Waiting for Superman...think and question as you watch and wait

Wow... American Airlines is showing a film WAITING FOR SUPERMAN...basically it does honor good teachers, even average teachers, and does reveal systemic problems that impact schools' success because of home factors, motivated and unmotivated parents, neighborhood, and states rights problems that foretell real issues schools can do nothing about.  It also makes a huge deal about Unions and tenure as the real problem with fixing everything else.  Such a shame to "educate" the public through American Airlines, during this time in Wisconsin.  One fact that slipped by and should be the focus is that if the lower performing 6% of nations teachers could be replaced just by average teachers, kids performance would soon match the performance of kids in Finland (who are highest in the world).  
This says to me we need to be honoring the amazing work 94% of our country's teachers are doing with problems created by home factors, motivated and unmotivated parents, neighborhood, and states rights ...we need to look at what these 94% accomplish and make  movies about this.  Focus on good generates, multiplies  greater good. And so it is!


And think about this: the news and media are being trained to equate "teachers" with ""schools"  and then in bashing schools we actually bash teachers...the non-decision-makers albeit nurturers, and in the the American working hierarchy, teachers are indeed the "lowliest" women on our professional totem poles.  

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics : Lead in Lipstick

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics : Lead in Lipstick

...so where do we go for non-toxic cosmetics, ladies??? Stay-tuned!