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數十年來,學校和教師一直是社會失敗的OK繃,因為我們關心孩子。 但是,學校和教師並不是能夠解決與我們社會息息相關的事情的人。
社會:在世界上最富裕的國家,有1100萬至1300萬兒童生活在糧食不安全的家庭中。
學校:我們可以提供幫助.....孩子們可以在學校吃早餐和午餐,在很多地方,老師們將自己的錢花在點心上。 對於最需要幫助的人,我們將在晚餐和周末送回家的食物。
社會:美國有超過400萬兒童沒有醫療保險或適當的醫療保健。
學校:我們可以提供幫助.....我們將帶醫生去學校免費進行身體檢查,眼科檢查和牙科治療。 在許多地方,學校護士將自己的錢花在為女孩提供衛生用品上。
社會:美國超過17%的兒童沒有基本生活必需品。
學校:我們可以提供幫助。...我們將在學校安裝洗衣機和乾衣機。 我們將免費分發衣服,學校用品,鞋子和冬衣。 這些物品很多都是由學校護士和老師購買的。
社會:每年有550萬報告涉及身體虐待,性虐待和忽視。
學校:我們可以提供幫助。...學校將是安全的地方,老師將是安全的人。 我們會在學校裡有一些輔導員,但還不夠....一些治療師,但還不夠。 完全沒有接受過創傷訓練的老師會選擇早點上學,或等到很晚來幫助這些孩子。 與他們自己的孩子相比,老師在他們的學生上花費的時間更多。 對於無法照顧無辜的孩子,老師們會哭泣,有時會崩潰。
社會:美國將近25%的孩子有父母在上學時間以外工作。
學校:我們可以提供幫助。...我們將在成千上萬所學校中安裝課前和課後計劃,讓孩子們可以再吃一頓飯,獲得功課幫助並參加有組織的活動。
社會:美國有將近1400萬兒童肥胖。
學校:我們可以提供幫助...體育課是必修課,我們將納入有關健康食品選擇的課程。
社會:美國平均每77天有一所學校開槍。
學校:我們可以提供幫助...我們將鎖定演習並訓練我們的學生躲藏和安靜。 而且,如果需要的話,老師會為學生而死。
社會:我們正處於全球大流行之中,我們的政府未能控制住這一大流行。 在許多地方,將近有13萬美國人死了,而且這個數字還在上升,而不是在下降。 由於我們幾十年來一直選擇忽略種族歧視,不平等和歧視,而種族歧視,不平等和歧視是所有上述問題的根源,因此我們現在需要學校重新開放,以便孩子們可以吃飯,獲得醫療保健,買衣服,穿鞋和上學 供應,安全,健康並受到監督。 哦,這樣他們就可以接受教育。 看來COVID不會影響孩子,所以讓我們回到學校。
老師:我們可以提供幫助。...但是,我們25%-30%的年齡平均在50歲以上。我們有些人和缺乏免疫力的人住在一起。我們有些懷孕了... 關於COVID對未出生的孩子的影響,我們仍然只有非常有限的數據。 我們有個人防護裝備嗎? 如果我們生病了,並且沒有足夠的病假時間來應付我們外出的時間怎麼辦? 如果家庭成員生病並且我們需要照顧他們怎麼辦?
社會:哇,你們為什麼突然變成一群哭泣的嬰兒? 你們始終願意犧牲自己的時間,金錢,心理健康....而現在當我們需要你們時,你們不願意犧牲你們的健康或生命嗎? 你們當中有75%是女性……這是我們作為一個社會所期望的女性……為他人犧牲自己。
*幾十年來,學校和教師一直是社會失敗的OK繃,因為我們關心孩子。 學校和教師不是能夠解決與我們社會息息相關的事情的人。 同時,我們不能成為被宰殺的羔羊,因為學校和老師會用OK繃讓社會撐著,沒有其他人實際在修復社會。
-艾莉森·霍曼(Alison Hoeman)
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For decades, schools and teachers have been the band-aid on society’s failings because we care about children. But schools and teachers are not the ones that can fix the things that are broken with our society..
Society: In the richest country in the world, between 11 and 13 million children live in food insecure homes.
