Banned for hereditary "fun".

Banned for having fun with your heirs.

Banned for heir conditioning.

Banned for wordsmithing.

Banned for banning and then getting trolled by the banned.

banned for it's not at all.

I knew you weren't an immigrant and so figured you had American influences growing up, which do derive from English culture. And then you gave away that English culture had already influenced your French family before arriivng here. I was right, just not right about when it started.

Again, not speculation. I did entire papers, classes, et cetera on the influence of the Nordic invasion of Ireland. Not only will history back me up, but if you delve into the structure of the aristocracy, you'll be able to make clear parallels to Nordic social structures.

Not an issue as you aren't genetically related to your wife... I hope.

Banned for having a question mark as your avatar.

Reverse respectively:

Nope, not related to my wife except to the extent that I am also related to you.

For as much as there may be influences and whatever between the vikings and the Irish, each person develops their own thoughts based upon their education. There is no genetic memory or whatever, everyone is a blank slate at birth and learns what they are taught and as such I was not taught anything regarding the number 13, for or against, and my reaction to people who care is to consider them idiots.

Most "American influences" for me are from television. I'm guessing you're an American though, yes?

Banned for the sake of banishment.

Banned because I am working on my halloween decorations in record time.

Banned for decorating records for halloween in thyme.

banned for I don't know if I would say we're a blank slate, but to imagine taht the history of a people has no affect on how they develop as a whole or teach their young is foolhardy. I assume that you decided of your own free will to start speaking Swahili as a child?

And yes, I'm American.

Banned, for as much as the heritage of a person may affect how they are taught by their parents, if they care, it does not pass down through the DNA. The effect upon a person's education that it has is only to the degree that the parents and family allow such to be presented as important. What is not taught is not learned.

Banned because I wish I could wave a magic wand and give my students the gift of loving to read.

I'd settle for them just doing the boring reading they need for their classes. It's about making my head spin around to have had many students look me in the eye and explain that they just don't like the textbook or don't like reading in general. Where are the RIF Hooligans when you need them? 

Banned, because public schools kill the desire to learn in students before they get to your class.

Banned because it isn't the schools, it's the culture.

banned for pointing something out that, for some reason, keeps making another think I mentioned genetics anywhere.

Banned for I realize that you did not mean to say genetics rather than culture, but you fail to realise that when dealing with such massive sets of people and making inductive statements about them that you might as well claim that it's knowledge passed down genetically if you ignore the capability of members within the sets to reject their culture or heritage or otherwise not to continue down weird superstitions about the number 13 regardless of whether some people of Norway honored it or some people of Britain loathed the number.

Banned because the schools help to maintain the culture. And think about it really, what is really rewarded? Is study actually rewarded or encouraged or is doing the minimum, churning out superfluous literature in proper format and selecting the proper multiple choice answers what is actually rewarded? In the policies that teachers have to follow they are prevented, as you are, from actually encouraging education to occur and in effect develops is a form of "education" which almost completely lacks any essence. There is the format alone, but it is nearly an empty shell, and for how much of a cost per each student in college? A couple thousand dollars per class? If they don't pass then they will have wasted their money that they haven't yet earned, but it isn't the reading assignments that really count toward the grade but only the written assignments, so for students who skim through the texts to find answers, google answers, and merely compile papers in the proper APA or MLA formatting they are rewarded with good grades, but for those who take the time to study they have to pay the opportunity cost of time for their effort of learning which would otherwise have been spent upon writing, and as such the students who seek to actually learn will tend to fall behind while those who do the minimum are rewarded.

Banned because I wasn't at all admiring the NCLB teach-to-the-test problems.

I'm simply adamant about the fact that teachers and schools are being treated as scapegoats because they have full responsibility as gatekeepers and extremely limited power to actually improve student performance in a larger culture that devalues literacy and critical thinking. Private schools are allowed to select their students for potential and to quickly separate students who are clearly not living up to their potential. Public schools have to try to help everyone else. Which I guess is why we have these evil teachers' unions struggling to fatten up their salaries so they can afford to buy school supplies for their students and maybe have a nice dinner out once in a while.

Re college costs, I'll earn the full wrath of the wall-o-text-haters if I get started. My students pay just over 300 bucks for a 3 semester hour class. They took the word "community" out of our college name recently, but the spirit is still there. 

Banned because I'm with Swic on this one.

But the culture tends to result in underfunded, unappreciated, and underutilized schools.

Banned for some of your statement seems to indicate that you may think that I blame teachers for the poor situation and I did not consider you to be admiring a crappy system which rewards superficial achievement.

$100 per credit hour? That would almost make it sound worth it to return to college. I doubt the community college you teach for is academically worse than the private school I was paying $2,000 per bloody credit hour for, merely to find that their textbooks were coffee table books and their instructors didn't even check the references so long as they sounded real and were in proper format. It was a waste of $16,000 which went to a stupid building fund practically. Yes, I would assume that they'd pay their instructors/professors next to nothing so as to maximize their profits just like Wal-Mart in how they pay their employees just slightly more than McDonald's so that they keep their profit margin high while providing the bare minimum incentive not to leave due to being financially bound slaves.

Banned because I still consider the culture which hates learning while simultaneously praising college like a deity to be fed into by the state educational system if not completely caused by it. The culture may result further in such educational programs becoming worse, but if so I would suspect the educational system and the culture of laziness to behave together like a positive feedback system.

Banned for a new funny GMail add- once again from my graphic novel account:

"What really attracts men. 5 ugly mistakes women make that ruin relationships forever."

Does my email account think I'm female because my two main characters are women???

Banned because you get spam from robots who think you're a woman.

Banned because I knew it would get back to tits and giggles eventually.

Your email account can't think yet, but it does seem to have algorithms that need some fine tuning. Me, I try to avoid replying directly to any of my friends with Gmail accounts. There's nothing like scroogle mail yet, but I'm still hoping.