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| SITARA |
Posted
on 13-Apr-03 03:56 PM
So, two months ago, I ordered one of the seven course-books (each one damn expensive) from half books.com for my class in Education Policy. It was guaranteed that the book would be delivered within 5 business days...well, 4 days later the skies dumped two feet of snow on my yard. I never found the book! Half books reasoned they had delivered it and I swore they had not. Naturally, I had no option but to go to the university bookstore and buy another one to catch up with my book report due the next week.
There was this educators' conference I attended where the focus was on Bush's "No Child Left Behind" policy. No child ofcourse meant a 100%... I wondered if Bush understood that 100% includes Special Education children, Esl students and other special needs children. So, now the schools are under pressure to show proof that no child is left behind...in my "educator's" mind, it translates into "no child left untested". And ofcourse, we all know the biases of Standardized tests--cultural and economic. But, here is the catch, the amazingly rhetorical policy has no additional education fund set aside. Guess what, private enterprises have miraculously mushroomed with curriculum methods and tests to "support" the Bush policy. I am left wondering which one of the govt guys own a share in the education business....You know sorta like the Halliburton Syndrome.
"US education is aiming toward electronic porfolios to track each child's progress through out his/her academic years". Wow!!!!! Impressive! I asked my principal...."Can we please have secure barricades around our school so we can monitor the activities of every visitor inside the building/school grounds... because last week, a parent picked up his child from the playground while the school went beserk looking for him!". My answer-- well the school fund is depleted and the "No Child Left Behind" policy people are too busy building a secure Iraq!! Electronic portfolios??? Ya! I wonder who has a stake in the IP market! I just drafted a letter saying..."Dear parents, please send these items with your child as we are running out of supplies: pencils, xerox paper, crayons, Kleenex......... Also, does anyone have an extra fan???" Yep, I da Skeptic!
An American friend (with a history of having worked in the most rural parts of "third world countries"), dismayed by the Bush administration asked his looooong time, older, lifelong bachelor friend to ask Condolisa Rice out on a date....perhaps she would be less uptight! Hehe! Prescribing sex for Bush's frigid administration???? Perhaps, that was why Clinton's administration did a better job with "domestic" affairs... didn't have to "riddle" and "rape" another country.
So the country hangs in precarious balance.... while its defence budget will increase to $379 billion to build and maintain Pax Americana throughout the world.
I recall one Zen saying: The key is not to be in balance but to regain it as soon as one has lost it. "Regaining the balance" lies on the overburdened shoulders of the Taxpayers ofcourse!
ZEN AGAIN!!!!!!!! oh no! I heard tell that some Sajha antizennists have resorted to Zen to cure constipation and have renamed their throne room, "Zen Room". Was it out of malice or desperation, I do not know...but surely it is a smart move to contemplate and reflect while detoxing! But again, here is a catch.....the key is to let go!!!!! Ladies, practice your Kegel exercises to control your sphinctor at both ends! Zen alone does not cut it! I wish them happy detoxing!
Oh what a beautiful weekend!!! The sun shone bright!!!!!..... Guess what, this morning I found my book from Halfbooks.com under a pile of melting snow!!!
All is not lost yet! Hope lies eternal in the changes of the seasons!
A HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL!!!
:)
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| PREMpujari |
Posted
on 13-Apr-03 04:51 PM
Sitarajyu,
I heard ya!! :)
Happy New year to you too!!!
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 13-Apr-03 06:02 PM
Yah,
spring is in the air; there's still a terrible winter around me, yet I hold an invincible summer in my heart! (kaha padya ho yo? dyamn..birsechu)
nyways, hyaappi new year to you as well :)
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| ebony_firefly |
Posted
on 14-Apr-03 03:43 AM
it feels good to drop by, now and zen to say~ hi !
a very neony new year to ya!..lol
blac_
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| PREMpujari |
Posted
on 14-Apr-03 03:53 AM
Sitzzzjyuuu!!!
Kegal exercise?? ehh.. I thought it was a typo, so I read it as "legal exercise" ehh...
Legal exercise to control your spinchter?? ehh!!
Now it make sense!!! hehe!
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 14-Apr-03 11:30 AM
Oys ji
;)
Blac ji
Love to hear from you now and zen, if not always!
PP ji
But ofcourse! How can Kegel exercises be a typo? Even Docs prescribe them for FF (frustrated females!) :P
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| Rusty |
Posted
on 14-Apr-03 11:43 AM
Sitara jyu,
Well expressed article. Tara k garnu, right now Bush is busy with "No Ooh well Terrorists Left from the Target" campaign. Childs are left behind for their safty:p
Zen Room sounds cool...Actually, San can do it...I guess. Zen Chat room...
Happy New Year to all:)
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