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Redefine the term "rehabilitation" in context of prison
The way I understand it, prisons are established for three reasons. 1. Deterrance: fear of getting caught keeps people from committing crime. 2) segregation: Keep people who have harmed others from doing it again. 3) Rehabilitation: the idea that the criminal will change in some way so to not break the law again.
I think the idea of deterrance is good. I also believe deparating criminals is a good idea, but ONLY if they endanger others. I do not believe the current prison system is concerned with rehabilitation. The term needs to be dropped, redefined, or removed. If anything, the prison does worse than rehabilitate.
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Feb 18 2014: We know that one of the basic human desires is the ability to change your environment, to be appreciated, recognized and respected. To be noticed and interacted with!
A 5 year-old may stack blocks and then say "look at what I did mommy"! The 2 year-old, lacking the skill to stack the blocks will be content with their ability to knock over the stack of blocks made by someone else, then look to see if the parent noticed what they were able to do.
Disaffect: "to alienate the affection or loyalty of; also : to fill with discontent and unrest "
How much of our crime problem is the result of large disaffected groups of people? People feel trapped by circumstance, unable to make positive change, unable to receive positive feedback for their positive accomplishments, settle for having a negative change, getting the notice of other criminals and thugs.
My daughter begins to ignore her 18 m/o daughter. The baby drops the TV remote into the dog's water dish. Mom jumps up and runs to try to save the remote. While mom is distracted drying the remote, the cell phone is next to go into the water dish.
My daughter asks "Why is she being such a brat?"
I say "She is trying to get your attention by attacking the things that take your attention from her, the TV Remote and your cell phone."
"Well, I wish she would quit!"
"Then turn off the TV, put down the phone and give her the undivided attention that she desires!"
Kids growing up in the inner-city, surrounded by drugs, gangs and crime; sent to ineffective schools where teachers are underpaid, overworked and unappreciated, where the students that do well are beat down; disadvantaged by their skin-color, their ethnic sounding name and the household income of their single parent( or parents in rare cases), what opportunity do they have to cause positive change? What attention and appreciation would they receive? If they can not cause positive change and receive recognition for it, how would they not become disaffected?
Feb 19 2014: From reading what you posted I think the kids are looking for attention and validation that they can get from the extrinsic rather than the intrinsic domains. A while ago who one was stemmed from their values and work etiquette not status symbols, presently there seems to be a shift towards the material stuff individuals have. There was a time where an individuals word of honor and name sufficed to seal a deal... nowadays even with contracts and there subtleties in language used deals are dishonored ...
Its easier to get negative attention than positive one... heck even generating positive attention can lead to attract the negative stuff... because it's easier to knock someone down than to raise to the top... its easier to take the stuff than pay for it... Everyone has an opportunity to cause positive change ... thing is bad apples tend to grab all the attention and immediate actions... while the patient generous ones may go without... as you said to your daughter ... if you pay the attention she needs she might learn there are better ways to behave and grab your attention ...
The cool hip way to be should involve doing well and helping others do well... the insecure are the most violent ones to deal with
Feb 19 2014: That last statement resonated with me. I think insecurity may lead to selfish behaviors, since the unconscious frames everything within a narrative that seeks to validate. If, for whatever reason, we truly believe we are not of sufficient standard, we will do things to defy that narrative. This internal struggle maniifests as selfishness. With it comes cries for validation from others. We know the ways. Learn to fight. Work out. Look good. Get a degree. Even the appearance of selflessness may appeal to. One afflicted with this internal struggle: they will become involved in philantropy just to seek validity. How much more this is amplified in prison! A hell within a hell, living to validate. Peace and happiness are a rarity. Many would choose death, but the fear that the afterlife may be worse entraps them. A prison within a prison within a prison, in hell. For absurd lengths of time.
Feb 19 2014: Andy,
cries for validation from others will rarely satisfy or provide the self-validation some individuals seek... Looking for self-esteem through what others esteem of self isn't going to be self-esteem :-) though what others esteem may facilitate the creation of one's self-esteem.
At one time I thought/felt inadequate, regardless of the fact of being quite adequate. What helped me let go of that inadequacy thought/feeling involved focusing on what someone else thought/felt, which enabled me to think/feel adequate. Note that the fact of being quite adequate didn't really play much into the thought/feelings.
