School Year Looms, Along With Crappy(er) Commutes
August 13th is less than a week away, and I think I might be dreading it as much now as I did in high school. The traffic gets thicker during already soupy (cream based, not broth) hours…the line at my first light will increase from ten cars deep to over sixty and push me around a corner from which I won’t even be able to *see* said light. So I’ll be getting up even earlier, and I’ll be even grumpier. So you have that to look forward to in addition to your own commute time upping it’s suck factor.
Whee!
On the brighter side and for those not so slow traffic times, a friend shot me an article from a Florida paper about an Ohio family who has given up on the likes of a “SLOW DOWN” sign and opted instead for cardboard cut outs on their sidewalks of toddlers. It’s brilliant…if only I’d thought of it first. Of course I’ll be the first to drag one through the park with me, dress it up and take it to dinner in order to take advantage of kids menu’s (and prices!), but I doubt that’ll make the paper.
Wow. Weirdest part of that weird story? “His initial idea to create the cardboard children was not to slow down speeders but to start selling the posters to their grandparents.”
How creepy would it be for your 7-year-old self to walk into your grandparents’ house and see a life-size cardboard cut-out of you sitting at the kitchen table?
Funny you should say that…a colleauge of mine had a “Mini-Me” standee (cardboard dealie) on which she’d blown up, printed and taped her childs face which she kept (still keeps?) in her office.
Hello-
I ran into this article about APS and I thought I’ll share.
Connecting the Dots: Kids to Business
by Jennifer Bouani http://boujepublishing.wordpress.com/
I’m all for schools and businesses working together to connect the dots for students to know how to compete in a global workforce. We do need to work to better meld the two entities. In the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Tim Hough writes about an initiative going on between Atlanta Public Schools and Atlanta businesses (Atlanta Business Chronicle, Jun 1-7) to do just such a thing. Beverly Hall, the superintendent, is working to fully reform the public school system to connect the dots in the disciplines of engineering, health sciences and research. But I think the focus may be misguided.
China and India are generating baskets-full of engineers and researchers. On sheer numbers, America cannot compete. But what has America always been good at (besides war)? Creating businesses!-tapping into our entrepreneurial spirit and paving new roads, new industries and new technologies. Who would have imagined Google or Amazon 15 years ago?
But are we forgetting where we came from? The Kauffman Foundation just reported that immigrant entrepreneurial activities are outpacing those of native-born Americans. While it increased for Asians and Latinos, it stayed steady for non-Latino whites and even fell for blacks. Where are our entrepreneurs? Who will create the next Microsoft?
Although I admire Hall for her courage to tread new ground, I wish school systems would focus their attention on teaching kids how to RUN businesses, not be employed by them.
* Kauffman Foundation Study: http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=861
Hello-
I ran into this article about APS and I thought I’ll share.
Connecting the Dots: Kids to Business
by Jennifer Bouani http://boujepublishing.wordpress.com/
I’m all for schools and businesses working together to connect the dots for students to know how to compete in a global workforce. We do need to work to better meld the two entities. In the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Tim Hough writes about an initiative going on between Atlanta Public Schools and Atlanta businesses (Atlanta Business Chronicle, Jun 1-7) to do just such a thing. Beverly Hall, the superintendent, is working to fully reform the public school system to connect the dots in the disciplines of engineering, health sciences and research. But I think the focus may be misguided.
China and India are generating baskets-full of engineers and researchers. On sheer numbers, America cannot compete. But what has America always been good at (besides war)? Creating businesses!-tapping into our entrepreneurial spirit and paving new roads, new industries and new technologies. Who would have imagined Google or Amazon 15 years ago?
But are we forgetting where we came from? The Kauffman Foundation just reported that immigrant entrepreneurial activities are outpacing those of native-born Americans. While it increased for Asians and Latinos, it stayed steady for non-Latino whites and even fell for blacks. Where are our entrepreneurs? Who will create the next Microsoft?
Although I admire Hall for her courage to tread new ground, I wish school systems would focus their attention on teaching kids how to RUN businesses, not be employed by them.
* Kauffman Foundation Study: http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=861
Hello-
I ran into this article about APS and I thought I’ll share.
Connecting the Dots: Kids to Business
by Jennifer Bouani http://boujepublishing.wordpress.com/
I’m all for schools and businesses working together to connect the dots for students to know how to compete in a global workforce. We do need to work to better meld the two entities. In the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Tim Hough writes about an initiative going on between Atlanta Public Schools and Atlanta businesses (Atlanta Business Chronicle, Jun 1-7) to do just such a thing. Beverly Hall, the superintendent, is working to fully reform the public school system to connect the dots in the disciplines of engineering, health sciences and research. But I think the focus may be misguided.
China and India are generating baskets-full of engineers and researchers. On sheer numbers, America cannot compete. But what has America always been good at (besides war)? Creating businesses!-tapping into our entrepreneurial spirit and paving new roads, new industries and new technologies. Who would have imagined Google or Amazon 15 years ago?
But are we forgetting where we came from? The Kauffman Foundation just reported that immigrant entrepreneurial activities are outpacing those of native-born Americans. While it increased for Asians and Latinos, it stayed steady for non-Latino whites and even fell for blacks. Where are our entrepreneurs? Who will create the next Microsoft?
Although I admire Hall for her courage to tread new ground, I wish school systems would focus their attention on teaching kids how to RUN businesses, not be employed by them.
* Kauffman Foundation Study: http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=861