Schools: We can help..... Kids can eat breakfast and lunch at school, and in many places, teachers will spend their own money on snacks. For the most needy, we will send home food for dinner and weekends.
Society: Over 4 million children in the US do not have health insurance or adequate healthcare.
Schools: We can help..... we will bring doctors to do free physicals, eye exams, and dental treatments right at school. In many places, school nurses will spend their own money on sanitary supplies for girls.
Society: Over 17% of US children live without basic necessities.
Schools: We can help.... we will install washers and dryers in schools. We will hand out clothes, school supplies, shoes, and winter coats for free. Many of these items are purchased by school nurses and teachers.
Society: There are 5.5 million reports annually of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect.
Schools: We can help.... schools will be safe places and teachers will be safe people. We will have some counselors, but not enough.... some therapists, but not enough, right in the schools. Teachers with minimal training in trauma will come to school early and stay late to mentor these children. Teachers will spend more time with their students than with their own children. Teachers will cry and sometimes crumble at the thought of not being able to do more for the innocent children in their care.
Society: Almost 25% of US children have parents that work past school hours.
Schools: We can help.... we will install before and after school programs in thousands of schools where kids can get another meal, get help with their homework, and participate in organized activities.
Society: Almost 14 million children in the US are obese.
Schools: we can help... Physical Education classes will be mandatory and we will incorporate lessons about healthy food choices.
Society: The US averages one school shooting every 77 days.
School: We can help... we will do lock down drills and train our students to hide and be quiet. And if need be, teachers will literally die for their students.
Society: We are in the midst of a global pandemic which our government has failed to control. Almost 130,000 Americans are dead and the numbers are rising, not declining, in many places. Because we have chosen to ignore, for decades, the racism, inequality, and discrimination that is at the root of all the aforementioned problems, we now need schools to reopen so that kids can eat, get healthcare, get clothes, shoes, and school supplies, be safe, be healthy, and be supervised. Oh, and so that they can get an education. It appears that COVID doesn’t affect children, so let’s go back to school.
Teachers: We can help.... but what about the 25-30% of us that are over the age of 50? What about those of us who are immunocompromised or live with someone who is? What about those of us who are pregnant... we still have very limited data on what COVID does to unborn children. Will you have PPE for us? Will you have hand sanitizer for us? What if we get sick, and don’t have enough sick days to cover the time that we are out? What if a family member gets sick and we need to care for them?
Society: Wow, why are you suddenly being a bunch of crybabies? Before you were always willing to sacrifice your time, your money, your mental health.... and now when we need you, you aren’t willing to sacrifice your health or your life? But 75% of you are women.... and that’s what we, as a society, expect women to do... sacrifice yourself for others.
*For decades, schools and teachers have been the band-aid on society’s failings because we care about children. Schools and teachers are not the ones that can fix the things that are broken with our society. At the same time, we cannot be the lambs sent to slaughter because no one else cared enough to actually fix society while schools and teachers were holding it all together with said band-aid.
-Alison Hoeman
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Reposting a snippet from my latest blog post, you can read the full article here: http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2020/07/raeesah-khan-ge-2020-and-being-labeled.html?m=1
I’m posting more about Raeesah Khan today.
First, a disclaimer. I do not dislike the Worker’s Party.
Of all the opposition parties, I think they are the best. I live in Aljunied grc, and they have done a great job so far. I agree with many of the policy suggestions in their manifesto.
For example, redundancy insurance, abolishing the retirement age, or lowering the age of eligibility for BTO flats, which will help singles and our LGBTQ community to get housing just like married couples are.
Previously I mentioned on my ig stories that Raeesah Khan is not suitable to be an MP.
Today I am going to ask some very important questions which I hope both WP and Raeesah will answer.
I refer to this tweet by Raeesah in the photos.
It appears that she is saying her political views can be summed up by
- Angela Davis’ political views
- Intersectional feminism
Many of you may not know about Angela Davis, but she is a far-left activist, who spent her life sympathising with some of the most oppressive communism regimes around.
She literally calls herself a communist, and was a member of the Communism Party in USA. I think there is no need to explain how horrible communism is.
