Deep thinkers......

We are deep thinkers.... at 8:03 a.m. today, I had another excellent response to my e-mail from district staff - not just teachers, mind you, but everyone on staff in our organization with an email account including cooks, custodians, and paras got this e-mail.

Dear Karla,

Thank you for this article. It is a small view of the world gone mad in my opinion.

I heard on TV that the biological limit of food production of the earth is about 9 billion people and we would be eating everything is site. We are at 6 billion plus and we are heading to 12 billion. Some place between here and there a lot of this article will happen. I am beyond sad. Mathus was right.

Here is an article my nephew sent to me about government. You might like it. I did.

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/

Thanks for the article again.

It's imperative we are touching all our senses in educating for tomorrow. [karla's words]

Thanks for sharing. It is appreciated.

Passionate Teachers.....

I sent this out to our staff @ 7:30 p.m. and at 8:52 p.m. I had this message from a teacher. How wonderful and refreshing......

That was one of the most poignant stories I have had the pleasure of reading in a long time. I often try to explain this type of world to my students and they look at me with the same blank eyes. I am going to have my juniors read this tomorrow in class, and maybe somewhere later in their lives they will be richer for their exposure to such a moving and provocative story.
--Jonathan
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Dorris Lessing - On not winning the Nobel Prize

I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in '56, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires.

I'm reminded of my own political science teachers in my rural community high school days. Knowing I turn the half-century mark this month, that is saying...I'm old.