How Do I Become A Kindergarten Cop

Have Kindergartens actually gotten more academic in the US? If so, why?

Kindergarten in Maryland was academic all my career from the 80s through 2010. I can't speak about other states curriculum. Generally kindergarten has become more academic based on brain research on the ability of young children to learn quickly. There is no harm in becoming more academic. It is right to challenge children to grow in learning as the grow in all other dimensions. The problem is not the academic rigor but rather HOW the instruction is being done. Children learn best through activities that allow them to move around and talk and play and manipulate materials. Learning stations allow children to practice their language arts skills, having them sit at a desk with a pencil is not appropriate. They should make words with magnetic letters and practice writing on chalkboards and whiteboards with large dry erase markers. They should work with hands - on math manipulatives to discover relationship in math and make patterns with beads, etc. it is easy to do it right. In the 70s great strides were made in using activities and materials for instruction that were fun and purposeful. We need to stop believing that we can accelerate learning by making kindergarten like an old time first grade. Children have great capacity to learn but must do it in age appropriate ways.

Why doesn't Batman just become a cop?

The oath to uphold the Constitution would make him stop acting like the Batman we all know if he actually upheld it.If he became a cop and continued to act like Batman, he would not only violate his oath but get the Gotham City PD sued about 17 times on his first day, and every person he arrested would go free.Batman, as we know him, couldn't hack it as a cop. He has too many anger issues and zero regard for the Constitution and the rights of the people he is going after.Though they are a tiny fraction of the million or so cops in America, we are sometimes subjected to examples of American police officers with such issues, but none of them holds a candle to the Batman in that regard. Nobody likes cops like that in real life.Ironically, cops who “bend the rules” and people like Batman are the heros in our movies. That’s because in movies we can pretend the nasty consequences of such actions don’t exist and just bask in the positive outcomes of catching bad guys who the movies have showed us, beyond any reasonable doubt, are really, really bad. It’s vigilante porn. Like more traditional porn, it can look like a lot of fun as long as you suspend disbelief and don’t think about how nasty it would actually be in real life.

Why did you want to become a cop?

If I were somehow to bump into my nineteen-year-old self, I'm pretty sure I would have thought 'cocky little upstart, what makes you think you're good enough to join the polis?' In truth, I wasn't as confident or self-assured as I let on. I was just a naïve wee laddie with no real life experience. As immature as the next randy wee nineteen-year-old looking to earn some pennies to buy enough beer to help pluck up the courage to ask girls out.After thirty years and two months as a police officer, I retired. I was still immature and naïve but much less of a cocky little upstart than when I joined. How many of you can say that?The police gave me life experience, a reasonable income and some stories to tell, lots of funny stories; like the time Officer Dribble taught me the most unusual way of catching a housebreaker and who had a rather curious Monday night bath ritual. Irene, an alcoholic nude model who kept something in her display cabinet that had every new probationer scheming to take a better look. The secret microwave cookbook, but the only recipes it contained were for laughter. I learned lots of things too; how to fool the breathalyser, how 'Bumjar' got his nickname and why some people don't come quietly. In amongst that, I was the subject of an awful lot of practical jokes, although the worst prank in the world was a despicable creation of my own.The police was an interesting career. There were highs and lows. Experiences that were both good and bad. I was fortunate enough to have a bad memory; the lows have all but faded away. The exciting things, the funny incidents, the strange goings on, and the comic situations remain.In hindsight I was just lucky I guess.

Did anyone go to school with someone that ended up being famous, and what was it like to know them before fame?

Not sure if he would consider himself to be famous, but I think he is! Richard TysonBiographyBorn February 13, 1961 in Mobile, Alabama, USABirth Name Richard Martin TysonNickname BamaHeight 6' (1.83 m)Richard Tyson was born in Mobile, Alabama but eventually pursued his love of acting and moved to Hollywood, California. Landing one of his first roles on the hit TV show, 'Moonlighting' (with Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd), Richard's career took off from there and hasn't shown any sign of slowing down since. Best known for his roles as Buddy Revell in 'Three O'Clock High', Cullen Crisp in 'Kindergarten Cop' (opposite Arnold Schwartzenegger) and Perry in 'Two Moon Junction', Richard has time and time again proven his versatility as an actor in not only the different characters he plays, but also in his ability to go from feature film star to television actor to theater performer (he regularly takes to the stage to perform Shakespeare).Richard was the star of his own television series called Hardball which ran for a year in 1989. He has also appeared on various other TV shows throughout his career including his most recent appearance on CSI:New York.With a long list of film credits including 'Black Hawk Down', 'There's Something About Mary', 'Kingpin', 'Genghis Khan' and many others, Richard has shared the screen with a wide array of actors including Charleton Heston, Orlando Bloom, Ben Stiller and John Travolta. In addition to his extensive film and television career, Richard holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Cornell University and once taught acting there. Richard's most recent films include 'Naked Run', 'Richard III', 'Plane Dead', 'The Visitation' and the horror film, 'Big Bad Wolf' in which Richard plays a stepfather accused by his stepson of being a vicious werewolf. 'Big Bad Wolf' is set for release this year.In the fall of 2006 Richard returned home to Alabama for the premiere of the film, 'When I Find The Ocean' - the first film he has been in to be shot in his home state - and soon after visited Russia where he accepted the Peacemaker Award. Richard is currently shooting the film 'Jake's Corner' and will be returning to Russia later this year to begin filming for another movie. He is also looking to direct and produce his own films and continues to seek interesting and challenging roles to play.Don’t remember what year!

