"Homework" Is NOT a Dirty Word!

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"Homework" Is NOT a Dirty Word!

ATTENTION

TO ALL PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS:

The Following are Basic Key Tools For Youngsters to Excel in Their Academic and Vocational Endeavors Under Your Instruction:

• Daily and Weekend Homework (Plus Holiday Vacation):  Unfortunately, this practice of giving homework on a daily basis, over the weekend, and during their holiday vacation break has seemingly become obsolete!  
• Give Essays: Today, there are more youngsters becoming increasingly illiterate when it comes to spelling, and using proper grammar.  It is not cute when a child, or an adult for that matter, have no clue on how to differentiate 'their,' 'there,' or 'there.'  And that is only one small example.  Constant use of "Abbreviations" and "Acronyms" have become a way of life today with both youngsters and adults, especially on social networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Myspace, etc.) 
•  Mark 'Incorrect' Spelling Words in Red, and/or Let the Child Write the 'Correct' Spelling Word Numerous Times: This is a practice used when I was attending school.  It works!  Do not allow a child to get away with misspelled words whenever they are writing an essay, homework, etc.  Encourage him or her to learn the proper spelling of words.  And whenever they turn in their homework paper, and there is/are word[s] misspelled, mark it in red indicating that it is incorrect, and have him, or her, write it out several times until it's etched within their cranial membrane! 

The more questions the children ask - the better.  ANSWER their questions whenever they ask you something!  BE HONEST with them if you do not know the answer.  Simply advise them that you do not know, but you will get back to them with an answer the next day, or shortly.  After all, you're only human.  Remember that you, too, have flaws, and make mistakes.

NEVER, EVER, judge the youngsters you are teaching under your care.  You're NOT a god.  You're a teacher.  You're an educator.  You are NOT their friend, so refrain from talking your personal business with them! 
If you, too, happen to attend school to further your academic objectives and goals (Master's degree, doctorate), then be honest with yourself by asking "Am I giving all of myself to help these youngsters?"  If the answer is no, then you need to make a decision quickly as to how you're going to fulfill your educational duties by proving these youngsters with "whole education," without sacrificing them.  If the answer is yes, then you better be well prepared for the youngsters who are more intelligent than you give them credit for because they can spot someone who is not 'genuine,' or 'sincere,' in their words, or actions.

Therefore, stop being fearful to give and teach our youngsters 'whole' education.  Life is an education. It's time to eradicate many of these old relic so-called traditional methods of teaching, and begin to get real with these students of the 21st Century!

Homework is not a dirty word . . . It is a word of necessity!  Isn't that the reason why you became a teacher?  

If you find yourself not wanting to grade papers, or check homework at your home every night, on weekends, or during your holiday vacation break, then perhaps "Teaching" is not your cup of tea!  Think about it!  Like they say, If the shoes fit . . . then wear it, and get to walking!'

In the meantime, for all of you who have no problem whatsoever in carrying out the aforementioned tools, or who is already practicing these invaluable tools of academic learning, then let's produce "thinkers" and "leaders" and "rulers" in the 21st Century!

Peace.

Miriam G. Aw

UPDATED NEWS: KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN, SR., EX-MARINE

Exclusive: Cop in Fatal Shooting of Ex-Marine Kenneth Chamberlain ID’d, Sued in 2008 Racism Case

In a broadcast exclusive, we reveal the name of the police officer who allegedly killed 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, the retired African-American Marine who was shot dead in his own home in White Plains, New York, in November after he inadvertently triggered his medical alert pendant. Documented in audio recordings, the White Plains police reportedly used a racial slur, burst through Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, then shot him dead. "The last time I actually really saw my father, other than the funeral, was at the hospital, with his eyes wide open, his tongue hanging out his mouth, and two bullet holes in his chest," said Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr. "And I’m staring at my father, wondering, 'What happened?'"

