How can you do it at school I replied? Well dad the teacher always gives us time to finish homework at class and besides after the school ends I have a few minutes prior to my football practice.

I asked him prior to the start of the school year the list of classes and 60% of them were electives or not compulsory (not essential), and I remembered that his counselor told me that as long he has enough credits he can do it.

The “no child left behind act” is a mistake and the effectiveness and desirability of NCLB’s measures are hotly debated. A primary criticism asserts that NCLB could reduce effective instruction and student learning because it may cause states to lower achievement goals and motivate teachers to “teach to the test.”

I started thinking that back in my days in my school in South America we did not have the glory of having home economics, pottery, art and other elective classes that are good for the spirit but at the end they are not good for your career.

I had 11 (one year less) years full of mathematic, physics, algebra, history, chemistry, calculus, biology and others that by the time I finish High School I was ready for the University and no need for College in order to catch up with the prerequisites. If you want a technical career you go to College but to study the necessary for your future occupation.

I am not saying mine was better than the current system but something is not working right and I have to admit that the labs are great and some school have state of the art technology but they don’t improve the education for some reason.

I believe the current Education system in this country is a business; you should be able at the end of your high school to go straight to the University and be an architect, lawyer or whatever is your desire. Perhaps proof of that is the statistic from the department of education that 85% got a high school diploma but only 27% a post secondary diploma.

The “no child left behind act” is a mistake and the effectiveness and desirability of NCLB’s measures are hotly debated. A primary criticism asserts that NCLB could reduce effective instruction and student learning because it may cause states to lower achievement goals and motivate teachers to “teach to the test.”

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Proudly Invites You To Join Them At Their “2008 Hispanic Achievement Awards Banquet”
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Broadway Palm Dinner Theater
1380 Colonial Boulevard, Fort Myers, Florida
Tickets: $25 per person (includes buffet dinner)
Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Jeffrey D. Kottkamp Lieutenant Governor of the State of Florida
Masters of Ceremony: Trey Radel – WINK TV and Mayela Rosales – Azteca America D’Latinos

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McCain vs Obama 2008

I was sure before the Vice-president nominations of both party that I was going to vote for Obama, but with his choice for Biden I am not sure anymore. Obama is a charismatic person, well spoken and seems to have the right words at the right time in the other hand I do not like Biden not because his political beliefs but mostly for his lack of appeal and the same goes to McCain, however McCain’s choice for Vice-president was a punch in the stomach to the Obama campaign. Palin is well spoken with a great charm that nobody can refute and pretty, also a response to the willingness of some of the people in the Democratic Party to nominate Hillary Clinton for Vice-president so I guess let’s nominate Obama and Palin for President and Vice-president!

I am looking for a candidate that can lower the taxes, provide a healthy economy, healthcare and education affordable and a candidate that encourages or advocates the integration of people of different countries, ethnic groups, and religions into all areas of society and can clean the bad image that the country has of big invader. Where is he?

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The Gaceta Tropical is not just a section of the News-Press is a weekly snapshot of the Hispanic community and a tool to offer services to them.

I am sure there is a budget crisis, but we are not talking about businesses, gardens, lifestyles, etc. We are talking about a community that is part of Southwest Florida.

The News-Press did not approach the Hispanic community through the different existing organizations prior to shutdown the newspaper and find a solution, perhaps a Hispanic buyer looking to continue publishing the newspaper.

They did not have to, but …

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