Columbia Greene Community College Media & Society Hudson Valley Kevin Malone Flint Michigan Water Situation Governor Snyder Detroit Teachers’ Sick Out
It is Monday evening and I am home, safe and sound. I taught my first full class today and I survived. I had a good time and they seemed to have a good time, thank God.
One student told me he had been advised to take by his advisor and he was not happy. I think he is happier tonight. There is a young man who sits to my right when I am facing the classroom, quiet and withdrawn. I will have to work on him as one-fifth of his grade depends on engagement in the class. He has a heavy air about him.
Anyway, I was relieved. I had a good time. It’s been 35 years since I was in charge of a class and I was afraid I had lost my touch. Not yet, I hope.
The sunset tonight was pinkish so I am hoping for a good day tomorrow. I stayed in the Hudson Valley where there is no snow, forsaking the city while it works to dig itself out. My nephew, Kevin, will be in the city, I think, Wednesday and Thursday and, if his schedule permits, we will get together.
He is finishing his law degree and will be joining a law firm in DC that specializes in medical issues which is where he has been working for the last four or five years. He is an extraordinary young man and I am extraordinarily proud of him.
Not proud I am of the Flint, Michigan water debacle. What happened that lead found its way into the water supply? What a tragedy… It’s being called “economic racism” by some. In the same state a Judge has refused to stop a “sick out” of Detroit teachers who are protesting things like vermin carcasses in the schools along with black mold.
Any wonder they’re upset?
Governor Snyder of Michigan shouldn’t look for a national post anytime soon, methinks. Really! What was this about? Abandoning the poor and desperate? What state did he think he was Governor of?
I might go on a rant here about what are we doing? How can the Governor of Michigan ignore what is going on in Detroit, once the jewel in the crown of that state?
How was it that his administration chose to mock reports of bad water in Flint?
I am confused. Is this not government failing?
Yes, I think so.
A Republican Governor in Minnesota did not support maintenance of infrastructure and a bridge collapsed there. He is not the current Governor.
Governor Snyder of Michigan ignored, it appears, reports that Flint’s water had gone bad. How can one morally not investigate? How?
I am angry tonight. And I am carrying forward the anger that I heard from students today about issues like this.
It was pleasantly surprising that they are more outward focussed than I thought they might be.
Interesting days, these…
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Letter From New York 01 25 2016 A bit of anger at the end of the day…
Columbia Greene Community College Media & Society Hudson Valley Kevin Malone Flint Michigan Water Situation Governor Snyder Detroit Teachers’ Sick Out
It is Monday evening and I am home, safe and sound. I taught my first full class today and I survived. I had a good time and they seemed to have a good time, thank God.
One student told me he had been advised to take by his advisor and he was not happy. I think he is happier tonight. There is a young man who sits to my right when I am facing the classroom, quiet and withdrawn. I will have to work on him as one-fifth of his grade depends on engagement in the class. He has a heavy air about him.
Anyway, I was relieved. I had a good time. It’s been 35 years since I was in charge of a class and I was afraid I had lost my touch. Not yet, I hope.
The sunset tonight was pinkish so I am hoping for a good day tomorrow. I stayed in the Hudson Valley where there is no snow, forsaking the city while it works to dig itself out. My nephew, Kevin, will be in the city, I think, Wednesday and Thursday and, if his schedule permits, we will get together.
He is finishing his law degree and will be joining a law firm in DC that specializes in medical issues which is where he has been working for the last four or five years. He is an extraordinary young man and I am extraordinarily proud of him.
Not proud I am of the Flint, Michigan water debacle. What happened that lead found its way into the water supply? What a tragedy… It’s being called “economic racism” by some. In the same state a Judge has refused to stop a “sick out” of Detroit teachers who are protesting things like vermin carcasses in the schools along with black mold.
Any wonder they’re upset?
Governor Snyder of Michigan shouldn’t look for a national post anytime soon, methinks. Really! What was this about? Abandoning the poor and desperate? What state did he think he was Governor of?
I might go on a rant here about what are we doing? How can the Governor of Michigan ignore what is going on in Detroit, once the jewel in the crown of that state?
How was it that his administration chose to mock reports of bad water in Flint?
I am confused. Is this not government failing?
Yes, I think so.
A Republican Governor in Minnesota did not support maintenance of infrastructure and a bridge collapsed there. He is not the current Governor.
Governor Snyder of Michigan ignored, it appears, reports that Flint’s water had gone bad. How can one morally not investigate? How?
I am angry tonight. And I am carrying forward the anger that I heard from students today about issues like this.
It was pleasantly surprising that they are more outward focussed than I thought they might be.
Interesting days, these…
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