Education in Mexico - k, the free encyclopedia

Education in Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to this listing literacy in Mexico is at 90.5%. English is not a language that is used in teaching but it probably would be wise to do this. Furthermore if literacy is so high in Mexico according to this article. Is it my understanding that the people that are being sent our way from Mexico are individuals that Mexico just does not have any use for. Other countries from all over the world send us their best and Mexico is sending us the workers that they just can't deal with or have no use for. It sounds sort of harsh because we are all human beings but if I'm understanding this correctly Mexico is keeping the educated professionals and sending the challenged to the United States. This is really something that needs to be seriously contemplated. Even in America we do not send our dropouts to foreign countries. I think this is probably a very unique policy for the world.

Mexico (12/05)

Mexico (12/05)

According to this article Education is mandotory in Mexico from prek-18.

Mexico (12/05)

Mexico (12/05)

According to this article Education is mandotory in Mexico from prek-18.

globeandmail.com : Mexican leader urges Canada to open doors to 'guest workers'

globeandmail.com : Mexican leader urges Canada to open doors to 'guest workers'

It is disturbing to me that the leaders of Mexico are determined to see the future of Mexico as providing laborers for North America and beyond. China and India are very large countries and there is so much optimism in terms of what is possible, in terms of what can be done and what will be done. It is getting pretty obvious that there is a visionary problem in Mexico in terms of what can happen and be done. Fox is convinced that the innate capability of a large number of human beings in his country is to be low wage laborers. This thinking should be criminalized. The United States is doing whatever is possible to expand the vision of what is possible for everyone. I was just reading an article about a class at UCLA that encouraged Hispanics to go into the screenwriting profession. This was a wonderful example of the possibitilites. However as long as we have a country that believes that it can only provide law wage labor to the United States, we have serious problems. Leave the grape picking to automation and encourage dreams in the country next door.

Trust me from what I've read Canada is a country that encourages the best from anyone and everyone that comes there. The rigid class system and econmic system that is in the United States is not there. Canada is not going to set up barriers for qualified individuals becuase they don't want a black or hispanic to make a decent salary. They actively encourage the challenged to go into high paying professions. Mr. Fox, honestly may want to cosnult with Canand in terms of implementing social programs that work in the country of Mexico,

AP Wire | 03/28/2006 | Mexico cheers passage of immigration bill

AP Wire 03/28/2006 Mexico cheers passage of immigration bill

Cuba and Asia faced off in the World baseball Finals. Fidel is an extremely proud man and has been willing to try to take care of his people. Trust me the country is better off after Fidel then before him. Prior to Fidel there was not mandatory education in Cuba, but their is now. They call the Cuban immigrants the educated immigrants. A man who implemented a policy that worked for his country abd did not make other countries responsible for his people. KUDOS

Immigration

Historically there have always been people against immigration.  They were against the immigration of Asians, the Polish, the Irish, etc.  The United States however has always been able to absorb white Europeans and tolerate others.  As a reminder to some the majority of African Americans were brought here as slaves and thus have a stake in this country that many do not understand, we unlike others did not willingly come here and a lot of the measures put into place that others feel entitled to were put there to make up for slavery, and for the laws that existed against blacks and women.  I suppose I am thus attempting to define the difference between diversity and affirmative action.

In any event I think what we in the United States must analyze is can the United States afford to absorb a whole country and still function as the United States.  After brief thought I think that the United States could absorb a whole country successfully and benefit from it.  However, I don’t think the United States can absorb a whole country of illegal immigrants working underneath the table for half of minimum wage.  Despite what some would have us believe there are workers in the United States willing to clean toilets, and cook food all day for minimum wage.  There probably are not many citizens of the United States willing to do it for three dollars an hour though.

This issue of illegal immigration could not come at a worst time in the history of the United States.  The United States due to high technology is facing a crisis in all sectors.  Pundits are saying not only will their not be jobs for blue collar workers but white collar workers are facing some pretty strong challenges also.  This is not new, the pundits have said this for years.  They have said that increasingly that the economic survival of many individuals will be linked to the service sector retail, construction, etc.  In other words saying that some who are not trained to do things that they re not used to, will have to do them to survive.  It is  a fact technology has increased the productivity of companies and corporations so greatly that whole sectors of jobs have been or will be wiped out.  What does that leave us with?  