BTW Peace and happiness are a thought away... of course only the appropriate thought will do. I have to wonder what makes some believe that they will resolve the matter if they just get the opportunity as they let go the present opportunity. One afflicted with this internal struggle will be afflicted by this internal struggle so long as they continue to be afflicted with the internal struggle. Maybe they need to redefine the term, what it means, and what they do about the matter.
when one allow the current chance to be one of many possibilities and focuses on bringing about the better possibilities everything can change:
How much more this is amplified in the present live moment! A dream within a dream, living to dream and bring about dreams. Peace and happiness are a rarity that each and everyone can enjoy. Many would choose to live the dream, and the peace that exists before-life during-life and after-life if they could just envision it. A thought entraps them while the thinker think it. A prison within a prison within a prison, a dream within a dream within a dream, a home within a home within a home. For ludicrous lengths of time experienced in an instant that endures so long as the thinker thinks it. Peace and happiness are a thought away; of course only the appropriate thought will do, and only, so long as it be thought; which can be forever.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono were husband and wife from 1969 until Lennon's death in 1980, and they were very much in love. They were artists, musicians, parents and activists together, making recordings, creating various forms of visual art and famously lying in bed for a week at a time at hotels in Amsterdam and Montreal to promote peace. It's the stuff of legends.
Listen to the Beatles song "The Ballad of John and Yoko" for a catchy summary of their early experiences together.
Now it's 2012, and John has been gone for 32 years. For many, the Beatles are considered the greatest band of all time, and Ono got a raw deal by being present in the group's final days. Did Ono break up the Beatles? No, of course she did not. Did Lennon's insistence on having Ono beside him at all times create additional stress among a group of bickering friends with differing artistic ambitions who had been in close quarters for too long under the world's spotlight? Well, yeah. But so what?
Ono has been the target of much misdirected anger over the years, and now at 79, she's still doing what she's always done: She creates art and music, she promotes peace and she does her best to preserve her late husband's legacy, all while being true to herself.
This weekend (and this weekend only), Yoko Ono and Legacy Fine Art & Productions are hosting an exhibit called So This is Christmas: The Artwork of John Lennon at the Stamford Hilton. It's a collection of Lennon's whimsical drawings, and it's been touring the U.S. for over 20 years now raising funds for worthy causes. Proceeds from this stop on the exhibit's tour will benefit the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County.
Ono called from her home in the Dakota apartment building on West 72nd St., the very same apartment she and John moved into in 1973, to discuss the show with the Weekly. She expressed her concern that even in a wealthy region like Fairfield County, people are still going hungry.
"Isn't that terrible?" she says. "It's so terrible. I was in the Second World War and I was a little girl and all the little girls and boys were sent to evacuate to the farm county, and the farmers really didn't like us. They said, 'Well city people, they had it good up to now, and now it's our turn.' Or something. And so, we were kind of left hungry, and I learned about being hungry at the time. And I just don't want kids to go through that now. They're going through that, but I'd like to save them from that, you know?"
Ono remembers the creation of many of the drawings on exhibit, which makes sense since the pair was inseparable for the majority of their time together. She also recalls experiencing Lennon's fertile creative process in the recording studio.
"When I worked with some other people, which I don't do very much, but when I observe other people working together or something like that, half the game is they're so insecure they can't make up their minds or something," she says. "That did not happen with John and Yoko. So we were very lucky. I'm a very impatient person and he was too, so if one of us were very slow or something we couldn't have lived together."
While activists today seem to lack the extreme passion that was present in the '60s, Ono is encouraged by the ways the consensus of the general population has evolved in the years since.
"The thing is, we are making some results in many ways," she says. "First of all, there are many, many people now who are really trying to do something to better the world. More than in the '60s. In the '60s we were having fun and having really great times, but there were not many activists. Now, I look around, and it seems like everyone is an activist now, don't you think? "
Yoko-bashing became such a deeply engrained activity among some Beatles fans that it persists to this day despite redeeming statements from Paul McCartney himself saying that the band's breakup wasn't her fault. Ono got more than she bargained for when she joined the by-then-hostile Beatles extended family, and a weaker personality may not have been able to handle it as gracefully as she has.
"I think it was a very restraining kind of environment," says Ono. "I didn't know that it was going to be that restraining, but it was and I got used to it. Maybe it was good for me to experience it because I was such a free soul, you know?"Copyright © 2014, The Morning Call


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Does the scientific establishment unwittingly suffer from paradigm bias? Does it assume incorrect axioms of existence?
