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SchoolTutoring Academy's tutoring programs for Oakwood students start with a FREE ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT with an Academic Director. Our flagship tutoring programs are available starting at $199.99/month (about $25/hour) which include regular one-on-one tutoring, academic mentorship, bi-monthly progress reports, learning profiles, and parental conference calls.
Oakwood District Curriculum Used in Our In-Home Tutoring Programs
Oakwood City School District is responsible for the K-12 education of students in the Oakwood community. The district adheres to a number of core values in order to ensure the best possible education for its students. The educational standards adopted by Oakwood City schools ensure excellence in education. There are high expectations for student achievement, regardless of the student's ability level. Accountability is another hallmark of the district's approach to education. Teachers and staff members hold themselves and students accountable to the highest measures of personal success and provide the learning expectations to students in a clear way so that students know what is expected of them. The district ensures that each student and staff member is respected as an individual as well.
We currently cover the following Oakwood-area school district: Oakwood City School District.
Contact our Academic Directors at 1-877-545-7737 to Discuss your Child's Strengths and Areas for Improvement. Get started with Oakwood Tutor Today.
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Oakwood Tutors Can Help Your Student Succeed
SchoolTutoring Academy works with young learners and students, all the way up through high school. We offer Pre-K and Kindergarten Tutoring as well as Elementary School Tutoring to build a strong learning foundation early on. We also offer comprehensive tutoring across all school subjects.
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Our instructors hail from Harvard, Stanford, Duke and other top institutions
Our tutoring in Oakwood capabilities are different from what you find in your neighborhood
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Our educators have graduated from top academic institutions, and many of them have achieved in the 90th percentile or higher on standardized tests. Equally importantly, they enjoy coaching students across a variety of subject areas and standardized tests
Educators Beyond What You Find Down the Block
Students work collaboratively with their private tutor who is a top-notch college graduate well beyond the academic caliber that you'll typically find in your neighborhood
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Every student is paired up with both a private tutor and an Academic Director responsible for creating a comprehensive learning plan and constantly tweaking it to optimize for results
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With regular progress reports and archived copies of your lessons, you can easily track your progress and review concepts from past lessons
Meet Our Tutors
Each of them is highly-qualified K-12 and university educators
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Educating Our Parents: Understanding the Oakwood District Curriculum
Oakwood high school students have the opportunity to study drama and theatre to fulfill their visual and performing arts requirements. Students learn about stage presence and how adjusting their posture, voice tone, facial expression, and mannerisms can help bring various characters to life. Improvisational skills are also studied, with students identifying how off-the-cuff acting can make a performance more believable for audience members. The process of developing props is also discussed.
The high school math curriculum in Oakwood includes the study of numbers and quantities. Students work with the real number system to extend exponential properties to rational exponents. Learners work with quantities as well, using quantitative reasoning to solve problems. Vector and matrix quantities are also studied. Students learn how to represent and model with vector quantities, while also gaining an understanding of operations that can be performed on vectors. Learners explore the complex number system in this course as well.
Testimonials and Case Studies from Our Parents
SchoolTutoring Academy has played an important role in improving our son's confidence and attitude towards school. His grades have also improved steadily throughout the school year.
My daughter was very self-conscious about her difficulties with the math section of the SAT. SchoolTutoring Academy's Academic Directors created an action plan that boosted my daughter's score and confidence level.
SchoolTutoring Academy has not only improved my son's standardized test scores but also his high school math and English grades. Test Prep Academy has not only improved my son's standardized test scores but also his high school math and English grades.
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My son's math marks in high school have always been weak so I found it very beneficial that his ACT tutor worked on solidifying his fundamentals while prepping for the ACT.
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SchoolTutoring has played an important role in improving our son's confidence and attitude towards school. His grades have also improved steadily throughout the school year.
My daughter was able to improve her test scores after a few months of tutoring with SchoolTutoring. However, while raising test scores is great, the real payoff is in the self-confidence that she gained.
I just wanted to send a quick note to say thank-you! My son is very impressed with his tutor and looks forward to each session. What's particularly amazing about this is our son has never really looked forward to math or school for that matter!
We are so happy with the results of your tutoring program and academic support. Homework time was such a stressful evening for the entire evening before we brought your tutors into our home. Thank you for all your help!
Our daughter, a first grader, struggled with basic reading and handwriting. When she began with SchoolTutoring she was almost a year behind her class. Within a year of being enrolled, she is reading above her grade level and has the confidence to match.
