6 posts tagged “ira glass”
New York City boasts a Public School System of 1 million students.
There are 70,000 teachers.
Yep 70,000!
Where do teachers get sent when they misbehave THE RUBBER ROOM.
The Rubber Room is essentially detention for teachers.
They remain in these rooms -yes there are multiple rooms throughout the boroughs- while they wait for hearings, meetings, resolutions to being put out of the classroom-sometimes for years!!!
Of course I heard this story on This American Life under the story heading HUMAN RESOURCES.
peace, nyenye
"You wanna go up to the roof and oil the circulation pumps with me?"
The Super
"That really has to be the worst pickup line ever."
Ira Glass
Delicacy, intimacy, key money, terror landlords, hitmen, and other stories of being a Super, WBEZ of course-Ira Glass.
peace, nyenye
More TAL (This American Life). Last week's podcast featured stories about people home alone. There was the woman who lived alone and died in the hospital some two weeks later. Apparently in LA there are 100 people who cover some 3,000 cases per year of people who die alone and whose families or loved ones have to be found. These investigators if you will, go through peoples homes searching for clues that will lead them to someone, anyone who knew the decedent. If there is no one the state settles your estate and you are given a group burial. Bodies are cremated and placed in containers where they wait to be claimed for up to four years. Then there is a group funeral for all those who are unclaimed.
This is kind of long. I'll just say this if you live alone leave a will, a letter, some set of instructions that can be carried out on your behalf.
peace, nyenye
OK back to TAL (This American Life). Do you have a voice inside your head telling you what to do. Apparently there are voices telling people to smoke, binge & purge, drink and do all manner of things that they regret doing in their "moral life". How about a guy who compulsively buys too much food? Whaaaaatttttt? And no he's not a binge eater. This episode was podcast 9/9/7. Please check it out and tell me what you think.
peace, nyenye
Okay so I have a backlog of This American Life on my iTunes podcast folder. And you know how iTunes refuses to update if you don't listen to your podcasts-well I trick it. I click on an episode just so the blue dot will disappear and I can keep downloading. So right now I have over 20 episodes on backlog. I will be writing aboutthem all week people. GET READY!
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