In the light of Thomas Kuhn's "Paradigm Shift" theory, and inspired by the TED controversy of removing Rupert Sheldrake's talk, let us examine the current scientific establishment.
The scientific process is capable of historical meta-analysis to make sense of its own patterns and processes. As Kuhn points out, every generation of scientists tend to assume premises that are fundamentally false but define the paradigm in which they work, and all assumptions flow from those premises.
Two major examples to illustrate are the geocentric/religious paradigm overthrown by Copernicus, and the Newtonian absolute space-time paradigm overthrown by Einstein. Of course, we must look to the actual psyche's of the establishment itself in those contexts. Was Copernicus not considered a heretic? Did not pre-Einsteinian physicists literally just ASSUME absolute spacetime as an axiom when contemplating physics? They are only easily shown to be incorrect in 20/20 hindsight, although up to that point, all the textbooks of school and general consensus among very smart 'experts' propagated those fallacious foundations.
Scientists that are overly specialized, careerist, non-philosophical, and lacking in paradigm shattering intuition/creativity might be the 'gatekeepers' of today, propagating fallacious assumptions themselves, and dismissing all non-establishment positions as heretical.
Has science itself transcended all biases? Has it overcome all incorrect assumptions? Was Newtonian absolute spacetime the final barrier? If not, then we MUST give 'heretics' a shot, should we not? What if they are a paradigm shifter?
As a thought experiment- if we are to contemplate the hypothetical that there are indeed wrong assumptions, what might they be?
Could it be that matter emerges from mind, and not the other way around?
Can Cartesian dualism be solved?
Could it be that the paradigm of Empiricism is merely a subset of the superior Rationalism?
Was Leibniz right?
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James BurnsMar 27 2013: I don't know everything, but I do know enough to know that I don't know enough to know that I can discount everything that doesn't fit neatly into my little box of ideas.
Do we know enough to say with certainty for instance, that uniformity of natural causes can not be acted on by something that we do not yet understand? Could there yet be something that we have not discovered, something that we can not yet measure that could change our current outlook?
Having said that, some of Mr. Sheldrake's theories do seem to stretch the fabric a bit.
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As public sector workers across the UK strike over pensions, Scottish grievances have pushed industrial relations in schools to a new low – but will that lead to more walkouts?
On 30 November, public sector workers across the UK will strike against increases to pension contributions in what is being billed as an unprecedented day of industrial action.
For the Scottish teachers, school support staff and educational leaders who will join the marches and picket lines, the action will not be unprecedented – but it has been 25 years since schools in Scotland were last closed by strikes.
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"We haven't had militancy like this in a long time," says Ken Macintosh MSP, Labour shadow education spokesman. "Nobody, I mean nobody wants a strike. The idea that somehow it's 'who's first to the barricades' – that kind of language went out years ago. It's actually disturbing to see the fact that these totally non-militant unions, unions that have never been on strike ever, now feel forced to take strike action."
Indeed, not a single Scottish education union is ignoring the call to action. Announcing that its members had endorsed strike action via a ballot, the last major Scottish education union to say its members would walk out on 30 November, the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA), confidently predicted that 99 per cent of Scottish schools would close. It is being joined by the likes of the Association of Headteachers and Deputes Scotland (AHDS), which has never gone on strike – in fact, its members had never been balloted. This time, 89.4 per cent said in a survey that they wanted to be given the option. "That is a signal of the strength of feeling about this set of proposed changes," says Greg Dempster, AHDS General Secretary.
The breadth of the industrial action means that few state school students will be attending school as normal – and most parents will have to make alternative arrangements. "It's disruptive to family life," says Eileen Prior, Development Manager at the Scottish Parent Teacher Council.
"Like everyone else, parents are struggling to hold jobs down, perhaps working to different terms and conditions than they were previously, perhaps employers have been less flexible with time off or shifting work around – if you're working in a managerial role, perhaps you'd be able to swap your work around, but if you're working in a production line or a supermarket, you're not going to be able to just say, 'I'll not be in.'" Inconvenient, certainly – but does a single day of strikes really damage a child's education?