Work with our Oakwood tutors to help your student succeed! Contact our Academic Directors Today at 1-877-545-7737.
Keeping Informed: Recent Oakwood Educational News
- District Students Named National Merit Semifinalists - Seven seniors at Oakwood High School have been named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. Another five students have also been recognized as Commended Scholars. The National Merit Scholarship is awarded for academic excellence and relies on students PSAT scores and their continued academic growth following that benchmark.
- Oakwood High School Academic Decathlon Team Sets Record - Oakwood High School's Academic Decathlon team recently participated in the Ohio Regional Tournament. The Oakwood team won the tournament with the highest score ever recorded in Ohio. This is a competition in which students work together to answer questions and challenges covering all academic subjects.
- Oakwood Schools Foundation Donates Money to Local Charities - Three local charities have been named recipients of $2,000 in funding from the Oakwood Schools Foundation. Teams of students from Oakwood High School's Wall Street 101 class championed each charity's cause. The course allowed students to understand the whole process of fundraising from planning events to awarding donations.
Chalk Talk: Gap Year Programs
A gap year is a deferment of college enrollment. Many students who pursue gap years, go ahead and apply to college and are accepted, and then push back enrollment for a term or a year. Not every college will allow students to differ in this way. But most are open to it if the student has a planned out program. There are many companies that offer gap years, and students who pursue these are often successful, though students can certainly put together their own programs. Usually, a gap year involves several different pursuits during the year, including volunteer work, interning or working, study, travel, and even other things. They are often rigorous programs, and students tend to return to college and do very well afterwards.


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Aug. 3, 2017
The fourth-annual "Panther Pride Ride" takes off on Saturday, September 2 at 10 a.m.
District representatives will board a MCSD school bus and make several stops throughout the community to give you an opportunity to talk to the superintendent, principals and teachers and, of course, meet the Monticello Panther!
Monticello students and families - come on down to any of the following sites* on Saturday, Sept. 2 to say hi to your teachers, staff and mascot! It has been a long summer and we sure have missed all of you!
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An award ceremony is an important event in any institution. Therefore, you need to be careful about the trophies you choose to award to the winners. This is because the winners are going to know the kind of people the institution has by the kind of trophy you decide to offer them. There are some factors that will be useful when choosing the perfect trophy that will make an impression during the award ceremony. Focus on a factor like the trophy value. Look for a trophy that is of high quality and at the same time looks good. The priceless trophies are difficult to find and this is why you need to dedicate time. You should get in touch with suppliers as there are quite a number of them in town.
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When war destroyed their privileged way of life in Vietnam, the An women remade their lives and their fortunes in California
By MIMI AVINS
Legendary beauties and past-their-prim divas, Oscar, Emmy and Hollywood and pampered princesses of Bel Air sit beneath the swirling palm-leaf fans at Crustacean, reclining on silk-covered banquettes as if they were Vietnamese royalty. But the only authentic descendant of Asian nobility in the crowded Beverly Hills restaurant is Elizabeth An, a 33-year-old immigrant who went from aristocrat to commoner overnight when Saigon fell to the Communists a quarter-century ago.
She has fashioned Crustacean, with its stately columns, wooden footbridges and painted backdrops of tropical gardens, from recollections of her grandparents' lavish country estate in Kien An. There, and at the other mansions, vacation villas and plantations her family owned, she had only to ring a delicate golden bell and a servant would bring her whatever she requested. On this evening, poised expensively dressed and in command, she seems to the manor born, because she was.
It isn't difficult to imagine her as a girl who was taught social skills, including how to address the help. The picture that's harder to conceive is of Elizabeth, then known as Ngoc, as a gawky teenager in San Francisco, who was teased for having a funny accent, a weird name and the wrong clothes. It's doubtful she would be here now, presiding over the elegant party that happens nightly at the corner of Bedford Drive and Little Santa Monica Boulevard, if fate hadn't messed with the good life she knew in Vietnam.
Remember the moment midway through "Gone With the Wind" when a ragged Scarlett O'Hara, silhouetted against a fiery orange sky, swears, "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again?" Elizabeth An and her sister Hannah could play that scene perfectly and mean every word. Except in their case, the oath would be, "You'll never look down on my family again." Like Scarlett, they saw a society crushed, then used intelligence, determination and charm to fulfill private promises made when times were hard.
