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Moral Dilemma
Mears, MI - 2005-01-31
BY CHAD SCHULTZ
(POST-PUBLICATION UPDATE: For those of you who read the site and may or may not be in the know about the mostly no-longer-existing Chad, he teaches kindergarten at a small Christian school in the Ludington/Scottville border country, the name of which escapes us at the moment. -- The Nullset Staff)
There are times in every man’s life when a line must be drawn.
The Small Child: “in order to pass pre-preparatory-begindergarten, I need to draw a straight line.
The Adolescent: “I’ve been encouraged to cease my current socially unacceptable behavior forty-three times within the last minute. Should I stop?”
The College Student: “I am fat and I am broke. Should I borrow money in order to purchase and consume a large pot of butter?”
The Policeman: “I need to draw a line for this college student who I caught driving with a mouth full of butter.”
I have encountered many a time when lines must be drawn. I just so happen to be a Pre-school and Kindergarten teacher. When Junior High teachers draw lines, the kids explore them to the uttermost edge, walk away, and come racing back in order to hurl themselves into the great beyond with all their might. I prefer the young ones. Much of the time they live to please, but before you know it, the classroom fades, the teacher disappears, and soon all that remains is Fabio the Red Ranger pounding the snot out of the evil ‘Billy-zoid’. But I digress.
The most recent instance of moral decision-making that I have encountered has to do with a higher power: Curriculum. The alphabet has been learned, and the kids are progressing with phonetic sounds. I wanted my kindergarteners to have a set of books that they could read at their own level and also become more challenging along the way. I conveniently had in my classroom the perfect thing: The Reading for Fun series by A Beka Publications! A Beka is well known for its curriculum, and also has a Christian foundation. I eagerly grabbed up the little box filled with paperbacks and took out a few for closer examination. They were small, and could be just the right thing. It was then that 'it' caught my eye. One of the paperbacks, book 13, the one on top of the handful that I had removed, struck me as a little… odd. I hadn’t dealt with this particular issue in class before. I had assumed that it was something reserved for… older students. It wasn’t the illustration that concerned me (whew!). It was the title.
After consulting fellow teacher Sara Hutchinson, Administrator Rich Ambrose, and traveling Sex Ed. Teacher Mandy Gretzinger, I decided to hold off on teaching my students to read about this particular fact of life. No need to give them any 'modern' ideas for show-n-tell.
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? - 01/31/2005 10:43:45PM CST (01/31/2005 11:43:45PM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard
I didn't know you COULD keep one of those as a pet.
Somehow, I don't think that would work.
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The Nullset's Newest column: Ask the Historian! - 02/01/2005 08:20:32AM CST (02/01/2005 09:20:32AM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard's Brother's Not-Really-Beard-in Holland
Dear History Geek: Don't we live in the "post-modern era" or something like that? I'm still confuzzled when we laid the line where "modern" went to "post-modern." Does that mean that calling something "modern" means NOW that it's actually historical? I need to know!~The Music Geek
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Some things never change - 02/01/2005 10:54:02AM CST (02/01/2005 11:54:02AM EST)
Posted By: Half a dynamic duo is neither duo nor dynamic
To all who once feared that our superhero had fallen, now we watch him rise triumphantly from the ashes of the memories we once set ablaze. Long live Chad. King of random hilarity and savior (small "s") of all who wallow in the stench of normality. I haven't laughed this hard since the time Chad and I road our bikes to the beach with our shirts off and screamed out into oblivion like we were rock stars and Lake Michigan our sea of adoring fans.
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By the way . . . . - 02/01/2005 10:57:26AM CST (02/01/2005 11:57:26AM EST)
Posted By: Halg a dynamic duo is nethier duo nor dynamic
I've heard from Chad.
I heard from Mike a while back.
I've even heard from Curtis.
And I talked to Kevin on MSN messenger.
Did I once in a past lifetime offend thee Jordan that you so stubbornly ignore my desperate cries. The cold shoulder you're giving me is about the freeze the tear on my cheek. Descend from your perch on the throne of British scholardom and venture into the days of far away yore.
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My buddy my buddy - my buddy and meeeee!!! - 02/01/2005 01:55:08PM CST (02/01/2005 02:55:08PM EST)
Posted By: V01D
So about that butter... are you not supposed to drink that by the tube with a straw? I`m confused. I`ve heard a tubeful of butter tastes very good mixed with some bacon bits and coffee creamer. It`s this friend I know who is not me... that... told me that... His name is... um.... `Not-Mike`...