It leaves us with an economy where illegal immigrants are working for half price and underneath the table.  This is not good for the United States.  This is not sound economic policy to allow this to continue.  If the democrats don’t recognize this they will not win a presidential election next term and may lose some seats in the upcoming election.  It is increasingly looking like democrats have been pawned again because this is an issue that will lose them votes; for African Americans and European Americans are increasingly beginning to voice their concerns about not being able to get minimum wage jobs in all service sectors or be paid what they should be paid in the construction industry.  

Finally I think the United States can absorb workers, but legally.  Let them come, but don’t let them undercut the individuals who are legal citizens.  For the bottom line is they are here, because where they are from, resources are scarce.  

Wired News | Bush meets Mexico's Fox with immigration in balance

Wired News Bush meets Mexico's Fox with immigration in balance

In this article it states that the President of Mexico is anxious for legislation in the U.S. to honor a guest worker program. Personally I think the crux of the problem is the failure of Mexico to create and legislate on quality of life issues. If the United States does pass a guest worker program to please Fox there are some things that I would like to see and may already exist that I don't know about. First of all I would like to see Mexico pass legislation requiring mandatory education where English is a required language to be learnt. I would like to see Mexico practically annexed into the United States with the United States having a very strong influence on how business is developed their, how jobs are created, etc. I would like to see buildings built industry developed in the country of Mexico. For the honest truth is that the protesters I saw were still holding Mexican Flags in their hands. Bottom Line Mexico needs and should be required to implement some better quality of life issues to make people want to stick around or to make more people want to invest in Mexico. We should require Mexico to at last aim to come up to par with Canada no matter how large they are.

Cruise Control

Cruise Control

This is a really funny discussion of South Park, Tom Cruise and Scientology !! Tom come out of the closet "Pleeeasssssssse" !! Honestly, Cruise probably would have been better off if he would have let the episode be reaired. I will definitely look at South Park tonight, I have no plans to go see Cruises movie, and oh Isaac is getting some commercial deals after the Southpark incident. Isaac remember powerful men may give you notice and more deals, but you have to have an interested audience to sustain. When visiting Tom's closet don't forget to tell him that.

Rolling Stone : Park Life

Rolling Stone : Park Life

Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech - Sunday Times - Times Online

Hey Chef, these guys are killing free speech - Sunday Times - Times Online

I have been following this for weeks. The only comment I have is this , Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and all; or not getting any younger, they are over fourty and ready to push fifty. They are going to have to realize that the torch has passed some day. Pokeman holds the torch!!!!!!! Idealism, irreverance, and the taking down of evil. The Super Friends and School House Rock are Back. Scientology get over it!

Weighing in on The previous posted Articles on Black Men

Do I believe that the difficulties affecting black men are due to their desire to chase pussy, smoke pot and listen to explicit lyrics? HELL NO!

Do I believe that the massive difficulties affecting black men is due to bad parenting and lackluster mothering? No!

Have I found an explanation in the several articles that I've read to explain the plight of black men? No!

I however as a sociology minor in college did come across a theory in college as taught to me by a Professor Hodges formerly a professor at Georgia State University and University of Georgia and the last time I heard a professor at Morehouse College. The name of the theory was anomie - a sociological term for learned helplessness.

While I will attempt to write intelligently about this issue I will state that I am only taking the concept of anomie from Dr. Hodge and attempting to expand upon it in my own way which if you've read this blog for any period of time you know that at times no one would want to be associated with my thought or rants.

Furthermore along with the term of anomie I once did a psychology paper on two terms external locus of control - the belief that we are acted upon by external forces and have no control over our lives and internal locus of control the belief that we control our fate and destiny by our own efforts and belief. These terms serve to provide an inordinate amount of light upon the plight of Black men as well as Black America. I would like to assert that the practice or beliefs that reflect external locus of control lead to learned helplessness and the beliefs of internal locus of control lead to self actualization.

The first major influence on black males and their development is societal attitudes towards black men, black people, and their mothers. Beginning with the articles posted on black men today to the comments by Bill Cosby about poor people the very act of speaking statistics and defining and redefining the issue of black people is solely enough to inhibit the growth and development of black boys. This problem has been defined since the 1960's that there were problems in black households and with the development of our men. There is no need or reason to keep redefining the problem. The very act of making solely black men and boys a topic of discourse is enough to make "sensitive", "intelligent" males question their very existences as well as their significance in society.

