Dean obviously skipped the class in Dad school where they explained that stories about your childhood aren't supposed to be accurate. Just make sure he tells it with the "old man voice" and throws in a lot of "back in my day…" kind of phrases.
Bark!
PS: I liked PE, especially paddle-tennis.
---In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_{{emailDomain}}, <joy.mccann_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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!
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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 21:15:08