And of course in order to make any non-communist country a communist state, it would involve total revolution, many lives, and replacing it with a totalitarian regime in charge of redistributing wealth back to its citizens.
She is also a prison abolitionist, campaigning for prisons to completely be eradicated. Where to put the murderers, I can’t seem to find a good answer, because it seems she also is against the death penalty.
Angela Davis was a member of the Black Panthers, a brutal communist, anti-semite organization. In 1970, Angela Davis bought the weapons that were used for a shootout during a trial of 3 black inmates accused of killing a white prison guard. All the black men and judge who was held hostage perished in the gunfight, and Davis fled the state. She was eventually caught.
Even though she conspired to commit murder, the jury found her not guilty.
In short, this woman is the antithesis to the Singapore that Mr Lee Kuan Yew wanted.
This tweet of Raeesah Khan’s talking about Angela Davis was posted only a few weeks ago, but surprisingly enough, nobody is talking about it.
Anyone who knows who Angela Davis is should be horror-filled that a candidate running for parliament is a fan of hers, and claims that the reading of her books represents her political views.
Previously I mentioned Raeesah appears to be one of those radical leftists who seem hell bent on bringing the toxic, cancerous identity politics that America is so notorious for into Singapore.
There are racial issues that minorities face in Singapore, of course there is. It is tough to be a minority in any country.
But instead of discussing calmly and logically what new politics can be introduced to solve these problems or what laws need to change, proponents of Identity politics instead try to make a single race the enemy.
When there are enemies, people unite. Political parties using this method will see themselves get votes if they manage to market themselves as the empathetic ones, even if the politics they impose do more evil than good in the long run.
Society is then split into a them vs us, while tribalistic infighting ensue. If you disagree with this method of classifying victims by their skin colour (when in fact so many things determine a person’s privilege, such as looks, height, family wealth, health, both parents around etc etc), you are automatically seen as racist and the bad guy.
Because nobody wants to seem morally corrupt or unsympathetic, they prop up this system.
Instill this sentiment into citizens long enough and resentment builds. The ones constantly told they are being oppressed will start seeing oppression everywhere. They won’t even try to succeed in life, because they are told they are so oppressed they can never make it. They believe their oppressors owe them.
Meanwhile, the majority race starts feeling angry at constantly being called oppressors. Or maybe they are poor and unhappy themselves, but see that resources for help are only made available for minorities but not them. If they were indeed racist before, this makes them even more racist.
What eventually happens is civil war. We cannot have this poison in Singapore.
Raeesah’s has apologised for her posts, but nobody needed to hear whether she is sorry she was being insensitive.
What people need to know is:
Does she still believe our courts are corrupt as she so insinuated? Does she still believe law enforcement unfairly target minorities? If not, what made her change her mind? Her statement does not address any of this.
Worker’s Party claim they did not see those posts of Raeesah’s. Fair enough. But I do not believe they have done such terrible vetting that they have not seen her tweet about Angela Davis which was so recent.
I wish to ask Raeesah Khan, DO YOU DISAVOW ANGELA DAVIS’ POLITICAL VIEWS?
- Do you believe that Singapore, through a brutal revolution and death, can become a communist utopia?
- Do you think that everyone in Singapore should not own private property and should have equal wealth, the very values communism epouses? If so, do you seek to redistribute your multi-millionaire dad's wealth to the poverty-stricken citizens of Singapore?
- Do you agree that it is only with violence and death do we achieve true freedom?
- Do you seek to abolish prisons in Singapore?
- Do you believe in the ideologies of Karl Marx, or Valdamir Lenin?
As for Worker’s Party, why did you field a candidate who holds extreme left-wing views?
Do you agree with her ideologies and think it aligns with yours? DO YOU ENDORSE THESE FAR LEFT VIEWS??
Please answer these questions. I write all these not because I am a PAP lackey, even though obviously people will say I am. Despite what you think, I believe it is healthy to have opposition seats in parliament.
However, I absolutely do not want to see candidates such as Raeesah Khan in our parliament - she brings with her dangerous political views that can topple the peaceful society we built over the years and is completely against everything that Singapore stands for. As it is, the mindless youth of Singapore are already echoing her dangerous ideologies.
