Once again, as a former educator, I have to take exception to this. The school where I worked is in a small community that is both rural and a bedroom community for those who work in Salem. It is also heavily Catholic with a Catholic education system along side the public school system. Some of our students came from further up the ca…
Once again, as a former educator, I have to take exception to this. The school where I worked is in a small community that is both rural and a bedroom community for those who work in Salem. It is also heavily Catholic with a Catholic education system along side the public school system. Some of our students came from further up the canyon populated in many instances by people from the upper south who came for logging and the wood mills. Those up the canyon experienced the Labor Day fires either by losing their homes and/or being on level three evacuation notices. Where I worked, it was level two and all of us had plenty of smoke. Now we have the Bootleg fire in southern Oregon and are the people there learning anything from that. Nope, it's the govmint's fault or liberals, etc. I am sure they are anti-intellectual as well, so no amount of education is going to help. Some fire fighters in no. CA were greeted by guns when they came to evacuate people. Then there are those against the vaccine, one of whom was set up across the street from the Saturday Market, complete with his flag because as we all know, "real patriots" love the party of death. This is a state of mind that it is difficult to eradicate with education. I might also add the school board elections here are now hotly fought. Here in Salem the progressives prevailed, but other places they did not. In Albany, south of us, the new board promptly fired the excellent superintendent who had done good work with inclusion.
The kids' attitudes depend almost entirely on what they learn at home beginning at age 2, as another person here noted. Very few of us are going to be swayed away from our parents' attitudes unless we achieve a higher level of education.
I agree. The saddest case we had was a kid we all worked hard to help and I read the hopeful story he wrote for creative writing. Then while in Washington State, his father told him to kill someone which he did. No changing that.
Once again, as a former educator, I have to take exception to this. The school where I worked is in a small community that is both rural and a bedroom community for those who work in Salem. It is also heavily Catholic with a Catholic education system along side the public school system. Some of our students came from further up the canyon populated in many instances by people from the upper south who came for logging and the wood mills. Those up the canyon experienced the Labor Day fires either by losing their homes and/or being on level three evacuation notices. Where I worked, it was level two and all of us had plenty of smoke. Now we have the Bootleg fire in southern Oregon and are the people there learning anything from that. Nope, it's the govmint's fault or liberals, etc. I am sure they are anti-intellectual as well, so no amount of education is going to help. Some fire fighters in no. CA were greeted by guns when they came to evacuate people. Then there are those against the vaccine, one of whom was set up across the street from the Saturday Market, complete with his flag because as we all know, "real patriots" love the party of death. This is a state of mind that it is difficult to eradicate with education. I might also add the school board elections here are now hotly fought. Here in Salem the progressives prevailed, but other places they did not. In Albany, south of us, the new board promptly fired the excellent superintendent who had done good work with inclusion.
The kids' attitudes depend almost entirely on what they learn at home beginning at age 2, as another person here noted. Very few of us are going to be swayed away from our parents' attitudes unless we achieve a higher level of education.
I agree. The saddest case we had was a kid we all worked hard to help and I read the hopeful story he wrote for creative writing. Then while in Washington State, his father told him to kill someone which he did. No changing that.
Wow! Really sad.