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Little League Pitcher Banned From Playing Because He’s Too Good

This comment comes from Successful Teaching:

This boy is nine years old and his fastball can go as fast at 40 mph. When he took the mound the other week, the opposing team forfeited and left the game. The league told the coach that this boy could not pitch any more. Imagine not allowing a child to play a game because he is too good? That is what is wrong with America right now. We are holding back children who are too good in whatever they are good at but other countries are pushing their children to be the best at extremely young ages. Look at the controversy over the age of the Chinese gymnasts. They push their children at a very young age to pursue excellence. Yet, we tell this boy he can’t play with children his own age because he is too good. Then of course he can’t play with children who are older than him because he doesn’t meet the age requirements. What will happen to this boy? Do we let his talent fall to the wayside?

Let me know what you think!

Beijing Olympics, One World, One Dream… This Is Sad [PIC]

Being Poor

Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.

Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends’ houses but never has friends over to yours.

Being poor is coming back to the car with your children in the back seat, clutching that box of Raisin Bran you just bought and trying to think of a way to make the kids understand that the box has to last.

Being poor is off-brand toys.

Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.

Being poor is knowing you can’t leave $5 on the coffee table when your friends are around.

Being poor is hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt.

Being poor is stealing meat from the store, frying it up before your mom gets home and then telling her she doesn’t have make dinner tonight because you’re not hungry anyway.

Being poor is not enough space for everyone who lives with you.

Being poor is feeling the glued soles tear off your supermarket shoes when you run around the playground.

Being poor is making lunch for your kid when a cockroach skitters over the bread, and you looking over to see if your kid saw.

Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.

Being poor is your kid’s teacher assuming you don’t have any books in your home.

Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.

Being poor is a six-hour wait in an emergency room with a sick child asleep on your lap.

Being poor is never buying anything someone else hasn’t bought first.

Being poor is checking the coin return slot of every soda machine you go by.

Being poor is feeling helpless when your child makes the same mistakes you did, and won’t listen to you beg them against doing so.

Being poor is a cough that doesn’t go away.

Being poor is knowing where the shelter is.

Being poor is people who have never been poor wondering why you choose to be so.

Being poor is knowing how hard it is to stop being poor.

Being poor is seeing how few options you have.

You can read them all here -  Whatever: Being Poor. There are a lot more definitions in the comments to this blog post.

This is a great video, a great message, a great site and a great cause.

The Message is simple, its honest and its clear. Take care of the girls in the villages, provide them with an education, support them rather than abuse them or treat them a property, and…… many of the worlds problems will disappear. Don’t waste the talent, the potential.

Visit The Girl Effect website

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The first which caught my eye is entitled “World Clock”. What does it do? The best answer I can offer is “check it out for yourself…and let your teacher/student imagination run wild”; the other answer I can offer for those short on time/imagination is that it keeps a up-to-the-moment tally on some wild stats that define the human experience in ‘clock’ style. Tick, tick, tick…

This is amazing – just sit and watch the changes!