Talking Point # 10 - Johnson

Johnson argues that the problems in the society we live in must be recognized and fixed by everyone; not just who it directly effects. The privileged need to recognize this now and in the past and help correct it for the future.

1. " The greatest barrier to change is that dominant groups don't see the trouble as their  trouble, which means they don't feel obligated to do something about it."

I think that it's kind of sad that people who have the most power to help, don't want to because it may inconvenience their lives. its actually pathetic really. how is that fair? if they were in their place, they would be wanting the help and not understand why no-one who could help them isn't. how inhumane and selfish.

2. "The more you pay attention to privilege and oppression, the more you'll see opportunities to do something about them. You don't have to mount an expedition to find those opportunities; they're all over the place, beginning in yourself. As i become aware of how male privileges encourages me to control conversations, for example, I also noticed how easily men dominate group meetings by controlling the agenda and objecting to it. This pattern is especially striking in groups that are mostly female but in which most of the talking none the less comes from a few men. I would find myself sitting in meetings and suddenly the preponderance of male voices would jump out at me. an unmistakable sign of male privilege in full bloom" 

Eh. i just think that a woman needs to speak up then. get over it, you're allowing oppression when you let a man dominate and if you do then too bad, don't complain. i know in high school, especially in english i usually dominated the discussions and there was plenty of boys in my class, they probably didnt care as much as me but o well. sometimes when i get interrupted in our class i get really pissed off especially when its by the same person and what not. and it happens to be a boy and i kind of just want to yell over him but instead i stop, raise my hand and wait because im not going to be rude.

"Support the right of women and men to love whomever they choose. Raise awareness of homophobia and heterosexism. For example, ask school officials and teachers about what is happening to gay and lesbian students in local schools. If they dont know ask them to find out, since its  safe bet that these students are being harassed, suppressed or oppressed by others at one of the most venerable stages of life."

I think that all people should feel safe and comfortable where they are. i actually got pissed to day in history class because the people on the side of me were making gay jokes and saying how much they disliked gays. i turned to my friend and said 'people are effing stupid and they piss me off with that crap" they didnt seem to care. whatever, theyre the steryotypical jocks and assholes of high school. they clearly need to grow up. i remember when we were talking about how some people identify as both male and female and i was just on an MTV website and it asked wut you were and the options were : male female other and i would prefer not to answer. i think thats awesome.

Basically i just skimmed this article. i dont like reading lengthy things and i still think i did fine blogging all this time. o well. blogging is done =] YAYYYY

Talking Point # 8 - Kliewer

Authors Argument:

Kliewer argues that it is unjust to take children out of mainstream classes just because of their disabilities (no matter what they are). to make judgements on a person with any disability is wrong and thats what this article goes into depth about.

1) "Shayne, however, did not see Isaac, or any of her students, as disabled (3 with down syndrome including Isaac) and 10 students considerably non disabled, Shayne and her associates worked to create a context that supported all children's full participation."

I thought this was strong. Shayne and her associates do NOT discriminate towards a child just because of their ability levels. i also think it is awesome to have them mixed in the same class so they don't feel like outcasts. i hated seeing the disabled kids in HS going to lunch together and sitting alone, staying in one classroom etc. it wasn't fair, they are people too who are at school for the same reason as anyone else. i would absolutely send my child to that school, i feel like it helps children understand that people are different and it is ok and how to act and interact with people who are different. i hate seeing a child scream and cry when they see someone who is different; it seriously breaks my heart. i feel like all school systems should have integrated classrooms in them.

2) "He tells the most amazing stories ... we were all Wild Things and it just came alive!"

This passage touched me. it goes to show that people with disabilities can still understand, interact and learn. Isaac just did it in a different way and i think that Shayne is an extraordinary person for embracing his learning style and i also think that Isaac is extraordinary for wanting to learn and expressing it the way he does. i would LOVE to work with a child like that; i feel like i would be able to embrace him or her and help the other children embrace and learn from it as well. good for Shayne and Isaac.

3) "John Mcgough experienced such a disability spread during his high school education in North Hollywood, California, where he attended a segregated school with other students who also had down syndrome . According to Andrews's (1995) detailed ethnography, John's North Hollywood existence was a lonely and isolated one. Outside of his family, he had few acquaintances and little community connection. His school experience was stagnant and filled with hopelessness. School personnel labeled him 'uneducable'"

This just proves that people with disabilities should be integrated into classroom with people who do not have disabilities. it makes the people without them realize that the people who do have disabilities are people too and that they should be treated as humans and be respected. they shouldn't be locked away by themselves in sad isolation. and shame on the school for labeling him like that, i bet they didn't even try to help him. people need to realize that you cant treat people like dirt just because they have disabilities or they are different. i honestly want to hit people like that. they tried that stuff with african americans and it was changed, they can now go to schools with us and do everything like they should be able to do. why discriminate against people with disabilities in this day in age. silly.