Alex Wood, a retired former headteacher and freelance education consultant, is sceptical. "I don't think that one day's disruption is going to have any meaningful impact on pupil's attainment – not to say that it's not important. I'm certain that teachers will do their best to make up for any learning lost."
Nonetheless, Prior warns that while there might be consensus within the profession that strikes are necessary, relations between schools and communities will be strained as a result. "The last time round when there was industrial action it took a long, long time for schools and for that parent-to-school relationship to recover, and I would be quite concerned that we go there again," she says.
But will 30 November be just a blip in the otherwise stable relations between teaching staff and employers, or the trigger for a prolonged period of militancy? One union, the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) has indicated that it is prepared to ballot its members if the Scottish Government is too robust in its implementation of Professor Gerry McCormac's review of teachers' conditions.
"Teachers have in the last year or so suffered various reductions in their standards: their wages have been frozen, their numbers have been cut, the numbers of promoted posts at many local authorities have been cut, the proposals from McCormac – although I don't think they're all bad proposals, very far from that – but some of them will have a negative impact on teachers' conditions," says Wood.
"I don't think that any one of them by themselves would have led to industrial action. I think the pensions issue has really struck a chord with teachers and with other public sector professionals as being a serious breach of trust."
Macintosh believes that more disruption is on the horizon, The Scottish Government was wrong to try and replace the 2001 McCrone agreement, which Macintosh credits with enabling Scotland's quarter century of peace in Scottish schools. "The biggest change we made – obviously we built new schools – but the biggest change we made was the McCrone settlement, which was not just pay and conditions, but also the morale and the esteem of the profession of teaching.
"The result of that was achieving happier schools, teachers being willing to engage in extracurricular activity, and schools are once more being at the heart of the community – whereas once there was a war of attrition between the Government and teachers.
"Well, that's gone. And now we're headed back in that direction. If you want to teach children better, then what you need is a motivated workforce. More than anything else you need teachers to feel valued and to want to give the best to their kids," Macintosh says.
His assessment is shared by Drew Morrice, Assistant Secretary of the EIS, who says that "McCormac had no money with which to oil the machinery of change." "The conditions of service that were established in the McCrone review produced fundamental improvement in the conditions of teachers which has been reflected in a period of good working relationships with Scottish local authorities and Scottish government," Morrice says.
"If either of those two parties think that imposing McCormac will improve that, then we would dispute it; and if they seek to bring things in against the will of teachers then that will lead to industrial action. If they see that there are things in the McCormac report that they think are so important that they will seek to bypass negotiations, then on their heads be it."
Parents' groups warn that the public would struggle to understand what teachers' grievances were, if walkouts were staged over the McCormac review. "I would be very surprised if many parents had any awareness of McCormac and the potential implications. It is recommendations at the moment, no more substantial than that," Prior says.
"Our understanding is that whenever the cabinet secretary has spoken about it, it has always been, 'This is up for discussion'. In the current climate we don't think it's helpful to adopt this stance at such an early stage." Wood also sounds a note of caution to union colleagues considering action over McCormac.
"There are two problems with industrial action over McCormac. The first is that although there are one or two bits of McCormac that I think are negative, I think a lot of McCormac makes sense, and I think there are quite a lot of divided views about McCormac. I think there will be few teachers that would view McCormac as completely negative.
"The second thing is – this is not the best time in which to become involved in industrial action. The time for industrial action is essentially growth periods when you've got all the weapons behind you. This would not, except for extreme issues – and I think the pensions issue is one – [be] a good time to take industrial action, when other people are feeling the pinch in society," says Wood.
"If I were in employment today as a teacher, I would be taking an extremely cautious view of protracted industrial action," he adds. "I think some of the issues that EIS members are concentrating on, such as the right to go home and mark work at home, are ill-thought out."
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Gem Scotland
I wonder if some of the parents groups have actually taken the time to consider what the teachers concerns are really about – have they spoken to their children's teachers about how much work and personal time they are already investing in their children's education, and how important they regard it. I'm sure if they were asked as a professional in which ever sector they work in, to adopt some of these changes to terms and conditions, the pay freezes and the assault on their pensions, they'd have something to say about it. And if they don't have the courage or motivation to stand up for it- why should someone else be forced to suffer for their lack of interest in maintaing a decent working life and professional standard. I'm so sick of being told that just because we in the private sector have accepted a rubbish deal everyone in the public sector should to.


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You don't see this every day.