The An sisters also had the example of two generations of spunky women before them: their grandmother, Diana, who defied convention and her husband by independently planting roots in America, and their mother, Helene, who showed her five daughters that adversity was no match for their bloodline.
Elizabeth An had never seen any of the An women shrink from a challenge. Nor has she. But when she spent $2.5 million to open Crustacean in 1997, she knew she was taking a risk and a sizable portion of the money her family had spent 20 years saving from their two restaurants in San Francisco. "I knew I could not let the family down," she said. "We got a loan but there was no investor money involved, and the family really trusted me. I was scared to death and a lot of people told me I wasn't going to make it. I knew it just had to work."
A good hostess knows how to work the room. An succeeded in a competitive restaurant market by learning to work the town. When she came to Beverly Hills, she quickly understood that charities were the social engine that drives much of the city's commerce. Her marketing plan for Crustacean, as custom-tailored as the Valentino outfits she favors, involved becoming a presence in the community that values philanthropy.
As she leads a man who looks like he was born in a suit, and his wife, who was probably not born that shade of blond, to their table, she reminds them to be careful stepping over the plexiglass-topped stream, stocked with koi, that meanders from the bar into the two-story dinging room. The dramatic décor serves as both tribute to and metaphor for its designer: If An could re-create the beauty and grace of the Vietnam of her memories, then maybe the feelings of safety and importance she knew as a child could be resurrected as well.
The restaurant seats 240. An's grandfather, who died three years ago, loved being surrounded by people. Before the war, 20 guests were at his dinner table nearly every night; elaborate celebrations for 300 were frequent. His hostess, Diana, in now well into her 80s. For many years, she was a dutiful wife, managing a number of large homes and orchestrating the entertaining her husband's many businesses required. When the food was exquisite, the flowers spectacular and the service impeccable, a guest would often remark, "You have the perfect wife, Mr. An." He would smile but never thought to show his appreciation by curbing his womanizing.
By the 1970s, her only son was grown and Diana's rebellion began. She took a trip around the world with a cousin, stopping in San Francisco. Enchanted with American informality, they picnicked on carry-out food from an Italian deli near the beach, then, on a whim, bought the place. As long as her husband was doing as he pleased, she wanted something of her own and an excuse to visit California.
"Grandmother thought she was being a terrific businesswoman because she talked the owner into letting her pay him in installments," Elizabeth said. "But in 1971, $44,000 was a lot of money. It was that man's lucky day when these two little Asian women walked in and bought his decrepit, no-business deli in the middle of nowhere."
Diana wired home for the money. She succeeded in getting it, along with her husband's attention. Owning an American businesses made it easier for the couple to get visas to visit. As the war at home continued, she'd spend half the year in Saigon, then six months in California. No one expect6edc that the deli, only a counter and 20 stools, would be the family's future.
Her son, a colonel in the Vietnamese Air Force, was on a mission in April 1975 when the South Vietnamese government fell. An American officer came to the An home and told Helene that North Vietnamese troops were in the city and he would help the family escape. She woke her three daughters, saying they were going to visit their grandmother in America.
"Mother wanted us to be good, to be quiet and to gather our things together," Hannah remembered. "Elizabeth was upset because she couldn't take her favorite doll and I had to carry my little sister Monique and help pack her bottles."
Helene had led a sheltered life. She was unaccustomed to handling money; she didn't know where her husband's bank accounts or important documents were kept. "She did what she knew best, which was to wait for my father, " Elizabeth said. "But this time he didn't come. So we left everything behind. The American helped Mother with the paperwork at the airport and we were shoved onto a military plane."
Remembering Final Goodbyes
As was customary in wealthy families, each of the girls had been raised by a nanny, to whom they were more closely bonded than their own mother. Elizabeth recalls having to say goodbye to hers and missing her for months after the American cargo plane brought them to a holding area at Camp Pendleton. She had never left her home without a bodyguard before. Suddenly, she was playing with other children in a chaotic tent city. Hannah, two years her senior, understood that the novelty of their surroundings wasn't anything to be happy about.
"I was 11, old enough to realize that Vietnam as we knew it was gone," she said, "that Id never see my friends or my nanny or many of my relatives again. I knew that we'd had a very privileged life and things would never be the same again.
