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Author Archives: dana415
“A Screaming Comes Across The Sky”
This wonderful collection of words in the post title was not penned by me nor comes from my brain other than the receptacle of memory as that of the words of author Thomas Pynchon‘s in his novel titled “Gravity’s Rainbow“. How … Continue reading
Posted in Education, People, Politics, Writing
Tagged Brain Pickings Weekly, EPA, Gravity's Rainbow, Pop Chart Lab, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Thomas Pynchon
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America: Enough of the TOXIC STRESS on the Middle Already!
Have you been holding your head in your hands for so long now that you realize your arms don’t belong in that place connected to the head? I teach for a living and man, and I have got to tell … Continue reading
2 Million Light Years Away
The small center of my world fills up regularly with the misdeeds, Machiavellian calculations, and deceitful, closed-door chatter among a small group of elites. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Life in San Francisco, Politics, Writing
Tagged administrators, CCSF, City College of San Francisco, community college, greed, humanity, people
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Just Breathe…
Today feels fresh and alive. Not in the way of a human countdown as in the new 365, but rather in that “only in northern California beautiful day” kind of way. So many surf at the beach, bobbing in the … Continue reading
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The most brilliant, insidious plan ever – pure evil…
This is America: drowning her citizens and caving in on herself. Though it’s truly one of the wonders of the world found in Cape Perpetua, Oregon, Thor’s Well (AKA: Spouting Horn), is considered a “gateway to the underworld”. This … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics, Writing
Tagged America, Arne Duncan, Bill O'Reilly, billionaires, Bloomberg, citizenry, control, Courts, education, Ellison, Executive, Gates, government, hate, Judicial, Kochs, Legislative, Oregon, pawns, politics, power, President, Rush Limbaugh, Thor's Well, United States, Veterans, Waltons, Wealth, Zuckerberg
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Rooms of One’s Own – a box in a box in a box
Life is a box. We live in one, we work in one, we drive in one, we stare at one, we type on one, we ship boxes in boxes to other destination boxes. I’ve been contemplating all of the boxes … Continue reading
Posted in Life in San Francisco, Writing
Tagged Anaheim, Apartments, Bay Area, Berkeley, Box, Boxes, Cal, Chapter, college, Durant Avenue, Episode, Friends, High School, Involved, Involvement, Junior High School, Living, Los Angeles, Mom, Moms, Rooms, San Diego, San Francisco, SoCal, UC Berkeley, worker, Worker bee
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First, they came for my students…
We are no longer the middle and we are not the bottom, but rather a new class of worker bees: America’s teachers who have been beaten into a twenty-mule team pulling the reformer’s idea of “right choices” for students to better compete on the global stage. Most … Continue reading
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Tagged Arne Duncan, Common Core, data, Deductive Reasoning, Education Reformer, Educators, Middle Class, money, Policy, research, Standardized Testing, students, Studies, teachers
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What’s with all of this “First World” ranting?
Warning: this will not read as you think (and there is one or more expletive contained herein). I’m not standing up for the whiny rich people with their wireless problems, but rather for hard-working people like myself who have … Continue reading
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Tagged artists, expensive, First World Problem, hard working, iPhone, Kardashian, luxury, Middle Class, musicians, poor, problems, rant, rich, shout, strange, Wealthy
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