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Cherisa in part wrote:
> There's a new book out, I'm drawing a blank on the name, something
> about "barely making a living in America" - the author, a woman
> journalist, left her writing job to see if she could live on minimum
> wage jobs across the country.
I think the author's name Cherisa is looking for is Barbara Ehrenreich.
Joliene in part wrote:
> First of all, I didn't intend to respond to the comment that my belief
> that
> "not implementing the policies would result in the occurrence of
> violence.
> That was not my assumption. I just meant that "prevention" is more
> proactive than waiting for an incident and have to react to it. Whether
> we
> are talking about airports or schools or TV show doesn't matter. I
> guess I
> am more in favor of prevention.
How do you define prevention? Is it fixing the underlaying problem or
installing metal detectors?
> I really do have to react however, to Andrew's assertion that a few
> students
> didn't "put forth their best effort" because of the "repressive
> atmosphere". That is really to bad, BUT, there is no promise or
> guarantee
> that life is going to be fair. We cannot always choose what happens to
> us
> in life BUT we can choose how we react to it. The measure of
> maturity is
> not blaming others for failures.
Life may be unfair, but, the "repressive atmosphere" it the number one
reason which drove myself and many other students out of Dist. 861. If
861 wishes to survive these tough times, the repressive atmosphere must
go. Life may not be fair, but what is the point in living if we can not
at least attempt to make it fair?
Life is not fair, but this should not be used as a justification to
degrade basic human rights. The real solution lies in fixing the
underlaying problem. If their is a hole in your wall, does placing a
paining over the hole fix the hole?
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Dan Dittmann: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How often do you say to yourself, "I didn't do it; so of course it
didn't get done?"
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