Recent content by MesaVerde

(Oops, I meant work ethic.)

One of the key points clear in the book is that by trying to save them all, you doom them all. As you say, school admin in those types of schools are committed to a strategy of being very permissive of nonattendance, violence, disrespect, theft, low worth ethic and other poor behaviors by...

Ah, a comrade in arms. Too bad there are never enough of us at a single school or school district who get what is happening. It seems we are always doomed to defeat in trying to improve the situation by being outnumbered. You know, I spent years of my life studying this issue. I finally came to...

I think he was enraged that he was failing her class. In my experience as a math teacher, I never had a student who was completely checked out mentally from class whom I did not flunk for almost total lack of math proficiency. I think most nonteachers as well as any teachers who have not worked...

I was thinking the same thing as I was watching it...why don't we get shows like that? They seemed to be giving a lot of detail of the facts as much as they know them from what I could tell from the photos and clips. We get Nancy Grace who just drones on the same thing every night with very...

Thank you for taking the time. It seems maybe a lot of the Chinese shows about Elisa Lam's case are leaning towards supernatural explanations. Is that right? Here is another clip about Elisa Lam's case if you have any time when you are finished with work. Maybe if you hear something...

The irony is that Elisa Lam might be dead because the city forced them to keep those residents. As I think about it, a jobless resident (seems most are on the welfare rolls) has more leisure time to do this sort of thing than an employee. If you are an employee, you are on the clock. You can't...

I am impressed with your Chinese/Taiwanese (?). Wow. I never visited there or China. I only know things I recognize that are the same as in Japan. When it is not the same, then it is totally foreign to me. Thank you so much. That is what it looked like (a kidnapping by a stranger). I thought...

Maybe so. Maybe subconsciously to be closer to the controls, too. But I thought more it hid her the most from outside the elevator. I also thought maybe because she was trying to hide from that mirror opposite the elevator in the hallway. Where she was first standing in the other corner, I...

Holy cow! They are such rat bastards. I always felt that kids get taught the wrong things in school. Let's be honest, most of them are never going to use the Pythagorean Theorem again in their lives but they all need to know what you wrote below. But if a teacher tried to tell them about it, he...

Thank you so very much. I love you guys. I have astigmatism. It really isn't any big deal at all. It just basically means that my vision is slightly better if I wear hard contacts than soft because the contacts shape my eye ball that way and give me crisper vision. But I still do fine with the...

Like your idea about her reasons in that she may have had some little theory about elevator operation in her head that she was testing out or that she got as advice from somebody. If it is something like that, we'll never figure it out.

This is what makes sense to me as well (what you wrote). I had an amazing, amazing optometrist. He told me that for my particular eyes, I should never get laser surgery on them. Just for me. One of the few doctors I have ever trusted so I will follow his advice. Sorry, that is probably off...

I still think not. The elevator looked rather well lit. She could have angled her body or moved her head aside if her body were blocking the light. It would be a natural thing to do. It would be an unconscious action even to do that. But it is possible of course. I am with you probably that I...

I didn't think that. The sweater looked too big. (P.S. Also pretty sure that incident actually happened in China from the haircut and clothing of the guy who you see most in the video and by his mannerisms.) I thought maybe it was somebody being kidnapped and ordered to remove their sweater...