tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post3986062976390650775..comments2024-03-21T14:29:41.877-06:00Comments on Oaxaca-The Year After: ParadoxicalChristopher Stowenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17338834673351573616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post-71700706399125125522014-05-24T08:41:58.915-05:002014-05-24T08:41:58.915-05:00Please, Bev, don't hold back. Tell me what yo...Please, Bev, don't hold back. Tell me what you really think ;-)<br /><br />After 30 years of teaching, I realized that the kids were always alright. I have complete faith in them even though their formative years and education are so much different from ours. I always fall back on the Oaxaca's 10,000 years of history and that sometimes you're up and sometimes you're down. El Norte is in a down cycle after having a century or two of up cycles. Our institutions are mostly failing and letting us down and it seems to be a global thing. The richer are getting richer and that has worked out well in the past, repeatedly. I feel so fortunate to be a retired hedge-fund manger with 13 billion in y offshore accounts.... The kids are just as bright as we were and they will figure out how to adapt and clean up the mess previous generations have left them. Uh, they can sure type faster with their thumbs than we ever could, eh?<br /><br />Yes, things look dire, but I remain optimistic.... and a fool, of course.Christopher Stowenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17338834673351573616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1710073417412924020.post-34629070101589131572014-05-24T07:24:40.523-05:002014-05-24T07:24:40.523-05:00Chris
You hit on a sore note with me. I could rant...Chris<br />You hit on a sore note with me. I could rant on the subject of our education system for hours. We are raising a bunch of idiots. They can't read-they don't know how many inches are in a yard-they can't think logically so they can't problem solve- they don't read novels or news magazines-they don't play musical instruments- they can't have a simple disagreement without it turning violent-they know nothing about our history or the history of the world and how what happens today is all related to that history on and on and on. I am so happy I have no children in the public schools. I fear for the future of our country. The gap between "the haves" (those who go to private schools) and the "have nots" ( those in the public schools) is growing daily. We must go back to giving our kids a well rounded education (including the arts) and go back to "if you don't learn it you stay in this grade til you do!" PHEW!! was that too much of a rant!!!Bev in connecticutnoreply@blogger.com