The G Bitch Spot
Blog URL http://g-bitch.com
Located New Orleans, Louisiana USA
at which a mad black woman rants about New Orleans, insomnia, teaching, education and “education,” various -isms and anything involving a bitch, a spot or the letter g
Latest Blog Posts
- Choice, Choice, Choice and Choice: 2 on Nov 23, 2009 in NO Schools charter schools education New Orleans public schools Recovery School District
Another concern in the reshuffling and unshuffling of schools post-Floods is special education. When schools can pick and choose their students and are judged on test scores and attendance, why not limit the number of students who need the most resou...
- Choice, Choice, Choice and Choice: 1 on Nov 20, 2009 in NO Schools charter schools Orleans Parish School Board Recovery School District school choice Scott Cowen Institute for Public School Initiatives
It’s not a surprise that there are stumbles along the new road of School Choice to our difficult and deceptively “improved” status quo. While the New Orleans community has successfully created an unprecedented number of school choic...
- What? Are You Shitting Me? on Nov 19, 2009 in N.O. brought to you by G B.
Not anymore. I’ve been waiting for this……...
- Compassion, Lack Thereof on Nov 18, 2009 in Floats You Missed Speculations
In “Compassion” [from 9/4/05, and which starts with a PSA for help for New Orleanians after the Floods], Gil Fronsdal says that compassion is hard because it requires feeling the suffering of others: When compassion flows freely, there...
- What She Knows for Sure on Nov 14, 2009 in Uncategorized
And unfortunately I was right [that Sadie the puppy had parvovirus]. So then began the ordeal of trying to save her. Plasma transfusions. Antibiotics. Probiotics. And daily visits. I wish for every citizen of this country the kind of healthcare [sic]...
- Refitting on Nov 13, 2009 in About a Bitch
One summer, all excited about teaching composition, I collected some discarded journals for real-world reading and options outside my area: Political Science and Politics: Inequality and American Democracy (30.1, Jan. 2006); American Political Scienc...
- Pronoun Change-Clarification-Compromise on Nov 11, 2009 in About a Bitch
From this date forward, the verb phrases “need household help” and “need household staff” will no longer be preceded by the personal pronoun “I.” The preferred personal pronoun will henceforth be “we.”*...