This article should have opened eyes and i think that all educators should be required to read this article. I hate that people are discriminated against because they are different, i think that i and other people would have learned and benefited from having people with disabilities in my classrooms and i think other people could have learned from it as well. this article is an eye opener. it was a little long but i liked it.

Talking Point #7 - Lawrence

Argument: Lawrence argues that Brown vs. The Board of Education was a bunch of crap because the courts did not address the segregation topic and african americans were still nervous. the courts basically hoped nothing would really pass. and I'm sure they didn't try.

1) "Once it is understood that the injury results from the existence of the label of inferiority, it becomes clear that the cure must involve the removal of that label. The mere placement of black and white children in the same school does not remove the brand imprinted by years of segregation." 

To me this quote means that in order to remove the label of black inferiority to whites, were going to have to do a lot more than stick them in the same school and hope for the best. Years worth of black inferiority is not going to go away in a day and those stinging years for the blacks make it difficult and scary to be put into the lions cage with hungry lions. Whites would have to accept the blacks but after years and years of hate; it doesn't seem like it would happen very fast. i mean there's still segregation to some degree today and there is absolutely still racism.

2) " It could be argued that the Northern and Southern cases are distinguishable on the basis of state action; in the South, state action is present because state laws required the operation of dual school systems, while in the North, state action is absent because segregated schools occurred as the result of segregated housing patterns. This distinction, however, neglects the entire history of segregation in America.

Segregation is Northern, not Southern in origin. The exclusion or segregation of blacks in public facilities was settled policy and reached considerable maturity in the North before moving South in full force"

I did NOT know that segregation started in the North. I mean, I'm sure i knew it but i certainly don't remember. I always was taught that the South was the big place for segregation, discrimination and racism. i know that it was in the north too but i always learned that it was huge in the south. RI was the last state to get rid of slavery and that kind of sucks but it proves this point in the quote i chose. Newport and Bristol were actually the biggest areas for slave trade in NE. i live in Bristol and i also think it sucks that slavery was so big there.

for people to be segregated out of white schools in the north was so common because there was a segregation on where they were allowed to live. it reminds me of jewish ghettos in the holocaust for christ sakes.

3) "Perhaps the most detrimental effect of the court's refusal to acknowledge the true nature and scope of the institution of segregation has been the resulting failure of the judiciary, and ultimately the public at large, to recognize a constitutional right to the affirmative destruction of that institution."

The courts failure to recognize segregation at the magnitude it is truly at is totally not helpful to trying to get rid of segregation in general. it is not helping the merging of blacks and whites in school one bit and  the general public (being white dominant) is surely not helping the cause. White parents do NOT want their white children to go to school with the enemy (basically how they are viewed) and Black parents were afraid to let their children go to school with whites even though it was their right legally because their children would be hated and in most cases harmed. It was basically a loose loose situation then and it took a really long time for acceptance to set in.

In all this article was ok. it was kind of lengthy but it stirred emotions about racism and i was appalled to learn that the town i live in was huge on slave trade. (it wasn't in the article but i used outside sources to further my knowledge on the subject). i think if the people then could see who our president elect was right now they would crap them selves; blacks and whites.

i think it would be great to go back in time and tell them that in the future the president will be black and alot of white people voted for him. to tell them that schools have all kinds of races and ethnicities now and its really not a problem. whites are best friends with blacks, blacks have the same opportunities as whites, blacks have the chance to be rich. they have the chance to be american icons like Oprah. its awesome. =]

HOW THRILLING

ok so im not one for blogging as you know but i cannot believe that Obama has just won.

the very first time i ever voted i like to think im part of history.

an african american president.

how fantastic. its great.

i have been stressed all night about this election and i cannot believe the relief that has come over me from this. 

thank god. i feel like our nation is going to change for the better. its going to get better.

i didnt know i would get this worked up over this election. but right after i voted, i started getting thrilled.

im watching McCain give his speech and its making me sick that people are booing.

what a historical day. i cant believe im here to experience it.

how proud i feel that i was part of that vote and that RI as a whole ended up getting his vote.

i can hear people out side my window running around screaming from excitement. i myself screamed when i read the bottom of my screen. i cant believe this. im so happy, im tearing.

