www.snopes.com , the urban legend buster, describes this as containing "degrees of truthfulness" and also, of course, subjectivity. Listed also are two other sites (one called "Crossbearer," which  certainly suggests a subjective perspective) that it says one can go to to check the veracity of the resume's "facts." Reading it might cause a sane person to feel a certain mordant satisfaction... and then want to weep for the "state of things."

www.snopes.com/politics/bush/resume.asp

Last night  a documentary on the Pete Seeger was shown on PBS. 36 years ago and more, he was singing that this country's people, specifically its poor, need shelter, food, and schools, not to be ignored and/or sent to war as cannon fodder.

When his patriotism was questioned because of his anti-war stance, Seeger replied, "Was Lincoln unpatriotic when he opposed the Mexican War?"

After returning from 2 months in Iceland, I decided to stay off the Internet for a while and have been happily successful. However, I felt the need to share the message below. I received it today from my friend the teacher.

My take on what she wrote is that schools will not change until parents in large numbers step up to the plate to support their child's education by regularly helping out at school. Student achievement is directly related to parent involvement.

Directly.

If you are reading this and are the parent of a public school kid, you likely already help your local school (if not, you need to!). Please encourage every one of your parent-friends to get involved with their child's school. That is the only way the "public school problem" will ever improve.

->>sometimes life stinks, so i need to remember how small i am in all of this, how small we all are

->> most who care at all would agree, i think, public schools are in deep trouble. the one i'm at now is staffed by hard, hard working idealists who put in long, long hours... yet despite the cheerful, intelligent, & committed people i know my teacher friends to be, our district, the largest k-8 in ca, suffers terribly (except for its pet school, which unfairly has the king's share of the $$). leaving late from school, i just had terrible, terrible news, heard something that broke my heart for everyone involved & saddened me deeply about the "handwriting on the wall" for public schools & their students.
-> problems will only worsen as schools get bigger & poorer & monies are funneled twd standardized testing instead of meeting children's basic needs (love, safety, nourishment). kids have gotten much wilder, since i started teaching yrs ago; i correlate it w/the onset of internet & video games, when kids' awareness of "fame" as the ultimate goal & the "necessity" of having high-$ toys caused children to acquire the venal "adult" mindset of acquisition over everything.
in public schools, "highly qualified" staff gets ever-scarcer, for who'd want to be a scapegoated teacher nowadays, overworked, underpaid, blamed for society's ills?
hardworking idealists, that's who. people who love kids & know they're the future. people who never give up & can take a hit because they know what they do is good & right.
unfortunately, increasingly, we're not bred as a society to be hardworking OR idealistic, OR to think of much else besides buying stuff.
2 in 5 teachers quit in their 1st few yrs: your kids likely are taught by someone who's just learning the ropes, &, just a few yrs from now, burnt out & heartbroken, likely will give up before they have even reached mastery.
the public school system is sick, hamstrung by evil governmental priorities (testing over children's well-being) & societal "norms" that encourage sociopathy & addiction. as the educational testing trend continues, less & less adequately-qualified adults will pursue or stay with teaching.
the ones who suffer will be children. today i am heartsick, but know on another level this means i must not give up because my job, tho i complain about it, is too important.