I appreciate the satire Yong. As a Canadian (innovative) educator, I can only hope that any thoughts of a national curriculum stays far, far away.

- Michael Maser
SelfDesign learning

author: Learn Your Way!

This report, if it doesn’t defy belief, it certainly devastates common sense. Mr Xia, an administrator of a public school in China, has, presumably with the approval of his superiors in the local government office of public education, found justification for facilitating a program that encourages a substance dependence as an acceptable adjunct for intellectual preparation and advancement. Not only is this MISuse encouraged, the paraphernalia are provided to assist in an efficient administration of the medium of condoned choice.

State grants for adolescent addicts? “In order to spare students the trouble of running back and forth between the infirmary and the classroom and save their time, the school decided to arrange IV drip sessions right in the classroom.” Exhausted students inserting their own IV ports? And monitoring their own dosages? Can’t an ignorant student with no understanding whatsoever of a relationship between dose and consciousness be thought to presume that being kept alert with one strength might yield an added alertness with double dosage? Wake up, Administration!, that’s the way adolescents think!

Who is foolish enough to believe that all sites of needle insertion have been properly swabbed? Who chooses the sites for multiple insertions? How do students distinguish between veins and arteries, a wrong choice or faulty insertion of which can kill within sixty seconds? Who is foolish enough to believe that all needles are used once only and not shared? With no obvious controls on bag contents, Who is foolish enough to believe that bag residues are not traded for something else of value, e.g., money, sex, correct answers, food, a ride home, etc.

I’ve noticed outside the windows there is total darkness. The time therefore must be either predawn or post sundown.

Are these elders completely mad? Have they never heard of the intricate origins and consequences of The Opium Wars? Debilitate–>Conquer!
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André M. Smith, Bach Mus, Mas Sci (Juilliard)
Diploma (Lenox Hill Hospital School of Respiratory Therapy)
Postgraduate studies in Human and Comparative Anatomy (Columbia University)
Formerly Bass Trombonist
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra of New York,
Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra (Carnegie Hall),
The Juilliard Orchestra, Aspen Festival Orchestra, etc.

Of course, I wasn’t suggesting that Korean schools need to be just like American schools, but I was struck by one comment I received. It was along the lines of, “this is really amazing! But I would not want my child involved in this! He needs to be attending hogwan [cram school] to prepare for his college exam!]

The point is, imagine the valuable experiences American students would need to sacrifice in order to gain high PISA scores!

In almost every list, pride (Latin, superbia), or hubris (Greek), is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and the source of the others. It is identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing to acknowledge the good work of others, and excessive love of self (especially holding self out of proper position toward God). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Pride

1) Tiger Sophia, you may have checked Asian which does have a “tax,” however you also got big bonus points for being a legacy many times over. The upshot is that you had help getting in unlike these Asian Americans below who live at the poverty line and don’t have Ivy League parents with deep pockets.
2) By checking Asian when, actually, you are of mixed race, you have taken a spot away from those who don’t have the benefit of applying to a less competitive race slot. Thanks to you, someone who[se] life could be completely changed did not get a spot. http://jadeluckclub.com/true-picture-asian-americans/
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. Matthew 25:29

Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, the daughter of a mother of mixed Asian ethnicity of no known religious involvement and a secular — whatever that means — American Jewish father has, ostensibly been raised as a Jewess in an atheistic family positing itself as . . . ? When she applied for admission to Harvard she descended into a pride of Asianness to avail herself of an ethnic quota advantage.

This duplicitous young woman is, indeed, her mother’s daughter! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=230907266920263&set=o.134679449938486&type=1&theater
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André M. Smith, Bach Mus, Mas Sci (Juilliard)
Diploma (Lenox Hill Hospital School of Respiratory Therapy)
Postgraduate studies in Human and Comparative Anatomy (Columbia University)
Formerly Bass Trombonist
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra of New York,
Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra (Carnegie Hall),
The Juilliard Orchestra, Aspen Festival Orchestra, etc.