my little one likes trucks and tractors. i hope its a phase. they sure ain’t going anywhere in our culture. glorifying them is not going to help, neither is demonizing them. 3rd graders don’t need to hear either one. they need to learn their damn multiplication tables and yes sir and no sir etc

I would think they would expect the young boys to be fascinated with heavy equipment. I don’t think a child’s view of a heavy piece of equipment is anything positive for the coal industry, I see it as the reaction of a healthy little boy.

What I don’t like about the whole idea, they are playing dangerously with a person’s right to make a choice by preaching the benefits of coal without the negative aspects to a child that doesn’t know that eventually, left to their own devices, they would be able to form an opinion of their own without someone force feeding it to them as a child.

Everything about it irritates the hell out of me. Something like this class would be questionable at best in an area where the coal controversy doesn’t rage on.

Did you love the part about the kids being fascinated with heavy machinery? A man just called me from Ohio and wanted to see the Big John shovel in action. Said his 9-year old grandson was just obsessed with this big earth-moving equipment. I told him to call Larry and arrange a trip to Kayford Mt. See that big boy up close and personal – ripping the guts out of the earth. Maybe kids won’t be so excited if they see the devastation left behind.

they can shove it where the sun don’t shine.