Provoking+Thought

This is a page where you can post things that cause your old "gray matter" to start rolling around in your head. It can be anything from a news article to a cool picture. Here we can create our own "Deep Thought" discussions and just talk about the strange, funny, different, and just wacky things that someone found.

High Stakes Testing
Is it correct to base what classes kids are in, whether they graduate or not, and force them to attend tutoring, not based on performance in the classroom but on tests given once a year?

Segregation and racism is something to start thinking about especially since February is Black history month. Why should we seperate the histories based on skin color? Does this feed the seperation and the thought of being different?

Here is something to get us started:

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." C. S. Lewis

More on Segregation... -**Marriages based on SKIN COLOR**: only became legal in the US in 1967, >Supreme Court Case //Loving v. Virginia//

-**Same-Sex Marriages**: still illegal in many states. Is this right? The couple love each other and want to be together; isn't that what marriage is for? Do //we// have the right to take that privilege away from them?

-**Gender Segregation** in school bathrooms, in the Olympics... >see the case of the African sprinter in the Olympics, and the debate as to whether she was a male or female... (a link is on the Discussion page)