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*A textbook example of what is wrong with the political situation in the world today. How do they get away with this? And everyone who voted for Bush again, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

We watched a movie in my class yesterday with 7 & 8 year old children. They have been begging to watch a movie forever. I think I am the only teacher in their school that hasn´t watched movies at some point this year. So, I finally relented. I told them they could finish watching "Pirates of the Caribbean", because they started it one week when I wasn´t there. Unfortunately, the dumbest and weirdest kid in the class is the one who owns the movie. He doesn´t exactly fill me confidence and since I told him last Tuesday to bring the movie and he was absent on Thursday, I figured the chances of him remembering to bring the movie to class yesterday were probably slightly better than George Bush becoming a good president (and according to the MGM Grand in Vegas right now, the Bush odds sit at approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000,00 to .5 ...and I know what you are thinking..."since when did they start making odds to half a point"...answer = I´m don´t know either). As a backup, I told the smartest girl in the class (and 1 of the 2 that I actually like) to bring a movie from her house.

Diego, the weird kid, didn´t show. Not surprising. Half the time in class he has his finger in his mouth like Dr. Evil. The best thing about it is, none of them understand what I am saying when I am like, "Dr. Evil, take your finger out of your mouth and please read number 5" or "Hey Dr. Evil, please ask Mini Me if he would like a Hot Pocket". It´s usually the highpoint of that particular class for me. And here, I know what you are really thinking. "He better not really do that to this poor kid." Too bad, I do. Very mature, right? I do and they have no idea.

So, Nastya, the other student brought a movie. "Grease". AWESOME. I´m not sure if I have ever seen it before. I didn´t remember anything from the first 45 minutes. But, man...it is BAD. I remembering thinking...damn...these two boys are going to be pissed off. They aren´t going to like it one bit. Especially because for some reason, the only subtitles we could get to work were German and the movie is in English, pretty much guaranteeing that they wouldn´t understand 98% of it. Then, it started. Cue the music. The girl is singing the words to the song, but not really knowing what they mean. I turn and look at the boys. They are taking turns dancing. Jumping around like Newman and the Newmanettes doing karaoke on a Caribbean Cruise (or so I hear). It was hysterical. Then, Nastya, who has probably watched it a 100 times kept asking what things meant. That´s when I realized that there was quite a bit of innappropriate sexual material. I was thinking, "Man, how can parents let their little kids watch this trash? Where´s Jerry Falwell when you need him? Thank God that God is President now. He´ll put an end to this rubbish." Then, a few minutes later I thought, "If my kids´ teachers ever let them watch this kind of stuff when they are 7...ah who cares...they´ll hear worse out of my mouth...hopefully my wife too!"