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- I agree with the advance comment by Brooke Allen from Glen Ridge, NJ:
"I have come to these functional definitions:
Family: The people you would help even if you don’t like them.
Friends: The people you would help because you like them.
Community: The people you would help, even if you will never get to know them.
I think we need all three.
Even more importantly, I’ve discovered I have a need to be needed, and that one of the most gratifying things you can do is to be of help to others. "
A very Happy New Year of
Peace - Hesch
- My eMail signature includes the quote:
"Do not put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness."
Even a Checklist containing nonsense items can cause people to Pause and THINK.
Like the knowledge that you are being observed can improve factory workers performance.
- @Erik from Manhattan: We are talking about education at the elementary and high school levels. It is my belief that words have meaning for us all, and losing or confusing meanings – ignoring *semantics* - if is *NOT* irrelevant.
If, by some misdirected decisions, “public education” or any portion thereof is privatized, I believe the term “client” is the most appropriate of the ones you mentioned and any others I have thought. The children-to-be-educated are the people we should be working for, the ones for whose benefit we *must* be striving. The cliché “our children are our future” is no less true for being a cliché. They are *not* the payers or activators you refer to in the private model; they are not those *to* whom we are responsible - they *are* the ones we are responsible *FOR*! and any failure in that responsibility, whether by commission or omission, will be lain at our feet by history.
- I started working professionally (I got paid) with the Board(s) of Education (regular & Higher) in 1967. I had to retire because I could no longer walk the halls, much less the stairs, of high schools where teachers seldom have 'home' rooms of their own.
Life is complicated. Ms. Black may be *the* candidate for Chancellor, but her lack of credentials makes a close look imperative AND the result *not* a foregone conclusion.
Several of the comments before mine have referred to teachers who are "experts" in the topic of their curriculum. While I believe this is useful, desirable, etc., I believe teachers who are experts in *LEARNING* are more important. I was and am well enough educated to be hired to teach high school maths and computer literacy. In addition, I have substituted *effectively* in social studies, chemistry, physics, biology, English writing, and more.
I am a *competent* teacher and learner in nearly any topic that has caught my attention in my six decades. I would commend the *great* teachers I have known, both as my colleagues and my teachers, as the first to be hired and the last to be allowed to have reason to leave, but they are not enough to fill any of our schools.
- My question: Will my 21-year-old daughter now be eligible again for health insurance coverage under our policy?
My youngest of 3 children just turned 21; I am 63, 'retired' on disability (it's 3 years now).
She has been off our health insurance coverage since she left college at 19, and we have been stressing to pay $500/month to maintain her COBRA coverage. It should be irrelevant under the rules / law, but I expect to become a first-time grandfather in mid-December.
As of today, 09-23, children can be retained on health coverage to age 26.
That sounds good, except for the word "retained" (or whatever the rule actually says - the news reports, including NPR and WNYC and MSNBC, are not being precise or consistent in stating the rule). I have read about and been in enough situations to know that the language of rules and laws can either intentionally or unintentionally nullify some or all of the apparent intent of those rules or laws.
Therefore, my question.
A followup question: Will she continue to be covered if and when she gets married before the end of her 26th year? [Please answer for the s/he cases; I hate to think it makes a difference, but realize that it is still possible.]
Note that I have read what I believe is the pertinent § (2714, I believe), and the wording there is open to interpretation. Has the appropriate Commision(er) promulgated the referenced regulations to implement the [open-ended] law?
Thanks for your great broadcasting. I hope I will be listening the day this topic comes up.
Happy Bastille Day , Labor Day , L'Shona Tovah - To A Good Year, Autumnal Equinox , etc.!
Peace - Hesch
"Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious." – unknown
"Do not put down to evil intent what can equally well be explained by thoughtlessness." – HMRothman