The second major influence that affects black males is that some of these people holding these negative attitudes, "the belief that black men and people are lazy, that the women are bad mothers etc. Are the very same ones charged with 1. Creating educational and social policies for them 2. Educating them - actually teaching them etc. The bottom line is that people who honestly believe that children can not learn because they are poor, honestly believe that children do have bad parents, and may reluctantly believe that black males are innately inferior are not going to get a positive return and are only going to create self fulfilling prophecies . The very act of surrounding children with people going through the motions of teaching or making policy for them with no belief that they are innately intelligent and capable can only create children that do not believe that they can make it, do not see a way out, and lack a total faith in their own abilities that only an act of God can overcome. The above actions and attitudes eventually create men who suffer from anomie and have an external locus of control.

From early learning and early attitudes black boys may pick up that they are worthless this in turn leads to emerging men who band together and teach each other what they can excel in or what they do excel in and that is as one article I posted suggested chasing women and engaging in hanging out. Before even discussing this I would like to say that I think that when and if this behavior occurs this is after black boys have given up hope that there is nothing else that they can do. It is when external forces have hammered into them that they are useless and worthless.

I would also like to add that black boys and men maybe one of the most sexually exploited groups in the United States. Most people would not deny that they image of the black mandingo still is around in our society. Black men are not just desired by black women but by men and women of all races. I can never forget the many men that I've met who fit the stereotypical images of mandingos six feet and over very good looking but so exploited for their sexuality that they believed that their sexuality was their way out. Below I would like to expound on individuals that I've known personally:

R - intelligent better looking then Denzel, claimed to had dropped out of school in tenth grade, a drummer, I met him when I was 18, one of the comments that I will never forget is his telling me that he had met two men who wanted him to come to their suite at the Ritz and did I want to join him. My answer was no!

Ryan - A young man that I met at the Hospital that looked like a Tommy Hilfiger model who had just gotten out of prison and who I believed was a male prostitute but could not confirm it. He talked about the amount of men that he could be with in a day and make a certain amount of money "hypothetically" he also seemed fixated witht he fact that the last test scores that he had taken said he read at a fourth grade level, when talking to him he would sometimes place int the conversation you know I can only read at a fourth grade level.

anonymous - While this is not a person that was sexually exploited I sat next to him while riding the greyhound bus cross country, he told me that he had just gotten out of jail after several months for drug charges and had been making Bob Barker shoes for three dollars an hour - Black men are so exploited in our prisons that there is an active prison industry for their labor, this also begs the question are their people who want to solve the problem of black anomie?

There was one more and He had AIDS he was probably the mast attractive black man I had ever met, he claimed to have dropped out of UC BERKELEY in his senior year several credits away from a degree in Modern Languages but he had AIDS and was a Drug Addict and I could only assume had been exploited for every ounce of whatever he had in him. These are real cases ..........

While I want to say a lot more my brain does not want to think anymore, so I must leave you with this. The plight of black men and people will change when someone makes a policy decision to create a solution solely geared towards black men and boys, when people quit trying to define a problem and work towards a solution and benchmarking the solutions and their effectiveness.

These are facts:

If black men get to school even doing their early years someone ought to be able to effectively teach them.

If people would stop being touted for defining a problem, but touted for solving the problem, the problem would go away.

Black men are a sexually exploited population.

Incarceration, lack of education, and joblessness I place the blame on society and the system of education and poor policy making.

Finally I would like to say that the policy of no child left behind was and is a sound policy and I believe that is greatly influenced by First Lady Laura Bush who observed that there were certain people who would not teach children solely for their economic and ethnic demographics. No Child Left Behind has hit out high school Students hard though and because of this I believe the policy needs to be reevaluated.

Anyway I'm on a tangent so I'm leaving.

