The Pitch, a Kansas City newspaper, did a brutal satire of John Sebelius’ “Don’t Drop the Soap†board game. It made a mock board game called “The Idiot Son of an Elected Official†in which you try to avoid DUIs and pregnancies, and get out of having to do homework because “Mommy’s the law.†The goal is to reach South Padre Island, where you can party and make tasteless jokes about prison rape.
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At least he’s not in prison.
That’s something a mother can be thankful for.
Sounds like they use bush 2 biography to inspire their game concept. GW should sue!
This whole issue (hole issue) falls under the classification of “who gives a shit?”
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh……………………
Only a Dem. Gov. son in Kansas, school project could be considered news worthy.
So? The kid is a student at one of the most respected design schools in the country, has come up with a potentially marketable game, and is selling it out of his home. Doesn’t the conservative base believe in the enrepreneurial spirit they keep pushing?
It’s ONLY if you’re Republican..
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Jed, the problem is the home, which happens to be the Governor’s Mansion, which is the address listed on the web site, IIRC, for orders. For gosh sakes, couldn’t he get a PO Box or something?
VT – agreed. He is presumably an adult – he should at least appear to be on his own.
Not that big of deal but it does not help our state’s image. He could have been a little smarter about it.
I would have liked to be a little mouse hiding in the wood work to hear what mama said privately to him!
Good points Jed. And VT.
Idiot son game? Heheheheheehheehheh!
Well ya know, the apple never falls far from the tree…
I love The Pitch. Hahahhahahahahahahahahahaha.
Actually, I thought the Don’t drop the Soap game was brilliant, it was humorous, and really shows how ineffective and destructive our prison system is. Our prison system is a breeding ground for criminals, you get a petty theif going to prison and he’s sure to come out of prison as an even more hardened criminal with more information, connections, and a lot more crime to follow.
I commend him, the people who made the board game to mock him, have a lot of hatred, ignorance, and mis-placed energy. They could of done something more constructive with their time.
While my hope was that my sophomore son would be heading to Cornell in Ithica, NY, he got today in the mail, a letter of interest from the University of Missouri, Science & Technology at Rolla, MO. A good strong school.
http://www.mst.edu/
We shall see what happens. My son got the second highest score on the practice SAT in the high school where he attends. This is the school that Vaughn Tolle volenteers for.
Has anyone else heard this? My tax lady told me that students from Kansas can pay in state tuitions in both Missouri and Oklahoma state schools?
The rate in OK and MO is a lot less than in-state KS schools…
Tuitions in Kansas have doubled since 2002.
Is there a reason we want to banish smart kids from Kansas?
Hey Steven, Congrats to your son! I know wherever he attends he will do well and set he world on fire!
Do you know that Colby is offering grants to any student who qualified for loans? If they meet the admission requirements and would have needed a loan — they will be given the money as a grant! Harvard is doing the same thing — although next fall is full, anyone junior in high school or younger should pay attention and apply!
Colby is in Maine — the school Vaughn’s younger will graduate next spring.
Thanks, Linda. I know you and your family have had a lot brag about, as well. Thanks for your support.
Maybe it isn’t anything you would be interested in but Harvard has announced GRANT help up to some really high income levels. Go to their website and look at what they offer. And remember they NEED diversity and someone from Kansas meets that diversity goal! It is amazing to me that Kansas students can attend many prestigious schools for less than it costs to attend an in-state school. We just don’t know about these opportunities
If you need someone to show you around Harvard let me know! I know a professor there really well.
Thanks, Linda. As always, you’re great.
Thanks to the Pitch for providing more free advertisement for this new game. Nothing sells like controversy.
I also congratulate you and your son Steven.
“Is there a reason we want to banish smart kids from Kansas?”
Perhaps because we know they will leave after college anyway? Two words. Brain Drain.
And we wonder why businesses here worry about having enough qualified workers.
…and here is the “official” response to the brain drain and worker shortage. Look at the end how high up in the Kansas Department of Commerce this woman is!
The gist and sentiment of the article are correct. But the methodology? Little more than wishful thinking. These are the best ideas our public officials have?
