Fitness Week: Smokes and snacks

In What’s Wrong with This Picture? Robert Cox shows the back of a T-shirt distributed by health teachers at New Rochelle High School as part of Fitness Week. There are ads for a cigar lounge, a discount cigarette store and food joints.

Apparently the high school’s idea of fitness is chowing down on buffalo wings, pizza and jerked chicken followed up by a fine cigar. And in these tough financial times, it’s nice to see the school helping our kid’s find a cheap place to pick up a carton of Lucky Strikes at “Smokes 4 Less.”

Eat, smoke and be wary?

Coloring for Obama

Students at an elementary school in New Rochelle, New York  were assigned to color in drawings of Barack Obama to mark his inauguration, writes Robert Cox of Talk of the Sound.

The drawings depicted Obama in various heroic poses, flags waving in the background, but one drawing went beyond adulation into overt political activity disguised as a pedagogical exercise. The drawing is a campaign button, in the center of a circle Barack Obama is smiling surrounded by another circle with the words “Students for Obama 2008.”

It’s not just inappropriate. The crayola curriculum is a waste of students’ time.