My spouse used to tell me of some of his relatives who, well, into the 20th Century, refused to install a flush toilet in their home. I guess for some who grew up and spent much of their lives with outhouses the notion of performing such functions inside one’s home was disgusting. Perhaps not entirely rational, but understandable in some contexts.
I should also note that these were not the outhouses/latrines typical of summer camps and highway rest stops. These were, I am told, weather tight, decorated much like a modern bathroom, kept clean, and I’m told one family installed a small heater for winter and had a small cistern to provide running water in the sink also installed. Quite sanitary, really. They just didn’t want it in their house.
Their kids, however, opted for more modern arrangements. In their houses. Or double-wides, as applicable.
The mayor of little Alma Colorado was murdered because a resident within the town limits was forced to remove his outhouse and go on the sewer system.
The man then stole a loader and proceeded to destroy the water works, flooding the town in the middle of January. The main road through town was covered in ice.
My father-in-law used to tell a story of how a neighbor installed a BBQ pit in his backyard after the city came through with sewers for his neighborhood. The pit was where the outhouse had been, so he’d joke that now they crapped in the kitchen (apparently the indoor bathroom was installed off of it) and cooked in the crapper.
I think that’s a great idea. Anyone actually familiar with the piece will smile and keep mum when the music teacher announces America, Land of the Awesome, by Seymour Whiteman.
Or find a venue outside the school to play it in. The Streisand Effect would practically guarantee more would hear it than would have had the board not stirred things up.
I agree that the lesson-plan @Chronos proposed is excellent. And also that the right would object to what should be self-evidently unobjectionable (on the grounds you suggest).
As soon as Republicans succeed in destroying the public school system—and they’re doing great in my part of the country (Florida)!—they will surely stamp out every bit of critical-thinking curriculum that may still exist.
I didn’t. I just feel an automatic need to justify posting articles from the NY Post or the Daily Mail any time I do so, because their reputation as trashy scandal sheets is rightly deserved even though they’ve done some surprisingly good reporting a few times recently.
Given that they already had a walk-out, I wouldn’t be surprised if the student performers play it anyway. Which can be followed by the director berating them for not following directions, and explaining why they were specifically prohibited from playing it.
And never mind the fact that ethanol actually requires more fossil fuels to produce than just using straight gasoline.
I didn’t propose it; that’s the actual assignment the teacher gave that had Rep. Foxx in such an uproar.
Oh, and now I’m wondering if I can talk our instrumental music teacher into putting that piece into a concert next fall. A Catholic school performing it should really get right-wing heads to explode.
Not an SRIotD itself, but a consequence of one; the city of Seattle is preparing to declare a state of civil emergency because so many LGBTQ people from red states have relocated here fleeing bigoted legislation that the system is struggling to keep up with their needs.
That was the High School, today the Middle School kids walked out. But only after they ‘escaped’ because the principal had the school locked down and requested extra police to be in the area.
They appear to be framing it as there being an actual threat to the school, but barring a well backed up press release, I feel it’s safe to assume the principal is full of shit. I suppose that just makes this lesson extra realistic for the kids. The admins could have taught them to stand up for what they believe in and shown them how to affect change through non-violent protest (ie walking out of school) but instead taught them to rage against the machine.
Also, I wish these articles would stop using this quote, or at least edit it (or get the person to restate it, if need be).
“I’m just so unbelievably proud of all of these people, a lot of them don’t even fully know the circumstances as to which they’re out here, but just seeing them all out here, these maybe about 200 people, is amazing. Like getting their support for just a band class is the best thing I could have asked for.”
IMO, they need to get rid of the part that says ‘a lot of them don’t even fully know the circumstances as to which they’re out here’. I understand the sentiment, but that’s giving any opposition a great foothold to use they ‘you’re indoctrinating them’ line.
ETA, if anyone likes following along with the facebook drama, here’s the school’s page.