denigrate the American school is that, more or less, without ever having seen, we do. To say that deep down also has its positive sides, which is more or less everyone who saw it, they do. Sometimes holding together 2500 people of color, race, ideas, different thoughts is impossible. It 's why we need to take to school the police.
But, when you can see that those colors, those ideas, those thoughts fit together, you'd think that is not the little man in a blue suit with a pistol on your belt to have done a good job, but others around him in 2500. Then everyone thinks his own way.
Here, at least the school, do not see what color you are, if you vote Obama or McCain, if you are five feet or if you have two ten. Here the school is a place where first you learn how to live, according to one learns the "superfluous": history, geography ... Why "out there" people who despite being in school is reluctant to not understand the hint is low, and continues with impunity to destroy what others build. Because if we think about it is true, especially the Americans inside the borders to seek to themselves and other "peace and freedom." Yes even outside, but that's another story.
mean public school? Do not be thrown away, indeed. Longview High School, attended school but not even that much, offers 100 courses and passes, starting from the kitchen (!), Shifting from more traditional mathematics, lastly doubt learning courses such as "floral design" or "bible survey, but not put your hands on it, then someone takes it up personally! But what is surprising is not the presence of such, but the high attendance. The cooking class then more water is required in the Sahara. Witnesses said that a year before you need to register to attend that course. Class instead of physics consists of less than 17 pupils and the level is not that stellar. Then I try to imagine the everyday average cooking class. No, I can not (and is said with all due respect, eh). But belonging to the level, it is considered that the public school, not getting a genuine accident if not for the vital functions. And yet, there are clubs such as golf, tennis, English club, that of France. How? Donations.
Example: the basketball team, annually, is moving in with coaches, and stay at the hotel for longer trips, with only money in donations. Yes, because as mentioned earlier, the state (in this case Texas, which is also very generous!) Pays the public school. But as we all know, on the left side of the ocean often prefer to rely on the genius of individual popolanti, rather than to structures of more "obamiana (concedetemelo, please) accessibility.
And so, poor us, we find ourselves in a school that stinks, it falls apart, do not teach you anything and you have cops who go around at all hours. If you want to you can even see that. From the point of view "real" instead, the public school is one of those things he teaches. It teaches you to see the world, because in there we find the worst hicks, but we hardly find the Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, the school teaches you that, in addition to teaching multiplication, you must provide a model for when you're "out there". The sport, at least for me, gave me more life lessons than I would have done Aristotle. But we basically talked about that enough. What matters is that you try to do the best with the resources we are given, to make less bad what is bad, and the important many times is not the result. But the spirit. The fact that once again has demonstrated an effort to improve, not to be perfect. The realization that to be the worst there is, is not a handicap but a point from which an advantage to exploit. Against whom? Against themselves, against their own limits. It seems to understand why four hours from Longview, TX, forty years ago, someone started to get to see lunar craters (or so they say, but even here, that would be another story.)
This really sad, then, to see how somewhere in the world, rather than improve, try to tamper with something that, thank God, seems to work. And if it's a matter of policy, budgets or financial. If as a matter of pride, that lesson in that same part of the world seem (seem?) Have never learned. It is a matter of spirit, that we should push to go beyond the old to the new head, Shameless mistakes. In Italy, however, the lesson is given, it is always better than a forward one step back, better security (ephemeral) an embarrassment to have at least tried to do something.
Two cultures? Two different ways of thinking? For me, just two principles of Newtonian nature equal and opposite. Only one pulls forward, and the other pulls back. What is wrong? Have you, but I like the direction of time. Forward without stopping.
Jacopo
PS: an Italian representative on earth of Texas, welcomes in this imperfect world to its namesake, certain that he, too, nell'indubbia human imperfection, it will follow the direction of the perfect time. Good Luck James (and confides in his uncle).
