[Ugnet] RESPONSE TO MR. MULINDWA'S ASSUMPTA KINTU ARE THINGS THIS BAD IN THE REGION?
*Ssebo Mwaami Mulindwa,*
*Thanks for asking! I do think things are bad, not only in Minnesota, USA **but
everywhere in the USA. The recession has affected people who have never*
*known how to lose a job and be without money for so long. Many are killing
themselves and their families. *
*Then for those who we **envey because they still have jobs, they encounter
plenty of stress on the job and*
*at home. I believe this is the case in this teacher's situation. She is
overstressed. *
*She drove almost 2 hours to Saint Paul, away from her country school, to
drink in a bar with girlfriends and lost *
*control. I cannot even tell whether she wanted the man that bad and had to
revenge **on him when the man rejected her. Getting drunk especially in
such a public place **and attacking another person is not appropriate. Many
Bars would not tell the media **though, because they do not want to lose the
market. Also, the bartender could be tried **for continuing to sell alcohol
to someone already drunk. There is such law.*
**
*Overall, our stress levels are very high. The children in the classroom are
not a big help **either, many of them have poor discipline at home and come
to class to give teachers **hell instead of learning. I do not like USA
classrooms anymore. Teachers are stressed*
*out over the pressure to teach and to keep sending badly behaved kids to
the Principals's offices instead of teaching. The school law does not allow
them to do anything to the badly behaved students in their class rooms. They
just write notes and send kids to the Principals' offices.*
**
*This brings me to another point. Since you are great at locating
information, can you **locate and post information on: Stress Management?
Our people especially the men*
*are increasingly getting high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes and
diabetes. Alot of these can be avoided if people knew how to manage stress.
Women too have the same **issues but tend to gain weight due to stress,
middle age crisis, etc. Any doctors on the*
*forum who want to tackle any of these issues? including prostate cancer for
men, again? Please save our men! Please save us all! I cannot control
Museveni's guns and bombs though. I wish I could.*
**
*Mr. Mulindwa and fellow Ugandans and friends, have an enjoyable weekend!*
*Assumpta Mary Kintu
*
*-- Forwarded message --
*From: Monsieur Edward Mulindwa mulin...@look.ca
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:41 PM
*Subject: {UAH}: ASSUMPUTA KINTU ARE THINGS THIS BAD IN THE REGION?
*To: ugandans-at-he...@googlegroups.com
Cc: caroline.kiwan...@sympatico.ca
Northfield teacher losing job over ear-biting incident in St. Paul
Northfield district opts for paid leave, June termination
By Maricella Miranda
mmira...@pioneerpress.commmira...@pioneerpress.com?subject=twincities.com:%20Northfield%20teacher%20losing%20job%20over%20ear-biting%20incident%20in%20St.%20Paul
Updated: 04/14/2010 11:38:20 PM CDT
http://www.twincities.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=2961548
Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu
http://www.twincities.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=2961548
The Northfield, Minn., school board this week voted to fire at the end of
this school year Susan Mukuhi Mwarabu, a teacher who bit off part of a man's
ear.
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Mwarabu, 30, a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Northfield Middle
School, was placed on paid administrative leave after the March 14 incident
at the Uptowner cafe in St. Paul.
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She will remain on paid leave until her contract is terminated in June.
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The school board decided between two disciplinary options in a closed
meeting Monday, district Superintendent L. Chris Richardson said. They also
could have immediately fired Mwarabu — and risked her appealing the decision
— a process that likely would have cost the district more time and money in
attorneys' fees while Mwarabu remained on paid leave.
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It's a fairly complicated and complex process that a board has to go
through when you look at immediate termination, he said. The final action
is the same in both cases.
http://www.twincities.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=2961548
Mwarabu of Rochester, Minn., began teaching in Northfield in the fall.
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Because she was a probationary teacher during her first year of employment,
the school board did not need to specify grounds for termination, Richardson
said. But had she been immediately terminated, it would have been for
[Ugnet] CONGRATULATIONS! PATRICK OTTO CELEBRATES 41 YEARS KAMILI AS A L/CORPORAL...HIS MUSIC.....
