Giving up your Rights and Freedoms won't make you safer, only less.
This reminds me of one of my favorite Ben Franklin quotes:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
> Are there schools that ban unvaccinated children from attending? I think that'd be a more effective way than kicking them out off the doctors list.
This would be impossible since under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act section 504 all children are entitled to a Free Appropriate Public Education. Any unvaccinated student can still go to school and bypass the vaccination requirement by simply signing a waiver.
Also, kids need to told loudly: getting a degree from a school not competitive in the field is not worth anything more than going to your closest state school. Expensive schools that aren't competitive to get in are just a place for rich kids to go get drunk. Don't take out loans to go to those schools!
Thank you! I am a student at ASU in the teachers college. Just yesterday I overheard a fellow student complain about how much debt she is in due to student loans and so I investigated as to why. Instead of going to one of the million state schools in California she came to ASU to get a TEACHING CERTIFICATE and pay 5 times the tuition as instate tuition. How is she paying for this? All student loans. Why the hell are you going to pay significantly more money for a degree that, if you manage to get a job to begin with since you are going to teach English, you will start at a salary that is less than paying for one year of school? I wanted to get in her face and tell her to stop bitching that she is in so much debt. If debt was a concern then she should have stayed in California. ASU’s teaching program is nothing special and I know the only reason she came here is to party.
Provided my last year and a half at ASU go like the previous 3 ½ years (yes it’ll take 5 years to finish my undergrad since I changed majors from Biomedical Engineering to Secondary Education, Chemistry/Biology) I will graduate as a married man with one kid and completely debt free. I worked my ass off in high school/college to get scholarships and have been working 20-30 hours a week so that I wouldn’t have to go into debt to finish school. Even though I know I could have made it into a school like MIT or CalTech I decided to go to my local state school ASU because I knew I couldn’t afford to pay for these schools. I have made and continue to make sacrifices now so that I do not have to sacrifice later in life. This is a foreign concept to so many of my peers. Oh and I have done all this with no support from me or my wife’s parents. We’ve actually had to help them a few times pay their bills because of the massive amount of debt each of them have. I learned from the non-example of my parents of the debt trap when I was very young and so I’ve avoided debt like the plague. More of America should follow suit.
As I recall, there was a group of people who contributed to buying him an iPod as a way of trying to show that not everyone who saw the video was laughing at him. Any idea whether he got it? TFA doesn't mention it.
He not only got an iPod from this group but also $3600 worth of giftcards to Futureshop's online store. http://waxy.org/2003/05/finding_the_sta/ http://waxy.org/2003/07/shipping_the_st/
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.