The alleged shooter, Officer Anthony Carelli, is due in court later this month in an unrelated 2008 police brutality case. He is accused of being the most brutal of a group of officers who allegedly beat two arrestees of Jordanian descent and called them "rag heads." We speak to Gus Dimopoulos, attorney for Jerry and Sal Hatter. "We allege that the police officers, while in the custody of the White Plains Police Department back at the station, you know, severely beat Jerry while being restrained by handcuffs. They hit him in the face with a nightstick, they kicked, they punched, they punched him, and then essentially charged him with a crime," Dimopoulos said.

Fatal shooting of ex-Marine by White Plains police must be explained

A routine ambulance call morphed into a senseless killing

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/shoot-head-article-1.1056240#ixzz1rBVRaYgD

Something went terribly, fatally wrong when police responded to the Winbrook Houses in White Plains on Nov. 19, and the facts in the death of Kenneth Chamberlain are long overdue.
The basic outline of the episode is horrendous.

Chamberlain, 68, was a Marine Corps veteran and former correction officer who had a medical-alert system in his apartment because he suffered from a serious heart condition.

He apparently had activated the apparatus unintentionally as he slept.

Unable to arouse him using a loudspeaker that was part of the system, the alert service called for medical assistance, which arrived in pre-dawn darkness, along with police.

Less than an hour later, Chamberlain was dead, shot twice by a cop who, the Daily News reveals, was previously named in a federal civil rights suit stemming from an alleged nightstick beating. He fired after the responders tried to stun Chamberlain into submission and shot beanbags at him.

Unexplained is why the cops forced their way into Chamberlain’s apartment after he told them through the door that he was okay.

Unexplained is why the officers escalated a mission of mercy into a violent confrontation in which, perhaps, Chamberlain resorted to wielding a knife.

Unexplained is why one of them pulled the trigger while facing a man who was so infirm he had trouble walking distances.

Unexplained is why Westchester Country District Attorney Janet DiFiore is only now, almost five months later, empaneling a grand jury.

The probe’s apparently slow pace is fueling doubts, and so is the poisonous factor of race. Chamberlain was black, and one of the responders was recorded as saying, “I don’t give a f--k, n----r, open the door.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/shoot-head-article-1.1056240#ixzz1rBXFIqbc

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Sources identify White Plains cop Anthony Carelli as triggerman in fatal shooting of retired Marine

Exclusive: At center of controversial Nov. 19 shooting of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., cop also to go to trial in unrelated brutality and racism case

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sources-identify-white-plains-anthony-carelli-triggerman-fatal-shooting-retired-marine-article-1.1056394#ixzz1rBXjTKyf

The Daily News has cracked a tightly kept secret, revealing for the first time the identity of the cop who fatally shot a former Marine almost five months ago.

He is White Plains Officer Anthony Carelli.

In a shocking twist, The News has learned that Carelli, who killed retired Marine Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. on Nov. 19, is due in court later this month in a federal police brutality case.

Carelli is one of six cops accused in a $10 million civil suit brought by twin brothers who say he battered them during a disorderly-conduct arrest outside the Black Bear Saloon in downtown White Plains during Memorial Day weekend 2008.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sources-identify-white-plains-anthony-carelli-triggerman-fatal-shooting-retired-marine-article-1.1056394#ixzz1rBYEJV7Q

AP; Courtesy Kenneth Chamberlain Jr.

Clockwise from top left: David Chong, Janet DiFiore, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. and Thomas Roach.

Jereis (Jerry) Hatter and Salameh (Sal) Hatter, 27, claim Carelli was the most brutal of the officers who beat and kicked them while they were handcuffed, calling them “rag heads.” Their parents are Jordanian immigrants.

The brothers say Carelli beat Jereis Hatter with a police baton, causing head and eye injuries, while he was handcuffed to a pole in the booking area of the police station.

“He hit me in my eye with a nightstick and then he kicked me in my nuts,” Jereis Hatter told The News on Wednesday. “He shouldn’t be a cop.”

All charges against the Hatter brothers were dismissed last August by a judge who complained that testimony about the boozy night in question resembled a “Quentin Tarantino script” because everyone had a different version of what happened.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sources-identify-white-plains-anthony-carelli-triggerman-fatal-shooting-retired-marine-article-1.1056394#ixzz1rBZOsXqw