Teens at Chambersburg's J. Frank Faust Junior High School encou...

Use your brain: Ben Franklin, portrayed by Bob Harrison, speaks to J. Frank Faust Junior High School students Wednesday during Teen Read Week at the school.

[LMAO]

Hear that kiddos??!! Read a book instead of sending naked pictures of yourself to your peers! Parents, hand your kids a book instead of a cell phone. See what happens. It may surprise you!

[Mark]

I think it is important to read, use the library, and better oneself. Reading is fundamental to academic excellence.

[bookworm]

Turn off the TV and open a book!

[Hugh Man]

Wow! Someone in Chambersburg can read?! Like, book learning readin'?!

[Al Johnson]

I hope parents actually read this an encourage their kids to read. If more kids read books we would have less crack dealing thugs on the streets.

[techno parent]

CASD is really starting to irritate me. I didn't spend $300 on as PS3 and another $500 on games to have them sit unused while they read a book!

[I agree]

Not only should we be teaching our children to read but to write, and to be able to do simple math. I am always amazed when I go to a store and have purchases that total $4.55 and you hand the cashier $5 dollars and a nickel and they have to look at the register and seem confused. Thank god the machine does the thinking for them because they would never finish a transaction. Why can't schools go back to simple math and forget about writing out long processes showing how you got the answer? I remember when my son was younger, sitting down with him and doing his math with him and when I showed him the easy way of getting the answer, he was correcting me saying Mom, we have to do all this other stuff and I was shocked. It made no sense to me to go through all that unless he was growing up to be a rocket scientist and to this day, math is his worse subject. When it's not broke, don't fix it. Learning the basics should be taught every year, anything else should be extra.

I also remember in my English class, we were reading the story of Romeo and Juliet. Now, everyone knows that reading that story can get alittle confusing because of the language Shakespeare used and luckily the movie was playing at a local theater and our teacher had a field day and we went and saw the movie. The next day in class we opened our books once again, and finally the story made sense to all of us. Teaching our children is not complicated, it only takes alittle imagination to figure out how to teach them in such a way that they don't lose interest and in a way that they understand what they are learning.

[DGS]

It does not matter how many administrators, actors or dignitaries that the school district parades through the classrooms. If mom and/or dad do not emphasize to their children that education and learning is their current job, the school can do little to assist them.

[Smitty]

Despite all of the technological advancements in the last 15 years one thing still holds true. He who is well read is very intelligent.

Parents don't allow your dork kid to skip school so that he can play Halo online for 7 hours straight.

[Mr A to Z]

Good luck with this idea!
As most fine upstanding specimens
(otherwise known and treated like little "princes" and "princesses"!) in this area think a beer can(or other alcoholic beverage more or less equivalent to a beer in a bottle or can)
is the equivalent of a "good education" and
those who drink those beers don't "read words"
("Dude, whats it all about?") or "do" an "education".

Dressing up like long dead characters also
doesn't cut it--as this area's little geniuses
are far more engaged in their brilliant textings
to phony and/or imaginary "friends".
(Need I go into endless examples of all
the literary masterpieces I have already and
long ago had to read? No.)

Finding out what party has the most to drink
(and I don't mean Pepsi as the drink! Hint! Hint!)
is the only real "reading" anyone around here does.

Welcome to "evolution" where young brains are, definitely, "evolving" into more brilliant versions of "gray matters" (matters forever mixing black and white on Life's dusty chalkboard)
for "higher" education!

No doubt!
Many Universities will welcome these up and coming royal specimens whose "finishing school" is only complete when the appropriate amount of snobbery is bestowed!

Don't mistake all this for bitterness--all this
is only continual cynical bemusement with a pinch
of amusement at the sameness of Existence in the midst of all its so-called Change.

[Mr A to Z]

Nuts, Spam, and Clueless...
because True!

If Empirical Truth presents such lofty thinking
as shown here:
I welcome the nuts, the spam, and the clueless
from counties where these are, apparently, the only nourishment(i.e. the peanuts, the spam)
and I welcome, also:
the (i.e. clueless) look that is most often done in the local classrooms. I have seen it in the faces of others many times when those others see a threatening image of something called a book within
a light year of their dull gaze.