Taller but no' wiser -- the scandal continues

The Future Teachers of America was initiated as a organization some decades ago, but as is usual with such start-ups its actual inception has been post-dated. The quickness of the FTA start-up is directly correlated with the lack of student classroom health, where students have been ritually seated in alphabetical order, at least one desk intentionally placed directly in front of the teacher's desk with little or no leeway (i.e., "snug up"). Teachers want more money, or more transfer-out procedures, or the freedom to write up what they can glean from confined student minds and about diverse student bodies.

Each student seated snug up against the teacher's desk remains in the same position for nine months of a school year, and his/her functioning is directly affected by the position. Needing more time than others to 'straighten out' after and between classes, some invariably crumple and are sometimes trampled -- whereupon the other students are attacked by the victim's relatives and aspiring military fanatics. Others so seated have learned to direct angst toward specific students during classroom time, so that names deemed objectionable as a use of assigned history-book readings become the focus of fierce and painful looks, and sometimes ear-searing complaints.

Efforts to articulate the serious physio/psychiatric problems that such seating does cause are countered with debate-style quasi-'oracles' such as "They teach health classes, don't they?" which serve to continue ongoing celebration about the the assumed status of the teaching profession.

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Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge is an interesting shoreline park and in theory a visit should be both peaceful and in tune with the balance of nature. However, the situation suggests that ordnance is yet embedded in the sandy parklands such that the term 'wildlife refuge' is a dream made real only in print.

The entrance adjoins a parking lot; there is a small office and a descriptive sign is posted outlining the park rules, which also provides tags for each vehicle and a slot wherein the entrance fee should be placed ($5.00). However, at the present time some political action undertaken in FL has been presented that asks voters to approve a measure that would allow the National Guard to enter and use such parks without paying a fee -- a blithe extension of their free-entry duties during assigned surveillance or taskwork.

Some soldiers are not waiting for the referendum to be placed before the voting constitutency and possibly do not believe that any legal referendum is needed at all. They do not pay and have never intended to pay a park entrance fee -- these are the constituents who also race into local businesses through the back-door when-ever any other soldier tells them to do so, right or wrong.

Our visit to HSNWR was impacted with the sudden arrival of vehicles bearing Michigan license plates whose visitors did not pay a fee and were busy acting-out their own maneuvers as a result from influence-network input (i.e., to introduce two young people to the region, one male bearing the name 'Simon' and the other a female with the name 'Carly'). My daughter and I tried to stroll in the sand and enjoy the ocean breezes while those stalked around in a confrontational way.

Two other young men were fishing in the 'wildlife refuge'; during a later week, two such brothers were reported in local journalism as having "jumped" into the south fork of the St. Lucie River from the causeway beneath the bridge that spans the river from Stuart to Palm City, where they died (one was recovered immediately, the other lost in the waters that flow through the St. Lucie Locks regional parklands a few miles southward).

These are all examples of post-hurricanes activity within Martin County. Will Representative Wexler, hoping to expand the perquisites of military duty in the region, be able to stay 'on track' with overseas-assignment disclosure issues or will the heady prospect of another X-name pasted on a FL county map occasion multiple courts-martial instead?