America will improve =] finally. things are looking up

R.I.P to Obamas grandmother, i wish she could have seen this. 

WE HAVE A NEW PRESIDENT CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!

How Funny

http://stores.ebay.com/Auction-Cause_W0QQfsubZ481950014

yes those ARE cabbage patch kids dolls that look like Obama, Biden & McCain and Palin.

what a riot

Talking Point #6 - Oakes

Tracking: Why Schools Need to Take Another Route.

Jeannie Oakes

Oakes argues that tracking separates the "less- abled" from abled in the classroom. grouping them only inhibits their abilities to meet what they can do. a more group environment should replace  tracking.

1. " In low-ability classes, for example, teachers seem to be less encouraging ... while students in higher-ability classes seem to be much more involved in their classwork."

i think that some of this isn't true. i know in high school i fought with alot of people in my class and sometimes it would be over answers but my teachers were always encouraging and motivating us to learn. so what was i? a low ability class or a higher ability class? malarky.

2. "other work suggests that what we conveniently consider "low" ability may not be as limiting as we generally think"

yes. i totally agree. because you label someone or something low ability right away, expecting it to be like previous cases, you aren't giving it a chance. a K reader may be thought to have a low ability if they are really in a lower reading level than other children but that same child may excel in math over the other children. it shouldn't be limiting. they should be given a chance.

3. "Most public displays are well-enough meant: good work shown as a matter of pride, intended to motivate and provide examples for others. But too often they are convenient and irresistible opportunities for comparison" 

i know that when i was younger in private school (bay view academy), only work that was worthy went up on the board. usually that didnt mean me. my math skills SUCK and none of my work was ever up, decreasing my morale and making me hate math just that much more.

however, i was above the reading level all throughout elementary school and i could impress people by reading my book upside down (seriously) or backwards (seriously again) and my work was always on the wall. i knew that our work was being compared and it kinda felt terrible when they went to the math wall but it felt great when they went to the reading wall. but i knew a few kids who stunk in the opposite subjects that i was good at and i knew they felt terrible when i was rewarded for doing well in the subject they sucked at.

i kind of feel like if any work is going to be displayed, it should all be displayed and everyones work should get an encouraging word. wether it be good job or i can see you're trying, keep up the good work.

soooo overall this was a pretty short article. i think i only lost interest about once but it was because there was some crazy thing about women who didnt know they were pregnant but were going into labor on tv. the last quote i used was the one that stuck out the most to me actually and i have alot more views on it but i didnt want to bore anyone with my elaborations.

peace out girlscout

PLEASE WATCH THIS. ITS GREAT

this made me laugh my hiney off.

k thanks

Talking Point #5 - Kahne & Westheimer

Argument: Kahne & Westheimer argue that SL projects, though sharing a common goal, should have subliminal learning letting students take away what they need and perhaps even choosing what they want to do as an SL, making them take more from the experience

1. " For example, one student worked in a center for babies whose mothers had high levels of crack cocaine in their blood streams during pregnancy. Another worked in a hospital, running errands for doctors and helping patients locate the sites for their appointments. A third student prepared and distributed survival kits for the homeless. By finding and engaging in community service activities, Mr.Johnson explained, students would interact with those less fortunate than themselves and would experience the excitement and joy of learning while using the community as a classroom."

I feel like all three of these are very good SL projects but I think i would appreciate the first as an SL project more.  in a class in HS, we did a project in parenting class with a doll that was programed to be like a real baby (even though it was not just like it at all and it only pissed me off) and before we were handed our 3 day babies, we were shown a doll that would be the same in comparison to the dolls we got except this baby was a crack baby. we got to hear the difference in cry's, in weight, in size, basically everything. that baby comes out of the womb yearning for crack. that baby is born addicted. nothing in the world except for crack and soothe that baby. i would 110% love to work with those babies. my heart aches for them  and i think for a young adult to see the cause and affects of something like that would  be great.

2. " Ms. Adams, a seventh-grade teacher at Lexington Middle School, took a different approach. Working together, Ms. Adams and her students identified issues of common concern and then voted to focus their energy on the issue of homelessness."

This woman's approach to work together as a team i guess works well. i feel like i like the path where the kids choose themselves. of course it works better for the older kids but maybe for the young ones a group would work out. i don't fully think that children will learn a variety of things with a common cause if they have to do the same thing. comparing and contrasting would be more beneficial i think.

