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Rednecks, airboats and spring water
Yesterday, I took my two younger kids to the headwater spring of the
Wacissa River in Jefferson county, FL (about 20 miles east of Tallahassee) to go canoeing and fishing. Years ago when I went there as a kid a lot, it was beautiful with crystal clear cold spring water, ideal for a hot summer afternoon. We got there and it was packed with seemingly every redneck within 50 miles. Fortunately, most of em were well behaved and mostly sober. What struck me was that most of the girls were overweight and all of them except one good looking redhead had "Tramp Stamp" tattoos on their lower backs. Do white trash rednecks really think tattoos look good? I really can't be too hard on em cuz I am probably related to half of em in a complicated way (being a local myself). My kids were apalled and amazed at such redneckism, I think they lead a much more sheltered life than I did since they go to upper income schools whereas I went to the worst local schools. What did **** me off was the airboats, there were about 8 of them. The Wacissa River is very shallow in places and is covered with hydrilla (invasive non-native plant) and some floating native plants so is not easily navigable by most boats. I can understand why some people have them for getting to fishing holes in shallow water but I wish they'd avoid being around other people cuz they are so loud they hurt your ears at 300'. These guys were not doing any fishing but were only running up and down the river making noise and spoiling it for everyone else. Every one of these airboats was piloted by a guy with a huge beer gut, control stick in one hand and beer can in the other. In spite of the airboats, the kids had a good time. My 15 yr old son tried to impress his gf but he has no skill in canoeing. My 10 yr old daughter loved the whole thing. We all watched a smallish gator stalking a wading bird (it got away). I am trying to get my kids familiar with the canoe so they will do more outdoors stuff instead of wimpy computer games but watching my son trying to tie a knot makes me want to beat my head on a tree. I thought he would just learn these things like I did without being taught but I s'pose its a different world. |
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wrote in message ups.com... wrote: What struck me was that most of the girls were overweight and all of them except one good looking redhead had "Tramp Stamp" tattoos on their lower backs. Do white trash rednecks really think tattoos look good? "Tramp Stamp" tattoo? LOL! I never heard those ugly "butt billboards" called that before. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And Ass Antlers. |
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And "Ass Antlers. "
Now that's a new one on me too! Bryan wrote: wrote in message ups.com... wrote: What struck me was that most of the girls were overweight and all of them except one good looking redhead had "Tramp Stamp" tattoos on their lower backs. Do white trash rednecks really think tattoos look good? "Tramp Stamp" tattoo? LOL! I never heard those ugly "butt billboards" called that before. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And Ass Antlers. |
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Many school attendance zones are based upon proximity to the school. Newer
developed areas often have newer schools and a certain income level is required to afford to live in those areas. Older, less popular areas often require less income for housing, eh? Perhaps this will result in another Supreme Court decision and new busing requirements to level the playing field? After all, we can't have economic segregation, can we? Butch "basskisser" wrote in message oups.com... wrote: My kids were apalled and amazed at such redneckism, I think they lead a much more sheltered life than I did since they go to upper income schools whereas I went to the worst local schools. Do they really sort who goes to what public school in your area by income?? |
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"basskisser" wrote in message ups.com... Butch Davis wrote: Many school attendance zones are based upon proximity to the school. Newer developed areas often have newer schools and a certain income level is required to afford to live in those areas. Older, less popular areas often require less income for housing, eh? Perhaps this will result in another Supreme Court decision and new busing requirements to level the playing field? After all, we can't have economic segregation, can we? A lot of older home areas here in these parts are selling for higher prices than new. Yes, but you're comparing older double-wides to the newer single-wides. |
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NOYB wrote: "basskisser" wrote in message ups.com... Butch Davis wrote: Many school attendance zones are based upon proximity to the school. Newer developed areas often have newer schools and a certain income level is required to afford to live in those areas. Older, less popular areas often require less income for housing, eh? Perhaps this will result in another Supreme Court decision and new busing requirements to level the playing field? After all, we can't have economic segregation, can we? A lot of older home areas here in these parts are selling for higher prices than new. Yes, but you're comparing older double-wides to the newer single-wides. Jeez, you're an idiot. Been down to the mud bog races yet this year? |
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NOYB wrote: "basskisser" wrote in message ups.com... Butch Davis wrote: Many school attendance zones are based upon proximity to the school. Newer developed areas often have newer schools and a certain income level is required to afford to live in those areas. Older, less popular areas often require less income for housing, eh? Perhaps this will result in another Supreme Court decision and new busing requirements to level the playing field? After all, we can't have economic segregation, can we? A lot of older home areas here in these parts are selling for higher prices than new. Yes, but you're comparing older double-wides to the newer single-wides. Well, it is a sort of self sorting process. The quality of a school drives the prices of nearby homes here and that drives the quality of the schools. There is actually an inverse corellation between funding levels at a school and the standardized test scores. In other words, poor schools have substantially more spent per student. It is generally the income level that determines parental involvement which determines student achievement. The local school board tries to mix things up by making the worst high school into a mixed normal high school and a special advanced school with limitesd success. They also have tried the 'magnet school' concept with little success. My wife has been a teacher in 5 different states and many different schools so she has a very good perspective on this issue. When I was a kid here, my family home was just above "double wide" level (and there were 9 kids) and most of my classmates were the poorest rednecks and the poorest blacks, a great combination. My high school was basically a babysitting service for poor kids until they went into the army,the guidance department had no notion of college. Today, we live on the affluent side of town, are solidly middle class and my kids attend one of the top 100 public high schools in the country where 90% of the kids go to college. My kids classmates normally own their own cars that are always nicer than what I drive. Exposure to the extreme redneck element was a culture shock to my sheltered kids but part of my past. |
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:59:52 -0400, wrote:
Lee County just got out from under the 60s "deseg" orders but they still go out of their way to be sure we are "balanced" ethnically. I live in Lee County and did not know that (no school age kids). What ethnicity is "red neck" and how do they identify them? Are they required to carry cards or other ID? |