A Poverty of the Mind - New York Times

A Poverty of the Mind - New York Times

Harvard Sociologist Orlando Patterson adds his commnets to the debate

Black Men on the American Ladder (6 Letters) - New York Times

Black Men on the American Ladder (6 Letters) - New York Times

Readers respond to the Previous article Posted

Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn - New York Times

Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn - New York Times

Da Wiz Report : The Negroes Behind the Tuskegee Experiment

Da Wiz Report : The Negroes Behind the Tuskegee Experiment

This blog discusses the Tuskegee experiment, the experiemnt where black health care professionals allowed 400 people to be infected with a disease and not be treated.

Unfortunately there are still people in all communities willing to experiment on others. "Black Hitlers" in this particular case.

Da Wiz Report : Pray for the Women of Atlanta

Da Wiz Report : Pray for the Women of Atlanta

This post about Atlanta is so accurate and so funny. It describes women in Atlanta and their strange reaction to men. Unfortunately what is so easily gotten is very easily lost. The type of men being described here or frankly the type of men that nobody should want. However I do warn those women thinking of moving to Atlanta who are married, if they are fat lose weight cause the women ofthe south are ready for them.

Finally I don't believe the reactions of women in Atlanta to men is just an Atlanta thing this is a deep south thing. These women have been replicating this behavior for centuries since black slave men farther north were ripped away from their slave families and plucked down here to pick cootton. They know how to make men forget and they teach it to others after they have been down here for a while.

Finally if these men are fallling for this ultimately the problem may be that there is a values void in the city we live in whereas in other places family and community is valued, money and status has replaced it. And still so remember that SAT scores are ranked fifty in the south so remember that certain people don't think with their minds but with their loins. ***not checked for spelling grammer or punctuation

Computerworld | Eolas changes to go widespread with next IE update

Computerworld Eolas changes to go widespread with next IE update

The Ludacris Foundation - Helping Youth Help Themselves

The Ludacris Foundation - Helping Youth Help Themselves

MARY J. BLIGE LYRICS - Be Without You

MARY J. BLIGE LYRICS - Be Without You: "MARY J. BLIGE LYRICS

Be Without You


I wanna be with you, gotta be with you, need to be with you
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
I wanna be with you, gotta be with you, need to be with you
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oooo (oh, oh, oh, oh) oooo

Chemistry was crazy from the get-go
Neither one of us knew why
We didn't build nothing overnight
Cuz a love like this takes some time
People swore it off as a phase
Said we can't see that
Now from top to bottom
They see that we did that (yes)
It's so true that (yes)
We've been through it (yes)
We got real sh** (yes)
See baby we been...

Too strong for too long (and I can't be without you baby)
And I'll be waiting up until you get home (cuz I can't sleep without you baby)
Anybody who's ever loved, ya know just what I feel
Too hard to fake it, nothing can replace it
Call the radio if you just can't be without your baby

I got a question for ya
See I already know the answer
But still I wanna ask you
Would you lie? (no)
Make me cry? (no)
Do somethin' behind my back and then try to cover it up?
Well, neither would I, baby
My love is only your love (yes)
I'll be faithful (yes)
I'm for real (yes)
And with us you'll always know the deal
We've been...

Too strong for too long (and I can't be without you baby)
And I'll be waiting up until you get home (cuz I can't sleep without you baby)
Anybody who's ever loved, ya know just what I feel
Too hard to fake it, nothing can replace it
Call the radio if you just can't be without your baby


See this is real talk I'm a always stay(no matter what)
Good or bad (thick and thin) Right or wrong (all day everyday)
Now if you're down on love or don't believe This ain't for you (no, this ain't for you)
And if you got it deep in your heartAnd deep down you know that it's true (come on, come on, come on)
Well, let me see you put your hands up (hands up)
Fellas tell your lady she's the one (fellas tell your lady she's the one, oh)
Put your hands up (hands up)
Ladies let him know he's got your love
Look him right in his eyes and tell him
We've been...

