I posted before on how I feel the education system is lacking now due to things my son says. Like he learned the term "pork sword" from watching Juno in the sixth grade. Now don't get me wrong. I love that movie. I think Diablo Cody is amazing! My thing is the school could've at least told me that they were going to be watching that movie so if I objected, I could have found something else for him to do. (Even though I wouldn't have objected but that is beside the point.) Last night at dinner, we were talking and he started going off about how Martin Luther King freed the slaves. I looked at him completely dumb founded and asked "Where did you learn that?" He was like "I dunno". He then asked me who did free the slaves and I had to give him a crash course in American History 101 about the Civil War. I asked him what they are learning in history class and he said "Lewis & Clark" Lewis & Clark? He's in eighth grade! I learned that in the third grade! He should at least be into the civil liberties movement and Vietnam by now! I'm not dogging the need to know the history of Lewis & Clark and it's importance but it's not affecting him now and having the impact that the latter mentioned are.
Oh, what I found even more absured is that he is reading Shakespear and I have to sign a permission slip for him to watch A Mid-Summer's Night's Dream and he's in the eighth grade but I didn't have to sign one for him to watch Juno in the sixth. Can someone please explain that to me? Is there something extremely wrong with that or is it just me? I'm really beginning to wonder just how necessary school is when teachers have their hands tied by bureaucratic red tape and aren't allowed to teach anymore. No Child Left Behind needs to be repealed, red pens need to be used for grades and we need to quit being so lovey dovey with our kids. The real world doesn't allow for easily bruised ego's and feelings and unfortunately that is where our kids are heading and they are not going to know how to cope with the real world.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
What Can I say?
Recently, I have found myself to be quite down and out trying to take care of everyone except myself and I now realize that maybe that isn't such a good thing. It's ended up with an eternal prescription of Prozac and Xanax at my finger tips. What amazes me is the list of side affects.
Here are Prozac's: Side Effects
And Xanax: Side Effects
Prozac has a side affect of insomnia? Great thing to give to an insomniac! It can cause anxiety and suicidal thoughts? I thought it was suppose to get rid of both those symptoms.
With Xanax it can cause weight gain. Great for a chubby girl with Type 2 Diabetes just what I need! It also makes you uncoordinated, irritable and drool. All things that I definitely don't need help with I do just fine on my own! I took half of the minimum dose at 4:30pm on a Monday due to panic attacks. I didn't get over the loopy feeling until Wednesday afternoon. This is not an answer. It's just numbing the problem instead of dealing with it.
You may be wondering what in the world I'm getting at. Well, why is that I can get a hold of two drugs that are such heavy hitters that in my opinion they should be considered pretty heavy duty narcotics so easily yet I can't get my hands on prescription marijuana which I think is way less harmful? I know people that have scripts for medicinal pot for anxiety and when they have a panic attack, one tiny hit, they are affected for about one to two hours, panic attack gone and they are completely functional again. Not 48 hours later? It's not right. It's because the government couldn't figure out how to make money off of it. Well, if they follow after California, they could. You noticed Cali hasn't been complaining about their budget so much since they implemented the medicinal marijuana cafe's? Yeah, you get the picture. Why don't they just solve the problems and give easy access and a choice? I'm not even or ever have been a stoner. It's just that if someone that is in chemo can eat food after hitting a pipe instead of vomiting non-stop and being in so much pain, I'm all for it. What do you say?
Here are Prozac's: Side Effects
And Xanax: Side Effects
Prozac has a side affect of insomnia? Great thing to give to an insomniac! It can cause anxiety and suicidal thoughts? I thought it was suppose to get rid of both those symptoms.
With Xanax it can cause weight gain. Great for a chubby girl with Type 2 Diabetes just what I need! It also makes you uncoordinated, irritable and drool. All things that I definitely don't need help with I do just fine on my own! I took half of the minimum dose at 4:30pm on a Monday due to panic attacks. I didn't get over the loopy feeling until Wednesday afternoon. This is not an answer. It's just numbing the problem instead of dealing with it.
You may be wondering what in the world I'm getting at. Well, why is that I can get a hold of two drugs that are such heavy hitters that in my opinion they should be considered pretty heavy duty narcotics so easily yet I can't get my hands on prescription marijuana which I think is way less harmful? I know people that have scripts for medicinal pot for anxiety and when they have a panic attack, one tiny hit, they are affected for about one to two hours, panic attack gone and they are completely functional again. Not 48 hours later? It's not right. It's because the government couldn't figure out how to make money off of it. Well, if they follow after California, they could. You noticed Cali hasn't been complaining about their budget so much since they implemented the medicinal marijuana cafe's? Yeah, you get the picture. Why don't they just solve the problems and give easy access and a choice? I'm not even or ever have been a stoner. It's just that if someone that is in chemo can eat food after hitting a pipe instead of vomiting non-stop and being in so much pain, I'm all for it. What do you say?
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