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 Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 6:16 pm
Okay.
My old writing professor is finally taking her case to the state level, because my college isn't doing s**t to protect her from the attempts to slander and fire her from my school by her politics obsessed department.
Those s**t eating bureaucrats have had a vendetta against her for years now and they finally overstepped the line by building a bullshit case to fire her and slander her name to the greater academia.
I also got my letter to her, the one where I describe how her class changed my skills and made me such a good writer. I'm hoping lots of other students of hers do too, and soon because the case may go to court.
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Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:39 pm
I was very lucky to be able to go to a progressive private (I totally just typed that as "pirate" lmao) high school. We did have some crazy internal politics from time to time (mostly between the administration and the art departments), but it was pretty top notch.
My 9th grade history class was on ancient history (we read things like the Epic of Gilgamesh and essays that I'm rereading for anthropology classes... I still use the course pack we had for that class to this day for research). Our teacher had a shrine up in the classroom and we would bring in images/statues/etc of things we thought were sacred and put them on it. His favorite was a little plastic Buddhist monk talking on a cellphone. This guy was intense; he used to tell us stories about going to India and biking through the USSR during the 80s and stuff. He also got the Dali Lama to visit our school the year before I started going there. Bad timing on my part *pout*
10th grade was modern European history, which covered 15th century to the present day. We had to do a project for that class that included an research project about someone during the Renaissance and then we got into like minded groups and had to put on a skit. I was Tycho Brahe and did a skit with a bunch of other scientific people called Star Wars pi: The War of the Stars, where Galileo was Darth Vader and Copernicus was Luke, and I, Tycho Brahe, was Obi Wan. It should be noted that we'd been studying the Star Wars trilogy in our English class at the same time, to go along with our Joseph Campbell readings.
My American history teacher was all about pointing out all the flaws in the American system. We got to the 80's I think, which was impressive because none of the classes I'd had before had ever gotten passed the Civil War. My favorite part of that class was beatnik day, where we spent the week wearing black clothes and berets, doing poetry slams and playing bongos.
And that was a lot more than I was planning on writing.... damn I miss that school!
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:00 am
Internal politics. Hmmm..
Reminds me of how by the time I was in my final year of high school, my friends and I were literally in charge o all student activities in the school. Basically all the leaders of all the clubs and councils were all friends with each other. xD
Many privileges accounted to that. Like seeing into the school's activity budget and being pissed off at the main school council for not running better events because of the rather hefty amount I saw by the ending of the year. Or actually having a glimpse of the security camera room in Grade 10. eek xd
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:07 am
Wish I could have gone to Rajani's school, that sounds awesome. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:29 pm
Sadly, it costs a lot of money to go there, and apparently it's not as good as it was when I went there because we had a bad administration change. But maybe it's gotten back to normal again. I'm still trying to convince my fiancee that sending our kids to a school like that would be tons better than any public school. We start out each school year with a week of camping out in the mountains/canyons. And having no standardized tests and not having to be in line with the government meant that I never had to deal with No Child Left Behind. I love progressive schooling ^_^ Alexander Dawson School if anyone wants to check it out.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:48 pm
Destiny and his social democracy ideals heavily dislikes any and all private schools and institutions. ninja
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:23 pm
SpaceTerminal Destiny Destiny and his social democracy ideals heavily dislikes any and all private schools and institutions. ninja The amusing thing about the school, is that almost everyone involved with it is insanely liberal, and the school is known for teaching socialist ideals... heh
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:25 pm
Rajani Kali SpaceTerminal Destiny Destiny and his social democracy ideals heavily dislikes any and all private schools and institutions. ninja The amusing thing about the school, is that almost everyone involved with it is insanely liberal, and the school is known for teaching socialist ideals... heh Possible migration of irony trout to new waters?
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:51 pm
Nuri now has working skype. Inquire within.
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:09 pm
maenad nuri Nuri now has working skype. Inquire within. Inquire. ninja
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:27 pm
So, Two weeks ago I received a handwritten letter in the post. Isn't that lovely, handwritten, stuck it a post box, with a stamp on it, handwritten letter! That hasn't happened in years!!! Anyway, the niceness quickly passed. It was a letter from a friend of mine who lives the other side of this small country, who I haven't seen or managed to speak to in over a year. She's a total new age neopagan flake, but incredibly talented, smart and overloading with potential and I love her to pieces!!! (the graveyard of ambition takes any and all as it's victims!) So, she wrote me a brief handwritten note, explaining that a good friend of hers wrote something in trance, gave it to her and told her it was 'for a friend you haven seen or heard from in over a year'. She enclosed the piece that her friend wrote in trance. Now, my dilemma is, this thing is pretty hard going, a severe and pointed warning and difficult to ignore, but I don't know if it's something to take at face value or to take more seriously! What would you do?
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:03 pm
Recursive Paradox Rajani Kali SpaceTerminal Destiny Destiny and his social democracy ideals heavily dislikes any and all private schools and institutions. ninja The amusing thing about the school, is that almost everyone involved with it is insanely liberal, and the school is known for teaching socialist ideals... heh Possible migration of irony trout to new waters? I think mostly people sent their kids to that school because it's really the best school in CO. Colorado's public education system is the second worse in the country... it's really, really bad!
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:58 pm
This is entertaining. Writing a paper on demographics, the second paragraph is just on the general stats of Canada and Ontario. Every sentence is ending with (Statistics Canada) as the citation. xD
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Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:07 pm
maenad nuri Nuri now has working skype. Inquire within. Details plx
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:33 am
/jealous at boyfriend.
For part of his World Religions (or is it philosophies?) his teacher assigned extra credit work that I would love to go with him to see.
One is to see a Holocaust survivor give a speech about her life and what it was like being in Auschwitz, twice.
The other is an invitation to attend a local Jewish relgious gathering and just to experience the similarities and differences.
...I want to go too, but I might not be allowed.
EDIT: I accidentally hit quote to edit this post first, and posted on the next page of the thread. I deleted it, though it still says there is an extra page.
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