We are a family of privilege. I am fully aware of that. We up and moved *twice*, once literally across the country, to live in the area with the best public schools we could get into. That was an advantage we had because of wealth. I absolutely understand the need to provide the b...
With the goal of doubling the pay of the models for high risk work, such as glamour and boudoir, we had a puzzle. Increasing the price of the base, family-friendly events pushed against the higher prices of the higher risk modeling photography events that were already defined (defined by w...
For example, take the 2012 campaign, “No Me Llames Oaxaquita” (“Don’t Call Me Little Oaxacan”), where Indigenous Oaxacans organized to demand the Ventura County School District ban the derogatory term “Oaxaquita” and “Indito” (little Indian) from their schools after incessant ridi...
Stay in San Salvario.This is partially a personal choice, as I generally prefer to to stay walking distance to the center, instead of inside it. But San Salvario is an up and coming neighborhood that reminds me of East Village in some ways. Not the most attractive area in the city, b...
admission to college, it is more convenient for the bureaucracy to have fewer, all-encompassing high-stakes tests, since this simplifies management and allows students and schools to be fit into neat little boxes based on their test scores or test averages. For some students, it creates a ...
I failed to get top grades in schools and universities. Yet the outcome did not correspond with that. Looking back, I admit that although it looks like will power (a spirit of never giving up) push things through, in reality it has always been the Lord’s intervening merciful hand that ...
(admission free), located close to the mammoth main train station, has a small but fascinating collection of train parts, photographs and other historical artefacts. TheSeyatel Railway Locomotive Museum, located about a half hour from the main train station, is a must-see. The museum has over...
Be sure to visitCanada: Who Do We Think We Are?at 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, from June 5, 2017, to March 1, 2018. Admission is free. Temples of Todayby John Vanderpant, ca. 1934 “Temples of Today” by John Vanderpant, ca. 1934. (MIKAN 3784205) ...
Jones School [Ann Arbor, MI] had a pretty good sports program. We had a football team starting in the eighth grade. They had basketball teams. They had a mini league, if you want, with Slauson and Tappan junior high schools where we went back and forth and played multiple sports. Most...
In all three junior high schools in Ann Arbor, they were all Black and White. All or most of the Jones School was mostly Black simply because it was centered in the Black community. More Summertime we spent swimming in the Huron River. Jones School [Ann Arbor, MI] had a pretty good ...