December 2009
59 posts
Despite state subsidies, class sizes begin to rise... →
“It doesn’t make it impossible to teach, it just makes it harder,” she said. Plascencia said she and other teachers are doing much more advance planning to take into account the extra students. “We are not mass-producing items; we’re not making shoes or pizza. We are dealing with human beings — so four extra bodies are not just four extra bodies — it is everything that comes with them, or doesn’t...
The best thing about Santa Cruz is leaving and coming back.
– I forget who said this to me, but it was during a conversation about my mixed feelings about Santa Cruz. I recently realized that I love this place, a whole lot more than I thought. I enjoyed being here, but not living here all the time. There’s a chance I could terribly miss it when I leave...
Power blackouts should happen more often.