Yeah, requiring that for the high school is even more ridiculous. It has to be based on some liability concern. Good luck with getting it changed.

That's true, I know a few that will do the equivalent but they're not as binding as an iep or 504. I also think it's helpful for parents to be aware of the public school standard just to be more informed for any conversations even if the school can simply say no

I have lamented the decline of what we used to call "beer", but this reaches a new level.

A.A. Was a lot cooler on LSD.

Religious freedom is always worth fighting for.

Freedom of religion and freedom from religion are absolutely hills to die on.

Yep. Focus on the family lobbied by “The Family”

It's interesting in concept but in practice seems problematic democratically. I'm pretty sure the constitution mentions no religious tests for public office. Plus we shouldn't restrict who is allowed to participate in democracy, if anything we should expand it.

West Philly has a booming jazz scene!

Saucon deez lawsuits lol

Hail Satan!

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

from the official AA Website.

if i were seeking help, this would drive me away from a support group pretty quickly. to me, this reads as embracing fear and powerlessness, sacrificing oneself for the god that is the disease. how many other people have felt the same way?

*to be fair, there are some good parts to it. but the god angle is too much.

This above are the facts.

You may need to either play by their rules or go to a public school.

Private schools don't do 504s or IEPs. Those are public schools only. Private schools can do something similar, but they don't have to because they are private.

I just want the kids to walk through the hall, see other club members, and go, "hail satan"

That's my only dog in this fight

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Damn

Hail Satan

Are they still sending fat letters?

I wonder if he spent 15 minutes switching?

Do Swedish fish flavor next.

Agreed! Delaware and Montgomery Counties, along the Main Line. OP FYI, someone else said Ardmore, which is a part of the Main Line.

There is so much to this. Americans are buying more expensive cars, and ones that cost a lot more to repair. Even small things can cost a couple thousand. There is also the fact that more are buying SUVs which are not as safe and do not have to meet the same standards as cars. They have larger blind spots and large flat fronts which tend to cause more damage and that are far more deadly to pedestrians (its kind of shocking how many kids are now killed in their driveways). And of course their is the US healthcare industry. Small injuries and visits to the ER can cost many thousands of dollars.

And then the Insurance companies need to pay for all those commercials, stadium naming rights, executive bonuses, etc.

I do agree, but there seems to have been some decisions that would have run counter to what we would have expected some super-conservative Supreme Court to rule on

Look up the origin for Massachusetts and what happened to those people just as messed up

Lehigh Valley…got a decent music scene and you’re close to NYC and Philthadelphia