on the clothing regulations in schools these days...

based on this article about a muslim family suing a school system for not letting their daughter cover her head as required by their faith...

my thoughts is that its yet another example of the wrongness of the blanket absolutes, zero-tolerance and such insincere attempts to have all children treated equally.

if boys can't wear baseball caps at school, why should a muslim girl be allowed wear a head-scarf, or a jewish boy wear the cap (whatever its called)?

if they can't enforce a regulation uniformly (yes, i *meant* that word), the regulation has no bite when kids start complaining to parents and discriminiation lawsuits get filed.

in other words, when it comes to the "hats" issue, schools are in a no-win situation. allow some and they must allow all for face a lawsuit; deny all and they face a lawsuit.

better stupid clothing regulations be hanged. baseball caps and slogans on t-shirts are not a distraction: the *enforcement* of the regulation is the distraction. if they didn't concern themselves with that crap, the kids wouldn't be so intent on pushing teachers/administrators buttons and might actually instead pay attention in class.

Fripp on Easter

The power, for me, is not so much in the crucifixion as how it was transformed. In another context, perhaps it might be said that the greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage.

We begin again. And we begin again, again.

No one who has any sense of themselves can rest, for long, in seeing what they are; noticing their impulses, motivations & the mechanics of their life. Now, there is hope. I don't find the notion, of a once-and-for-all payment for the human race's failings, to be particularly helpful. The Dude did The Gig, and now I am redeemed for all time seems more like an invitation to pour another glass of whistle & raise a toast to the work & suffering of someone else.

Something happened in the Easter event, and its effects are well above my frequency range. But what I do receive is, more like, an invitation to participate in an ongoing process. Taking up the cross is part of it, one stage in the process. Now, a different stage of the process is underway. A beginning again. A triumph is being celebrated.

-- Robert Fripp, April 14, 2004

That pretty much sums up what I feel as well. Easter isn't something that happened once that we re-enact. Easter happens. Daily. Hourly. If one is willing to pay attention to it, to accept it, to experience it. Its something one does, not something one receives. What we received is the Grace of God. What we do with it is continual, ongoing, perpetual beyond the grave.

*sigh* ... i'm crossing that line again...

hey mr. the white dragon!

check this entry out...