Numb3rs – The real life game
WASHINGTON – (AP) A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000.
A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the help of stimulus money. Instead, it gave pay raises to its existing employees.
Elsewhere in the U.S., some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two, three, four or even more times.
The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs it has created or saved with federal contracts under the president’s $787 billion recovery program, according to an Associated Press review of data released in the program’s first progress report. (read the rest here)
I see racist people
(telegraph.co.uk) Primary school pupils and toddlers in nurseries are being punished for making racist insults, according to a report, even if they don’t understand the terms they use.
Teachers are being treated like counter staff in police stations as they have to fill in forms detailing name-calling and jokes.
Meanwhile diversity “missionaries” are said to be increasing the divide between white and black children by forcing them to see everything through the prism of race.
Adrian Hart, the author of the report published by the Manifesto Club, a civil liberties group, said: “The obligation on schools to report these incidents wastes teachers’ time, interferes in children’s space in the playground, and undermines teachers’ ability to deal with problems in their classrooms.
“Worse, such anti-racist policies can create divisions where none had existed, by turning everyday playground spats into ‘race issues’. (more…)
And here I was thinking that all that diversity sensitivity movement in the UK was actually bringing Brits together.
Diversity missionaries??
Really?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6454857/Schools-report-40000-cases-of-racism-a-year.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/28/arts/AP-US-TV-Fox-Apology.html?_r=1
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