Dean wants to know if the account below is fundamentally correct:
"I need some verification of a Samohi incident. One of my kids is doing
less than optimal in PE (though he could easily ace it) and he's been
citing to the various Powers That Be that his Dad (moi) got out of PE. I
just wrote the following to him and am not 100% sure I have the complete
tale. Help for missing details and corrections. Thank you!
*****
For the record...
The Olives and myself did not get out of P.E. back in the old days at
SaMoHi. We campaigned to get P.E. made an elective course because:
1. Most of us geeks hated P.E.
2. Most of us geeks sucked at P.E.
3. The Jocks didn't want us in P.E.
4. We wanted, instead, useful classes like anything else.
We went to the school Principal, who wasn't much of a Pal. He had to give
us face time because we represented a nice source of money for the school
by raising the GPA and being the test pilot for this new concept class
called "Advanced Placement" which if you passed you were guaranteed
entrance to UCLA.
He listened, he nodded, he said the right politically right things, he
waved us onward.
So we did what any group of hormonally-challenged overly-intelligent kids
would do...
We ditched school.
We ditched to go to School Superintendent whose office was a couple blocks
away.
And he welcomed us right in, and listened, nodded, loved the concept, and
shooed us back to class.
Where we were summoned to the Principal's office. The Principal was pissed,
royally pissed, because we went to his Boss. We played hard-ball
Politics...and won!
P.E. became an elective the following year as a test. It didn't do us much
good as most of us went to UCLA by virtue of passing that AP class.
And there it is."
Anyone remember anything he left out, or have corrections?
--J
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Received on 2013-12-24 20:08:48