Although she is 6yrs old, I am playing many games with her. She does play: - Piano - Chess - Monopoly - Poker (yes, poker at 6) _______________________________ To show true love of daughter is to take her shopping. I'm a good Dad, I take my daughter fishing and she can play poker, She knows the different types of wrenches and can spell Budweiser backwards. jk
I love going to chinatowns( which are pretty much old railroad labor camps morphed over the years) to enjoy a good schezuan hotpot. I always ask myself what was different. I mean apart from all the mainstream reasons. I think one of them is that they have always leaned on trade and relationships with their original home country to climb up. Closed culture yes but always infusion of new blood within themselves. The brutal way african americans were brought here and the century they were brought here robbed them of that. In the recent years I have seen africans coming here (Ghanians mostly) who are more motivated and hopeful than majority I have seen. I did ask one of them once about his treatment and slights here. He shrugged and said of course they exist. But he looks at it as the price he has to pay to get ahead. The only thing that can change perception is success for a significant number. I know this is an education thread. Having taken a look at LAUSD, I am not very hopeful. Here is a recent fiasco http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-lausd12jun12,0,4609377.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail They have more money than they know what to do with. I read to my kids for about 45 min every night and they love it. Its the most important memory I have of my father and I did ok
shooping ?... sorry but I am keeping them away from the most popular american sport of "shopping" (like my dad used to say) My dauther does not know wrenches but we do a lot of role play about beer and smoking. I always try to offer her beer like, "Hey, do you want a bud ?? It is really good" and she says "No, I do not want any" .. we do the same for cigarettes... I terms of education, I do really hate the parents that consider our public school system as "babysitting" (since they both have to work) .... those are the parents that slow down the kids that are really into going to school to study and learn .... I am still undecided on the private / public school topic ... Which one is better ? ....
I went to Catholic school till 6th grade. I can still remember my first day in public school, 7th grade. It was so chaotic to me, disorder everywhere (it wasn't but seemed that way to me), everyone wearing whatever clothes they wanted. Noise in the hall. In the following HS years, I began to recognize aspects of my education in Catholic schools & teachers there as somewhat prejudiced. I was annoyed. Then you leave HS and find the truth - opinions are everywhere, predjudice is everywhere. It was not limited to a Catholic school. Everyone has an agenda. Politics is everywhere. There is a certain richness in life I can relate to and look back on from those pre 7th grade years, that would not have been the same as if I had been in public school all my life. I'm glad I was an altar boy, wore a uniform, memorized prayers and knew the latin mass. Kids sort it out sooner or later.
well said, but we also know of mean reversion, these things will correct themselves and the free lunch (not literally speaking about food) will stop sooner or later.
Bwahahaha, indeed. Poor little jimmy. He makes claims of having a 140 IQ as well as practicing cutting edge methods of market trading, yet the best he can do in life is go to "work" and play the victimized race card. Pitiful. st
Sad that my first post has to be in this thread. I was trolling through various threads and came upon garbage. Without a doubt, individuals like Pabst are the cause of much concern to social harmony. It took me only seconds to read the first couple of line of the initial thread to wonder," when will this turn into a black/white issue?" The point of the matter is not whether you think that education is substandard in this country or that some may or may not use to the full advantage of their abilities the opportunities available to them in this country. But, how you view a certain segment of the population. Your views have very little to do with the capacity of one race to succeed or fail in this society, but how the affects of our muddied racial past as a nation still infects everyone. You offer nothing in the way of meaningful nor constructive solutions to anything. Answer this one question. With the views that you harbor, would a "qualified",talented and capable individual of Black decent stand a chance of getting hired if you ran a company?
Answer this one question. With the views that you harbor, would a "qualified",talented and capable individual of Black decent stand a chance of getting hired if you ran a company? ------------------------------------- This is a good question. I suppose this depends on how one might view there pool of workers. If your workforce is a large group of children playing in the sand box (ie autoworker) and you can afford a playground supervisor, a black, woman or minority would be an easy hire. But if your employee work culture is shut up and do your job, not everyone understands that concept and it might difficult to retain a minority hire. Unemployement compensation puts the burden on the employer to make good hiring decisions, if a disproportionate number of minority hires quit and collect U/compensation on your policy, you are screwed no matter how hard you try to make it work.