It was dumb luck that Diana and her husband were in San Francisco when the war ended. Their son joined his family a few days later in the refuge camp and soon the family of seven was living in the one-bedroom apartment Diana had rented near her deli.
They stayed there together for two years. Helene taught French, worked as an accountant, then helped Diana in the restaurant at night. Her family's patrician roots ran as deep as her husband's. At 60, she has perfect posture and speaks slowly and softly with a French-tinged accent.
"I was raised in a very traditional family," she said. "We had many guests in my parents' home, and even before I became a hostess for my husband, I had to learn how to supervise a kitchen and to create menus. When I married, we had three chefs at home—Chinese, French and Vietnamese. It was my duty to make sure that we always had wonderful new meals to serve to our guests."
Diana and her daughter-in-law had been trained, in a way, to run a restaurant. But everyone in the family was used to being waited on. Their new circumstances abruptly transformed them.
"Mother and Grandmother decided the best thing to do was to cultivate this little restaurant that we had, but their husbands weren't proud of the situation," Elizabeth said. "They were very arrogant and thought to be in the service business wasn't prestigious enough. My father went into a depression and it was the women who held the family together. When everything changed, they had the strength to accept things the way they were and build from there. The men could never get over their loss of power and status."
Vietnamese dishes were gradually added to the menu. The girls worked after school, making dumplings in the kitchen. They'd come to this country not knowing how to boil water, but soon they were preparing food, taking orders and busing tables, doing homework when they could.
The restaurant's name was changed to Thanh Long and, by 1980, Diana had invested some profits in remodeling, removing the counter and adding tables for 22. It expanded to 40 seats, then 60, then 80. The family grew too, with the birth of Jacqueline in 1979 and Katherine the following year.
By 1987, the Ans had bought a six-bedroom home. By 1991, Thanh Long had 140 seats, and they decided it was time to open another restaurant in San Francisco.
It wouldn't be another little ethnic place, Elizabeth decided. She had graduated from college, married and divorced her college sweetheart, with whom she had a son, and traveled to Europe as a buyer for a stylish boutique. "I wanted to package Mother's food in a chic atmosphere that would attract a fashionable crowd." She called it Crustacean .
Hannah, newly married to a high school friend she had begun dating while they were attending UC Davis, was working as an engineer and taking night courses in management. She put together the business plan for the first Crustacean, negotiated the lease and a bank loan. "I'm analytical and practical. Elizabeth is more creative. I'm the cautious one; I do more of the grunt work. She's out there doing the PR and I'm fine with that."
Customers didn't flock to the new restaurant at California and Polk streets right away, and some early negative reviews were damaging. So Elizabeth called loyal fans of Thanh Long and invited them to Crustacean as her guests. "For a month, I gave meals away," she said. "We \'d come such a long way, I figured I had to give it my best shot. I told people who liked the food to tell their friends about it. And they started coming back."
In six months, Crustacean was breaking even. By the time Elizabeth had married an Italian banker and was commuting between their home in London and San Francisco, it was solidly in the black, serving 800 dinners a night.
She gave birth to two daughters before the marriage ended in 1996. "My family didn't want me to marry him anyway because he was a foreigner," she said. "No one had ever divorced and now I'd done it twice. I didn't want to move back to San Francisco and have to hear 'I told you so,' so I thought, where can I go that I won't have to deal with all the aunts and uncles and the questions from Grandfather? I decided to move to L.A.
"After a divorce, you want to be busy and in an environment with lots of people around, to keep your mind off things. Crustacean in San Francisco was doing well so I thought it would be a good idea to open in Beverly Hills. I found the location in December of '95, Hannah negotiated the lease and we opened after a year of remodeling."
The renovation budget ballooned from $800,000 to more than $2 million. Elizabeth wanted to create a showplace and in fact, when it first opened, its striking design was a greater draw than its food. While construction progressed, she visited every popular restaurant in the city, research that yielded three important conclusions.
First, most hot restaurants were headed by personalities who became celebrities—Wolfgang Puck at Spago, Piero Selvaggio at Valentino, Michael Chow at Mr. Chow. She would have to bet that kind of icon. Second, people eat where their friends eat. They want to see and be seen, activities that have nothing to do with the food or their plates. Fabulous food did matter, but it was the third least important element.
Drai's provided An with her most useful epiphany. She was surprised that the place was always so packed because in her opinion neither the atmosphere nor the food was distinguished. Then she learned that the restaurant had 60 investors. That's 60 owners who would come to dine and bring their friends.
