An excerpt from OZY -
WHY DETENTION SUCKS ... AND MANUAL LABOR IS BETTER
By James Watkins
When OZY’s Sean Culligan, then 16, hurled a water balloon that hit a car passing outside his high school, the effect was not quite what he’d hoped. Caught in the act by a teacher, who viewed the “prank” as a serious misdemeanor, young Culligan was given a one-way ticket to detention for the rest of the week. But his punishment wasn’t to sit in silence or write “I must not throw things at cars” 100 times. Instead, detention involved janitorial work — picking up litter, carrying supplies, even cleaning the bathrooms. That was par for the course at a Catholic school back then.
Too severe? We might not see eye to eye with young Culligan’s tormentors, but something might be said for making detention a bit more … physical. When detention in the majority of schools across the world is spent in silence, reading or writing lines of penance, couldn’t it be made more productive? How about using the time to teach misbehaving children the value of hard work and community service, and respect for the environment and teamwork, rather than trying to bore them into obedience? Whether working alongside the janitor to tidy classrooms or tending to a community garden, schools should ditch detention and replace it with manual labor.
http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/why-detention-sucks-and-manual-labor-is-better/74515
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Gift Ideas
From StumbleUpon -
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1q8v12/:1Gs+Y_unE:nqF@Fcuw/mentalfloss.com/article/75376/most-popular-valentines-day-gift-searches-state
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1q8v12/:1Gs+Y_unE:nqF@Fcuw/mentalfloss.com/article/75376/most-popular-valentines-day-gift-searches-state
A Renaissance Man
From the Public Domain Review -
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900/
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/w-e-b-du-bois-hand-drawn-infographics-of-african-american-life-1900/
101 Books to Read Before Kindergarten
From Pinterest -
http://growingbookbybook.com/101-books-read-kids-kindergarten/#_a5y_p=5828592
http://growingbookbybook.com/101-books-read-kids-kindergarten/#_a5y_p=5828592
The South's First Black Millionaire
From OZY -
THE STORY OF THE SOUTH’S FIRST BLACK MILLIONAIRE
By Sean Braswell
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-story-of-the-souths-first-black-millionaire/75532
THE STORY OF THE SOUTH’S FIRST BLACK MILLIONAIRE
By Sean Braswell
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-story-of-the-souths-first-black-millionaire/75532
Friday, February 10, 2017
I Wish You Were
An excerpt from the NewYork Times -
Am I Imagining This?
By Roger Cohen
The enormity of the defiling of the White House in just three weeks is staggering. For decades the world’s security was undergirded by America’s word. The words that issued from the Oval Office were solemn. It was on America’s word, as expressed by the president, that the European continent and allies like Japan built their postwar security.
Now the words that fall from Trump’s pursed lips or, often misspelled, onto his Twitter feed are trite or false or meaningless. He’s angry with Nordstrom, for heaven’s sake, because the department store chain dropped his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line! This is the concern of the leader of the free world.
Unpresidented! (sic)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/preserving-the-sanctity-of-all-facts.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
Am I Imagining This?
By Roger Cohen
The enormity of the defiling of the White House in just three weeks is staggering. For decades the world’s security was undergirded by America’s word. The words that issued from the Oval Office were solemn. It was on America’s word, as expressed by the president, that the European continent and allies like Japan built their postwar security.
Now the words that fall from Trump’s pursed lips or, often misspelled, onto his Twitter feed are trite or false or meaningless. He’s angry with Nordstrom, for heaven’s sake, because the department store chain dropped his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line! This is the concern of the leader of the free world.
Unpresidented! (sic)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/preserving-the-sanctity-of-all-facts.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Shaking Up the World
From the Undefeated -
The Undefeated 44: African-Americans Who Shook Up the World
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-undefeated-44-most-influential-black-americans-in-history/
The Undefeated 44: African-Americans Who Shook Up the World
https://theundefeated.com/features/the-undefeated-44-most-influential-black-americans-in-history/
His Underhanded Approach
From the Washington Post -
How Trump’s travel ban broke from the normal executive order process
President Trump differed from tradition when it came to writing, reviewing and implementing his immigration executive order, which temporarily banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees from entering the United States.
By Kim Soffen and Darla Cameron
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-travel-ban-process/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_graphic-travelban-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
How Trump’s travel ban broke from the normal executive order process
President Trump differed from tradition when it came to writing, reviewing and implementing his immigration executive order, which temporarily banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees from entering the United States.
By Kim Soffen and Darla Cameron
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-travel-ban-process/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_graphic-travelban-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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