Two items in a Maine newspaper: China is kicking our ass in education while we fire cannons across the pond
An item in the Ellsworth American, which has overcome its “know nothing” nativist origins to become a fine newspaper, should scare us. A Chinese student studying at a high school in Maine was asked whether he finds school in the United States difficult: “English, yes. Math and science, no. Physics here is really easy — ...
An item in the Ellsworth American, which has overcome its "know nothing" nativist origins to become a fine newspaper, should scare us. A Chinese student studying at a high school in Maine was asked whether he finds school in the United States difficult: "English, yes. Math and science, no. Physics here is really easy -- basic compared to my five years study in China."
An item in the Ellsworth American, which has overcome its “know nothing” nativist origins to become a fine newspaper, should scare us. A Chinese student studying at a high school in Maine was asked whether he finds school in the United States difficult: “English, yes. Math and science, no. Physics here is really easy — basic compared to my five years study in China.”
Meanwhile, in the same newspaper’s extensive police reports — I prefer to think of them as the local box scores — I see that after someone on Great Pond reported hearing explosions, Lt. Tim Cote investigated and found a guy firing a homemade cannon. It being Maine, the officer extracted a promise that the weapon would not be shot off “at any unreasonable hours.”
They’re tougher on that sort of behavior down in hoity-toity Bar Harbor, where last year a drunk who was firing off a small black powder cannon was given a warning. But, it still being Maine, the tipsy artillerist was not arrested.
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