JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for February 19, 2012

Very insiteful and wity look at family dynamics, very unique. I enjoyed this very much and very educational.

He is ready to run for president… Sorry. Too easy.

I had a student ask me what MLK’s rank was in the Civil War. Eh – Civil Rights, Civil War, to a fifth grader they all sound alike.

And remember: You’ll never conquer vast wastelands with half-vast ideas.

I had a friend from Norway who had lived in the US for several years when she came into the place I was working and asked if anyone had two tens for a twenty. I told her, no, but I had ten *two*s. She looked long and hard at those $2 bills and asked, very seriously: “Jim… are these real?”

http://unethicalblogger.com/images/two_dollar_500w.jpg

And they are still in circulation. So :-P ;-)

Jefferson on the front, originally Monticello but now the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back. Bankers hate to circulate them because the Populists of the late 19th century favored Jefferson’s philosophy of government. One notices coins by size, so the nickel remains, but since US paper money is all the same color (yes, even now), it has to be “read” and that would remind people how far we have slid since then. They have no idea of the century old reason, but still refuse to provide them. They also circulate that they are bad luck – yeah, bad luck for them if the public knew.

I love that he has to do a report on Harriet Tubman, thank you! <3