Teacher education

Kizz
April 9, 2006 at 7:13 pm

I haven’t been reading at all, totally cribbing off everyone else. But I do have a sort of related issue to bring up.

SPOILER ALERT – NIP/TUCK SEASON 2

There’s a wonderful episode where the symbolic surgery of the week is an adult pair of conjoined twins being separated because one of them has cancer and the other one is too weak to endure the chemo. So, long story short, the weak one dies during the separation and the mother decides not to inform the docs of the DNR the twins signed (I don’t want to live if my twin doesn’t) but it becomes clear that the “surviving” twin is spiritually dead and will only survive as a vegetable to be studied. So the mother is going to honor the DNR, pull the plugs and let her other daughter die. She says to the doctor, “After I do this will you put them back together, the way God meant them to be?” And that is how they are buried.

“The way God meant them to be.”

Which is, I think, at the crux of the whole Frankenstein thing. Did God mean for the beings that end up becoming the creature to stay dead and as they were? At what point does what God meant for Victor’s brain to be become superseded by what God meant for the people upon whom Victor develops his intelligence?

Which got me to thinking about how, in the name of God, humans have been trying to thwart “what God meant them to be” for time out of mind. The Greeks would put twins out on a hillside to die of exposure because twins were an abomination against the gods. Yeah? Then how the hell did they get down here in the first place? In theory God gave us the technology for abortion and yet, in the name of God, the entire country of El Salvador has outlawed it. (See: Forensic Vagina Inspectors – I am not kidding.)

So, those are my thoughts of late on the subject.

Reply

From Tyler, Texas. I love that name Tyler, Texas. Almost sounds like a person, eh? An article , not much different than what I have been posting here, but wanted to make a couple of points, or should I say let the administrators make a few points that have been echoing throughout the state.

“The problem we’re facing is no different from the other 699 districts in Texas at the $1.04 level,” Witte says. “For the past few years, the state has not provided additional operating funds. And we have no new revenue to offset the costs. And inflation is hitting everyone pretty hard.”

I’ve noticed certain parties are getting more money for the upcoming elections. I honestly don’t know how, or more, why? Why is everyone tuning a deaf ear to what is being said by each and every school district in Texas? I keep on hearing how the districts need to “better manage their budgets.” What the heck? I can’t put what I’d like to there, I keep this blog clean. But, all of this leads us to want to rant, rave, rage, and carry on and pull our ever living hair out. We have to clean house, we HAVE to got certain incumbents , and , and , and especially and , out!

A couple of other quotes from this article:

“We have a great school system, but it takes a lot of funding to improve on greatness,” says Superintendent Stan Surratt. “We have some maintenance issues we need to address, including some new roofs and some parking lots. And with the cost of diesel, gasoline and food, the pressure just increases.”Utility costs are just one example, he says.”Our electricity bills have gone up an average of $8,000,” Surratt says. “That’s $96,000 that’s not in the budget. And there’s nothing in place from the state for inflation.”

This is exactly what I see as a major problemo. You know if our households are having problems, what about our schools? <shaking head vigorously>

Meant to post this earlier today, but got off on some tangents. Went surfing USA…