“Your Child Can Read”

Has got to be the lamest thing ever. It reminds me of Pavlov’s Bell. There is no way that something as remarkable as a child reading before they can talk is only going to be 14.95 first of all. Second of all, they’re not reading. They’re being conditioned to do the things on the card. Real reading requires looking at the letters of words and putting the sounds together. I can garauntee that if you put a different word than the words provided on the cards, those kids will be lost and thus prove that this does not make your child read. I don’t know why this is making me so… frustrated. I think it has to do with the fact that this company is PREYING on the uneducated of language acquisition and the ways children learn to read and write, but alas, not everyone can be teachers.

So I’m watching tosh.o and i had to share with you what clip they just showed. It was disgusting but it reminded me of my sister and my trips to the zoo where the monkeys whip out their junk and play with it. Well this clip was of Elephants. This one elephant stuck his trunk in the other elephants butt and pulled out poo and ate it. I am so glad that I have never seen that in person. I think die of disgust and laughter. Sorry for the graphic thing, but that made me laugh, pretty hard. Otherwise this tosh.o show on comedy central is kinda lame. It’s really lame actually, but there is nothing else on and I am lazy and don’t want to find the remote to change the channel. I’m writing.

Cal Poly decided to cancel all of the summer classes in order to try to save money in light of the California Budget crisis. I can see where some people are angry. People rely on their summer courses to get pre-reqs out of the way, or because they need just that one last class in order to graduate. I understand that. But what makes me angry in reading the student responses to this is that what the students don’t realize that if they don’t cut summer courses, our fees can and probably would tripple. Cal Poly is one of the cheapest “good” CSUs. I understand why the school did what they did. I wasn’t relying on the summer courses, but I know MANY who were. The students are going to complain either way because they are selfish and want things to not change, but change is inevitable. If they want a school to go to still they must realize something must change. Either fees skyrocket or classes get cancelled. Students aren’t the only ones that are frustrated by these budget cuts. I am struggling to find affordable health insurance in these tough times, with no luck. Jobs are being cut left and right because if there are no students on campus, jobs will be cut.  So my message is simple in dealing with this budget issue – cal poly cancelling classes crisis: STOP COMPLAINING! IT’S INEVITABLE AND YOU JUST SOUND LIKE BABIES CRYING.