Miami Public Schools; Heat Wave; The Politics of Jesus
July 26, 2010 by Staff · 2 Comments
Is this heat wave a sign of climate change?
Next, what’s up with this heat? Are the current heat wave that’s gripping the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia—and even last winter’s blizzards—sure signs of climate change? We’ll talk with Andrew Freeman, climate blogger with the Washington Post’s Capitol Weather Gang and online editor for climatecentral.org to find out.
Finally, it was so nice we had to do it twice: Religion Week. We continue the series this week with Rev. Dr. Obrey Hendricks, professor at New York Theological Seminary and author of The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They’ve Been Corrupted.
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I am listening to your show at the moment about Miami Schools and public education in general. The commentator mentioned the need for “community responsibility” and I’d like to further suggest that for those families who may be working 2-3 jobs and can’t participate in their children’s education, then it IS the responsibility of corporate and business communities to find creative ways to offer their employees time off, without penalty of any kind, to volunteer in their children’s classrooms or community classrooms. That action alone will change education. That action will change children. That action will change society. No mention is EVER made of the corporate responsibility here.
Instead, we are seeing self-serving contributions in the form of education reforms by way of corporate agendas. School boards, administrations and unfortunately, our current Obama administration, are blithely creating petri dishes of our schools to implement education reform experiments that will simply NEVER EVER WORK. Corporations should not be in the business of telling teachers how to teach because they don’t know, and no amount of corporate backed research will support their aims. Corporations will be better served in the long run with a competent and well-educated work force if they support parents and legislation to support schools with significantly lower class sizes, reasonable learning conditions, and structures that honor the instruction offered by our teachers. No more shall corporate-backed educational reform break the backs of our teachers. No more.
it is very evident that climate change is already taking effect in this decade,.: