No Parent Left Behind Series

A twist on No Child Left Behind. Take a look. (Note: These are real notes written by parents in the Memphis school district.)

Disclaimer: Skoolboy is merely reproducing these notes [sic] verbatim and does not imply anything about parents in Memphis.

1.

My

son is under a doctor's care and should not take PE today.

Please execute him.

2.

Please

exkuce lisa for being absent she was sick and i had her

shot.

Coffee versus Tea Division!!!!

The corporate media is once again lavishing the “Coffee Party” with favorable coverage after having demonized the Tea Party as racist extremists for nearly a year, proof positive that the much vaunted new movement, which is run by an Obama campaign operative, is nothing more than a front for the establishment.

Prepare to be Violated!!!!!!!

President Obama has given the Ok to install body scanners at the airports. Not shocked? The scanners can see your naked body with clothes on!!!!!! Yeah . . . . Clothes ON!!!!! Check it out!!!

Click on the title of the post to Read the Article about Body Scanners.

Movie Recommendation for the Week!

I am really liking these International films. Everyone needs to check out...

Ajami

Film Synopsis thanks to Film Forum:

The film is the debut from Israeli and Palestinian co-directors Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti, whose location filming, use of nonprofessional actors and balanced perspective lend a palpable authenticity to a complex, cross-cultural drama -- set in Jaffa’s multi-ethnic Ajami neighborhood, home to Jews, Muslims and Christians. The repercussions of a revenge killing reveal the cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface: two young brothers fear assassination after their uncle wounds a local criminal; a young Palestinian refugee works illegally in Israel to finance his mother’s surgery; an Israeli woman and her affluent Palestinian boyfriend dream of building a life together; and a Jewish cop is obsessed with finding his missing brother.

Note: Here is a trailer but there are no subtitles. Still, you can feel the tension and the richness of the material.

Haitian Relief Effort

Hello Everyone,

I just would like to say that Haitian people are still suffering and they need your help. I am Haitian and feel a personal responsibility to ensure the posterity of Haitian people. If you want to help, there is a great organization named HaitiHelpMed.Org. This organization is based in Central Florida and they have been established and helping Haitians for years. They are already on the ground right now in Haiti. Here is a list from the website of supplies they really need:

Your donation of small items like the following will go a long way in helping:

• Sterile & Regular Gloves
• Antibiotics (cephalosporins, cillins, cleocin, etc.)
• Betadine (povidone-iodine (PVPI) topical antiseptics)
• Gauze
• Bandages
• Tape
• Topical Wound Care Items (Silvadene, Bacitracin, Neosporin,
  or Xeroform ointments)
• Small Flashlights
• Tums
• Motrin
• Vitamins

Donations can also be made on the website. If you know any doctors or nurses, please ask them to get in contact with this organization. They really need nurses to take care of patients after they have been treated by a doctor.

Please Help.

Respectfully,
Leonard
Co-Founder of Skoolboy.com

Book Recommendation: The Happiness Project

The author of this book spent a year testing different theories about happiness.

Here are a couple reviews of the book:

“A cross between the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, and seamlessly buttressed by insights from sources as diverse as psychological scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, Gretchen Rubin has written a book that readers will revisit again and again as they seek to fulfill their own dreams for happiness.”
— Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

“This book made me happy in the first five pages. And the more I read it, the happier I got. It’s filled with great insights that have changed every part of my life, from love to money, from work to play, from writing to Diet Coke.”
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically and The Guinea Pig Diaries

“Happiness is contagious. And so is The Happiness Project. Once you’ve read Gretchen Rubin’s tale of a year searching for satisfaction, you’ll want to start your own happiness project and get your friends and family to join you. This is the rare book that will make you both smile and think—often on the same page.”
— Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind

“The Happiness Project is a wonderful book. Gretchen shows how you can be happier, starting right now, with small, actionable steps accessible to everyone. Among her many attainable strategies, her discovery of the connection between inner happiness and outer order is spot on!”
— Julie Morgenstern, Organizing from the Inside Out and SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life

Courtesy of the happiness-project.com.

Movie Rant

I have heard from a good deal of people that the Book of Eli was not good. Is that true?

Feel free to rant about your experience.