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"Citizenship classes to incorporate Squirrel hunting- my proposal"

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Mon 29/07/02 at 16:30
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The education system is failing as badly as the pupils are.

It fails to deliver both the academic enlightenment and physical conditioning that young people require, to make them better citizens. There is a need to develop a more vocational approach to learning and implement a cross-circular activity that all miniature adults can partake in, learn from and flourish as human beings. Squirrel hunting: It is the way forward.

The alternative, Fox hunting, is currently a class dominated activity and unfortunately it excludes those of a less fortunate background, from chasing a small and relatively harmless animal around the countryside. So the goal of providing Fox hunting for all, is unrealistic. However the most viable option is the Grey Squirrel, which has the following attributes that make it an outstanding candidate. Firstly it is a foreign species, so obviously it doesn’t belong in this country and it will be easy for people to develop an irrational hatred towards it. Secondly it is very successful as a species, which when coupled with the first attribute, means it is to be hated with even more fervour. Thirdly and most importantly they are numerous in number and are eating all the British acorns, which leave none for our local boys, the Red Squirrel.

I propose that the benefit gained from allowing our potential adults the chance to chase these Grey Invaders around parks, woodland areas and playgrounds would be enormous. Solving a mathematical equation is hard, hitting a squirrel with a stick is easier (especially in the behaviourally challenged or remedial classes where the squirrels are heavily drugged or simply stapled to the ground to make them easier to destroy). Why try to learn something hard when it is so much easier to learn to hate something?

The amount of money saved by schools would also be staggering. Just think how much money is spent on stationary by awarding house points and those coloured stars that get stuck onto wall charts. Now the pupil’s can simply use the limp, bloodied and badly mutilated carcasses of the GI’s, as indication to how well they are progressing as a valued member of society. It would be hard not to be taken back by the sight of a thousand dead Squirrels, hung triumphantly like trophies on a classroom wall.

Once the Squirrels were eradicated there would always be another group to focus on. Just think how many migrating birds stop in the British Isles and use up our valuable resources. Berries don’t grow on trees. Can you really justify the fact that an Osprey may not feed it’s young tonight because an African Swift has eaten all the caterpillars?

No I didn’t think you could.
Tue 30/07/02 at 17:56
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"bit of a brain"
Posts: 18,933
Explain this concept of undermining...
I need to know, it's like a drug...
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Tue 30/07/02 at 17:11
"Darkness, always"
Posts: 9,603
Our education system is fine, it's the parents that undermine the future of their own children.

Sorry, had to be serious as usual...
Tue 30/07/02 at 17:05
"Darth Vader 3442321"
Posts: 4,031
In the style of a cartoon bad boy:

So! My plan is working! If another ten people use the word "squirrel" in a posting, the great grey gargantuan squirrel monkey behemoth, leviathan and part time handyman, from above, shall appear and gnaw our nuts. Ha ha ha ha ha. No one can stop me.
Mon 29/07/02 at 17:24
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"bit of a brain"
Posts: 18,933
I would think that hitting a squirrel with a stick would be hard, because I presume that the offending squirrel would not just lie down and let you poke at it.

Perhaps it would be easier of the squirrel in question was dead. but surely the easiest way to kill squirrels would be to introduce squirrel-eating snakes into parks everywhere. Or just poison the water and see what hapens

I have set a new personal record for the amount of times I have written "squirrel" in such a short space of time
Mon 29/07/02 at 17:08
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"funky blitzkreig"
Posts: 2,540
Apparently you can get a reward from the local authority for presenting the tails of dead squirrels, as they're recognised as pests.
Mon 29/07/02 at 16:30
"Darth Vader 3442321"
Posts: 4,031
The education system is failing as badly as the pupils are.

It fails to deliver both the academic enlightenment and physical conditioning that young people require, to make them better citizens. There is a need to develop a more vocational approach to learning and implement a cross-circular activity that all miniature adults can partake in, learn from and flourish as human beings. Squirrel hunting: It is the way forward.

The alternative, Fox hunting, is currently a class dominated activity and unfortunately it excludes those of a less fortunate background, from chasing a small and relatively harmless animal around the countryside. So the goal of providing Fox hunting for all, is unrealistic. However the most viable option is the Grey Squirrel, which has the following attributes that make it an outstanding candidate. Firstly it is a foreign species, so obviously it doesn’t belong in this country and it will be easy for people to develop an irrational hatred towards it. Secondly it is very successful as a species, which when coupled with the first attribute, means it is to be hated with even more fervour. Thirdly and most importantly they are numerous in number and are eating all the British acorns, which leave none for our local boys, the Red Squirrel.

I propose that the benefit gained from allowing our potential adults the chance to chase these Grey Invaders around parks, woodland areas and playgrounds would be enormous. Solving a mathematical equation is hard, hitting a squirrel with a stick is easier (especially in the behaviourally challenged or remedial classes where the squirrels are heavily drugged or simply stapled to the ground to make them easier to destroy). Why try to learn something hard when it is so much easier to learn to hate something?

The amount of money saved by schools would also be staggering. Just think how much money is spent on stationary by awarding house points and those coloured stars that get stuck onto wall charts. Now the pupil’s can simply use the limp, bloodied and badly mutilated carcasses of the GI’s, as indication to how well they are progressing as a valued member of society. It would be hard not to be taken back by the sight of a thousand dead Squirrels, hung triumphantly like trophies on a classroom wall.

Once the Squirrels were eradicated there would always be another group to focus on. Just think how many migrating birds stop in the British Isles and use up our valuable resources. Berries don’t grow on trees. Can you really justify the fact that an Osprey may not feed it’s young tonight because an African Swift has eaten all the caterpillars?

No I didn’t think you could.

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