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Teacher Appreciation Day

  • Posted on August 3, 2011 at 3:49 am

Twitter: twitter.com A relevant video to see: www.youtube.com Sausage biscuits from Burger King, bleeding grease through paper bags on the teacher’s lounge table. A gesture from district for being one of the people who accepts minimal pay for maximum work, because we couldn’t do it without you, and this is how we thank the unexpendable. With shiny buttons to pin to your shirts or stacks of post-it notes with “thank you” printed on the side- the words of which erode far slower than your appreciation for the slap in the face of artificial gratitude they handed you. You’re insulted, and you should be, but you smile anyway, because you can take it- you’ve had practice. Cold chicken wings and a vegetable plate sit on the table at a celebration banquet that concludes the academic year. The speaker acknowledges that you work so hard at a task so difficult that the nation couldn’t possibly afford to pay you for what you do. This is supposed to imbue you with a sense of pride for being cheated. It’s supposed to make you feel guilty for complaining that while all prices have risen, the only things constant are change itself and your teaching salary. Your students say they want to drop out of school, and sell drugs like their parents who work a few hours a day and illegally make triple the money that you do. Their role models are the drug dealers who break petty laws for premium profits, and the sports stars that are paid a king’s ransom to play a child’s game. Why should they look …

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Philippines mission trip provides a deeper appreciation for Filipino culture

  • Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:05 pm

www.lewisu.edu Four Lewis University students, faculty and staff traveled Dec. 27, 2010 — Jan. 9, 2011 to the Philippines to participate in a university mission trip with the Diocese of Joliet. Students Elizabeth Jilek and Sean Ruane were accompanied by Sabrina Poulin, university minister and coffee house coordinator, and Brother Tom Dupre, FSC, associate professor of mathematics and computer science. It was the fourth Lewis student mission trip to Bacolod City in the Philippines. Various tasks were completed during the trip, including one day of laying the concrete floor for a house in Bago City. Four additional days were spent building a house from the ground up in Fiat Village. The area is located in Silay, which is made up of parish workers from the Cathedral San Diego. The missioners worked with Gawad Kalinga, an organization that builds homes in villages for people living in the squatter areas. Digging the trench for the foundation, building the walls, laying the floor and backfilling the areas around the home were tasks performed by the missioners. By hand, they carried the sand, concrete and gravel from one end of the village to the other. The concrete was mixed by hand and transferred in buckets to use as mortar between the cinder blocks or as concrete on the floor. “This trip was easily the most rewarding thing I have ever experienced,” commented Sean Ruane. He said seeing the reactions and smiles of the children when books were given to them was the most …

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