3.  Some of the middle school parents object, saying that they were concerned for their childrens safety. In a written evaluation, the students said that they had imagined 'horrifying children running around on a dirty campus"

I dont quite understand why parents act like that sometimes. that just instills in our children how to be prejudice and in some cases racist. why would you do that and then tell them not to pick on other kids because they are different? its the same thing to me.

how frustrating. 

i guess this article was ok. its the blogging that irritates me. i feel like such a conformist when i blog. my sister blogs and its about stupid crap all the time. ive been against them for forever and to be forced to do them to get a good grade is crappy to me. my efforts in them are usually the bare minimum. o well.

Talking Point #4 - Christensen

Christensen argues that children learn from a very early age stereotypes from the everyday media. she expresses that it is the parents and teachers jobs to help the children differentiate the difference between what is real and what is not and to teach them the correct values and morals.

1. "When we read children's books, we aren't just reading cute little stories, we are discovering the tools with which a young society is manipulated."

i feel like this is true not only in books but especially in movies like Disney. Fairy tales usually have the young beautiful girl with flowing perfect hair winning over the heart of prince charming and the villain is usually disgustingly ugly and covered in warts with terrible fingernails. the common town folk are usually dressed in tatters or just arent that beautiful. children think that you need to be beautiful to have everything and get through life and i feel like we need to teach them that that isnt true at all. look at Bill Gates.

2. "Cartoon images , in particular the Disney movie Peter Pan, were cited by the children {in a research study} as their number one source of information. At the age of three these children had a set of stereotypes in place"

  Since i posted my blog a tad late i can relate this to a clip of Beauty and the Beast that we watched in class

together. i can understand why children get all their information from movies, parents think that Disney is great and

wholesome for their children to watch {i have to agree} and while they watch it they absorb all the information

about how people are viewed in their sponge of brains. i know that in most early movies african americans were

the only ones working and poor old Dumbo was dubbed that because of his oversized ears and i have heard

many children pick on others that have bigger ears by calling them Dumbo. it made me feel bad. so perhaps the

good 'ol wholesome movies parents think are good for their kids, aren't so good at all. i remember my friends mom

would only let her watch Disney movies. i wonder if she would have changed her mind if this was revealed to her

then.

3 "After viewing a number of cartoons, Kenya scolded parents in an essay, 

"A Black Cinderella! Give Me a Break." She wrote: "Have you ever seen a 

black person, an Asian, a Hispanic in a cartoon! Did they have a leading 

role or were they a servant? What do you think this is doing to your child's 

mind?" She ended her piece: "Women who aren't white begin to feel left 

out and ugly because they never get to play the princess." Kenya's piece 

bristled with anger at a society that rarely acknowledges the wit or beauty of 

women of her race."

I wonder if DIsney will ever have a Black or Hispanic main character. They got an Asian one a few years ago in the movie Mulan. yet Mulan was not really considered a princess like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Ariel were.  i think the best thing Disney could ever do would be to make a handicapped main character. so many little girls and boys go to Disney {especially those who go via make a wish foundation} have disabilities or conditions and i feel like those children, more than others, need a little prince or princess like them.

i suppose i liked this article. it made me realize little things about Disney movies that i normally wouldnt have. when we were in group i learned a few things about disney movies too. like on the cover of The Little Mermaid theres penis's and in another movie for 2 quick frames, you could see a woman in a window with no top on. i guess the artists go a little crazy drawing happy little cartoons all day

Talking Point #3 - Carlson

i really do not feel like doing this blog. i dont want to be a negative nancy but i am still not thrilled about blogging. 

Gayness, Mulitculutral Education and Community 

Dennis Carlson

Authors argument Carlson argues that its the teachers job to educate people that individuality is ok (just like our parents should be teaching us);and to not accept it would be wrong. People  should learn to roll with differences and not suppress the people who are different. 

1. "Three techniques of normalization and (hence) marginalization have been of primary importance in this regard: (1) the erasure of gayness in the curriculum (2) the "closeting" and "witch hunting" of gay teachers"

the only reason i chose this quote was because of the second point. Schools were keeping gayness in its "place" by not allowing gay teachers to be who they are. witch hunting gays because of who they are just doesn't make sense. we are supposed to be teaching our children that being different is ok and that we should embrace it; so what is a school system closeting gay teachers going to do for them? i feel like its just hypocritical. i'm sure the teachers aren't going to prance around the classroom yelling fabulousss, i'm sure they would be professional just like every other teacher (maybe even the ones who are gay but haven't come out of the closet yet! oh my that is a possibility now isn't it?)

