B2s
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” … if you are an art store… or office supply store. Glue, paper, pencils, rulers, paint, pens… oh, the joy!
My first Back-to-School as an art manager was a lesson in buying. I underestimated quantities and therefore, I had to do a lot of apologizing to students looking for large drawing pads and HB pencils. I did learn quickly, however.
Did you have enough Conté crayons?
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Go to YouTube and search for “alice cooper staples commercial.” It’s about ten years old and I found out about it just last week.
I loooooooooove buying school supplies!
I probably could have remained a kid going to school for a hundred years; that’s how fondly I remember grade school in Wisconsin.
Ah, “Back-To-School!”
The time of year that people turn the “Most important thing in their lives” (Their Children, or so they say) to the instutitionalized incompetents of the “Prussian-Domestication-and-Indoctrination-System” which was CREATED to produce Soldiers and Factory Workers, NOT independent, self-directed, Minds.
(And then they wonder why Kids HATE School.)
Yat… I do believe we had enough Conté Crayons… hee hee. I do remember that Alice Cooper commercial… fun!
Pete… Me, too! I loved the boxes to put stuff in, the scissors, the goodies you filled your backpack with… and the Lunch box! THIS was an all-important decision… which lunch box to get. Kung-Fu… Six Million Dollar Man, Scooby-Doo… Be Serious! Super important business!
Leo… school CAN be a wonderful institution of learning. There are a lot of factors that contribute to making it more of a prison than a cherished hall of learning. I feel fortunate enough to have an inside scoop on this… and it is challenging dealing with the “rule-makers and policy creators” … as an artist, I know that having too many rules ruins the activity… and yet, guidelines are necessary and yet too many create stifling conformity. Balance must be achieved somehow.
my school district would have been leoautodidact’s worst nightmare. prussian model that would even creep out the prussians. examples: in high school one student was known by everyone to have a blood vessel condition in his brain that made it very fragile. one day he didn’t have his medical slip when he came to gym class. the teacher forced him to participate because ‘them’s the rules’. the day’s ‘lesson’ was a game called beanball. result – fatal brain aneurysm. teacher wasn’t punished at all let alone fired or arrested. in my case, i was somewhat precocious and learned to read before kindergarten. come first grade i was reading and comprehending my mother’s nursing school texts. dick and jane, obviously, didn’t hold my attention. the school decide i was ‘retarded’ and tried to have me institutionalized. yes, they did that then, yes i’m old. my parents had to spend a fortune on psychologists and iq tests and still had trouble heading that off. i could tell horror stories like that all day. pete was very fortunate to be schooled in a civilized area.
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