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Registered: January 1970
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Every Christmas, elementary schools all have little shops where kids can buy overpriced junk for presents for their family and the school can profit. I suppose that's all well and good if it gets a new water fountain.
My Mama asked me to help at their Santa's Shop cause you can't get parents to do diddly anymore. The kids come through, look at the junk and squander their money. Some of the kids, in their Tommy Hilfiger and Diesel, will have $25-$50 in their pockets.
I went to go get this class of 3rd graders (that's like 8/9 year olds). All the kids who had money came with me. There was this one little boy who looked scruffy and needed a haircut bigtime. The kids were all buying junk 'they' wanted.......not one word about Mama or Daddy or sister. This one little kid hung back, so I asked him what he wanted. He showed me this ring for $3 and said it was for his Mama. He only had $2 all wadded up in his hand. He looked so sad. The other kids heard the lady tell him he didn't have enough and they started teasing him. You could tell it was an old story for the poor little guy.
I guess my point is...these kids had $25-$50 or more and not one offered that little guy a dollar. They had bags of plastic junk that would be broken before the day was over but he had nothing for his Mama. Of course Jose got the ring (mysteriously, when he and I counted again there was one more dollar) but it was just so sad.
When I took them back to the class, the teacher said that anyone who wanted to wrap their gifts for their families could do it at the back table with pretty paper. Only Jose and one little girl had bought anything for their Mamas and he seemed to be embarrassed even to be wrapping it.
You can't defend them by saying 'they're just children'. That doesn't wash. At eight years old, you can look in someone else's eyes and see the pain. I've heard people say that kids are like that so they can learn to "take it" when they're grown. Poor Jose was building his walls; I could hear them going up.
That's all......not much in the scheme of things but I hated it.
smith
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Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: smith on Wed, 10 December 2003 13:25 |
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your rant plus my own, hehe!
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Re: Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: e on Wed, 10 December 2003 20:31 |
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Re: Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: marc on Wed, 10 December 2003 21:18 |
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Must be Santa
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Re: Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: Steve on Thu, 11 December 2003 04:18 |
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Re: Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: Steve on Thu, 11 December 2003 19:23 |
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Re: Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: Guest on Thu, 11 December 2003 10:55 |
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Re: Rant on the Cruelty of Children
By: kevin on Thu, 11 December 2003 15:27 |
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if you were king....
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Re: if you were king....
By: kevin on Thu, 11 December 2003 17:26 |
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Re: if you were king....
By: jaman on Thu, 11 December 2003 17:44 |
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As long ...
By: kevin on Thu, 11 December 2003 18:08 |
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Re: if you were king....
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The governor's name is
By: jaman on Thu, 11 December 2003 20:54 |
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Re: The governor's name is
By: kevin on Thu, 11 December 2003 21:57 |
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Re: The governor's name is
By: jaman on Thu, 11 December 2003 22:21 |
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Re: The governor's name is
By: kevin on Fri, 12 December 2003 03:34 |
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I know
By: jaman on Fri, 12 December 2003 04:10 |
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Re: I know
By: kevin on Fri, 12 December 2003 04:31 |
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Re: if you were king....
By: kevin on Thu, 11 December 2003 21:01 |
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