From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To: roger schank Subject: Re: something short to read Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:20:23 +0000 you greatly diminish your aurguments by constant referene to your family, if we had 1000 familys and a control group, some of it might make sense, so far many peopl have done well in spite of the shitty schools, get over it no one cares. you are elver and could devote yourself to something that would have impact. talking about max milo , reminds me of that comedian that used to imitate slide shows of family trips and the pain of having to sit through one more On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:52 AM, roger schank < wrote: What are we doing to our children? Roger C. Schank Milo isn't getting perfect reading scores in first grade. His mother is very upset; She is arguing with the teacher. Milo reads very well. It seems that he gets bored with the books that they test him on. His mind wanders and he sometimes misses a question thus relegating him to a secondary reading group where he must read the very books that bored him in the first place. He obviously wasn't perfect when they tested him on these books, so, according to the school, he must try them again. Milo likes to read. Soon he won't like it so much. But this isn't a story about Milo, a very bright child who still likes school. It is a story about his mother, who happens to be my daughter. My daughter Hana has recently become unhinged. I say this in a loving way. We have always been very close. She runs a successful business, is a very good mother, and manages her life well. I am very proud of her. But she has drunk the Kool-Aid. She is suddenly very concerned that Milo get into Yale. Hana didn't get into Yale, despite that fact that I had been on the Yale faculty for many years at the time she applied. She went to Northwestern, in part because I decided to move from Yale when I heard that she was rejected. Her admission to Northwestern was part of a package