Two major-college basketball programs offered basketball scholarships on Monday to a middle schooler who is only 14 years old, is an eighth grader, and has yet to play in a high school game.
The young phenom is Chris Lewis, a 6-foot-7, 190-pound forward who has a mighty athletic pedigree: His father is former UGA football star Mo Lewis, who was an NFL Pro Bowl linebacker and played 13 seasons for the New York Jets.
After watching the young Lewis dominate in an AAU tournament over the weekend, both New Mexico (coached by former Georgia Tech guard Craig Neal) and Memphis offered extra early scholarships on Monday. Lewis plays for the Georgia Stars under-15 AAU team.
"Craig Neal was first, and then the next thing I know I'm hearing from Josh Pastner at Memphis," Milton High School coach David Boyd told the AJC.
"They love the fact that he's 6-7 at 14 years old, and has been playing at a high level on the AAU circuit for the last three years. He has an outstanding athletic pedigree with his father's football accomplishments.
"I have been waiting for that first offer to arrive … and it finally came today. I knew it was coming because Chris is that good, has that much upside and that much potential."
Why on Earth would a college make a verbal offer to a middle schooler? More than likely, to gain an inside advantage later down the road. In Lewis' case, much later – like the early signing period of 2016.
"You never know, we had two guys this year that ended up signing with the first school that offered them," said Boyd, referring to senior swingman Evan Nolte (Virginia) and guard Shaq Johnson (Auburn).
Lewis is already a playground legend. He averaged more than 20 points per game at Northwestern Middle School, which is located right across the street from Milton, the Class AAAAA powerhouse that has won two state championships in the last three years.
This past summer, Lewis – before he even started classes in eighth grade – posted several double-doubles in points and rebounds in scrimmages against much older players from Milton's eventual state championship team.
"I think he has a great chance to start for us as a freshman, and that tells you a lot," Boyd said. "He would've played a lot for us this past season if the GHSA rules allowed an eighth-grader to play on our high school team. He's that good. In middle school, he was dunking all over the place with both his right and left hand. That's something special about Chris; he has an uncanny ability to use both of his hands very well."
Boyd, who has coached for 28 years, said Lewis will be his first player that got a D1 offer as an eighth grader.
Who will offer next? Boyd is guessing it could be UGA or Georgia Tech because of his father's connections and both being local schools.
Note: Prospective student-athletes can't get written scholarship offers until before their senior season of high school. But they can get verbal offers at any time.
– By Michael Carvell, AJC Recruiting Blog
Note: Inappropriate BLOG comments and personal attacks will NOT be tolerated. We love the lively discussions but hate-filled, harassing and irresponsible comments are unacceptable.
April 30th, 2012
3:44 pm
April 30th, 2012
3:49 pm
i remember when david boyd was my assistant cross country coach at campbell high school.
he had his entire basketball team out running with the rest of us to improve their conditioning.
good coach, GREAT recruiter.
April 30th, 2012
3:50 pm
Even though his dad was a mutt, I can assure you that when Chris Lewis signs his letter of intent it WILL BE with THE Georgia Institute of Technology, the premiere collegiate basketball institution in this state!
April 30th, 2012
3:54 pm
Recruiting is pretty creepy sometimes.
April 30th, 2012
3:55 pm
no offense Goldenrod, But there are no premiere college basketball programs in the state of Georgia right now…
April 30th, 2012
3:58 pm
April 30th, 2012
3:59 pm
In related news, if this was football, Coach Rodney Garner would wait until the kid was a senior and had 70 offers before considering tending an offer from the university of Georgia. That's THE GEORGIA WAY unfortunately.
April 30th, 2012
3:59 pm
You're right GTBob – any truth to the rumor that UGAg is hiring Sandusky to recruit for their prison, er, school?
April 30th, 2012
4:01 pm
agreed GTBob. These coaches can come off as such "lurkers" sometimes. BTW… When I read the title of this article, I was sure it was going to be a football player and that Lane Kiffins' name would be involved…
April 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
Geez.. I was 6 foot 2 when I was 14 and the tallest human in the school. I can't imagine 6′7 ouch..
April 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
I wonder if he knows his dad made Tom Brady famous.
April 30th, 2012
4:16 pm
NCAA really needs to overhaul their recruiting policies.
