[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=The-Shoveler]I think I remember the HS Grad speech,
It was something like
You’er not special, you’er most likely just cogs in the machine.
Welcome to the machine.
Yep I think that was the gist of it
But then again that was in the 70’s and things were a little fuzzy.[/quote]
Funny isn’t it? all those 70s kids could easily get into the machine and work. today the principal at the graduation I attended used the word amazing 10 times to describe the class who will likely be 50 Perc unemployed and avg. 100k in debt in just 4 years.[/quote]
I propose a moratorium on the use of the word “amazing” by those employed by school districts. It has become a throwaway word to use when they can’t think of anything specific to say. There are a lot of wonderful adjectives out there that never get used. I hear a lot of “phenomenal” and “fantastic”. How about honest, responsible, ambitious, curious, persistent, resilient, etc. etc.
My husband has to be out of town for work and may have to miss a middle school “promotion”. I had to stop myself from saying that it wasn’t a big deal because the ceremony is a bit of a farce. Actually, my daughter is playing in the jazz band – which, in my opinion, is good enough to do weddings. Frankly, I think they should do it so that we can cut down the fund raising.
Speaking of jazz, scaredy, are under 21 people permitted at the Temecula jazz performances you were mentioning a few weeks ago?[/quote]
Yeah. amazing should be banned.
I brought my 13 year old to jazz at the Merc a few,weeks ago.
