As a special education teacher it is my duty to believe that every student is entitled to the best possible education possible. I can certainly see that a child who is blind may need extra services in learning how to cope with his or her disability. But where do we draw the line on how many services a student should have?

Next year a teacher I know will be receiving two students into her classroom. Both of the students cost the district more than $100,000 (each) for their education. This includes the teacher, teacher's aides, and other service providers such as speech and occupational therapists.

 THINGS TO DO WHILE LISTENING TO I POD MINI

1. Run ( so many miles have been passed memorizing the Bible filling my

brain with  The truth of Gods word) - I've got entire books of the Bible

downloaded as well ... chewed  on Job  as well as Proverbs. and Esther, moving

on to Lamentations. 

2. Clean- boy the minutes fly the house is much brighter whilst filling my mind

with thoughts of women having tea and buiscuts.

3. WOrk.. Being a decorative artist affords me the freedom to let my mind

wander while I'm working.... oh how I wish all of you had this freedom.. but

This is, again, inspired by CO's original blog on [Secular Fundamentalism].

I will update this entry soon, but judges are starting to make me sick. 

There is no such thing as a free lunch. However, many of the students I teach think there is. For example, out of the 18 students my wife teaches, 16 of her students get "free lunches" from the cafeteria because their parents do not make a significant amount of money. Did I mention that many of the schools also provide free breakfast as well? I may have also forgotten that nutrition is also highly subsidized.

We are creating a class of people that from the age of five are learning to depend on the government for their most basic of needs-food. This whole situation would not bother me as much if I did not see the students eat and the tremendous amount of waste that is produced. Many of the students eat just the dessert and literally throw away the portions of the meal that they do not want. Tax dollars at work.

Following the recent death of Jacques Derrida, JamesJ asked me this question: How does deconstruction relate to postmodernism?

This is a complicated question, mostly because most critics (literary critics, who don’t really criticize, but that's semantics) can’t talked about deconstruction without talking about postmodernism; understandably so, because deconstruction by its own definition cannot be defined.

Let’s understand what the two have in common. Boiled down to their basics, both methodologies question the relationship between the signifier and the signified. The basic argument is, meaning cannot be known because language is a collection of symbols, that are not always agreed upon; that is, the aporia of our language ( or any language for that matter) makes it impossible to determine absolute meaning. This function of language is responsible for puns, political humor, actually all sorts of humor, and questioning previously established truths.