Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 31, 2012

No necessary backpack either. (Gracie begs to differ about e-books, though.) ¿No es maravillosa la tecnología?

That’s why they don’t give you an e-reader; not to mention the cost, the muggings, the ’it’s been lost (pawned for mum’s cigarettes)’ etc.etc.

Oh, and in Baldo’s case,"My little sister’s borrowed it’.

I just wanted to say something about some of yesterday’s comments. I get really tired of all the anti-public school comments, clearly made by people who either live in states that don’t care about public education or by people who have no clue. Our state’s public schools are quite good, even by international standards. I know this because of all those standardized scores, because I have volunteered in the schools for years and – just for fun – because the international kids who come to our schools (they generally send their more ambitious and hard-working students) tell me so. Of course, when we lived in the south, the public schools were so bad we prepared to send our kids to private school. But then we moved up north and a state that cares.

There are two sides to every story. My own experience is that the public schools were much more qualified than the local private schools. But it is getting increasingly difficult in Calif. where schools are one of the first things the PTB’s cut in their budget.

Uh, Baldo – you could buy your own e-book and put your texts on it.

I had a decent education in public school. The college I got…BA…was due to the low prices of upper-level state college just after I got out of the service. Reeps want ex-service folks to use their computer and pay their corporations for “education” with their hard-won GI bill…which by the way the conservatives ALWAYS fought against…now they steal from it.

What an interesting point….but the text book industry would be most displeased.

@gee man- that was my experience. I spent 21 years in various public (mostly) and private schools in Southern and Northern California, Virginia, Massachusetts, and now North Carolina. Then I got a job and worked for a decade. Almost all the teachers were excellent, generally as much a pleasure to work with or more so than the people I met in the private sector, many of whom I wondered how they got so high up in their companies.

Books are lovely- heavy, but otherwise still acceptable. E-books are the wave of the future, but we’re not missing out on too much without them.