*Lance Corporal Patrick Otto, may God Almighty reward YOU with more years
enjoying this super music; enlightening fellow Ugandans, and participating
in the transformation of Uganda the Nation! Congratulations!*
*For everyone reading me, have a fabulous weekend!*
Assumpta Mary Kintu
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From: Patrick Otto l_cpl.ottopatr...@ymail.com
Date: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:44 AM
Subject: {UAH}: [GOOK, BARIGYE] OTTO CELEBRATES 41 YEARS KAMILI AS A
L/CORPORAL...HIS MUSIC.
To: ugandans-at-he...@googlegroups.com
Forumists,
Exactly 41 years ago I was elevated to my now-chronic rank of Lance
Corporal. Share with me the music we danced to at Simba Barracks in
Mubende...paka asubui!
This particular music was by Daudi Kabaka (1939-2001) one of my most beloved
musicians, and one of the stars of our youthful days. Have links to:
Pole Musa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg2_pxNRB7ofeature=related
Twist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSc-GPSq-l8NR=1 Msichana sura
Nzuri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5b0cxG3aM
I specifically dedicate the latter to our only Samantha Bwekiributa.
Lance Corporal (Rtd) Patrick Otto
*THE SAME HEAT THAT MELTS THE BUTTER HARDENS THE EGG*
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[Ugnet] Bashir; Best African Leader To Manage Oil-wealth. / NY Times
*Bashir is going to win. Surprisingly he has been the best manager for their
oil wealth. Nigeria, Angola, Uganda etc should learn how to manage oil
wealth from Sudan's President Bashir.
( Hate-mongers among us, the likes of Vukoni, are going to eat theirs hearts
out ).
It feels nice for once to have a competent African leader.
===*
Sudan’s Growth Buoys a Leader Reviled Elsewhere
By JEFFREY
GETTLEMANhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/jeffrey_gettleman/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Published:
April 14, 201
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- Yahoo!
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TABGA, Sudan — From the highway, this farming village looks like yet another
poor, mud-walled settlement baking in the stupefying heat.
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Jehad Nga for The New York Times
A Sudanese voter in Tabga waited to be registered on Monday before casting
her ballot. People in Tabga enjoy the fruits of Sudan's economic growth.
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- Times Topics: Omar Hassan
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Sudanhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/sudan/index.html
The houses are low-slung and built from dun-colored bricks, and during the
hot hours of the day, the only earthly creatures brave enough to step
outside are fly-covered donkeys.
But inside the homes, children watch satellite TV. They also have
electricity, water, ceiling fans, DVD players and even air-conditioners — a
small miracle here — wedged into the mud walls.
In the span of a generation, which neatly coincides with the 21 years
President Omar Hassan
al-Bashirhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/omar_hassan_al_bashir/index.html?inline=nyt-perhas
been in charge, the people of Tabga, like millions of other Sudanese
in
certain areas, have become living proof of an economic transformation.
According to the International Monetary
Fundhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/international_monetary_fund/index.html?inline=nyt-org,
Sudanhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/sudan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo’s
gross domestic product has nearly
tripledhttp://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=36pr.y=10sy=1989ey=2010scsm=1ssd=1sort=countryds=.br=1c=732s=NGDP_Rgrp=0a=since
Mr. Bashir took power. Much of that growth has happened in the past
decade or so since Sudan began exporting oil, propelling the nation’s
“longest and strongest growth episode since independence” in 1956, a
recent World
Bankhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_bank/index.html?inline=nyt-orgreport
said.
As Sudan continues voting this week in the first multiparty election in
decades, it is precisely the fruits of this expansion — more schools, more
roads, more hospitals, more opportunity — that explain why so many voters
are eager to re-elect Mr. Bashir, who is suspected of war crimes and is
often perceived as a villain in the West.
“Why would we vote for change?” asked Kamal Yusuf, one of Tabga’s elders,
sitting on a couch in his brother’s spacious mud house, sipping a cool Pepsi
(with ice). “Our lives are so much better than they used to be.”
