You who are old enough to remember, may recall a time when children in schools were taught, reading, writing and arithmetic.
Then, someone who believed their brain worked on a higher level turned that around and we began 20ish years ago to begin teaching "feelings" and the "I'm ok, your ok, were are all ok" crap.
If I recall around the time the PC (not computer PC but don't hurt any feelings PC) garbage started. This article while not a headline or even super interesting to most, did make one point.
That we very much need to get back to teaching
reading, writing, arithmetic, science and such.
Feelings and political correctness have NO place in school.
It seems Tracey Larson is either a product of this learning system or the founding mindset.
The unmanned, 20-foot SpaceLoft XL rocket was carrying experiments and other payloads for its planned journey 70 miles above Earth.
The launch was considered a success because the rocket went airborne, said launch logistical coordinator Tracey Larson.
Wrong, it was a failure, because your expectations were it would end up 70 miles straight up and running tests, if I were someone who paid for this, I'd fire Tracey without delay.
Posted by Muddy at September 26, 2006 04:24 PMI disagree. The launch WAS a success. It was the flight that failed.
Posted by: skywalker at September 28, 2006 04:27 PMoh geezz, you and I both know what they are talking about, sick freak.
Posted by: muddy at September 28, 2006 08:51 PMActually. We don't. That was a paraphrase, not a quote and frankly, reporters lie anyhow.
Posted by: skywalker at September 28, 2006 10:42 PMActually, the story makes better sence (to me anyway) when you have more of the story to read:
//www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/4213040.html
I think it would be exciting to be a student and watch this happen first hand....no matter *what* the out come.
"reporters lie anyhow."
Unfortunatly, calling most of them "reporters" is too generous. Most of them are just sensationalists and gossips. Real and true reporters of real and true jurnalism are few and far between.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at September 29, 2006 12:35 AMIts the Liberals fault the rocket failed.
Posted by: mooseboy84 at September 29, 2006 10:25 AMNo, it's the liberals fault that people define success as as anything other than achieving your objectives. Which is true. I'm just not sure we have the proper context of what they were doing since, as I said, reporters lies.
Posted by: skywalker at September 29, 2006 11:28 AMThe more I think about it, (and from what I could get out of the other article I read on thins) this seems to be a good lesson for the kids to learn. Not only is this teaching them science but about life. The experiment didn't go as plained - but you deal with it. Like wise, LIFE rarely goes as plained - but you deal with it.
It is true that reporters (or whatever you want to call them) will tell only one side of the story and then slant that.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at September 29, 2006 03:52 PMNO! Wrong lesson. The proper lesson to teach them (assuming they failed. For all I know, their primary objective was just to get off the ground) that we you fail, you get off your ass, dust your self off and go try again. You don't just deal with it. You fight it!
Posted by: skywalker at September 29, 2006 05:49 PM"You don't just deal with it. You fight it!"
Good God! Tough day?! Dang you're touchy! That's partly what I ment by "dealing with it". You do fight it. If it doesn't work out the way you try it then maybe you try it a different way. Sometimes you have to kick down some doors (even "break" in a window)....you "deal" with it the way you feel is best. BUT as much as we don't like it SOMETIME you DO have to abandone the "mission" (so to speak). There are times when we have plans that are NOT what God wants for us. As much as it hurts (devestates at times) there ARE some things you just have to learn how - with God's help - to let go of. Sometimes God's will for our lives hurts to live by and live up to - but it's better for our lives because it's God. There are some occations (that *I* have learned) where sometimes things are only put off for a while. But we "deal" with it....*whatever* the road.
In any case it's God who needs to be in the drivers seat anyway - you know that.
Posted by: mrs. muddy at September 29, 2006 06:42 PM