1) Be introduced to him via word of mouth or book - someone mentions Christ and you are curious as to who he is.
2) You go to Christ's house to meet him and discover that He's not home and nobody seems to know where to find him. Further, although everyone there claims to know Christ, nobody has ever met him, and every description of him is conflicting. Still, you are curious, so...
3) You read his book. This is rather confusing. Like claiming you know Steinbeck because you read The Grapes of Wrath. This leads you to read other books from the experts, which contradict each other as well. You start to get a better picture of who everyone thinks Christ is. You know what he's done. But you still can't get to know him just yet. What you really need is to walk in his footsteps for a while...
4) You do things that Christ did. This brings you REALLY close to knowing him. You begin to suspect that the best way to know Christ is to be really really good to everyone - to love them as much as possible. BUUUUUTTTTTT... after many years of this, you still don't really know him. Which brings you to the final step...
5) You accept that Christ is unknowable. And surprisingly, when you stop trying to capture Christ into some definable picture, you finally get to know Him.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Thursday, October 06, 2011
No Stupid Idea Left Behind
I was hard on the Bush Admin. for No Child Left Behind because it was a stupid law. I need to be equally hard with the current executives running our schools for their equally stupid left wing insanity.
Considering that schools are low on money, SFUSD recently hired Health Coordinators to make sure that schools remain healthy. In addition to cutting off all sweets on campus (including those that the teachers might bring in their own lunches or might buy for celebrations or parties - like a retirement cake, for instance) they have recently begun to institute a mandatory exercise period for teachers. After school, of course. For the good health of the teacher, of course.
Never mind the fact that most teachers work 80+ hours a week - many of these hours unpaid and overstressed - but now they have to add 1 hour a week of monitored exercise to their workload.
Only, it gets worse. Because in addition to the one hour of mandatory exercise each week that these teachers are required to do, they are also required to fill out paperwork on their exercise and submit the paperwork to the school district. Because we need to be able to verify these things, don't we?
But, you know, these teacher's salaries are bankrupting the country, so I guess they deserve everything they get. ;)
Considering that schools are low on money, SFUSD recently hired Health Coordinators to make sure that schools remain healthy. In addition to cutting off all sweets on campus (including those that the teachers might bring in their own lunches or might buy for celebrations or parties - like a retirement cake, for instance) they have recently begun to institute a mandatory exercise period for teachers. After school, of course. For the good health of the teacher, of course.
Never mind the fact that most teachers work 80+ hours a week - many of these hours unpaid and overstressed - but now they have to add 1 hour a week of monitored exercise to their workload.
Only, it gets worse. Because in addition to the one hour of mandatory exercise each week that these teachers are required to do, they are also required to fill out paperwork on their exercise and submit the paperwork to the school district. Because we need to be able to verify these things, don't we?
But, you know, these teacher's salaries are bankrupting the country, so I guess they deserve everything they get. ;)
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