…If you’re going to conduct an academic contest, you should make sure your Ps & Qs are in order.

I have concluded that it is a waste of time attempting to correct the many spelling and grammatical errors that permeate the various media that are a part of our lives. Most such attempts, however politic, have been dismissed by the guilty parties.

My eldest – essentially homeschooled since birth – would point out not only typos, but grammatical errors in newspapers (no surprise there) and even school text books. It was he who pointed out the sign at a local store that declared that those parked there illegally would be toed. That was nearly twenty years ago, yet that sign remains to this day, uncorrected by the owner. Sigh.

I’m more peeved that they discriminate against HSing kids AND have typos in their info about the contest. My goodness. If you’re going to conduct an academic contest, you should make sure your Ps & Qs are in order.

//spell-checking right now…//

Suggesting possible ACLU involvement is non sequitur as there are no public funds (i.e. tax dollars) involved in the awarding of the prizes, Subway being a private corporation.

It’s just one of the potential scenarios. Something I was trying to point out if Subway had attempted to put homeschoolers on different footing than the rest in the contest. It doesn’t matter who it is, put contest entries on different footings and you have the potential for someone to scream “lawsuit” over it in today’s sue-happy environment. There are legalities that any contest like this has to adhere to.

And I have to say, as a Michelle Malkin reader who usually agrees with her, I’m a bit disappointed that she failed to mention the grand prize at all. It was too key to omit and did color the tone of the post by suggesting, by the omission, that Subway simply has it in for homeschoolers rather than the fact that the grand prize would have been more difficult to award by including homeschoolers.

We do however understand how home-schooled children could benefit from this type of prizing and…

It looks like Subway could use a little homeschooling itself. While prizing is a word, it doesn’t mean what they think it means. Perhaps it has another meaning in the “Untied States”, wherever that is.

Of course my priest had to demonstrate putting a condom on a banana in front of an entire classroom.

If this was a Catholic school (I’m incredulous), your “priest” didn’t have to do anything of the sort, since condom use is proscribed as artificial birth control by the Catholic Church.

Then again, purported “Catholic” educators (especially at the university level), especially the Jesuits, seem to not give a whit about Catholic moral instruction.

I imagine when home schooled you could get one on one instruction from your mother.

That was a real mature parting shot. It is, and should be one’s parents who impart their values and guidance as their kids learn about sex. It shouldn’t be left to relative strangers with their own (often radically different) agendas and values (or in some cases, lack of).

For Scholastic to offer a book to the offended was cheap & silly. Don’t they know that most HS families have a huge LIBRARY at home? It was a very weak gesture.

If a HS student won the contest then the 50+ families I know who do HS would have wanted to give that playground to the local community. Perhaps Scholastic just didn’t want it to go to a church org.?

Again – just not impressed with the offer of a book.

ZORRO – I think that Mr. Duecy only reads MM & LGF for his show prep since he’s always a day late on the news! Everything he & they speak about has already been covered in the Blog world. I know not everyone reads political Blogs everyday but you think he could plug them every once or so….

PEACE

Wouldn’t the subway suits be classified as ‘hateful, intolerant bigots’ if those same children had a PC label like ‘under privileged’ or ‘alternative lifestyle’?

I’ve always wondered who exactly, in the leftist utopian world of political correctness, decides which people belong to the privileged class, and who doesn’t.

Since they are a business, they do have the right to hold promotions and set the rules for it. While they should include homeschools regardless (and i’m not defending the position they shouldnt), it is also their right to lay down rules for promotions as they see fit. I dont think it would be hard to set the rules to accomodate homeschooled children, and Subway should have adjusted this just a bit.

I could be off, but thats how it comes across to me.

On May 27th, 2008 at 12:26 am, Mojave Mark said:
I have a one year old who will be either home or private schooled. No more govt. schools for me, they suck.

BTW, I’m a public school teacher.

Your post makes you sound like an enabler. Please tell us you are doing more to educated all children and not just concerned with your own.

Seems FNC uses quite a few of your posts for “show prep”.

That is because most of their reporters (with the exception of Michelle and a very few others) are not journalists. As long as you are young, cute and buxom, you are hired–no intelligence or experience required.

Sorry, I did not mean to hijack the thread. Cable news anchors seem to be a hot spot for me lately. That is probably why I listen to mostly talk radio and view Michelle’s site