The USA is losing its immigrant mind! The landed have traditionally helped build America into what it is today: A great mosaic of thoughts, colors and dreams. Today, because of punishing politics and a shrinking world, Harvard University reports immigrants are returning to their homeland instead of building a better life in the USA. An entire generation of immigrants is giving up on their American Dream and I’m not sure if we can blame them for the departure.
In my professional work as a script doctor at ScriptProfessor.com, I am always struck numb by those that believe anyone can write and that everyone can fix a dramatic work. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Understanding how to make a script work is a tough task that few people in the world really understand and even fewer are able to perform at any price.
You may remember the strange case of a student teacher that posted an image on her MySpace page as a drunken pirate. She lost her teaching internship and a chance to finish her undergraduate degree.
Yesterday, we were haunted by the news that a group of third graders planned to kill their teacher. What’s next? A gang of contract Killers trained in Kindergarten?
A new education research report, “Unknown” Students on College Campuses, examines applications data collected from three private colleges in California between 1991 and 2001. The study reveals a trend where some White students claimed their Race was “Unknown” in order to trick the applications process into believing they were minority students.
The result of the applications manipulation was colleges believed they were enrolling more minority students than their applicants led them to believe. Data provided to the federal government indicated a rise from 3.2 percent to 5.9 percent in “Unknown” racial identification on applications.
by Susan Gilcher, MS Ed.
UPDATED: February 21, 2005
[Publisher’s Note: Susan Gilcher published this article over three years ago. She recently wrote to us with this update:
I have a sense of humility when it comes to assessing my own perfection, or lack thereof. Following my departure from Stratford High School in Goose Creek, I experienced a great deal of reflection about what had really taken place down there, and why had my attempts to relocate permanently to that state failed as a result of what seemed to me, to be bizarre circumstances. I wanted to blame myself, and improve myself, but just couldn’t put my finger on anything tangible. Of course I wasn’t perfect, but what had I done that caused me such personal consequences?
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