Plenty of African countries have experienced similar economic growth in
recent decades. But without hesitation, many Sudanese attribute the
modernity, prosperity and change unfolding around them to the hard work of
one man: Mr. Bashir, who has governed with a tight fist since 1989.
The fact that Mr. Bashir, an army general who seized power in a military
coup, has been charged by the International Criminal
Courthttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/international_criminal_court/index.html?inline=nyt-orgwith
crimes against humanity for what prosecutors say was “an essential
role” in the bloodshed in Darfur does not seem to bother many people in
areas that have benefited from the economic boom. Nor do Mr. Bashir’s
frequent xenophobic diatribes or his history of cozying up to terrorists,
including Osama bin
Ladenhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/osama_bin_laden/index.html?inline=nyt-per,
[Ugnet] USA Flunks Maths. Ties with Botswana
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America Flunks Maths Tests.
Ties with Botswana. Hah Hah Hah
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U.S. Falls Short in Measure of Future Math Teachers By SAM
DILLONhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/sam_dillon/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Published:
April 14, 2010
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America’s future math teachers, on average, earned a C on a new test
comparing their skills with their counterparts in 15 other countries,
significantly outscoring college students in the Philippines and Chile but
placing far below those in educationally advanced nations like Singapore and
Taiwan.
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Testing the Prospective Testers A sample from the test given to future
middle school math teachers.
The researchers who led the math study in this country, to be released in
Washington on Thursday, judged the results acceptable if not encouraging for
America’s future elementary teachers. But they called them disturbing for
American students heading to careers in middle schools, who were outscored
by students in Germany, Poland, the Russian Federation, Singapore,
Switzerland and Taiwan.
On average, 80 percent to 100 percent of the future middle school teachers
from the highest-achieving countries took advanced courses like linear
algebra and calculus, while only 50 percent to 60 percent of their
counterparts in the United States took those courses, the study said.
“The study reveals that America’s middle school mathematics teacher
preparation is not up to the task,” said William H.
Schmidthttp://ed-web2.educ.msu.edu/researchprofiles/search/profileview.asp?email=bschm...@msu.edu,
the Michigan State
Universityhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/michigan_state_university/index.html?inline=nyt-orgprofessor
who was its lead author. To improve its competitiveness, Dr.
Schmidt said, the nation should recruit stronger candidates into careers
teaching math and require them to take more advanced courses.
The 52-page report provides the first international comparison of teacher
preparation based on a test given to college students in a significant
number of countries, he said.
In the study, a representative sample of 3,300 future math teachers nearing
the end of their teacher training at 81 colleges and universities in the
United States were given a 90-minute test covering their knowledge of math
concepts as well as their understanding of how to teach the subject.
There were two distinct tests, for those preparing to teach in elementary
schools and for candidates for middle school.
The same tests, developed by an international consortium, were given to
college students in 15 other countries, including advanced nations like
Germany and Norway as well as underdeveloped ones like Botswana.
On the elementary test, students from Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan
scored far above their counterparts in the United States. Students from
Germany, Norway, the Russian Federation and Thailand, scored about the same
as the Americans, and students from Botswana, Chile, Georgia, Malaysia, the
Philippines, Poland and Spain scored well below, the report said.
On the middle school test, American students outscored students in Botswana,
Chile, Georgia, Malaysia, Norway, Oman, the Philippines and Thailand, the
study found.
The study found considerable variation in the math knowledge attained at
different American colleges, with students at some scoring, on average, at
the level of students in Botswana, the study said.
“There are so many people who bash our teachers’ math knowledge that to be
honest these results are better than what a lot of people might expect,”
said Hank Kepner, professor of mathematics education at the University of
Wisconsinhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_wisconsin/index.html?inline=nyt-org,
Milwaukee, who is president of the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics. “We show up pretty well here, right in the middle of the pack.”
Gage Kingsbury, a senior research fellow at the Northwest Evaluation
Association, which administers math tests in many states and in 60
countries, called the study ambitious but faulted it because of the limited
number of
