school is culture is (mandatory) school

Public school is the cultural battleground. Just today while waiting for the Ellen show to rewind in the VCR, I tuned into a commercial on my local Christian TV station that touted LOCAL workshops for adults on leading "children's ministries," interviewing a bunch of reasonable looking mom ladies on how this class let them bring Christ into the hearts of children in public schools, with video of little girls with braids bein' saved by doing some ice breakers about the man JHC.

Moving from evangelism to sexism, isn't it heartwarming to know this 1960 book titled When I Grow Up was sittin' around in an inner-city school until I smuggled it from the discard pile in May, May 2005?

just a sample of the whimsical goodness...