'I Would Become a Friend to the Community'
"I didn't have the luxury of having investors," she said, "and I only knew one family here. I knew I needed 60 new friends because if people didn't know me, they wouldn't come to my restaurant again and again, no matter how good Mother's food was. My grandfather had taught me that people do business with you if you're a friend. I decided that if I wanted to have friends, I would be a friend. I would become a friend to the community."
That meant connecting with different cliques through their charities. An contributed money, offered to give fundraising dinners at Crustacean and donated gift certificates to silent and live auctions for nonprofit groups. She also gave her time—and now serves on the boards of the Artists' Rights Foundation, the Asian-American Film Institute Associates and the Young Musicians Foundation. She's a member of Les Dames de Champagne and the Blue Ribbon Committee and is involved with the Thalians of Cedars-Sinai Hospital and the Motion Picture Fund.
Susan Chalek, chairman of the Young Musicians Foundation board, said, "She is so generous, not only financially but with her time and support. She's so gracious in such a subtle way, always there to help, if you need her. She never turns us down for anything."
Crustacean isn't the only restaurant with a reputation for largess but there are others that are notorious for ignoring their customers' causes. "Among the fine restaurants in L.A., Crustacean is one of the most philanthropic," said Jacqueline Furer, who sits on the boards of a number of high-profile charities. "It isn't that easy to break in to Beverly Hills as an outsider but Elizabeth is everywhere."
Crustacean now receives so many requests to underwrite dinners or give money that Elizabeth must carefully plan where her $156,000 annual charity budge will go.
"I try to do as much as I can," she said. "You have to spend money to make money. I do believe that some of the people I see at the restaurant wouldn't be there if I weren't involved. Knowing me as a person has made a difference. I was warned that getting known in the community wasn't going to be easy, but I did it by really, truly being involved. It wasn't just about writing a check. It was really proving that you're a friend. If you want to make a money from this community, you need to give something back."
Hannah understands the public relations strategy her sister has followed but, sitting in Elizabeth's six-bedroom Beverly Hills home, where family members from San Francisco stay when visiting L.A., she speaks about the value of helping those less fortunate. "What we have right now, materially, is enough. We lost everything and we got it back and we learned along the way."
Sounding like a more sensitive Melanie to Elizabeth's pragmatic Scarlett, she said, "I learned how to fall with dignity and to rise with humility."


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Midori Ogasawara is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology. She received her BA in Law from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and her MA from Queen's University. Her MA thesis was entitled "ID TROUBLES: The National Identification Systems in Japan and the (mis) Construction of the Subject", focusing on the transitions of ID techniques that classified the subjects of modern Japan. Midori's current PhD project is "National Identification Systems and Techniques of Population Control: The development of surveillance–assisted political economy from colonial to neoliberal times in Japan", supported by the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2014-2017, and the Mitacs Globalink Research Award in 2016. This project attempts to reveal the colonial origins and consequences of ID technologies, such as ID cards and biometrics, in northeastern China under the Japanese occupation from the 1920s.
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Parley. Application deadline: April 1, 2018
Parley is thrilled to announce our search for a Production Intern for our funny, strange, talented, industrious group.
This is an unpaid, six-month appointment. Its open and accessible to all ages (18+), backgrounds, gender identities, sexualities, ethnicities, and levels of experience.
Our intern will work closely with creator/artistic director Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth to manage the meeting-to-meeting administration of both Parley playwriting sections as well as each of our workshop productions. To date, Parley boasts 13 playwrights and 10 artistic associates under our mantle. We produce, on average, 12 world premiere workshops for a public audience every calendar year.
If you are our ideal candidate, you will:
Enjoy the diverse personalities of our group.
We need our production intern to attend the back-end of each weekly meeting:
Mondays from 7:30 8:30 pm
Tuesday from 7:30 8:30 pm
Our meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays begin at 6:15; our intern needs to arrive at the end of each meeting to be present while we will discuss production and organizational business.
Enjoy stage managing.
Our intern will attend (and take notes at) most rehearsals:
Mondays from 8:30 10:30 pm Tuesdays from 8:30 10:30 pm Saturdays from 10 am 2 pm
And attend and assist at all technical rehearsals and performances.
Enjoy working with artists.
That generally involves being impeccable with your word, consistent with your behavior, and finding a way to be kind even under duress.
