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Officials at Toronto's Jackman Avenue Junior Public School recently let parents know just how upset they are with their children. Specifically, students are tossing juice boxes into the garbage instead of recycling bins. And when they do manage to put them in the bins, they leave the straws in. Jackman has the school district's highest "EchoSchools" rating, and officials don't want any children screwing it up, so they have banned juice boxes.
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What about the on-site wind farm and the solar powered buses? Does it serve only non-GMO organic vegen lunches? Wastewater recycling?
Don't be silly, those cost money that could be going to the teachers' union. Besides, they won't get extra points in their rating for them.
fair trade, small batch, clean and last but not fucking least GLUTEN FREE????
Screw that.
The students get generic amino acid paste.
vat to table!
If they were really serious about their rating they would ban kids. I mean, what's more important? The "eco" part or the "school" part?
The "Echo" part.
One child policy!
"One Perfect Child. That's all we ask." [Education-Industrial Complex]
We've already been gifted with Chelsea. What more do we need? The Constitution can be amended to get rid of that pesky age 35 limit. Then we are golden!
Anyone been trying to watch the Assange reveal?
I don't get porn channels.
Yep. We'll see what he's got pretty soon.
Not much.
Morning, this is a good lesson,it's teaching the children not to trust those in power.
The eco-tree-huggin BS aside is it really too much to expect kids to follow some basic rules? It's more of an indictment of the lazy little snowflakes and their parent who can't be bothered to raise them with any kind or manners or consideration of others, entitled little jerks.
OBEY!
/extended fight scene
Were talking about 5-11 year olds right?
Jackman-Jackson, this Echo needs adjustment.
well it could have been Cartman...
Isn't eco planning future time oriented? We all know that is racist.
As there are people who have in all earnestness declared everything racist, I really can't be arsed to care if X or Y is racist.
They are definitely flaunting some kind of privilege with their recycling shaming.
It's almost like Seattle is a hotbed of unrepentant communists.
sucks to be "other"
"having a future time orientation"
...
?
Do they mean "thinking of possible consequences?"
Thinking of possible consequences is only acceptable if one is considering the effects of global warming (to use the old school phrase).
Really I have no effing clue why that is ever a bad thing.
No? I think they mean saying something like "Let's forget the past." or "Can we move on?" when confronted with things like Armenian resentment towards the Turks for the Armenian Genocide or blacks resenting whites for slavery.
You know what's *really* racist? Claiming that "having a future time orientation" is racist!
That's why I've decided to living in the great eternal "Now" ma?ana.
Old Star Trek joke...how come there were no Semitic/Arabic folks on Star Trek? cause it was set in the future...
What are the Ferengi, chopped kosher liver to you?
proof that Arabs fuck camels?
If you can't teach a kid how to throw out the goddam garbage, then maybe your teaching ability needs to be evaluated.
Don't you see, they're excellent teachers, it's all the students' fault for not learning.
The kids are throwing out the garbage just fine.
They just aren't participating in the bizarre rituals of the eco cult.
They put them in the recycling but their (sic) still half full.
Ain't that just the sugar-free icing on the rice cake? And they sent out a note? Like a dead-tree note, not an ec0-friendly e-mail or a Twitter blast or whatever?
In today's IRONY news, Connecticut schools ban recycling clowns as Halloween costume.*
"Connecticut school district bars students from wearing clown costumes"
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016.....tumes.html
*Finally, a truly scary costume comes along but it gets banned. How frustrating.
New Haven Public Schools will prohibit clown costumes and "any symbols of terror"
Oh, FFS! That prohibition is in itself a "symbol of terror"!
Clearly, the clowns have won.
Clowntime is over
You get more of what you measure.
Wait! They were letting the kids drink juice from a BOX??!!!!
Shouldn't there be fruit trees where the playground used to be? Because outside is too dangerous, of course.
Then the waste could be composted.
There is no time left! Vote for Hillary and get this madness straightened out by the feds.
And introduce a non-native plant to the local ecosystem? Don't be absurd, that land must sit fallow and wild!
You misspelled "echosystem."
We used to have those plastic suck things you stuck straight into orange
Euphemisms, AJB! :o)
This sounds like a job for (((Captain Zero Tolerance)))!!!
I'm sorry, but we've introduced a zero tolerence policy against zero tolerence and vigilantism.
It's zero tolerance all the way down!
Juice boxes banned, millennials hardest hit.
That will teach them.
Where do they stand on CapriSun?