Friday, May 14, 2010

Comment on sohil blog

“Every issue has its two aspects: positive and negative”. On a blog called, “Will Texas States Follow Arizona’s lead on Immigration?” Sohil wrote about immigration is something that need to accept it. MY colleague saying, “It would also require police officers to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that person may be illegally in the country” is true. The illegal immigration problem is one of the most challenging issues in US. He also said that illegal immigrants are hurting US citizens in many ways. They are enjoying more facilities than a citizen does. We can see in our real life that lots of illegal immigrants with food stamp facilities, Medicare facilities, and many more without paying any tax. The federal government should have done all these before the problems are seen but still they are not showing attention. I disagree with my other colleague Tina that building the wall can work out but, I think it will be worthless to do so. How many places can government build the wall? Who are the one who build wall? Besides that, government should think that does it go a work if we build the wall. Illegal immigrants don’t even have the driving license and if they get a wreck the other people have to suffer. The federal government is not showing interest in the problem that’s why the state has stepped up to find out the solution as, Sohil said.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Electronics Texts might not benefit students, Education

“Unnecessary expenses create dawdling development”. Miller’s view in this article “Electronic texts might not benefits students education” is true and practical. State’s public schools are planning to replace printed textbooks with electronic ones. Although some states leaders prefer moving in this direction, “miller”, the Texas state board of education member for district 12, in Dallas urge that, it not be a top-down approach or a cost-shifting strategy for the state. He says education should lead any such transition, not the state. “Technology creates problems”, when they change printed text books with electronic ones there gone a be lots of problems for setting up the devices, training teachers, total cost of buying the devices, making sure they work for blind students, maintaining, insuring and protecting them from damage and providing uninterrupted internet connectivity with internet filters. These are all new costs that must be addressed at a time when school districts are facing financial crises and laying off teachers. There should be proper agreement among state, district and schools. For the long term it might have more advantages but looking at present economic condition, it sounds incompatible.

Because of this new legislation, child might not have material to bring home. The equipment is simply the means to access the content, and we must always remember that it is the content on the devices that is most crucial to the students. Printed books are possible to carry anywhere and can have a short look even if we are at work but the electronic devices are impossible to do. Miller says, “The state Board of Education certifies the accuracy and alignment of this content to the curriculum. I think this idea will best to ensure the students a quality education. The thing student expect from school is education. This idea will be worthy if the states public schools have sufficient funds, but if they dont have enough funds to complete the programe then it will be big threaten to the management group. In other side, students will not be benefited by this program as they used to be with printed text books.