Know what youre responsible for and what everyone else is responsible for. Keep us on track.
We expect there to be a learning curve, but we need you take good notes and ask questions like,
How can I help?
Who is responsible for that? When is that due?
Behave professionally.
Youll be the point-person for most administrative information, representing Parley a writing group so written and oral communication skills are important. You should know (or be willing to learn) how to write a quick, professional email (proofreading it first for spelling and grammatical errors) as well as how to convey information in person efficiently to well-intended people who may only be half-
listening. (Hint: Follow up by email. Always follow up.) Youll also be the liaison between playwrights, productions teams, actors, and venues.
Interview and train the next intern when youre ready to depart.
Were offering:
Hands-on experience putting current production skills to use and learning new ones. You will be coached through every aspect of the job.
A mentor-mentee relationship with Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth, a teaching theater artist with 20 years professional experience.
An ever-expanding professional network of people (writers, actors, photographers, videographers, designers) who will want to work with you.
Our gratitude. We are a powerful, diverse, sincere, artistic family and we develop plays that matter.
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3. Complete your application and return your materials to us on time.
Our first round deadline is April 1, 2018.
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Thanks for your consideration! We hope to hear from you soon.
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The interconnected world - what does it mean for education?
28 Mar 2011
In his book 'The World is Flat', Thomas Friedman described how we live and work today in an interconnected world. So what does that mean for schools, colleges and universities?
Should our curricula be changed to ensure we are really preparing young people for the realities of a world where they may study abroad, work for transnational companies, connect online with colleagues and friends in different continents, and where they will need to be citizens of the world?
It could mean changes to school systems and assessment arrangements as well as a shift in what is taught and learnt and to learning styles.
For Cambridge University's assessment agency, Cambridge Assessment, I recently presented a video on what the interconnected world means for education. We spoke to experts from three different continents.
You can view the 12 minute long video here: www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/ca/Viewpoints/Viewpoint
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Iftikhar Ahmad - 28 Mar 2011
Migration and the Changing Face of Education
Globalisation means that we now all live, work or communicate with people who are different. In this global village, religious faith plays a central role in the way that people understand or from their culture and identity. Human being is a product of his culture, language and faith. There is a positive co-relation between language and culture. Parents have the right to raise their children in faith based schools. Those who object to this right display their contempt for parental rights and sadly intolerance for the religious convictions of others. It is not only Muslims but other communities have been trying to set up their own schools for their children. I set up the first Muslim school in 1981 and now there are 166 Muslim schools and only 11 schools are state funded. There are four Sikh state funded schools. Hindu state funded school was set up in Harrow last year and next year a Hindu state funded school would emerge in Leicester. Even Black community is thinking of setting up its own schools for black children with black teachers.
A study by Bristol University reveals that a high level of racial segregation in Oldham schools and tension between communities resulted in recent riots in 2001. A report by the Institute for Community Cohesion found that native parents were deserting some schools after finding their children outnumbered by pupils from ethnic minorities. The native parents do not want their children to be educated along with migrant children. Schools in parts of England are becoming increasingly segregated. Many of the schools and colleges are segregated and this was generally worsening over recent years. This is RACISM. The solution is that those schools where Muslim children are in majority may be opted out as Muslim Academies. State schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers are not in a position to satisfy the social, emotional needs and demands of the bilingual Muslim children. Majority of them leave schools with low grades. They find themselves cut off from their cultural, linguistic and spiritual identities. Muslim children in state schools feel isolated and confused about who they are. This can cause dissatisfaction and lead them into criminality.
Immigration is an unstoppable face of modern society, and immigrants will need help integrating, but the host society needs to show zero tolerance to non-EU and EU citizens who clearly don't like being here. The second generation of Muslim migrants is facing a huge challenge because they did not think even for a second before that someone would say, 'You are not welcome. Native Brits feel that their culture and language is superior and every Tom and Harry must learn English and forget their own languages, cultures, literatures and poetry. It is the native Brits who need to learn and respect those who are different. Immigrants are also human beings with social, emotional and spiritual needs and demands. They are not just economics for the economic prosperity.