2. All of this takes a considerable toll. ... among gay youth are likewise high"

All of the pressure  on gays and especially the youth gays of today have lead to a higher rate of  suicide. i think that its terrible that children have resorted to suicide because people don't accept the fact that they are different. no person, especially a child should feel like death is the only way to escape the scorn of society. it makes me want to cry.

3. "The president of district 24 local school board in Queens declared, among other things, the board would not 'accept two people of the same sex engaged in deviant sexual practices as 'families' ' "

WHYYY!!!! that is so frustrating. i feel like a family should consist of people supporting other members of their families. screw this president. pardon my french. why do people have to be so close minded. so what? if a child is being cared for and loved by two grown ups then what is wrong with that? a child could have 2 opposite sexed parents and be neglected and unloved and thats not good at all. i think if a child is loved and is taken care of then who cares.

fun fact: as i was watching the discovery channel while i was writing this blog, there was a show about mid-evil torture devices and one was called the pear. it was a pear shaped piece of metal that was expanded. for not believing in god or putting his name to mud it was put in the mouth and screwed open until the pressure broke the jaw. for homosexuality it was put wherever the "dirty deed" was done.

even then homosexuality was not accepted and people were actually punished in crazy ways if they were caught. crazy!!!

Talking Point # 2 - Rodriguez

Aria

Richard Rodriguez 

Authors Argument: Rodriguez argues that 

children who are taught english because they go to an english speaking school loose some of themselves in the process. a little bit of their family life is diminished and other people can be affected by this ripple of information

1. "Fortunately, my teachers were unsentimental about their responsibility. What they understood was that I needed to speak a public language. So their voices would search me out, asking me questions. Each time i'd hear them, i'd look up in surprise to see a nun's face frowning at me. I'd mumble, not really meaning to answer. The nun would persist, 'Richard, stand up. Don't look at the floor. Speak up. Speak to the entire class, not just to me'"

I Chose this quote because it reminds me of a little boy in the kindergarten class i observe in. his first language is clearly not english and when he is asked a question he looks panicked and pained. when the teacher is giving instructions he looks VERY puzzled and he looks around to see what everyone else is doing. i feel like (as the nuns) the teacher doesn't really try to help him. she mostly barks out commands and i can tell that it makes this little boy feel terrible. when i was doing a rhyming activity with him, his lack of english skills was very apparent. when asked which of the 2 out of 3 cards rhymed he responded, "man, rhyme". i was very taken a back. i felt like he should have resource or a aid with him to help him get through the class and help him learn english. the teacher is not going to help him learn english and he's not going to learn anything when it sounds like gibberish to him.

2. "I also needed my teachers to keep my attention from straying in class by calling out, Rich-heard - their english voices slowly prying loose my ties to my other name, its three notes, ri- car- do."

This quote also made me think of that little boy. what if learning english was going to 

make him feel like he was being pried from something? what if learning english was going to make him feel like he was being pried from his roots? what if the teacher didn't embrace his heritage and just made him flat out forget about it and speak and think strictly in english? in that case, i would feel terrible

3. "The family's quiet was partly due to the face that, as we children learned more and more english, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents. sentences needed to be spoken slowly when a child addressed his mother or father. (often the parent wouldn't understand) The child would need to repeat himself (still the parent misunderstood). The young voice, frustrated, would end up saying, 'Never Mind'"

Again, i think of the little boy in my class. if he does learn english and it becomes his

primary language; what is going to happen to his family life? he obviously speaks only

spanish at home. is he going to loose ties with his family like Richard did? is spanish going

to be that barrier between his family and himself? if so is learning english worth it? i would

never want a child to loose touch with his family because they couldn't understand each other.

family is all you have in the end and is a public language something worth breaking that up?

overall i found this article interesting. i thought of the little boy in my class the whole time. i

want so bad for him to be able to understand the teacher and follow what is going on.

his education is important but is breaking up a family worth it? perhaps there can be a 

common ground. i want that little boy to learn and not sit in his seat puzzled because he 

doesn't understand the public language. i really wish for him to go to resource or have and aid.

i guess that since english is most of our first languages that we kind of take advantage of it.

we learn new things everyday because we can understand the language. how unfair is it

to not be able to learn because you can't learn the foundation of what is being said, the

english language. i get very frustrated when i try to help him, but i don't know how to.

i have to remind myself im not trained in that. so until then, i will do my best for him.

