A Brave New World

[_sabotage_]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2099103

Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom.

Two of the disciplinary actions this year were in-school suspensions for referring to a classmate as black and bringing his favorite book to school: "The Big Book of Knowledge."

“He loves that book. They were studying the solar system and he took it to school. He thought his teacher would be impressed,” Steward said.

But the teacher learned the popular children’s encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.

[jonesthecurl]

Now if only that ring would work on the teacher.

[targetman377]

i entertained this thread cause i thought it was about Sid myers civilization..... I fear you have used false pretense to get me here.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

i entertained this thread cause i thought it was about Sid myers civilization..... I fear you have used false pretense to get me here.

wut? If anything it would be a reference to the book.

-TG

[targetman377]

i entertained this thread cause i thought it was about Sid myers civilization..... I fear you have used false pretense to get me here.

wut? If anything it would be a reference to the book.

-TG

there is an expansion for sid myers civilization 5 call Brave new world

[AndyDufresne]

i entertained this thread cause i thought it was about Sid myers civilization..... I fear you have used false pretense to get me here.

wut? If anything it would be a reference to the book.

-TG

there is an expansion for sid myers civilization 5 call Brave new world

Treeeeeeeeeeew. Have you read the book, targetman? It is usually required reading in Highschools I think.


--Andy

[isaiah40]

Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel.

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[1] In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in "the top 100 greatest novels of all time",[2] and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.[3]

[targetman377]

oh that book sounds intresting i will put that on the list i have a long list.

[Symmetry]

oh that book sounds intresting i will put that on the list i have a long list.

You can always watch the Hollywood version:



It lacks some of the nuance of the book though.

[targetman377]

oh that book sounds intresting i will put that on the list i have a long list.

You can always watch the Hollywood version:



It lacks some of the nuance of the book though.

oh that looks good

[Phatscotty]

nah, it's just a progressive new world order.

[_sabotage_]

That's about it, Scotty.

You can even take it further.

Then:
Teacher breaks up fight and warns students not to do it again. Students look at each other and apologize.

Now:
Someone cheering the fight on goes home and mentions it to their parents. Parents ask if the police were called in. Kid says no, teacher broke it up and warned them. Parents call principal and insist the teacher is fired.

There was a case last year, or maybe the end of 2013. Teachers ask the students leading questions, such as, does your daddy ever see you naked. A six year-old girl with a single dad who recently immigrated to America says yes. The police show up at the house with child services and try to take the child from the father. He does not speak English all that well and can't figure out why they are trying to take his daughter. He ends up getting killed by the cops when he resists letting them take his daughter.

[Symmetry]

I for one, fear Scotty's Zombie theory.

If kids not sitting still are ground zero of a zombie outbreak, we need to nail kids to chairs pronto. Why we haven't been doing it so far is beyond my teaching experience.

[muy_thaiguy]

I was going to post a well worded, long, and thought out post, but then I saw who it was I would be responding too. And it would be about like reasoning with a rock. So, no real point to it.

[_sabotage_]

Go read a book, mtg.

You seem like a really nice guy. And maybe it's good that your ideas are so fluffy. But they make for rather unrealistic discussions. Stay blissful, pony boy.

[muy_thaiguy]

Once again, a rock. But you weren't the only one I was refering too.

[notyou2]

Go read a book, mtg.

You seem like a really nice guy. And maybe it's good that your ideas are so fluffy. But they make for rather unrealistic discussions. Stay blissful, pony boy.

Could you be any bigger of a dick?

[_sabotage_]

I'll make the effort for you.

[notyou2]

I'll make the effort for you.

That's swell

[Symmetry]

Wait, Sab, have you really read more than one book?

[isaiah40]

oh that book sounds intresting i will put that on the list i have a long list.

You can always watch the Hollywood version:



It lacks some of the nuance of the book though.

That isn't the movie. This is one version - the version I watched - of Brave New World:

[2dimes]

That isn't the movie. This is one version - the version I watched - of Brave New World:

What year is that from? Kind of flew under my radar. Len Nemoy, got to like that.

[isaiah40]

That isn't the movie. This is one version - the version I watched - of Brave New World:

What year is that from? Kind of flew under my radar. Len Nemoy, got to like that.

1998
Info from IMDB