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Now wait a second... - 02/01/2005 03:06:50PM CST (02/01/2005 04:06:50PM EST)
Posted By: dorothygale from Allendale
Now just wait one hot minute: how come Chad (who, last I knew, no longer existed as far as the admins of this site were concerned) is allowed article writing privileges where, as the most devoted female in your lives, I am denied the simple pleasure of bringing a woman's perspective to thenullset?
THIS IS DISCRIMINATION OF THE WORST KIND. AT LEAST I EXIST!
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Oh My - 02/01/2005 03:29:58PM CST (02/01/2005 04:29:58PM EST)
Posted By: Curtis
Wow, I thought we only had out of control feminists out here in Boston...apparently not. I for one am all for discrimination as long as the results are the funniest article on thenullset.com in a long, long time. And I think the 'Modern' era ended some time in the mid-20th century, but we'll have to let Mr. History Geek clear that one up.
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spelling - 02/01/2005 03:59:57PM CST (02/01/2005 04:59:57PM EST)
Posted By: Desi's $0.02
Man! You guys really gotta put a spell check up in here! All this post modern/modern stuff isn't making any sense.
I think what you mean is modem and post modem. Like back in the day when 28,800bps was really fast! Those were the modem days. Now it is more of a post-modem time where boradband and wireless have brought things out of the digital stone age.
Or maybe you mean modem post, where somebody is attempting to chat over a 14.4 and it's causing like a 5min delay between messages for the stupid little emotes to load.
You might even be trying to refer to angry dial-up users who are going postal over their modems not working and interrupting a very important game of AOE between the sales and the support staff at their local ISP.
Bust as for this M O D E R N mispelling, I can't imagine what you'd mean if that's what you ment to type.
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Thank you for shopping @ Desi's Soapbox.
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Many things to answer - 02/01/2005 04:04:21PM CST (02/01/2005 05:04:21PM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard
Wow. A question and two charges of being generally bad have been laid at my feet. Time to answer, I guess. First, as Mr. History Geek:
1. Postmodernity is a cultural movement that originated in the 1950s as a counter to modernism, which was associated with the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Modernism was characterized by a belief in Progress - the idea that science, rationalism, and reason could all 'lead to a better tomorrow' if only we tried hard enough. It's the movement that produced thinkers such as Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. Modernism took a serious hit with the horror of WWI and pretty much went under with WWII.
Post-modernism, by contrast, attacks hierarchy, structure, and progress, and tends to suggest that all things/forms of expression/ideas are either equally relevant or of equal value because nothing has any real value, owing to the intrinsic meaninglessness of human existence (though the latter is quite extreme and tends toward nihilism). There are less extreme forms of post-modernism that are more characterized by a simple desire to expand knowledge/expression in ways rejected by modernism.
These are all huge generalizations. But the upshot of it is that you can still use 'modern' as long as you use it to mean 'current.' As a cultural movement, however, modernism is largely over with. But I'm sure no one was really interested in any of that other crap.
2. Aaron - I am a terrible emailer, but not a terrible person. Here I stand, revealed for all to see. I will try to respond soon, but I am, as I've said, rather bad at being prompt about it.
3. Becky - Chad exists so infrequently that we decided to humor him. That, and his other articles tend to be pretty dang funny.
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RE: Many things to answer - 02/01/2005 05:28:07PM CST (02/01/2005 06:28:07PM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard's Brother's Not-Really-Beard, in Holland
Thank you, Mr. History Geek! I will now rest comfortably in the knowledge that modern technology is Marxist and we live in a worthless existence and everything is valueless! But wait, this "other crap" DOES have value! It has started the most lively conversation on the Nullset in many ages of this site's history!
Aaron, do not distress yourself, for alas, Jordan does not answer me either. I attempt to make contact with him online and ask, "Is it today or tomorrow?" and he just logs off Trillian with a growling sigh.
And Becky, refer yourself back to the "About Us" section (help with hyperlink, please, someone?) at the top of the webpage. You CAN post articles...? Currently, the FAQ reads "email any one of us your articles and we may or may not review them, edit them, and post them."
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True to my word... - 02/01/2005 06:58:36PM CST (02/01/2005 07:58:36PM EST)
Posted By: Chantal
So this article was definitely one of the funniest things I've read in a long time. It added some good laughs to my otherwise long and academic-filled day. Oh and Jordan, just incase you didn't notice, I've fulfilled my promise. :)
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Aaron list important people he's been in contact with. - 02/02/2005 03:16:39AM CST (02/02/2005 04:16:39AM EST)
Posted By: Carey Duran
Aaron is so cool and important.. He talked to: Chad, Mike, Curtis, Kevin, ... Hey wait a minute Didn't he talk to me!!! Aren't I cool/special enough for you to mention? I'm so hurt! Look at this pathetic me and at least acknowledge I exist!