I would rather any opposition joker win than her.
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最近大家辛苦了。現在世界狀況很不安定,充滿不確定,生活也被影響。 我們擔心家人、朋友們,每天無時無刻都在關注新聞,我們都在想,什麼時候才會回到“正常”。
I know it’s been a funny time for everybody - our lives have been disrupted, we’re worried for our family and friends, we’re reading the news every second for updates, we’re wondering when (or if) things will ever be “normal” again.
我們自主管理了滿14天,也盡量維持樂觀的態度和想法:
We self-quarantined for 14 days and are trying to look at all the positives that have come out of this.
我跟老公、兒子和父母因為這樣,花了很多很美好的時間相處。我們知道這是我們要一起面對的現實,也學著尊重彼此的空間,但同時也很感謝我們現階段都還算是健康、安全且幸福的。
I’ve gotten to spend so much quality time with my husband, son and parents. We’re all in this together and respect our needed space, but also appreciate how lucky we are to be healthy and safe together.
我跟好多朋友們及家人聯絡。每個人不管在那個世界的角落,都在相互關心,好溫馨。
I’ve been in touch with so many friends and family from all over the world. Everybody has been checking up on each other and I’ve heard from or reached out to friends/family who are concerned about our well-being and vice versa. And… it’s been nice!
我的家,天啊,已經5年沒有那麼乾淨了。好啦,15年。
My apartment has gotten the “spring cleaning” that it desperately needed for the past 5 years. (OK OK, let’s be honest… the past 15 years.)
我們廚藝都變得又創意又厲害。連Egan都在假裝煮飯 (但是他是用龍火,所以他贏了)。
We’ve all been more creative and having fun with our cooking (including Egan who has started to pretend cook with dragon fire. He’s winning.)
我們好好的坐下來,討論了很多很煩惱但是必須處理的事:財政、法務、保險、退休....,噢我頭又開始痛了⋯⋯。
We’ve sat down and started taking care of “boring” stuff that has just always gotten pushed to the side. (you know, legal, financial, insurance, retirement…. The kind of stuff that gives us headaches)
我們找了許多能在家裡做的活動,讓我們維持身心健康。
We have managed to try and stay physically and mentally fit and healthy by finding random activities to do.
同時,也很無罪惡感的看了很多電視、很多部電影、玩電動遊戲。(重點是無罪感喔!)
But we’ve also sat around and watched a lot of TV and movies or played video games GUILT FREE. (Yes, the important thing is the GUILT FREE part).
我們教了兒子很多重要的人生課程(尤其跟現在特別時機有關),他現在是洗手達人了,知道咳嗽時要摀住嘴,然後放屁時要傻笑,一些人生重要且健康的社交禮儀。
We’ve taught our son important life lessons relevant to the times (he is a master hand washer now, knows to cover his mouth when he coughs, and giggles when he farts. That’s just proper social etiquette.)
希望大家都能在現在的生活狀態持續維持健康、寬心且安全。我們再耐心一點的持續保持健康的距離,保持強壯的身體。
I hope everybody is coping well and adjusting to this “new normal.” Please stay safe, stay healthy, stay mentally healthy, stay socially distant for just a bit longer, and stay strong.
我也想請你們和我們分享,在現在不如以往正常的生活狀況下,你正在做的一些健康、樂觀的事。 我也想跟你們分享健康的食物!或是 如果你認識的正在居家隔離、居家檢疫的朋友或家人,需要一點鼓勵,而且是健康好吃的那種,也跟我說!我們來給一點小小幫忙。
Please share some of the positive things you’ve been doing in these crazy times and I’d like to share some #Vivanuts with you! Or if you know of somebody who is going stir crazy at home and could use a little healthy pick-me-up, let me know and we’ll send over a nice yummy healthy snack.
這幾天來我們在家裡自主管理,收到了好多愛、留言、玩具、零食等⋯⋯,我們也想把一些我們的愛和健康的食物送給你們!
We’ve received a lot of love, messages, food, toys, and random goodies while in self-quarantine and we want to pass on the love and yummy treats to you too!
#萬歲牌 Viva-健康萬歲