Re: Global warming and your garden

In article <Xns9AA47C1306D88enigmaempirenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 enigma <enigma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:wildbilly-CF1E80.07123720052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ct.net.au: 
> 
> > Indeed. I was a poor learner until I found something I
> > wanted to learn. 
> 
> and i was bored silly. i was reading before i was three, & 
> reading my father's Master's textbooks by the time i was 4. my 
> parents got the NY school system to accept me for Kindergarten 
> when i was 4. in NY, i was pretty much allowed to read what i 
> wanted when the other kids were learning, but when we moved to 
> MA when i was in 2nd grade things went bad fast. that school 
> allowed no variation from the norm. i was punished for writing 
> cursive, for reading anything but the baby texts, for working 
> ahead in the math book. when my teacher took my copy of Arthur 
> C. Clarke's Childhood's End away for being inappropriate & 
> even refused to return it to my mother (mom bought me a new 
> copy), i'd gave up on school. at age 6 i told that teacher i 
> didn't need school & i didn't need her. i could learn & do 
> anything i wanted and she couldn't stop me. that didn't go 
> over well... :)
>  i fought the school system from then on & i vowed i'd never 
> subject a child of mine to that mind-numbing, stifling 
> blandness. schools have only become worse since i attended.
> lee

  Any chance anyone knows the teacher of the year from New York city 
that touched on similar themes. I'd guess 1975 +- 5.  There is a 
wonderful paper about but I am at a loss to find it.

 Bill

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