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Posted by Animal on June 02, 2006 at 19:36:27 from (172.129.8.235):
I am dog tired tonight but I felt compelled to write this ditty. I hired a young man to give me a hand this summer he is a senior in high school this fall and a nicer kid you will never meet. since I have had him working for me I have had him stacking wood, pulling weeds and these sorts of chores. This kid is far from lazy, but the one thing I have noticed is that he never seems to complete a task, for instance at the wood pile I wanted it so I can mow around the wood, I got to checking and found maybe a dozen hunks that would wreck a lawn mower, In the weed patch I found a half dozen weeds that he mist. This kid is going a half of day of summer school because he flunked a semester of english. I certainly do not fault him for that because that is why I sat behind the smartest girl in our school in all the classes that were tough for me and I am sure lots of you all know what I mean. Our school is out here the last week in May and to make up this entire semester he will complete summer school the 23 of this month! That in itself sounds strange to me but it even gets better. Last evening we got one of those toad strangling rains so I spent the day in the shop mounting a belly mower on an F12, the ladd ask me when I picked him up what our plans were for the day and I told him what I was doing, he was happy about that and then told me he had been a straight A student for the past two years in shop. When we got to work one of the first things I wanted him to do was wind up the leads for the welder, not only did he not know what the leads were he did not know what a welder was, and the shop knowledge went down hill from there. I did not want to come out with out any tact and ask him what I was thinking, so I ask him what kind of a fellow was his shop teacher, then he informed me that he had had three different teachers in the past year and the last one being a woman fresh out of college. I ask him how many girls was in this shop class and he said none...... This boy comes from a family of very meager means and yes I suppose they are on some kind of assistance, the chance of this kid going on to college is like a snow balls chance in hell! This type of nonsense in our schools systems just makes my skin crawl, he will have the need for this high powered english class as much as I will need a space shuttle sitting next to my bean field. This poor kid can not even drive a garden tractor, but I swear before the summers over he will have some mechanical and farm knowledge and an older pick up truck that he can call his own, thats how much I like the boy. We all know how hard it is to get farm help, and thats why I have mixed feelings about mexican labor, but in this case has the system failed us or have we failed the system by letting it run rampit with our tax dollars. If you think I am off base here or I have missed something let me know as I have always valued everyones advice and input on these boards immensely.............
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