British children in Spain come with this mentality, wanting to keep themselves to themselves and feel no obligation to integrate into Spanish way of life. The Brits are the most problematic minority group in Spanish schools. They are worst at learning the host language and integrating into school life than any other nationality in Spain's state schools. They have negative attitudes towards integration. They carry a strong sense of English linguistic superiority. They were embarrassed to speak Spanish because the other students laughed at them. Brit children had very little or no concept of Spanish culture or social life. They watched UK TVs and English language radios. Their parents do not speak Spanish nor have Spanish friends. In English ghettos, Spaniards fear to tread. They have no interest in being part of Spanish society.


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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Celeste and Jesse Forever - Movie Review
Last night I watched Celeste and Jesse Forever with my folks. I was absolutely knackered after work and really needed to unwind. I just couldn't bring myself to pick up a book... so instead I opted for a ginormous glass of wine and a film from my local rental store... and pasta.
It got recommended to me by a friend at work, Claire. In short, it is a film about a married couple who are getting divorced yet decide to stay best friends. They do everything together and appear to be the two most connected people that you could possibly imagine.
You don't really ever find out why they are getting divorced, although her success and the lack of his may have something to do with it I imagine.
Anyway.. so they are still very attached to one another but when Jesse decides to start
shagging dating other women, this spins Celeste to a breaking point that she didn't know was possible.
Soon enough she realizes what she's lost and sets out to win back the man she loves - but is it too late????? - insert drumroll here -
I really enjoyed this film and found a few occasions where I could really relate.
I caught myself smiling in the memory of some of the goofy and silly things that I would do with my best male friends or ex boyfriends.
Some of the humor is really dry and I kind of like that in a film. It makes it real; believable.
On a number of occasions my dad and I were in fits of laughter together which was really nice.
A truly feel-good film with a heart-wrenching twist between two best friends who will love each other and stay connected forever whether they want to or not.
The only thing that I did not enjoy was the ending... if you could even really call it that. It's a cliffhanger, put it that way... and that is beyond frustrating for me.
Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg play the roles perfectly. It actually has a very good cast with well-known actors popping up here and there which is a nice little surprise to add to this delectable film.
Posted by Jade Wright at Thursday, March 28, 2013
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Thanks for sharing this review! I'm a big Andy Samberg fan so I wanted to see this movie, but the plot line seemed a little strange. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it - I will definitely check it out!ReplyDelete
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I don't know if it was love or infatuation. I sometimes wonder — had my parents not asked me that question, would I have ever fallen for that trap. Five years ago my parents were very busy finding a perfect match for me. That was only normal, I was 24 at that time and belonging to a simple middle class family my parents' motto was to get me married before I turned 25. I was also okay with it as all my friends were getting married and were planning to settle down. I too was in the mood to get married. I remember my parents asking me.
"Is there someone in your life that you like?"
And I was like — "Oh my God I never thought my parents will be so open minded."
That day I decided, I should have made one boyfriend at least, but since there was no one in my life I was forced to say a big fat NO to them. I know my parents were happy hearing this, their daughter had never crossed her 'limits'. So just like any other girl, I was also waiting for my Prince Charming to step into my life so we could live happily ever after.
But then something happened and I was not the same girl again.
I got admission in PhD in a reputed institute that year and my parents were very happy. I was happy too and I welcomed this change and packed my bags to shift into a hostel. I got very busy here in college with the studies, my parents' search was still on and they kept telling me about the boys I had absolutely no interest in. I told them to decide first and then tell me, only then will I come home to go forward with it. They too seemed okay with the idea and started working on the same. In the meantime I was doing good for myself — with my research.
Then one fine day I met one of my seniors through a common friend. He was a nice guy, very intelligent and hardworking. We exchanged phone numbers and everything seemed okay, it was a casual meeting. After that meeting, we became acquaintances, so a hi and bye relationship started very casually. Next he started messaging me on a regular basis, some messages I never even bothered to read. So far so good. He would normally ask me for coffee and I will deny as I was very busy with my research, and after coming back to the hostel, my only aim was to sleep.
Then one day he called me to tell me about his research and how he was moving to Singapore in four months. I was happy for him. He asked me again for a cup of coffee and I said Yes this time. We met and chatted, he told me about his research ideas. I told him mine and soon we started talking about our personal lives. I told him about my family, my plans and he told me about his. He told me that he is an alcoholic and I was like REALLY?
We started talking more on Facebook and texts, soon I found myself waiting for his calls and messages. The days we didn't talk I felt incomplete. In just two months we became very good friends. We discussed everything — our family, friends, research, his ex-girlfriend and ofcourse alcohol.
