September 24, 2024 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Romance (Poem)

Sep 24 2024

Poetry — Romance That cat I killed last night (The aftermath of rage spent on you) Lay stiff, cast off, When I hastened back to you. It thought the journey safe; My fierce beam Caught it starry eyed Captured with the light. The act was quick and sudden; Painless was my wake. How unlike this kind deed Is our romance. We bite and tear As love unwinds to lust. Dragging our wants Through alleys of guilt. We’ll bear our hate In silent stares. Towards this cruel culmination We cart our long affair. — John Coyne (Ethiopia 1962-64)

The Victimization of Public School Teachers in America

Sep 24 2024

A new book — The Victimization of Public School Teachers in America by Emmanuel Edouard (Mali 1980-82) Fulton Books Publication 356 pages June 2024 $9.99 (Kindle) & $25.73 (paperback) The assault on public school teachers’ integrity, livelihood, and professionalism started in 1983 with the publication of A Nation at Risk. Based on the results of our education system performance, they were indirectly accused of failing our children. It peaked in 2004, when Rod Paige, then George W. Bush’s secretary of education, called the country’s leading teachers union a “terrorist organization.” Teachers felt dehumanized then. In 2009, Barack Obama blamed them for “letting our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short, and other nations outpace us.” Teachers felt let down again. In 2017, President Donald Trump lamented how “beautiful” students had been “deprived of all knowledge” by our nation’s cash-guzzling public school system. Teachers felt humiliated and . . .

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