Rex Murphy is a talent. Phrases roll off his tongue and I can think of only a few with such command of the English language. Both small articles from The National Post, a conservative Canadian news paper.
One is funnier than anything I have read lately
Glad you did ... even more illuminating are the "comments" on the review. Basically, a nation should look at itself in a mirror on occasion, held up by someone from outside.
It is not a pretty reflection.
Then again, I've been of the opinion for some time that this country is rotting from the inside and that nothing can stop it at this point ... simply look at the Chicago school cheating scandal, if that doesn't convince you, nothing will.
Think deeply about the forces that came together to provide us with that disgrace and you can't help but understand my pessimism.
Sad ...
Sheeeit! ... that should be "Atlanta" ... there is a difference, barely.
I like him and believe I'll be dropping by his column from time to time.
-- Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. -- Patricia Russell-McCloud
The Chicago school cheating scandal included only 10% of the teachers while Atlanta's scandal included nearly half of them. Percentages werren't given in D.C., Philly, or Baltimore scandals. Hmm, if all these teachers (I'm guessing that only about 1% are actually caught) are helping our students pass school, what happens to the dummies once they've graduated? I guess unions take over.
Does not bode well.
-- Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. -- Patricia Russell-McCloud
I really don't understand the reports of Atlanta scandal. It isn't a new story. It was all over the Atlanta news in January when we were up there. Maybe because they've finally decided to do something (fire all of the accused)?
Atlanta is firing (or has "requested the resignation from") 170something teachers and administrators. *ALL* teachers and administrators should be forced to give back all raises they've "earned" over the last decade.
Well, that's what they're *supposed* to do. ;-)
They become teachers.
Nope, but such things are not unexpected when the foxes are allowed to guard the chicken coop.
Sortakinda like the cops investigating police brutality. Will not work.
I used to work at a university where I was in charge of all the audio/video gear the students used to produce their class projects. One weekend, I came back to work and noticed something some gear was missing and some funny stuff going on with the paperwork students use to check out their gear.
A student had forged his professor's signature on the form needed to check out equipment and he had essentially broken into the equipment room after hours to take the gear. I confronted the student and he confessed. When I consulted the professor who's signature he forged about disciplinary actions, the professor said he was just showing good instinct as a producer to do whatever it takes to get the project done.
Good for the prof! Were I the prof, I'd likely have "discussed" the situation with the students and reminded them that it was a crime and that it wasn't appreciated (forgery, unchecked...). ...then let it drop.
That said, one can get away with a lot more in college than the secondary grades (and on down), as it should be. ...which is part of the reason I can support tenure for college professors and not for primary and secondary school teachers.
Yup, but I don't know how to get around that one. IA divisions are *supposed* to be autonomous but it obviously doesn't always work that way. Feds?
Really? Good for the Prof? It was essentially stolen property by means of breaking and entering. You don't any reason for disciplinary action?
Really.
Technically true. Well, at least illegal entry. Stolen, sure, if it's not returned or there was never any intention of returning it.
Sure, let the prof handle it. College is a different world, as it should be.
It's pretty hard to better the "murph"
...and I quote:
"This brings me to Australia, which has a population of wild or feral camels almost one-million strong. Camels are among the most prodigious =93flatulators=94 on the planet. It is not a good thing, weeping and nearly blind Australians assure us, to be downwind when either one camel or (God save the mark) a whole bunch of them, decide to pass gas."
..weeping and nearly blind Australians....damn that's funny...
I guess we disagree. College students get coddled way too much, which is why way too many are worthless for the first 5 or so years of their employment. They get no sense of what it's like to be employed in the real world and enter it as entitled adolescents who complain when they aren't rewarded for mediocrity, cry when they aren't showered with assurance, and can in no way possibly conceive the fact that taking home office supplies for personal use is in fact, stealing, precisely because of the mindset you employ, that "college is a different world."
Just like chicken.
That thought crossed my mind right after I hit "send". :-)
DELISH!!!!! Not gamey like venison. More like beef.
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