tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post104063993506237079..comments2023-11-02T05:29:07.670-04:00Comments on ♥ Beenazai: Book Tour #2: Crazy is Normal by Lloyd Lofthouse | Review♥Beenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718861012681693010noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-70679416089055750512014-11-22T21:35:55.611-05:002014-11-22T21:35:55.611-05:00Thank you for providing the epilogue, the story se...Thank you for providing the epilogue, the story seems more complete now!Beenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718861012681693010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-25047281285266410912014-11-22T17:46:08.539-05:002014-11-22T17:46:08.539-05:00Short Epilogue for Crazy is Normal
I've heard...Short Epilogue for Crazy is Normal<br /><br />I've heard second hand that Amanda (not her real name of course), the student editor-in-chief, went to a prestigious university and eventually earned a law degree and practices law far from Nogales High School in another major city that I will not name---I respect her privacy.<br /><br />I recently had an e-mail from Nelson (again, not a real name), and he also went to college and works in the industry of his major. I'd have to hunt for that e-mail to find out what that field was because I forgot, but I think it has to do with marketing and public relations.<br /><br />A few years ago, I heard from Mildred (none of the names are real of course), and she graduated from college, became a public school teacher and teaches, I think, second grade, and she loves teaching that age. Until recently second grade was pretty much politics free but now the Arne Duncan and Bill Gates CCSS testing mania agenda is even going after preschool and kindergarten children and the feds and their corporate allies, who want to privatize the public schools and profit off those taxes, are brain storming how to fool the public---once again---and blame public school teachers, their teachers' unions and the public schools for kids not being college and career ready before they even start kindergarten.<br /><br />You might wonder how the corporate funded, fake, public school reform movement can profit off of children who aren't even age 5 yet, so I'll tell you. It's no secret that Obama plans to submit a bill to Congress in 2015, where he will ask Congress for $75 billion to fund a national early childhood education program for children as young as two or three, that will be linked to the unconstitutional mandatory CCSS agenda-that information is on the Website for the federal Department of Education, and I've written about it on my Crazy Normal blog asking why Obama didn't start with that program before he launched his Race to the Top and Common Core State Standards that were obviously designed to destroy the public schools and replace them with schools owned by private sector, for profit corporations.<br /><br />What's really interesting is that the private sector Charter schools that have replaced public schools that have been closed, by the thousand during the Obama presidency, are not held to the same demands and standards set by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top or the Common Core Standards. <br /><br />In addition, two studies out of Stanford in recent years have reported that these for-profit, corporate Charter schools are mostly worse or are, at best, equal to the public schools they are replacing. The few Charters that Stanford found that were actually better than the local public schools that they are close to are still unionized, are run by teachers and not corporate management, and are still under the watchful eyes of the democratically elected school boards of those local school districts that authorized their existence.<br /><br />I kept in touch with Trung for several years but lost contact with him after I retired and moved away from the Southern California region. He started college but dropped out and launched his own business with a partner. The last time I talked to him at one of his frozen yogurt shops, he had bought out his partner and had maybe three or five shops spread around the region and planned to open more.<br /><br />After Megan graduated from Nogales HS, she started college away from Los Angeles, but not that far, and stayed in touch for a few years and then her life got in the way and I haven't heard from her since.<br /><br />Lloyd Lofthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828275232705892137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-83981506198279766742014-11-21T00:11:37.132-05:002014-11-21T00:11:37.132-05:00Educational novels are really interesting, this wa...Educational novels are really interesting, this was a unique book :)Beenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718861012681693010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-75419750769046148732014-11-20T01:34:36.986-05:002014-11-20T01:34:36.986-05:00I watched the movie Dead Poets Society which is al...I watched the movie Dead Poets Society which is also focused on teaching and how different methods can really help reach students and inspire them to do more. I think this book sounds like a good one, and similar to that movie in a way. I am always looking for more books about education.Olivia's Catastrophehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12706765857201768908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-65111607328397118872014-11-18T20:43:06.844-05:002014-11-18T20:43:06.844-05:00Thank you & of course, will be posting it righ...Thank you & of course, will be posting it right away :)Beenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718861012681693010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-59272215155551809652014-11-18T20:42:51.524-05:002014-11-18T20:42:51.524-05:00Thanks so much for the review copy! Thanks so much for the review copy! Beenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718861012681693010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-72488992873754671042014-11-18T20:42:40.373-05:002014-11-18T20:42:40.373-05:00Hope you like it :)Hope you like it :)Beenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718861012681693010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-5866798556243790712014-11-18T20:20:20.697-05:002014-11-18T20:20:20.697-05:00Thank you for the great review, and it would be ap...Thank you for the great review, and it would be appreciated if you would post your review on Amazon.<br /><br />"I would have liked to seen how the character's life improved later in the future if Lloyd Lofthouse had done a follow up with the students. It would have been interesting to see an epilogue."<br /><br />One of the other reviewers who took part in this book tour made the same suggestion, and I left a long comment that was sort of an epilogue. I'll see if I can find it to copy and paste here. :o)Lloyd Lofthousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08828275232705892137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-732686019527481742014-11-18T13:59:40.981-05:002014-11-18T13:59:40.981-05:00Thanks for taking part in the tour. I'm so gl...Thanks for taking part in the tour. I'm so glad you enjoyed 'Crazy Is Normal'!Teddy Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145413222317511542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3433746510084776903.post-59793011093661855072014-11-18T11:54:11.821-05:002014-11-18T11:54:11.821-05:00this book seems so interesting..
this book seems so interesting..<br />FelyMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671933219823800678noreply@blogger.com