The message and method of our institutions are producing what serves their ideology much like the media does . It matters who is at the blackboard and what they are preaching.
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A foot in my ass was the second best ...
But can kids actually survive without gadgets stuck to their heads ? li'l Humor .
This was in our note from the principal here at school just this morning. "As you continue to plan for the year remember that one area that needs strengthened in our population is reading. Be looking for researched ways that you can improve reading through your discipline. Struggling readers will likely struggle in all of our divisions."
This was in our note from the principal here at school just this morning. "As you continue to plan for the year remember that one area that needs strengthened in our population is reading. Be looking for researched ways that you can improve reading through your discipline. Struggling readers will likely struggle in all of our divisions."
We shared the same childhood! Only our reader was Ted and Sally. The teacher would be having the rest of the class individually read sentences out loud that would take them a minute or more to struggle through and I'd be two chapters ahead. No wonder why I found school (or at least the reading/writing part).............................B O R I N G.
I'd read EVERYTHING, newspapers, books, comic books, labels.......whatever had print on it. That's the only way to really learn, just DO it....a LOT of it.
. If both parents lived with the children, 85% living in poverty would not longer be in poverty.
. If both parents lived with the children, 85% living in poverty would not longer be in poverty."
Very astute and on the money Henry. Of course, this doesn't appeal to the cult of victimhood as it acknowledges the inescapable reality of personal accountability.
But they were from European immigrants that came through Ellis Island and didn't expect ANYTHING from the government. In fact the government's exactly why they FLED Europe! guess they were too stupid to know that they couldn't do it. Silly them. If they could have sucked on the government teat then they wouldn't have had to do all that. They could have just sat back and whined and watched their kids go to prison or wind up dead in the street even though they "Din-do-nuffin".......
It's called..."being a parent", which is sadly becoming a lost art for some.
Next time post what "most of the time" means so that the mentally challenged don't consume bandwidth needlessly.
Ben Carson and the Mother Behind the Man
One of 24 siblings, half of whom she never knew, Ben Carson's mother Sonya grew up in foster homes until the tender age of thirteen--the youngest you can be and yet be called a teenager. At thirteen she married a man who called her his "china doll" and some years later had two sons.
When she found out her husband was a bigamist she made the difficult decision--her sons loved their father dearly--to leave him. Renting out the house she received in the divorce settlement, Sonya, with her sons, temporarily moved into a tenement with one of the sisters she did know, and took 2 and sometimes 3 jobs as a domestic to support herself and her sons. She had only attended school up to third grade.
She did not know how to read.
Younger son Ben had never done well in school. Now, he was deeply saddened by the absence of his beloved father. Convinced he was the "dumbest kid in the fifth grade," Ben brought home test grades and report cards that seemed to confirm his opinion of himself. His older brother wasn’t doing well with his studies, either.
What could an illiterate mother, who had married at 13, was now divorced, and struggled off and on with serious depression, do to help her growing boys? She worked such long hours cleaning wealthy people's houses that she wasn’t even there during the kids’ after-school time, often not arriving home til they were in bed.
Want to take a moment and predict the outcome before reading on?
At first Sonya didn't know what to do, but she knew that she had to do something to help her boys begin to live up to their potential. And though she didn't know what to do, she knew Someone who did know. So she prayed and asked God for wisdom and guidance.
She also paid attention to the habits of the high achievers she worked for. She made some decisions and told her sons about them: they were to choose and read two library books per week and hand in book reports to her (they didn’t know she couldn't read), and they were to limit TV to two pre-selected programs per week, watchable only after homework was done.
Two books per week! Benny thought, alarmed. He had never read a book in his life. And how would he live with almost no TV?
To top it off, Ben had a terrible temper that even he realized would land him in jail one day if he didn’t learn to control it.
Ben's mother repeatedly told her sons that they could do anything anybody else could do, and do it better, if they would only work hard at it. She always had faith in them, and she never accepted excuses. She made none for herself, and would accept none from them--for their own good.
Ben Carson went from the bottom of his fifth grade class to the top of his sixth grade class in one and a half years. He earned a scholarship to Yale and became the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital when he was thirty-three years old. He was one of the youngest people to ever hold such a position, and the first black person to have a position like that in a world-renowned medical center. In the first seven years of his career, he performed breakthrough surgeries that changed the lives of his patients.
Thank you, Sonya Carson and son, Dr. Ben Carson.
David Gergen, professor of public service at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, director of its Center for Public Leadership, and editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report, interviewed Dr. Ben Carson in 1999, on the release of one of Dr. Carson’s books, The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What's Really Important in Life.
"What about rape?" Yep, that woman's right to choose was violated.
"So she could have an abortion then?" No, rule #1...the choice is about getting pregnant, not being pregnant.
"What about when the life of the mother is in danger?" Thats a tough one. I would probably handle it the same way you would handle having to choose when you have two loved ones drowning and can only put one in the life boat."
"And you handle that how?"
"Can't say, it's almost impossible to fathom, but throwing innocent people out of the boat to make my life easier isn't the right choice even if I had no part in sinking the ship."
"So a 1 week old fetus is a person?"
"Its a human life, I thought we agreed on that?"
"I never said that!???"
"Well, you referred to the life of the mother being in danger. A mother is someone with a child."