BTW Aaron, does this annoying plea for attention sound similar to other comments you made on this board? *Bwahahaha!"
I would also like to sign up for Desi's "boradband" internet I hear it is "supa-fast" because it connect directly to NORAD. *snicker*.
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AND THE POSTS ARE IN!!! - 02/02/2005 07:11:41AM CST (02/02/2005 08:11:41AM EST)
Posted By: Charlie Thompson
I'm reading this whole banter about who gets to post and who doesn't and blah-di-freakin-blah like that, so, being rather bored, I desided to tally up everyone who's ever written or co-written an article for the site in 2004 and posted the results. Heres what I got.
Jordan Racey: 32 articles
Kevin Gerhart: 26 articles
Mike Malburg: 22 articles
Chad Shultz: 1 articles
Charlie Thompson: 1 article
Curtis Miller: 1 article
Jim Barstow: 1 article
There were also 5 posts by bodiless entities such as "the internet" or "the nullset newswire" so I suppose that deserves some recognition. Obviously I didn't count the 6 articles we've had this month... I leave those for next years count.
Congratz Jordan! You wrote approx. 36% of all the material submited to the site last year! Thanks for all the pointless news!
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Saving my son... - 02/04/2005 04:45:44AM CST (02/04/2005 05:45:44AM EST)
Posted By: Aaron Alley
I'm definately showing this article to my wife! Thanks, Mr. Sultch :P
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Question - 02/04/2005 09:58:34AM CST (02/04/2005 10:58:34AM EST)
Posted By: Elise
CHarlie what article did u write?
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Answer - 02/04/2005 05:30:41PM CST (02/04/2005 06:30:41PM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard's Brother's Not-Really-Beard, in Holland
To answer your question, Elise, Charlie takes co-author credit on the article he wrote with Jordan, entitled, "Everthing I Needed To Know, I Learned from RPGs," dating WAY back in 2004 on Sept. 14 according to the timestamp.
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Ok so I think I'm coming to Ludington - 02/07/2005 11:44:14AM CST (02/07/2005 12:44:14PM EST)
Posted By: Half a dynamic duo is neither duo nor dynamic
You know Mr. Budzynski at LHS used to remind us all that Nerd rule the world. He compared Micahel Jordan's salary with Bill Gates' earnings to prove his point. But in tribute to all the "nerdity" devoted to this website, I would have to assert the nullset as a superlative example. Not only Mike have you vastly superseded all previous attempts by the WABC brotherhood to turn oddity into hilarity, but you have somehow managed to do what my parents told me was impossible--preserve the past in cryogenically frozen perfection. They said we'd all lose contact some day. The said we'd all forget about each other. They even said we would all grow up. But Mike, Kevin, Jordan, and Chad--not even all-wise parents can thwart your devious efforts to eternalize the glory days of Ludginton. ATTENTION ALL READERS: THIS IS OUR FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!!!!!!!!
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Chantal still exists?????????? - 02/07/2005 11:48:19AM CST (02/07/2005 12:48:19PM EST)
Posted By: Half a dynamic duo is neither duo nor dynamic
Chantal Ferguson....oh the memories :) Perhaps water under the bridge might provide for a pleasant conversation. Where the heck are you? What the heck are you doing? At the risk of being presumptuous, perhaps you would enjoy writing me an email....because I know I would enjoy writing back.
Oh and Carey.....you're right I am pretty dang cool ....dangit. So get over it.
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IMPORTANT NULLSET ANNOUNCEMENT - 02/07/2005 12:16:30PM CST (02/07/2005 01:16:30PM EST)
Posted By: Jordan's Beard
To all those who may be feeling an intense form of nostalgia for the WABC youth group scene of the late 1990s: keep watching this website for a comprehensive update on what happened to everybody - alive, dead, and everything in between.
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WHat iS alL tHis jibBa JabbA? - 02/08/2005 10:20:45AM CST (02/08/2005 11:20:45AM EST)
Posted By: Confoosed??@#4?
I am not sure what to make of the current, and past little tangents, but I thought we were talking about a duck with a name that, though not quite, is hillariousely close to profane. I thought that it might even make for a slightly humerouse string of quotes, but oh, woe is me, how silly I am to think that anyone might possibly post on the subject of the article. *gasp* what has it all come to?
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RE: Ok so I think I'm coming to Ludington - 02/08/2005 03:44:31PM CST (02/08/2005 04:44:31PM EST)
Posted By: Charlie Thompson
Funny you should mention Mr. Budzynski, Aaron, cause I am his TA and it was during his class that I managed to take the time to count the authors of all those articles. Yeah... I don't do alot in that class.
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