Category: Different views
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Optional Stop Signs
citizens not just one group or another or the government writing the laws is unfair and needs to be replaced. Where do you stand?
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Through Thru Threw
More often than not, students are told they are wrong even when they are applying logic. This is not the fault of the student yet the blame falls in their laps. Many students simply have never been taught how to learn and/or how to study by teachers who were gifted with these skill sets from…
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A Personal Fact vs A Collective Opinion
Religion is a collective opinion that teaches us how to be human together. We are on the same field, playing the same game. We are only different by degrees or fractions. If we can learn how to celebrate our differences and embrace our similarities, there is nothing we can not accomplish.
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1+1=2 yet goat+cheese=Goatcheese
Just because you are right doesn’t necessarily mean that I am wrong. When we accept this premise, life becomes easier and relationships more fulfilling.
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Resilient to Change
A cooling breeze on a summer day is sometimes all we need. Many times though the solution is more complicated. I think sometimes we forget that change is necessary and resiliency is the skill we need to apply to survive. America 2020 could stand to ponder this for a bit before November when election day…
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Scratching Solutions
For many years I was a teacher and on a few occasions I had students ‘I hate you.’ I was always okay with it. It meant that the student was listening and responding to me just not into the relationship that we had developed. From there, it was always hard work but pretty easy to…
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Cure All, Teach All and the Capitalist
Every time I hear or see an educator toting or selling a new educational Cure All, Teach All product, I see them for what they are, snake salespeople hawking their wares. Teaching is quite simple: know your content, know your kids, meet the needs of your kids in real time. However, more often than not,…
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We not Me
I thought I was invincible when I was younger. A few broken arms, almost dying in a car accident, big waves and almost dying from gallbladder disease was apparently not enough to teach me this lesson. A few bike accidents with cracked helmets, one without and a week with a severe concussion wasn’t enough either. …
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The Corrupt Win
The upper class is about power. Rape and assault is about power. Betsy DeVos identifies more with the assailants than the victims. The Corrupt Win. Is it possible that we have it all wrong? That the markers we think are for good are bad and the markers for bad are actually good in the…
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A Federalist Shift
Leaders emerge because they have a mission and they understand the game that is being played. Maybe Bernie Sanders only had the mission, but because he is an honest man, he doesn’t understand the game. Liars and cheats win or face no consequences and the honest suffer. This is true for the Not Me Us…
Observations From the Spectrum 