Home School Observations

Is it just me, or does it seem like our country is getting increasingly violent? Four students are arrested after about 600 hundred are involved in a fight at Locke High School in the Los Angeles School District. Several students are injured but there are no hospitalizations. In one story I read, it was reported that school officials separated black from Latino students. Fifty LAPD officers, some in riot gear, assisted, as the high school’s regular police could not handle it.

So then the school is put into lockdown mode, and students are kept in their classrooms. Read the rest of this entry »

I was dismayed to learn of the government of Myanmar refusing some of the humanitarian aid being offered for the survivors of Cyclone Nargis.  Whenever I hear of a government refusing food and medicine in a time of need, I cannot help but be reminded of Japan’s reaction to foreign humanitarian aid offered immediately after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. Read the rest of this entry »

At each Indian Coffeehouse it is the same. We marvel at how the food continues to taste good even when served on stained plates by waiters wearing dirty uniforms. Read the rest of this entry »