April 30th, 2012
4:17 pm
If the GA basketball coach would just go to the Suwanee Sports Academy about 10 times every year and watch tournament games at 14 year ages and above, he could sign a better team that GA has put on court since early 1980's
April 30th, 2012
4:21 pm
You tech maggots and your classless comments disgust me!
p.s. you don't run anything besides running crying out of the Joke by Coke after the Dawgs spank that nerd arse once again!
April 30th, 2012
4:26 pm
just so happen he at milton. boyd strikes again
April 30th, 2012
4:33 pm
This embodies everything that is wrong with college athletics.
April 30th, 2012
4:36 pm
This is getting totally out of hand. Way too young and way too early.
April 30th, 2012
5:14 pm
Disgusting! My son went to both NW and Milton. No BB acumen on his part, though tall…..(We're happy w/ the AE degree from tech) But really – REALLY? Who knows where this kid will go both athletically and academically. 14 is waaay too young! What folly!
April 30th, 2012
5:18 pm
For everybody thats on here crying if this was your kid would you b&$&h and moan about early offers?
April 30th, 2012
5:19 pm
Colleges are just Minor League sports franchises.
April 30th, 2012
5:26 pm
"I wonder if he knows his dad made Tom Brady famous."
GS…I totally forgot Mo Lewis knocked out Drew Bledsoe
April 30th, 2012
5:29 pm
How is this allowed by the NCAA?
footballfan365……..yes,yes,yes, a 1000 times yes. I would rasise holy h_ll about this behavior concerning my middle school child!
April 30th, 2012
6:14 pm
Why aren't the laws being being enforced to protect under age minors from these predators?
April 30th, 2012
6:19 pm
Craig "Noodles" Neal should be GT's Head Basketball Coach !!
I like Gregory, but Noodles was the better choice!!
April 30th, 2012
6:28 pm
Game changer still going to say your a GA alum? Is that Georgia College, cause its not UGA? If you knew anything about recruiting you would know the coaches can only attend a certain amount of these games. I went to 5 AAU tournaments in the Atlanta area last summer and saw Coach Fox at every one.
April 30th, 2012
6:38 pm
I must be missing something here. Why on earth would college coaches be contacting Coach Boyd? This kid is not in high school! I guess he is his spokesperson. "Craig Neal was first, and then the next thing I know I'm hearing from Josh Pastner at Memphis," Milton High School coach David Boyd told the AJC. What happened to the dad being contacted and talking to the AJC!!!! This is where the GHSA and NCAA need to step in. What a joke this whole thing is!
April 30th, 2012
7:16 pm
Way to ruin this kids high school experience. Now he will have so much pressure on him to perform athletically, he won't get to enjoy being a kid. They will have him out practicing, drilling and running non-stop his last 4 years of school. Forget hanging out with friends, he could endanger his health and risk losing his scholarship offers. I can guarantee you his next 4 years will be spent in a padded room away from any dangers of life. Poor kid.
April 30th, 2012
7:21 pm
Milton HS principal needs to have a man to man talk with his coach. He has left the reservation. Guy does not have a clue!
April 30th, 2012
7:34 pm
For everybody thats on here crying if this was your kid would you b&$&h and moan about early offers?
Yes, I would. Early offers are one thing. 8th grade offers are downright pathetic and I don't want their manipulative lusting minds going after my 14 year old. They can wait a few years.
April 30th, 2012
7:36 pm
Goldenrod I think you took one rod to many.
April 30th, 2012
7:37 pm
Hey Goldenrod how many professors at GAY TECH are now going to jail.
April 30th, 2012
7:41 pm
Who cares. He a one and done.
April 30th, 2012
7:42 pm
UGA finally in the national news thanks to Caleb.
April 30th, 2012
7:44 pm
Tech was in the news nationally today also. One of their professors was arrested.
April 30th, 2012
8:02 pm
Seriously folks I had nothing to do with Lewis coming to Milton. He just happened to be at a AAU tournament I was watching and one thing led to another and he is a Milton Eagle. I will be teaching a lesson on proper conduct to all high school coaches when I retire about getting ball players to play for you. Until than you just have to take a back seat. GHSA thinks they run the show! Guess what I DO!
April 30th, 2012
8:09 pm
@ Goldenrod – your "UGA Obsession Disorder" is showing again. I bet you're real proud of yourself for getting "ugag" and Sandusky into a discussion board that has nothing to do with UGA except that's where the kids dad played football. It's blowhards like you that make it impossible for fans of all schools to have a legitimate back and forth on these blogs.
