Language Police to Force Children to Speak French During Recess

[garbon]

But if someone drew Nazi (or communist, or phallic) symbols in the schoolbooks, they didn't get in any more trouble than they did for drawing stickfigures, or pictures of automobiles.  But we got in trouble for defacing public property, not for the content of what we drew.

Well time's have changed. I remember it being a very, very big deal in middle school when a kid drew a Nazi symbol on a desk.

[Malthus]

Heh, I had a friend who was quite a good artist and in HS he decorated his desk with intricate pen-and-ink drawings using the technical drafting pens we all favoured at the time - it was so well done the teacher could not bring herself to have it erased (it was really very good - sort of a Heronymus Bosch landscape). He worked on it for months, didn't affect his concentration in class any - he still answered every question.

But one day the regular teacher was sick, and a sub came in - and first thing she did was Ajax over it. It was heartbreaking.

[Razgovory]

But if someone drew Nazi (or communist, or phallic) symbols in the schoolbooks, they didn't get in any more trouble than they did for drawing stickfigures, or pictures of automobiles.  But we got in trouble for defacing public property, not for the content of what we drew.

Well time's have changed. I remember it being a very, very big deal in middle school when a kid drew a Nazi symbol on a desk.

I remember kids getting in trouble for drawing an Anarchy sign on their notebooks.  The teachers claimed it was a gang sign.

[Razgovory]

Threads about the French in Canada always deliver.

It's true, they do!

[The Brain]

But one day the regular teacher was sick, and a sub came in - and first thing she did was Ajax over it. It was heartbreaking.

Good. Change must be resisted and protests need clear programs and agendas.

[Ideologue]

Heh, I had a friend who was quite a good artist and in HS he decorated his desk with intricate pen-and-ink drawings using the technical drafting pens we all favoured at the time - it was so well done the teacher could not bring herself to have it erased (it was really very good - sort of a Heronymus Bosch landscape). He worked on it for months, didn't affect his concentration in class any - he still answered every question.

But one day the regular teacher was sick, and a sub came in - and first thing she did was Ajax over it. It was heartbreaking.

No, it isn't.  If he wanted it to be preserved, he maybe should have, I don't know, DONE IT ON HIS OWN PROPERTY.

Or at least not state property, the highest form of property.

[Neil]

Or at least not state property, the highest form of property.

Isn't state property a pretty low form of property, since they allow scumbags with tents to live on it?

[Caliga]

I used to draw swastikas in my notebooks all the time when I was in school.  I also liked to draw peace symbols, the Van Halen logo, the yin-yang symbol, and other stuff like that.  I just liked symbols in general.  I still like the way the swastika looks and wish it wasn't so closely related to Nazism now.

[Ideologue]

Just say it's Hindu.  Swastikas are all over the place (people even use it as a name).

[Razgovory]

I used to draw swastikas in my notebooks all the time when I was in school.  I also liked to draw peace symbols, the Van Halen logo, the yin-yang symbol, and other stuff like that.  I just liked symbols in general.  I still like the way the swastika looks and wish it wasn't so closely related to Nazism now.

The bad guys took all the good symbols.  The Soviets and the Nazis had much cooler flags then we do.  The Swastika and the hammer and sickle are simple and aesthetically pleasing.  The Stars and Stripes are too "busy".  I dislike tricolors, but I give the French a pass on that.  I know they weren't the first, but theirs is the best.

[Caliga]

The hammer and sickle has never had much appeal for me.  The anarchy symbol is cooler.

[Razgovory]

Just say it's Hindu.  Swastikas are all over the place (people even use it as a name).

Because of it's prominence in India is why the Nazis chose it.  Or to more accurate why it was considered an "Aryan" symbol in the early 20th century.


The King in Yellow has a cool symbol:  The Yellow Sign.

[garbon]

Or at least not state property, the highest form of property.

Isn't state property a pretty low form of property, since they allow scumbags with tents to live on it?

Not really. That's why OWS had to find a park with a loophole in NYC because the city gov was free to kick them out of city parks.

[HVC]

instead of starting a new language thread i thought i'd bump this one. a report by some think tank is out. Seems that Ontario spends 7.5 time as much per per person to accomadate its minority speakers then Quebec does. Ontario spends $52 per person and Quebec $7. That's per citizen, not per minority speaker. For compairson Ontario has 489,000 francophones to Quebecs 575,000 anglo's.

[Grey Fox]

How the hell do they spend 52$/person, by closing schools?