The State of American Education

You know that a country’s education budget is ridiculously low when teachers have to start selling advertising space on their quizzes and tests to help pay for the cost of printing them.  I’m sure that some of you have seen the old bumpersticker phrase “I look forward to the day when our schools get all the money they need and the army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”, and, well, while it was meant as a joke and an exaggerated circumstance…it seems to me that we’re getting to the point where the reverse is true:  our military has seeming carte blanche with out budget, and now schools are starting to have to sell advertisements to be able to afford to print out their curriculum.

*sigh*

Published in: on December 9, 2008 at 1:00 am  Comments (1)  
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Public Service Announcement

At the request of a few folks, I have created a new blog, hosted on my own server, which integrates posts from a few of my blogs, and this is one of them.

Basically, I have several separate wordpress blogs because many people are only interested in one aspect of my life (teachers read my teaching blog for lesson plans, other Korean expats read my Korea blog, and various people read my personal blog, etc, etc).  It makes it easy for folks who don’t want to have to scroll past a post about my own life, etc.

However, some people *are* interested in all aspects, or at least more than one, and so I have made a new blog on which I post my entries from the most relevant/popular of my other blogs.  The default view is to see everything, but if you want, the categories at the top sift the blog into only posts from a particular wordpress blog.

You are welcome to continue reading this blog, but if you are also interested in getting a broader picture of my life, I would recommend checking out the new one instead, as it will contain not only my posts from here, but from a few other of my blogs as well.

The new blog is HERE.

Published in: on December 6, 2008 at 11:09 pm  Leave a Comment  
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