Re: Kids.....

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: November 15, 2008 8:36:40 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Kids.....

[Note:  This comment comes from friend Scott Berry.  DLH]

From: Scott Berry <sjb () optonline net>
Date: November 13, 2008 2:18:37 PM PST
To: 'Dewayne Hendricks' <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: RE: [Dewayne-Net] re: Kids.....

Dewayne,

[For the list.]

This "entitlement" stuff is rich.  My eight-year old already acts this  
way,
I can only hope she grows up before she gets to college.  Seems like  
many
haven't.

I remember someone in a college Physics class complaining to the  
professor.
The prof took 10 points off on a test problem, and the student thought  
it
should have been much less.  After all, he only got the placement of the
decimal point wrong.

The professor's response:  "Young man, some day you will be building the
planes that I fly in.  You damn well better not be off by a decimal  
point."
'Nuff said.

Now excuse me, I have to go chase some young hooligans off my lawn.

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dewayne-net [mailto:dewayne-net () warpspeed com] On Behalf Of  
> Dewayne
> Hendricks
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:36 AM
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Kids.....
>
> [Note:  This comment comes from reader Mike O'Dell.  DLH]
>
> From: Michael O'Dell <mo () ccr org>
> Date: November 11, 2008 6:49:25 AM PST
> To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: re: Kids.....
>
> my major professor had a phrase he would use (back in the 70s!!)
> to express his outrage at wacko "student expectations"
>
> "This is NOT a #$%@$!%@ High School with Ash Trays!"
>
> a bit dated, obviously, but the sentiment is no less the case
> 30 years later.
>
> -mo
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