Sigh

Oregon has a ballot initiative for this fall that wants people to vote on limiting ESL classes for high school students to only 2 years. The man behind it claims its because illegal immigrants expect free services from US taxpayers. WTF??!?!?!??!?! First, since when are all ESL students illegal immigrants? Second, who on earth thinks its a good idea for laypeople with no training in education to decide how many years of English classes students need?

Really, with attitudes like this, let's keep the illegal immigrants and deport the guys like the ones who made this initiative.

A "Birthing Prayer"

Wow.

From "The Prophet"
By Kahlil Gibran

"And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said,
'Speak to us of Children.'
And he said:
'Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable."

Only When You're Pregnant....

...are you not offended when a student says, "Ah, miss, mira más gorda ahora."