I will not make any specific judgements about a publication that I'ven't read but
I would like to add to this thread of the discussion.
Yesterday after a month of planning and preparation on my part I held the Memorial
Day observance service for my school. It was a personal privledge for me in that I
could in a small way honor my uncle, drafted and killed in Viet Nam. It was a
death that would even some 40 years later continue to adversly affect
multi-generations of my family.
I know in my lower/middle class district, my students are well aware of the
opportunities available to them via the military. What I find to be much more of an
uphill battle is getting them to believe that they are college material; that
college is an opportunity available to them.
I find that most of my students falsely believe that college is out of reach
because of their intellectual or financial ability. They are smart enough. And
even with cutbacks it is financially possible via the county and state college
route. What they lack is the belief that it's meant for them and that it has value.
As an educator it is my obligation to promote education as a major and effective
(albeit not the only) tool to solving personal and other conflicts. War may be at
times a necessary evil, in an imperfect world and my students may feel they have to
fight it but I feel no obligation to promote it or my students' potential
participation in it.
Kristina Fallon, librarian
Robert Morris School
South Bound Brook NJ
yasumani@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Heather Norris <HGNorris@AOL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:52:51 EDT
Subject: Re: Addicted to War
Thank you, Shonda, Jo, and especially our self-admitted liberal friend Carl,
for bringing some balance to Nancy's first posting. I admit that having a
college educated son who chose to join the army after college (not because it
was
his only way to get to college) and having just lost my wonderful 30 year
veteran of the army father-in-law this past weekend (Memorial Day weekend, how
appropriate) and having spent part of Memorial Day yesterday at my father's
grave in Arlington National Cemetery, Nancy's posting got my hackles up. It was
heartening to see that there are others out there who could respond in a calm
and unemotional manner to a very biased post allowing me to just say . . .
Thank you all.
Heather Norris
Anthony T. Lane Elementary School
Alexandria, VA.
hgnorris@aol.com
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