Manila Error/Bilingual Ed/Meat
Three topics, two regarding issues of language, one I can't fully explain:
I discovered (was the victim of) an error in a release of Manila currently on interactiveu:8000.
The default for Prefs:Advanced:News Day Template is:
<b>{newsPostTime}</b>r<p>r{newsContent}r<p>
upon creation of a site or restoring the default, when of course the default should be
<b>{newsPostTime}</b><p>{newsContent}<p>
NYTimes: Bilingual Education Among immigrant groups, views about the programs meant to ease their children's transition into English can be as mixed as a parent's own memories of learning English for the first time.
Sure, non-English speaking immigrant kids need English, and they need it early, with the goal of transitioning into classes with English instruction as soon as possible.
But there is real value to helping kids hold onto and develop their home language. Some argue that that's a cultural choice and up to the family, who taught the home language in the first place, and that's where it is maintained. Not quite; family/home/social language can be maintained, but it may not be developed equal to the new academic lanaguage, which is not typically developed in the home, but in formal education environments. Trued bilingualism requires more and more advanced use of language. The home is not an environment in which, say, the academic language developed in the new language at school then gets translated and developed in the home language at home. What you get instead is unequal development.
Also, wouldn't bilingual development for all students be a good thing, even those who already speak English? It seems to be that foreign language transition to English, and English-speaking acquisition of another language, are cousins, or two sides of the coin, or the difficulty around which is a symptom of cultural restriction, or a very narrow centrism.
On Mon Jan 8, 2001 I read an excerpt from Mad
Cowboy : Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (http://www.madcowboy.com/
isn't working at this moment). Coincidentally, on the same day, a very informative
article titled Here's
the Beef: Factory-farming practices have been linked to human illnesses, but
alternative sources for meat and poultry are rapidly shrinking appeared
in the SF Chronicle.
This triggered some kind of coalescing of a number of longtime
and lingering thoughts and feelings around meat, health, environment, and morality.
Since that day I have been unable to buy, cook, or eat meat. I eat fish. I've
had chicken twice, both times because of no alternative (really), but I really
didn't like it.
I haven't declared myself a vegetarian. I didn't reach a decision.
I experienced a sudden physical and emotional block around meat that is hard
to explain. I've had the impulive desires for the flavor, for the protein, but it's like
I'm content not to have it. I don't know where this is going, but it's been
going on for almost two months. I do feel happier not eating meat, for a variety of reasons.
Say...
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