Opinion Line (Aug. 21)  08/21/2013 12:00 AM  08/20/2013 5:08 PM
I am so thankful school has started. My teenagers almost drove
me crazy this summer. If I can just make it through the weekends
now, I’ll be lucky. You teachers deserve so much more in pay and
benefits to have to deal with teenage kids all day long.  Why
doesn’t school start the day after Labor Day and end the day
after Memorial Day? Why did they spend a bazillion taxpayer
dollars air-conditioning schools? Schools made it for hundreds
of years without air conditioning.  Why are schools teaching
about religions and not penmanship? I guess it is more important
to teach something their place of worship could teach rather
than have them able to read the Declaration of Independence,
which is in cursive writing. My grandkids can’t even read a
cursively written grocery list.  With all of the publicity, I’m
certain most of the students at Minneha elementary will remember
the Five Pillars of Islam for a long time. This was probably not
the goal of the c