If THIS is the most our state officials can come up with in luring our best and brightest to stay here or return here…
I’m speechless. There are actually REAL things we could do to counteract the brain drain and worker shortage. But whining that “grandma misses you” and “talking up” Kansas are not two of the most effective stratgies.
And you wonder why I’m not in economic development anymore? heheheheheheh. I got TIRED of this useless pollyanna approach to some very real problems.
http://www.hdnews.net/Story/Nickerson020508
Steven Davis, I add my congratulations to your son and to you. I will warn you that he may begin receiving a great deal of mail from a lot of colleges as they begin recruiting of bright potential students early.
One thing I wonder; once upon a time, the “in state” tuition at OU, MU, for Kansas residents was contingent upon the student qualifying for a scholarship. I wasn’t aware that it was a “blanket” deal.
I only hope the Gov.s son had the presence of mind to put in a “Huckabee I Found Jesus, Get out of Jail Free Card” in the game, if not he’s entitled to use it.
BTW, if anyone is interested in discussing Colby College and the new program on financial aid, let me know.
One other thing, if I may. Those whose students are sophomores in USD 259 are aware that the PSAT was given to all sophomores in the District. I remind you that the PSAT, taken as a Junior, is the “test” that qualifies the student for National Merit Scholarship consideration. Should you have a student that scored well on the PSAT as a Sophomore, the student should IMO take a look at the results; see if there are any weaknesses that might be addressed to improve the score in an area assessed; and be darned sure to take the PSAT as a Junior, “when it counts”. As the parent of a National Merit Finalist, and of one who got close, the opportunities that become open to such a student boggle the mind.
Ya know VT, you are right. Good schools will KILL to have a NMSF or NMS attend. I got recruited by Wellesly for god’s sake, and other such schools.
The problem? I didnt even know what that meant. I’m the first person in my family, out of 18 cousins on one side and 32 cousins on the other side, to GRADUATE from college. Neither one of my parents even WENT to high school.
So why am I telling you this? :)
To also point out the need for mentors and people like you and Steven and others to ADVISE students whose families might be clueless about academia.
I have friends whose kid is being offered a full ride to Duke and to an Ivy League school.
His parents dont want him to go that far from home, because THEY would miss him. Of course, neither of them are very academic either.
I have spent a lot of time talking to the PARENTS about the advantages of an Ivy League education. Or Duke. And how that would give the kid advantages for the rest of his life.
Christ, they want him to go to Ft. Hays, just like I did…
kfg, I know, I know. While there are excellent educational opportunities at the state schools, there is more than academics involved. The “networking” that one finds at an Ivy, at Duke, heck, even at little old Colby or at Carleton (where the elder attended) provides opportunities over and above the education. Not to mention the attention the school name on the baccalaureate degree receives when applications are made to graduate schools.
Plus, it’s my feeling from the experiences of both girls that they had the opportunity to receive, and did receive, a higher level of academic education “by accident”, just by being at the respective colleges, than they would have received at my alma mater, KU, absent very hard work on their part to be sure they got the best available.
Did I tell you all about how Colby takes the traditional three course Calculus sequence and offers the same material in two courses…..?
Farmgrrl, It was both exciting and a time of apprehension when my first went “away” to school. lol He went all the way to KU! When my grandson left for Whitman in the state of Washington I had grown a bunch! But you are so right about the advantages gained over and above the education by spreading one’s wings!
Vaughn said it waaay better!
Speaking of concerns about the student being “far away”. We heard this a bit with the elder, and a lot with the younger. Hey, folks, this is also a part of the overall education a student receives by attending a residential school “away from home”. Learning to live on his/her own, but with a bit of an artificial “bubble” of protection. Plus, in the case of the younger, she took after her mother, who came from Tacoma, Washington to attend KU.
Yep, that is what I’ve been telling my friends. The alumni take care of their own, especially after graduation. And being a NMSF even with my sheepskin from Hays got me recruited by some good GRAD schools as well. But I was already too busy making money. Little did I know how much that “money” would cost me in the long run…
Another instance where some supportive mentoring would have helped. My lifetime earnings would have been WAY more with a Masters from UT or A&M or…
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