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I can remember school day just about as well as anything.. Which is to say I remember hating it for reasons other kids wouldn't understand, beyond being given a fare amount of shit for having a dad being a teacher.. They must have figured I would get a lot of good grades and special attention because dad was friends with the teachers or some horse shit.. Quite the opposite was true actually, my dad made sure we got absolutely NO special treatment at all.. I never saw certain perks that other kids got.. But where learning was concerned I think we all got the education we were after.. My nephew was a math wizz..  Was being the operative word.. They use the Saxon math system which I read about.. It is being adapted to public school from home school which I guess is good but  I have a little problem.. If Saxon math is homeschool system math teaching then basically you are adapting a system that takes it's cue from people who are teaching it that have no credentials as a teacher.. So the teachers might be the problem with teaching it.. From what I read and researched (a bit) the gal I saw was saying it is quite repetitive which in the school system, that is what school really is.. it's going over the same thing over and over again..  It's why kids either get bored or bogged down.. How many days were you out with a cold this week??  Three??  How far behind are you?? Three math problems, not to worry they'll do it all again next Monday..   I've seen Louis C K Talk about the same thing of tv shows, he has kids in school that are just stumped by the rediculousness that is school..   I don't know how I learned math back then, I think we were all dumbfounded by the new medium that we were learning from .. Paper books, as opposed to the old stone ones our parents had to use..


I got into a short debate here on Facebook about the new Sling Tv channel/app on the Roku and I said without getting at least a centralized feed for the network tv channels that it won't be an option for us who can't get networks via antenna and never really could.. If you live within a hundred miles or so of a major city you can get these channels and cutting the cord is very easy to do.. The "new" digital tv system is set to where you either have the channels or you don't, there's no more fuzzy vision like what we used to squint through..  I remember the three channels, well two actually in the very early days of tv, and watching those channels with a lot of imagination because how snowy the picture was.. There were people with the fanciest of rotors and antenna that when moved into place could get.. nothing nearly as good as what we had with a small cheap antenna that was literally held together with bailing wire and chewing gum..   If we could get three channels it was a fluke.. The day has come now where if we could get those channels by way of an antenna I would be for it.. Get the networks, then use the roku to get the sling tv and with it the ability to get any of the other cable tv channels activated on the roku.. There are quite a few and more will likely be added..  Then there is Pluto Tv.. I just found this yesterday while looking for something unrelated to anything, it was just a massive fluke.. And as I was adding it's Facebook page to my likes or whatever and looked at what is on there I realized it is like three channels on the roku, nowhere tv, YouTube and Vevo..  Very interesting.. Things continue to evolve quickly with streaming tv services.. It's an exciting time to be on the cord cutter front lines...

Badge Henry