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EIS Teacher Survey Results

These results are from a recent survey of teachers at the EIS high school. 21 out of 35 teachers responded. No changes have been made. The results and comments are published exactly as they were written. Some of our teachers second language is English, so please do not confuse grammatical errors for inability. Feel free to comment or direct your questions to "dschult at seishn dot com".

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Words of Wisdom

Stephen Colbert
Comedian
Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.

You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say "yes." And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say "yes" back.

Now will saying "yes" get you in trouble at times? Will saying "yes" lead you to do some foolish things? Yes, it will. But don't be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say "no." But saying "yes" begins things. Saying "yes" is how things grow. Saying "yes" leads to knowledge. "Yes" is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say "yes."

And that's The Word.

Merry Christmas...

...and Happy Holidays to all.
From Darlene, Sophia and David,
Wishing all of you the best of the season.

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Honduras Greens Slam Pollution - Prensa Latina

Honduras Greens Slam Pollution - Prensa Latina: "Honduras Greens Slam Pollution

Tegucigalpa, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Environmental Organizations and people from the locality of Valle del Siria protested the pollution of the water table with cyanide and arsenic.

Faced with evidence of locals with skin, respiratory problems and other afflictions, the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry (SERNA) confirmed those reports Wednesday.

According to the ministry, studies by experts from the organization revealed the existence of cyanide over international levels in tests of water in the Valle de Siria, the country's eastern zone.

SERNA Minister Mayra Mejias stated that results of these tests made from August to December 2005 contained illegally high cyanide levels.

The Valle people have repeatedly denounced that some children and adults suffer skin diseases due to the pollution caused by Entremares company, which has open mines."

Grief in Honduras after Fort Lauderdale slaying

MiamiHerald.com | 08/20/2006 | Grief in Honduras after Fort Lauderdale slaying: "Grief in Honduras after Fort Lauderdale slaying
BY MELISSA SANCHEZ
mesanchez@MiamiHerald.com

JUTICALPA, Honduras - The men left their young families behind in this poor city next to the mountains and settled in a strange place called Fort Lauderdale.

There, they found lawns that needed mowing, cars that needed washing, sheetrock that needed hanging -- and people willing to pay decent wages for such work.

The money that Oscar Castro and José Alfredo Sánchez sent home to their wives and children bought a refrigerator, furniture, private schools and food. It even afforded them a taste of middle-class Americana: buying on credit.

All the while, of course, the men were breaking the law. Castro and Sánchez had entered the United States illegally, like an estimated 10.5 million others who have since become the subject of the nation's emotional debate over undocumented immigrants.

To see another side of the issue, The Miami Herald went to Juticalpa this summer, to visit the parents, the children and the wives Castro and Sánchez had left behind.

The men went back as well. They were in coffins."

Teaching Crisis in Honduras - Prensa Latina

My fellow teachers in Honduran schools make just over 3$ an hour. That is at least 1/4 what a first year foreign hire teacher makes at EIS. These teachers deserve our help and support. Without them, the future of this country is dire.

Teaching Crisis in Honduras - Prensa Latina: "Teaching Crisis in Honduras

Tegucigalpa, Ago 8 (Prensa Latina) Honduras was under an apparent calm after the government and teacher s unions discussed about an eventual solution to the crisis of the national educational system.

Around 2.5 million children and teenagers are without classes since the Teaching Organization Federations of that Central American nation began a strike in demand of salary improvements last August...

Among demands is the payment of $3.07 an hour and an increase of $1.16 per lesson starting next year, but president Manuel Zelaya only has offered them an increase of ten cents per hour."

Fire Rainbow

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Fire Rainbow: "THIS IS A FIRE RAINBOW — THE RAREST OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.

THE PICTURE WAS CAPTURED ON THE IDAHO/WASHINGTON BORDER. THE EVENT LASTED ABOUT 1 HOUR.

CLOUDS HAVE TO BE CIRRUS, AT LEAST 20K FEET IN THE AIR, WITH JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ICE CRYSTALS AND THE SUN HAS TO HIT THE CLOUDS AT PRCEISELY 58 DEGREES.



Fire rainbow"