Comments on: Edison High students will protest in front of police station Wednesday

By: FerfelaBat

FerfelaBat — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:07:18 +0000

Chavez does not have the balls to go to war. Columbia is one of Vensuelas main suppliers of food and with food rationing already happening there he would be striking at Columbia with a double edged sword.

On topic – it looks like they are going to have to drop most of the charges agains the Edison students because they are uniformly vague. Good news for the moms, dads, and kids.

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:59:25 +0000

Ms C,

My family is most definitely worried about war. They live in Bogota which is far from the border but the wars always leave their toll in Bogota in thousands of displaced peasants living on the streets.

I’ve heard many rumors about Ingrid Betancourt over the years, including that she was dead, that she fell in love with a FARC soldier and that she joined the FARC

By: Ms Calabaza

Ms Calabaza — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:56:06 +0000

Carlos,
off topic a bit here . . . a few years back I became interested in the Ingrid Betancourt kidnapping in Colombia after watching an HBO documentary on her. Like you, (you are a child after my heart with regards to being a ‘voracious reader’) I researched, found and
read her book Until Death do us Part. The latest I’ve heard about her is that she is dying and has Hepatitis B. YouTube has a very disturbing video of her that was found in Bogota in the apartment of a FARC member. Any inside story on this? on FARC? Is your family in Colombia concerned about war?

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:17:22 +0000

One of the things that set me apart from the other troublemakers is that I’ve always been a voracious reader.

I would spend the week disrupting class and talking back to the teacher, then spend my weekends taking the bus to the library and researching whatever topic had piqued my curiosity.

By: Ms Calabaza

Ms Calabaza — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:01:21 +0000

Carlos,
something tells me you probably had a good basic elementary education. I work with ‘at risk’ kids and here in Virginia the test is really quite difficult for them. A school board member told me 1 out of 10 pass the test. Sadly, most kids don’t re-take it.

By: Carlos Miller

Carlos Miller — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:46:11 +0000

Ms C,

I used to be one of those troubled kids. I got suspended and expelled so many times that by the time I got my act together as a senior, I wasn’t allowed to graduate because I was missing so many credits from my sophomore years.

And this is that I went to night school and summer school.

So I ended up dropping out and getting a GED. I found it to be a very easy test. So easy that I ended up regretting not taking it much earlier.

From there, I eventually graduated with a bachelor degree.

By: Ms Calabaza

Ms Calabaza — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:27:40 +0000

Out of school suspensions are a joke. Teachers here use them just to get rid of the kid for a few days. After the student has missed enough classes, he will either be so disgusted he’ll drop out or he’ll just be considered a problem and passed from program to program until he’s old enough to take the GED. All kids want to do this because they think it’s easy only to find that they will never pass the test. So, we have another hopeless kid out there who can’t even get a job at Home Depot.

By: FerfelaBat

FerfelaBat — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:02:10 +0000

Now this? I agree with. It’s after school, off campus and while I think the police have more work than they can handle, this issue needs to be put to bed asap before the kids graduate at least.