensible.  He’s not pulling out all at once, although even I have to admit, you can’t just go wage war forever.

I just hope that, between now and 2011, we actually get that rat bastard Bin Ladin.  Hey, you’ll never know.  Remember how we finally got Saddam?