One night at 11 pm in winters, he called me and asked me to meet him at the cafeteria. I denied, but he was persistent. I figured he was drunk, I denied again but he said he is standing in front of my hostel. First time in my life I was feeling scared meeting him. I went and saw him in a shirt and trouser in such cold weather. I gave him my shawl and we walked. My heartbeat was faster and I really didn't know what to say.
We still walked for an hour around the campus silently and in the end he said, "Jana jaruri hai kya".
But I had to leave because of strict hostel timings. I left the shawl with him and left. I don't know, but something happened that day.. what they call MAGIC. I was smiling by myself the whole day and I realized that I was in love. I had a feeling I was the happiest person in the world that day. He called me and asked if I had reached safely. I said 'Yes' and 'Goodnight'. That night I realized what people meant by 'Sleepless nights in love'. Next day we met in the morning.
I noticed he liked me too. It wasn't too difficult to decode his smirk.
My brain was telling me that I am going in the wrong direction. He was moving abroad in two months, he was an alcoholic, my parents were looking for a boy for me and also may be he didn't love and it's all in my head. But nothing mattered at that point.
Our meetings, phone calls and messages to each other increased exponentially. He never said that he loved me and neither did I. But, we were already in an adult relationship, anybody who'd listen to our phone conversations could tell. I remember him telling me once — "You should stay away from me as seeing you brings all the bad thoughts in my head." I on the other hand was enjoying my first love. I don't know, I was just going with the flow in life, without thinking what will happen in the future. Never in my life had I felt so special.
His date of departure was coming closer and his thesis work was still pending. We could only talk at night now. One day I called him, he sounded tensed. He said he'll call after some time. I waited, he called after one hour. I asked him what happened and he said, "Bahot panga ho gaya hai". He told me that one of his friends had read his emails and messages exchanged between him and his friend's wife. I was stunned for a second.
I said, "You exchange messages with your friend's wife. How dare you? You can't interfere in somebody's married life yaar." I cut the phone and we stopped talking.
I got the shock of my life that day. I laughed at myself in my head. Somewhere inside of me, I knew that this was supposed to happen one day, we were not committed. He never said 'I love you' to me. In the next 5 days I learnt the meaning of patience and self control in my life. He was leaving in 15 days and I didn't even look at him anymore.
Love is really a strange thing. A day before he was leaving I got a message from him, "You left me the time I needed you the most." Something inside me broke down that day. I left him really? He was the one who was exchanging messages with his friend's wife and I left him. I don't know what happened but I cried that day. Maybe I was going through a breakup of a relationship which was closest to my heart.
After a month or so we chatted again on facebook, with a turmoil in my heart, I spoke very patiently. We didn't discuss his friend's event again and he sent me a link to a song, my brain still knew that this relationship will never work but my heart said otherwise. In the meantime, my parents stepped into the picture and asked me to meet a boy that they had selected for me. I took a decision with my brain this time and stopped talking to him. I needed empty space to let someone else in.
I blocked him, changed my phone number and tried my level best to lose every contact with him. He also never tried to contact me again. I met the boy my parents had selected for me and said No to him. But I couldn't have said No to everybody. After six months or so, I thought I am ready for marriage and finally said Yes to a decent guy. I tried to be happy and forget him.
He taught me love, patience, self control and I was unable to hate him.
On the first night of my marriage, I discovered that my husband was impotent. But, I didn't feel bad because may be nothing can break you when you're already broken. I again went with the flow in my life. I am still going with the flow. A sexless and childless marriage is going great. I have learnt to laugh at my problems.
This is the irony of life. Sometime ago there was a boy who would go crazy if I touched him and here is a boy — my husband, who finds excuses to not touch me. I don't know what else my life wants to teach me but you know what, I'm a brave girl and it's only me who is responsible for my happiness. With all this drama in my life, I found myself and I learnt to love myself for still smiling with all the problems. I just want everyone around me to be happy. I have made peace with my past and have accepted my present. Sometimes, this is the only option you are left with.
The pain in my heart vanishes when I support my husband in overcoming his weaknesses.
Author's Note
I still miss my first love but I just want him to be happy, happy wherever he is (somewhere in the US, I think). I just want to wish him all the best and I hope he wins a Nobel prize and I will be glad to see him on TV. I want to say this to him — Just try to make a balance between your alcohol and your passion for work. And thank you for teaching me what LOVE means.