@ GTBob – you have consistently condemned these types of actions by college recruiters and I agree with you 100%. I personally think no offers should be allowed before a kid has completed his jr year, but offering before high school is definately out of bounds in my opinion.
April 30th, 2012
8:10 pm
GTBob, if your kid shares any of your genetic material, I doubt you have to worry about anyone going after him for anything.
April 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Where will he be academically in 4 years ? He will probably be at one of the best universities in the country. He is also a math and science prodigy and a lot more interested in academics. Got the athleticism in his genes.
April 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
Just in. Second grader make a 3 point shot and is offered a D1 scholarship.
April 30th, 2012
8:57 pm
wow Bo – is it you?
April 30th, 2012
9:11 pm
Only 2? Check your records. Andraya Carter of Buford got a BUNCH of D1 offers as an 8th grader!
April 30th, 2012
9:14 pm
BTW, your poll question: Why would you not consider that a GIRL could be good enough to get a MAJOR COLLEGE OFFER (or a half dozen of them) as an 8th grader!?
April 30th, 2012
9:15 pm
Did they seal their offers with a "golden handshake" and promise of his pick of the cheerleaders?
April 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
@goldenrod– what was techs record this year? and last year? not sure they are runnin the state
April 30th, 2012
9:44 pm
After lissening to m.c.———-THIS KID aint the only one still in MIDDLE SCHOOL—-hahahahahahah
April 30th, 2012
9:47 pm
If it's not in writing it's not an official offer. Having said that, it's a shame he seems to come from an affluent family, dad being ex-NFL and all. That may make difficult for Kentucky to "influence" him to go there.
April 30th, 2012
9:50 pm
Where does it stop???
April 30th, 2012
10:50 pm
Craig Neal offered? I am pretty sure that Craig Neal is an assistant to Steve Alford.
April 30th, 2012
11:42 pm
Boyd sure does love the limelight.
May 1st, 2012
12:15 am
My special report on the subject of grown men chasing 14-year-old kids is coming soon.


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|Instructor: Deborah L. Brake
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|Credits: 3.0 Credits (2.0 classroom contact, 1.0 field)
|Catalog Requirements: Upper-Level Writing, "W" Writing.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
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This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to engage in an intensive writing project on some aspect of Title IX and/or gender equality in sports. The primary goal of the seminar is for students to produce a high-quality, serious piece of writing that will fulfill the law school writing requirement. A secondary goal is to provide students with experience and skills critiquing the writing of others. Readings and class discussion will be tailored to these goals.
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The opening statements from England's clubs were an embarrassment. I can already say Chelsea are the only ones of the four who can win it this season"
There is so much to live up to after last season and Liverpool are struggling to reproduce the intensity and quality that took them to such heights"
It was not the most auspicious start to yet another European campaign but you still wouldn't bet against Terry turning out for the final in Berlin on the anniversary of D. Day next year"
Like it or not, their identity as a club that gave its homegrown young players IS changing fast — it had to or they would get left behind by their rivals"
Wildcard? That's come and gone quicker than Abou Diaby on a comeback from injury"
Pellegrini did a lot right last season – but winning the title with comfortably the best squad in the Premier League is one thing; conquering Europe is City's final frontier and Pellegrini must go boldly"
He has been held up as English football's new hope. He'll always be judged against impossible standards but showed against City how good he can be"
For the first time since Fergie left, United had swagger. And Angel Di Maria was the inspiration - the man who made United feel like United again"
Mike Ashley will only sack Newcastle's manager if he fears their top flight status is in peril - and that moment may be as far away as Christmas"
Those wonderful fans who follow Newcastle from the edge of the Arctic circle to the equatorial south coast have had enough. They are 'Proper radgie'"
He could have settled for lights, camera, action, as Neville, Carragher, Owen, Murphy have done. Instead, at 35, he wanted more floodlights, action"
In Falcao, Rooney, Van Persie and Di Maria, Louis van Gaal looks as if he has brought together The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to destroy defences"
This was a watershed display. Consistently excellent, he drove Arsenal forward from beginning to end, his feet quick, his brain quicker"
The 3-4-1-2 formation needs to go. It has left United on the back foot in each of their three Premier League games so far"