pet peeve of mine riles parents of students

[Jon Ford]

Oh Oh-- let's not get into the "publication envy" syndrome.Eisenstadt, I 
could put your complete works in my backpocket but that wouldn't make them 
any more or less pretentious and boring to read. My textbooks are the best 
that money can buy in my field, and for your info my editor makes us keep 
the weight down. My latest (weighing in at 250 pages, AddisonWesley Longman 
publishers) is on Citizenship since 9/ll, and will be one of the most 
radical anthologies at the college comp level. Anyway, in your original post 
you were talking about college kids. I think younger kids should either 1) 
purchase a better designed pack or 2)not carry the books around so much. 
3)Maybe Daddy can give them a ride to school. You certainly can't hold 
authors responsible for "kiddie back ache."

Jon









>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Re: pet peeve of mine riles parents of students
>Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:45:57 -0600
>
>Jon Ford wrote:
>
> > Anyway, what's wrong with carrying a giant backback around? If you heft 
>it
> > right, and shift it a bit up and down as you stride along, it builds 
>back
> > and shoulder muscles, so it's like getting a workout for free.
>
>quote from the article:
>
> > On the first day of school last fall, Beth's mother, Carrie Anderson,
> > weighed Beth's pack at 28 pounds, about 10 pounds heavier than the 15
> > percent of a child's body weight that orthopedists offer as a guideline.
>
> > Ms. Anderson and other parents began to press authorities to act.
> > Meanwhile, Ms. Hale's son Joel, who says he rides his bicycle to
> > school each day carrying 42 pounds of books,...
>
>as i have been told, mr. ford is 6'6" tall. so it's no skin off his
>ass pour ainsi dire as regards heavy backpacks seeing as he is involved
>in the racket of bulking up and dumbing down new editions of textbooks.
>its money in the bank and he couldnt care less. what a guy!


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