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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 8:30 pm) This report from an Inuit school in Canada could be written by those involved in the Alaska native schools. Why do so many students make the choice to dropout? These and many more questions haunt me as a teacher and vice-principal. I have lived and worked in a small, isolated Inuit community in Nunavut for the past six years. Over this time I have seen many bright and potentially successful students drop out. It was once thought that the student dropout rate was high because students were forced to move away from their families in order to go to residential schools. Despite having a brand new community high school and many courses that use the traditional knowledge of Inuit culture as their main content focus, we still see a very high rate of early school leavers. What is even more frightening is the high rate of suicide and abuse that is happening to youth at the high school age. Since I have been teaching in Taloyoak, I have witnessed seven suicides all under 21 years of age; within January to April in 1996 the nursing centre reported 23 attempted suicides. Very young students are starting smoking and using drugs. It makes one wonder what schools can do to keep these students in school and give them the skills they need to survive in a very confusing and complicated world. http://www.polarnet.ca/~netsilik/Capstone/AS-I-Search.html The Eskimo people I met that were educated in Sitka and other BIA schools were much more able to cope with life in the Villages. My Eskimo trainee needed to learn math before I could give her a good background in electronics. She was a rarity and stuck with it. She just celebrated 20 years with the company. We were very close for the 17 years I worked with her. I even flew down to Las Vegas with others in the crew when she got married. She would not date an Eskimo man because they did not have any ambition. That is what the high schools in every village have done to her generation. So you can push the multicultural BS, but it does not fly with me. It is just another Liberal tool to make people dependent on the government. It is not freedom, it is enslavement. |
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Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who heads the Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said initial evidence suggested that the alleged shooter, Army Major Nidal Hasan, was a "self-radicalized, home-grown terrorist" who had turned to Islamic extremism while under personal stress. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125769764441836773.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopSto- ries Too bad our President has his head in the sand on terrorism. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 04, 2009 10:52 am) Hell, you can still be a Nazi in Germany, just keep it at home. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 06, 2009 1:21 pm) The US was founded on assimilation, NOT multiculturalism. They are as different as night and day. The US is (was) a success because the immigrants allowed in wanted to emulate the existing society and to participate. Once they arrived they gradually gained language and cultural fluency. Multiculturalism as it exists today is the opposite - immigrant groups coming in with no respect for the existing society and demanding that existing groups in the host nation conform to their demands. They have no desire to emulate what exists, and demand they are able to carry on their ways - at the expense of the host people. It is going to create a new war in Europe. I just spent some time in Switzerland, where there are endless posters devoted to the recent topic of banning minarets, and others declaring that allowing the wholesale importation of this garbage is the beginning of a culture war - and they are right. If you can find a society where Islam has coexisted with progress and justice, I kindly ask you to give me the details, as I have been unable to find it. I will also say that if the west would finally stop giving endless billions of dollars and the lives of our young men to aid the causes of parasite Zionism, we wouldn't have the Islamic nutjob enemies to begin with. But with AIPAC owning the American political spectrum as a whole, and the globalists profiting from all of this, it's going to take some strife on our own soil to create any change. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 07, 2009 7:00 am) You should see how much has already been stopped or banned as not to offend the invaders. England has lost a war, while still desperately clinging to a false victory 64 years ago in order to save face. Limey idiots.
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Replying to: fintail (Nov 09, 2009 7:04 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 09, 2009 7:12 am) I won't say that everything is perfect in Europe - there are endless issues...but for now I will risk saying that the quality of life/standard of living in Germany/Switzerland/Austria etc is higher than here.
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Replying to: fintail (Nov 09, 2009 7:20 am) Canada has been described as more of a mixed salad or a mosaic than the fondue (assimilation) that the US is. Canada even has an official policy of encouraging multiculturalism (MigrateNow.ca). But I think the US still has strong elements, if not state supported, of multiculturism. See my Little Havana reference again. I'm moving slow around the boards this Monday morning. I trust we'll be seeing lots of Mystery car pix.... in the coming weeks? 
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 09, 2009 8:38 am) I took over 1500 pics on my trip....I've got enough to make a few posts 
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Replying to: fintail (Nov 09, 2009 10:50 am)
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