"Tell me something that will make me happy and sad at the same time"
 

I have been on the board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley for about 4 years now. For most of that time I have been pushing for some sort of statistic that we can use in fundraising that demonstrates that kids who go to the clubs fare better than their peers.

We had a board meeting yesterday. The Executive Director gave us the following information from the Knox County Schools.

Pre-Covid, 20% of economically disadvantaged kids were proficient at their grade level.

Currently, that is 12%.

Club kids are at 29%.

We're having good effects but damn. :sadangel:

Just wow

Realize that this has potential to create a great situation for you. :yesnod:

Maybe club kids have something better to do than get in trouble or vegetate in front of a TV or phone screen when not in school and those activities are incentives to do better?

Involved Parents make the most difference in a child's life.

Porter and Snide are bringing you a bottle of expensive scotch :hurray:
....but you have to drink it with them :cry:

:iagree:

Agreed, but absent that for these kids we are doing what we can. Kind of a bleak outlook though.

You and Kaley Cuoco are standing naked and looking at each other. She says 'that is the biggest dick I've ever seen'


....'but you're damn sure not putting it in me!'

It happens all the time like that for me. :(

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

It will keep getting worse until it get's better.

You meet a beautiful 28 year old woman in a bar, the most beautiful woman you've ever seen, and you both hit it off due to immediate chemistry.

A month later, 23andMe links her to you as your illegitimate child from a past fling.

As indoctrination replaces education.

That started in 1979 when the Department of Indoctrination..........oops, "Education" was created.

One time, I was dating this hot chick for about a year, when she said "You know, you have one of the biggest dicks of all the guys in your fraternity."

Think of it like you're walking along the beach tossing starfish back into the ocean.

You can't save all of them but those you do, you'll make a BIG difference :yesnod:

Husband asks wife to tell him something that will make him happy and sad at the same time....
Wife says to husband.....your dick is much bigger than your brothers.

Biden is your selected POTUS
Biden will be either gone or dead in 3 1/2 years.

Fail. Instructions were "happy and sad", not "sad then happy".