Too strong for too long (and I can't be without you baby)
And I'll be waiting up until you get home (cuz I can't sleep without you baby)
Anybody who's ever loved, ya know just what I feel
Too hard to fake it, nothing can replace it
Call the radio if you just can't be without your baby

Heeeeeeeeeeeey Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Heeeeeeeeeeeey Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
I wanna be with you, gotta be with you,
need to be with youI wanna be with you,
gotta be with you, need to be with you
I wanna be with you, gotta be with you,
need to be with youI wanna be with you,
gotta be with you, need to be with you
I wanna be with you, gotta be with you,
need to be with you

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Third Year Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq

Three years ago after the invasion of the country of Iraq I kept hearing comments about Iraq and people were so passionately for or against the war. I could only listen to both sides and shrug because I did not know enough about the situation to make an informed comment. So at one point I decided three years ago to read all I could read about the past wars in Iraq and the leadership in Iraq. I remember reading through articles and articles about Iraq on the New York Times online and it was very easy to do because the articles were all linked all the way back to the invasion of Kuwait. I also consulted the UN website which had some information to impart also. Below are the impressions I came away with.

The first impression I came away with is that the Iraqis have been fighting forever. Saddam Hussein was the first leader ever to have held the country together in a "long time" for over ten years. Until Saddam Hussein the country was embroiled in numerous and unending civil wars.

The second impression I came away with was that through Kuwait, through Iran-Iraq, and other wars that Saddam had participated in there were not many men in Iraq. I seem to remember reading a UNICEF report, written before the invasion of Iraq begging that there be no more wars in Iraq; the report went into the number of children there without parents, the fact that they had just rebuilt roads and schools and Iraq was on the precipice and all things necessary should be done to avoid war with Iraq. Three years later I seriously question who in Iraq is doing the fighting, I doubt seriously that many of the men fighting in Iraq are even from Iraq. I also firmly believe that our war dealing with a dictator who built buildings, provided food for his nation, even had an interest in educating his populace was seriously misguided for their are so many dictators all over this world who have no interest in providing just a basic quality of life for their people. Saddam at least had an interest in giving the people a life outside of clouds of dirt. When we see the people of Saddam's Iraq we are not looking at uneducated people we are looking at very educated people. We are looking at men and "women" given opportunities to en masse become doctors, teachers, attorneys, artists, curators, engineers, etc. And the strangest thing about this is that when we invaded Iraq and started going door to door and knocking down and bashing down doors the first place we started to go was to the area of Iraq made up of the educated class. We followed a tenet that most dictators use and that is to get rid of the educated class, the thinkers, the people who may question what's going on. "This is a thread that runs through the Bush administration" an almost avid hate for intellectuals and the intelligentsia, which for conspiracy theorists we must also acknowledge that the world trade center held some heavy weights in terms of intelligence. I hate to say this but if we could so easily knock down the doors and of course kill some of the Iraq's intelligentsia could we have done it to our own. For at this point I have become resigned to the fact that this administration has no regard for human life outside of its inner circle, a death is a death. At this point when we look at images from Iraq we see that as Americans we have made Iraq a country that looks like a third world country, I see dirt every where. Trust me I have not forgotten the images of Iraq that the media showed before the war. The images of "many" cars not tanks riding through the streets. The images of people arm in arm walking through the streets en masses past fruit stands and sitting at coffee bars. I can not resign in my mind all of the prior to what I see now. I see a country in ruins and the cynical me says that it was done for oil by an oil man. .

In any event as I continued my research into Iraq three years ago. I also came away with the impression Saddam Hussein was a bad man who did bad things. However I was convinced that he was old and quite scared and that the U.N. basically had had Saddam Hussein quelled and that his hideous days were long gone. I think three years later as we reflect back on images of Saddam prior to the invasion and his ouster from power and images of him now, he looks much younger now. I write this to say that I believe that Saddams meaner days were over prior to our invasion.

Anyway I'm out of thought........l...

43 things

A wonderful site that is so life affirming - 43things.com

Update in General on ME

I was lucky enough to attend the Coretta Scott King Funeral and I have to say that Mayor Shirley Frankin gave a moving and historically powerful speech.

I have finished my web site specialist certificate. I am now a web site specialist.

I was dissed by Ziff again. Whatever, I don't read them anyway becuase I can't figure our if their information is objective and relaible or just a paid advertisment.

Honestly, I know that I'm finished with Atlanta I feel like I'm on a great big plantation


I've gotten a new dedication to my business. I've decided to go to a job fair but actually don't want to work in Atlanta so I'm turning around in mymind what I should do.

Restartiing Blog

I have started and stopped this blog several times. Guess what I'm starting it again. I just want to keep it more positive this time. I have found myself embarrassed at the revealing nature of this blog. This time I'm going to make a better blog.