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...like almost everyone else at Camp Delta who has contact with the detainees, covers the name on his uniform with duct tape so the prisoners can't identify him now or ever. Sergeant P. did not even want his full last name used in this story. A middle-school teacher in his nondeployed life, he, along with some of the other guards, was handpicked because of his experience with juveniles. "We do a lot of math and science with them," he says. "We don't try to indoctrinate them in Americanism." The juveniles pick up English quickly, he notes. Outdoors...
...with connected letters once they leave the blasted place, Ernest Gaullet Elementary has given the world and Dartboard another reason to hate elementary school. After overhearing a second grader who used the rather accurate word “gay” to describe his same-sex female parents, a teacher at the school scolded the boy and sent him to the principal’s office. A few days later, school administrators forced the child to come to school early and write over and over again, “I will never use the word ‘gay?...
When the child came home from school, he told his mother that his teacher told him that his family was dirty. Making a child feel bad for his parents’ relationship, whether deliberate or not, is unacceptable coming from an elementary school. Making school administrators feel like pigs for their hateful, reactionary behavior is, in turn, rather acceptable punishment. Before being fired, administrators should be themselves forced to write: “My attitude towards the word ‘gay’ is dirty and irreprehensible” over and over again...
Fontcuberta realizes that his work is a long term project and its value may not be soon fully understood. Like a true teacher, being appreciated isn’t as important as conveying a message for Fontcuberta. “I am patient,” he says...
Neurobiology lecturer David L. Cardozo, who chaired the task force, said yesterday that increased clinical and research demands, coupled with poor incentives for teaching, are fueling the tight teacher market...