Are Americans becoming too sensitive about all things sexual?

In some ways we are becoming hypersensitive about thing we view as sexual.A few generations ago, back in the 1950s, things were very repressive. Sex before marriage was taboo, and porn and homosexuality were illegal. The media had a code where they would not report celebrity sexual indiscretions, and a politician would not get outed for an extra marital affair.After the pill and women’s liberation, the swinging sixties and seventies saw a sexual revolution. Attitudes about sex and nudity were becoming more liberal, almost more European in their direction. Living together before marriage became open and common , single mothers were normalize, and gays became more visible and outspoken.In the 80s their was reversal. HIV, Reagan, the Catholic church scandal and the “moral majority” happened; lawsuits re “sexual harassment” became common; Gary Hart got TMZed for his extramarital affair. Whereas before it would have been seen as irrelevant, the median began to snoop into celebrities bedrooms, claiming their was a public interest.The media began to cover child abduction and molestation stories obcessivily. Movies like “Kindergarten Cop” were made, and there was a change in parenting, more coddling of kids and ”helicopter” parenting was born. Parents lost trust in other adults including teachers , to care for and discipline their kids. Some of these children grew up to have a more suspicious attitude about others .A shortage of men willing to teach high school is now at crisis levels, with many citing fear of false accusations as a reason for avoiding or not entering the field.We have an expanding sex offender list that some feel casts too wide a net as it includes such things as mooning at a bar, skinny dipping or “Romeo and Juliette” relationships where a guy is 19 years and has a 17 year old girlfriend. “No touching” rules are now common at work and school , and we are struggling with what (if anything?) constitutes innocent touch. People mistake normal friendliness for a sexual advance more often than before.Today news reporters change the pronunciation of “Uranus”to make it sound less like a body part, and we seem to see everything as a double entendre. In some ways we have developed into a “Beevis and Butthead” culture, where we see a sexual joke in common words.

What made Arnold Schwarzenegger such a popular actor?

I would say that his muscle/physique combined with a certain degree of charisma made him popular. Somehow, his thick German accent (which he still has it) contributed at this too, I think, making him special among Hollywood actors.He also chose his roles (and scripts) carefully showing a very good career management and business skills (comparing with Van Damme - another European who kinda made it at Hollywood but then dropped off the radar).His charisma cannot be doubted because he had that even before making it to Hollywood, he had that in his professional bodybuilding contests and was able to dominate this sport for 5 years straight. He even came back after 5 years of quitting and won again, just for the sake of it.His role in Conan the Barbarian http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082... truly brought him on the radar of the moviegoers.But the role in The Terminator http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088... brought him world wide fame.He choose his role in that movie very well, opting for the villain Terminator robot instead of the good guy (as the director initially intended).Since then he played hero roles which fitted his physique and personality well: John Matrix in Commando, Ivan Danko in Red Heat, Dutch in Predator, Douglas Quaid in Total Recall, the good terminator in Terminator 2, Harry Tasker in True Lies and others. Some of other roles, like those in some comedies (Twins or Kindergarten Cop), were also well received by the public showing another face of the tough Arnold. Many of these movies were very successful (financially, at least) in both US and worldwide putting him on the same pedestal as Sylvester Stallone (actor) and Bruce Willis (actor) in the action category actors.

Between Ivan Reitman and Barry Sonnenfeld, who's a better filmmaker?

Eek. No door number three?Sonnenfeld has directed two good movies, Get Shorty and Men in Black. His producer credits add little to his oeuvre. He has also made a ton of crap. Men in Black 2, and Wild Wild West probably are his greatest sins.Reitman has, as director, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, and Dave. As producer, he adds Private Parts and Up In The Air. He also is to blame for a ton of shit.Neither of these guys is all that and a bag of chips, but between the two of them I’d take Reitman.