My hair salon was robbed tonight for the fifth time this year. The owner believes it’s drug related.
I’m sorry to be a one – track Clarissa but this is why our university should get more funding and not less. The young people should be in class learning about Spain ‘ s transition to democracy and not drug addicted and desperate. You will say these things are not mutually exclusive but I am convinced that a kid who is successful and happy at school will be less interested in drugs than a hopeless one. I’m sure many – if not most – of my students have experimented with drugs, and that’s absolutely normal. But they have so many interests in life that drugs will not overrun them.
Psychoanalytically, drug addiction comes from an abysmally low self – esteem, and being successful in school is a great antidote.
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What is the basis for your apparent assumption that the hair salon was robbed by a university student?
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I’m sleepy and tongue tied today. I was trying to say the exact opposite. I think it was robbed not by students but by random drug addicts.
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Clarissa, school is a result, not a cause. I’ve seen people get into college and then disintegrate. The underlying requirement is having a goal and remaining focused on that goal. Anyone who feels that he or she has a purpose will do well. Anyone who doesn’t, won’t. (If this sounds familiar, it’s pure Viktor Frankl.) A good question for anyone is, “how do you picture your life in five years?” A lot of people at all ages have no clue, and they are the ones in trouble.
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Of course, I agree that a school can’t repair a broken person. But it’s better than nothing. It takes one out of those broken circumstances for several hours a day, and that’s already huge.
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“The young people should be in class learning about Spain‘s transition to democracy and not drug addicted and desperate.”
I see that the University of Southern Maine is laying off its only Spanish professor in an effort to transition to a more career oriented organization – “Students will be in the professions – nursing, engineering, many media studies – but they’ll be studying things that have a direct and clear career pathway.”
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“Suscavage said that when she began teaching at USM in 1985, there were more than 10 faculty members in the languages department.
“I’ve seen one go and one go and one go,” said Suscavage, who is taking the retirement package. “I’m the only one left standing.”
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/27/language-arts-dying-usm/
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“I see that the University of Southern Maine is laying off its only Spanish professor in an effort to transition to a more career oriented organization – “Students will be in the professions – nursing, engineering, many media studies – but they’ll be studying things that have a direct and clear career pathway.”
– Freaks, animals, idiots, losers, enemies of humanity.
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