The Meaning of Lila by John Forgetta and L.A. Rose for November 12, 2010

Children in Annie’s position tend to grow up faster then other kids. The orphan part more so then the leukemia.

Has she been socialized? Does the day-care lady think that Annie is a poodle perchance?

Why not ask if she has many friends her own age?

Dizzyspin, I was thinking exactly the same. Who on Earth asks if a child was “socialised”? She’s not an animal.

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That’s standard lingo for teachers these days. I know – my wife’s a teacher. Sometimes she tells me about her day, and I have to ask her to translate it into English …

The idea of “socialization” like this is a real pet-peeve for me. It’s utterly ridiculous. Get Annie out of that mind-numbing, soul & spirit draining, cartoon covered excuse for daycare NOW!!! Send her to the Warhol school instead, her rich daddies can help foot the bill.

When I was taking education courses for my Masters, I would start out six weeks behind. It took that long to learn the language. Computers were a distant second.

@JWF: Link to your blog, please?

It’s themeaningoflila.com :-)

Thank you.