On 09/14/2010 03:30 PM, dave wrote:
f. barnes wrote:
On Sep 13, 4:18 pm, Day wrote:



Then look at the school reports
athttp://normessasweb.uark.edu/schoolperformance/School/School.php
REPEATEDLY, you see ZERO rates of violence. Drop out rates in the single
digits, graduation rates near or over 90%, 95% attendance.

And the liberals call us ignorant, uneducated, rednecks, and they
won't believe a word you've posted.

I totally believe him. Sounds like a delightful place.

He says there's no violence in schools, but also brags that parents hit
their children, another form of violence.
The Stoic principle is, that if the administrator is self controlled,
then the student will learn self control. Teachers, or anyone else who
was emotionally involved do not administer the spanking. That is done by
the principle in his office.

That's not violence. A parent hitting a kid because the parent is angry
is violence. But to teach the kid not to run in the street, is discipline.

Its worth noting the culture is a mix of long term farm families with
1st and 2nd generation Hippies who moved here wanting a healthy place to
raise kids. We all get along just fine.

Most of the hard corps ignorant rednecks got into meth, and moved to the
city where the welfare benefits are more generous and the liquor stores
are closer. Van Buren county pop is 12,000. The Jail only holds 58, of
which half are state and federal prisoners it is paid to keep.

Ergo, the incarceration rate of the population is 0.2%; compare that to
where you live. One time, coming back from out of state at 3AM, I passed
by the basketball court in Leslie. The ball laid on the grass at the
edge of the court in case anyone wanted to play. Consider how long it'd
take to be stolen where you live.

I dont have a house key. Even if I did lock it, out in the country,
nobody'd hear the glass of a window being broken to get in. But there
are no breakins I know about.

15 years ago, there was some stealing started. But folks realized where
the truck that had the same tire print from the crime scenes was, and
used a 30-30 to write an exit visa in the truck, with the implication
that next time, we wont wait for it to be parked. The grandsons, who'd
come to stay with grandpa, moved back to LA.

Back before agribusiness replaced family farms, it was like this all
over rural America. The land here is too steep for the large contiguous
tracts agribusiness likes.
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