Talking Point #1 - Goldberg

110 People Who Are Screwing up America

Bernard Goldberg

Authors Argument -

Goldberg argues that Kozol is brainwashing Americas minds. He thinks that Kozol is pushing for a more liberal approach to teaching in America thus, producing more biased children into society.

" He says teachers should ... United States would say" (pg 295)

1. This is evidence of Kozol's thinking

" Most lunch table ... why should i be so enthusiastic about our country?" (pg 293)

1. i picked this basically because i used to sit at my lunch table and debate the same thing in high school. we debated why we should care about a country that doesn't care about the people in it, especially the lower class ones.

2. Kozol basically spoke about how the lower class people in america get crap. which this article and myself would talk about

"We are taught ... don't seem to worry about offending Americans" (pg 294)

1. I feel like that isnt really true. i feel like the text books just say whatever they say and don't really offend our country or others. 

2. this made me think of the olympics for some reason. i felt that during the womens gymnastics, one of our anchor women was bashing her (the US team) really really bad. she was picking out ALL of our flaws and when it came time for the chinese, she applauded them for everything, never pointed out mistakes and when there was mistakes she was like AWW! thats ok! they're great!!! like... way to show for your country lady. i thought my mother was going to jump through the TV to Bejing and kick her arse.

k so overall i thought this article was a bore. the other article caught my interest and i LOVED it. but this one was politics this, complaining about that. it sucked to me. Also, i thought it was too short to grab worth while quotes from and i felt like my quality of quote choosing lacked from that. o well. 

Talking Point #1 (Kozol)

Amazing Grace 

The Lives of Children and the Conscious of a Nation

Jonathan Kozol

Author's Argument-

Jonathan Kozol argues that no matter the quality of life of a person or the way they live or act, they deserve a decent place to live. Just because they are the lowest of the low doesn't mean that they have to be stuck with the lowest of the low environments or 'jobs'. women shouldn't have to be prostitutes, men shouldn't have to sell drugs to get by. a person shouldn't cry day in and day out just because of who they are and where they are. the quality of life they have is non - existent. what quality? there is none. Welfare is being taken away and infants are DYING because of lack of care in places that people should feel the most cared for in (hospitals). Just because they live in the slums, doesn't mean that they should be treated like the place they live in; especially because no one will give them a chance to leave the slums. Rich people think of them as garbage, and garbage should be put away in a place where no one sees it. 

"The incinerator, i am later reassured ... cancer risks to children" (pg 7)

1. Because they live in the slums and have poor quality of life and they literally live in a sese pool, the incinerator that burns hazardous waste was build in their neighborhood. limbs, dirty soiled linens are burned and the harmful toxins and smells are pumped into their community for the already athematic children to breathe in. 

" I got the doctors letter and the ... you've been cut off" (pg 19)

1. This poor woman was cut off from welfare after she did all that she needed to do to get it back. the hospital who neglected to send the paper to the welfare office was the cause of the termination of it. i feel like that hospital is one of the most shitty things (pardon my language) in that community. The people who really need welfare cant get it and when they try to get it again the system sends them in loops and when you are elderly, its almost worth not even trying because of all the hassle you have to go through just to get it.

"Lincoln Hospital ... died because of staff mistakes" (pg 15)

1. HOW!!! please please please tell me HOW a nurse or a doctor can kill an infant (more than one for that matter) from a MISTAKE!!! what do they say to the parents? ' oh oops i killed your baby, sorry'. HOW!!! I just cant understand how a person who's job it is can kill 12 people from a mistake and not monitoring patients. i understand they are short staffed but, to loose 12 people including babies and children is terrible. Hospitals are supposed to be saviors, instead this hospital just seems to be the death angel; swooping the poor people out of the ghetto.

I just wanted to say that when i read about the poor little children being subjected to filth and some who were even being KILLED i got teary eyed. how can this happen? how can something SO innocent be SOO corrupted and injured like they are. it really really breaks my heart and i just felt so heavy reading this.  I also kind of blended both things for the quotes. oops, my bad

Gabba Gabba Hey

My Name is Katie. Most of my friends call me Katie Cav. 

im not fond of blogging but hey. whatever.

im a Sophomore at RIC and im studying Early Childhood Education.

i have a very relaxed approach to school which tends to piss my parents off. o well.

i hope to own my own day care one day.

i LOVE alllll kinds of music. and ill dress however. 

im thrilled at the prospect of graduation. it should really come faster.

annnd i really dont know what else to say =]