Remember Them If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and one backward glance when you are leaving, for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not always have.
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.
Written by MAJ Michael Davis O'Donnell in Dak To, Republic of Vietnam on 1 January 1970. MAJ O'Donnell was Killed in Action in Cambodia on 24 March 1970
This explains quite a bit about government schools
Posted by DarthDilbert at 5/18/2010 11:10:00 AM
If Dryden had a drug problem, it could have gone undetected at the school because neither the state nor Dayton Public Schools require mandatory drug tests for teachers, adjunct or otherwise, said district spokeswoman Jill Moberley.
Principal of Florida government school under fire for obscene e-mail sent to parent
Posted by DarthDilbert at 5/18/2010 10:42:00 AM
Parents at Coconut Grove Elementary School are calling for the ouster of Principal Eva N. Ravelo this week after she told a parent in an e-mail to "eat sh-- and die."
The controversy, which is now under review by the Miami-Dade County school district's central office, started Monday. Abigail DuBearn, a member of the school's Educational Excellence School Advisory Committee, or EESAC, had asked Ravelo and other council members whether student representatives of the committee "could be notified today and be invited to attend and participate'' at Monday's meeting.
Ravelo, 44, then replied to DuBearn's e-mail with the message: "Advise her to eat sh-- and die." Ravelo spelled the swear word as it appears here — without the last two letters.
Maria Orjeda, the school's reading coach, who spoke on behalf of Ravelo, said the principal meant to send the e-mail about DuBearn to her assistant principal, Ramón Dawkins, instead of DuBearn.
DuBearn could not be reached for comment Thursday.
"Ms. Ravelo takes full responsibility for the mistake. She apologized to Mrs. DuBearn on Tuesday," Orjeda said.
The principal, who is still running the school, has been instructed not to speak with the media, Orjeda said.
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot.
If you cross the U.S. border illegally you get: a job, a drivers license, social security card, welfare, food stamps, credit cards, subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house, free education, free health care, a lobbyist in Washington, billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your language, the right to carry your country's flag while you protest that you don't get enough respect, and, in many instances, you can vote.
Students Kicked out of San Francisco government schools for wearing American flag tees
Posted by DarthDilbert at 5/06/2010 05:23:00 PM
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.
Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.
"They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today."
The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.
Reason # to homeschool.
Oh, and how did I celebrate Cinco de Mayo? I burned a Mexican flag.
Dayton government schools to cut more than ninety jobs
Posted by DarthDilbert at 5/06/2010 05:22:00 PM
The Dayton Board of Education on Tuesday, May 4, took the first step toward eliminating more than 90 positions at the end of the school year under a plan to avoid a $6.3 million deficit in the district’s budget next year.
The seven school board members voted unanimously to cut 70 positions recommended by Superintendent Kurt Stanic. The positions include 10 administrators, 46 teachers and 14 teacher aides, but no principals or assistant principals.
Thirty of those positions will be eliminated through attrition , with 27 from the teaching staff.
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to homeschool.
