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Over the past few weeks Nintendo fans have united for a project called 'Operation Rainfall'; a movement aimed at forcing Nintendo's hand in bringing over the titles The Last Story, Xenoblade, and Pandora's Tower. The operation seemingly failed though, as after a bit of hope initially emerged it was quickly shot down as Nintendo of America announced that it had no plans to bring the titles to the states. So what gives?
For the time being, I'm going to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt. Yes, it's true that Nintendo has thus far refused to bring over the likes of Fatal Frame 4, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Another Code: R, and, probably most infamously, Mother 3, to the states, but it seems to me like Nintendo may just be storing up for the coming winter.
"The coming winter?" you ask. Well yes, did you not watch Nintendo's E3 conference? Have you not paid attention to the release schedule for the Wii in 2011-2012? No? Let me enlighten you then. Between now and Christmas Nintendo is currently hoping to publish the new Kirby, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and Fortune Street. After that… there is nothing. The Wii U is probably coming out for the holiday season of 2012, and if Nintendo is smart, they will have their studios working around the clock to guarantee that the Wii U launch is mighty impressive so as to not have a repeat of the Nintendo 3DS launch. So what does that leave the dedicated Wii fanbase?
Well, right now, nothing. If your primary console is the Nintendo Wii, once 2012 hits you have a whole year of looking forward to… the Wii U and nothing else. OK, so Kirby will probably slip into 2012 for the U.S. If it does, then it'll probably be a January or February release. That leaves… eight to nine months of nothing. Eight to nine months of your Wii collecting dust while you begrudgingly wait for the new thing to come out. Historically, Nintendo of America hasn't let this happen. The closest they've gotten to this type of scenario was on the N64, but even then N64 fans got Dr. Mario 64 about five months prior to the Gamecube launch. And Nintendo of America did an OK job supporting the Gamecube in its final year, publishing titles like Baten Kaitos Origins, Odama, and their own The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (the proper left-handed-Link version to fanatical fans). So from a business perspective, it makes perfect sense to keep your fans on the edge of their seats, drooling over and begging for these titles. You guys are giving Nintendo so much free publicity for this stuff it isn't even funny, and I imagine the hope is that, once these titles are given to us (one by one, and never announcing the remaing game(s) of course), they will sell fairly well.
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Bulimia Vs. Anorexia
Approximately 24 million people suffer from an eating disorder, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders (ANAD).
Bulimia and anorexia represent two of the three most common eating disorders, with binge eating being the third.
If left untreated, these disorders can result in death. In fact, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and only one in 10 people actually receives treatment.
Below are some facts about the differences and similarities between bulimia and anorexia.
Anorexia Facts
- • Anorexia nervosa is a disorder where sufferers pursue losing weight despite appearing very thin and emaciated.
- • In order to stay thin, anorexics typically engage in extreme dieting, binge eating followed by purging, or excessive exercise to maintain their extremely low weight.
- • Some people with anorexia may abuse or misuse laxatives, enemas or diuretic medications.
- • Up to 3.7 percent of women suffer from anorexia at some point during their lifetime.
- • About 1 percent of female adolescents have anorexia.
- • Approximately 50 percent of anorexics also develop bulimia or patterns of bulimia.
- • About 20 percent of anorexics will die from complications such as suicide or heart problems.
Bulimia Facts
- • Bulimia nervosa is characterized by frequent, recurring episodes of eating large amounts of food (also called binge eating) followed by purging – vomiting, excessive use of laxatives, exercising or fasting – to get "rid" of the food.
- • People who suffer from bulimia may not appear to be underweight, but actually may be normal weight or even overweight.
- • Up to 4.2 percent of women suffer from bulimia at some point during their lifetime.
- • About 14 percent of gay males suffer from bulimia.
Source: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Related Disorders

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It seems as if there has been a movement of parents returning to our city's public schools. This is wonderful and the schools are improving. Yet still so many families are opting for private over public. Our city has more kids in private school than any other city in the country. It seems as if in order to have a top-notch district we need even more families to choose public. But how do we get them to make this choice?
The SF K Files is a place for parents who are seeking a school in San Francisco. The site offers up reviews of public, private and charter schools, as well as lots of advice and opinions from the community.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Hot topic: How can we get more parents to choose public over private?
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Some people will always choose private. The reasons vary.ReplyDelete
Perceptions (not always accurate) and reasons might include:
(a) desire for religious instruction
(b) perceived social/business opportunities of sending their kids to school with the "rich and powerful"
(c) desire for language instruction not available in public school (French and Hebrew come immediately to mind as languages available in private SF elementary schools but not public SF elementary schools)
(d) desire for smaller classes and more personal attention for their kids
(e) desire for a school with consistent and adequate funding that does not depend on the whims of legislators or California voters
(f) desire for specific on-site or school-provided activities or opportunities that a private school offers but a public school does not
(g) perception that public school teachers are so overwhelmed dealing with problem children that their kids will be lost in the shuffle
(h) perception that private schools have better teachers because they can terminate ineffective teachers more easily
(i) perception that public schools devote excessive time "teaching to the [standardized] test" and complying with "no child left behind" standards
I am not saying that all of these reasons are good or all of these perceptions are accurate, only that they are common examples of private school parent thinking.
Public schools will never get the snobs or the people for whom religious instruction is a priority.
The other things that would attract parents to public schools are all possible--with money and different labor contracts that give public schools more leeway to weed out poor teachers.
Things that ARE working really well to attract families to public schools and will continue to work are:
(1) It's not free, but it's cheap compared to private school, especially if you have more than one child.
(2) Public schools are improving their performance dramatically, and parents see it in test scores and hear it by word-of-mouth from other parents. Word-of-mouth is invaluable, especially if it comes from trusted friends and people who do not grind "private parents are bad for society/private parents are crazy" axes.
(3) Language immersion programs
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I am about to begin the K process for my 4-year-old. I must say that the SF magazine article back in January and spending time on this blog (making myself crazy with worry since my child was 3) have opened my eyes to all the realities--good and bad--of the public school system and assignment process. For the record, our family situation mirrors almost exactly that of "Kate's" at the time of the article, in terms of education level, income, hopes and dreams for our kids. The privates are really out of the question for us financially, and I do want my child in a school that truly reflects where we live. That said…ReplyDelete
The reasons for going private over public or vice versa are enormously varied, of course. But I must say that, in the end, knowing that the *real* chance of new families to the district (i.e. not with sibs already enrolled) getting any of their round 1 choices is about 55 percent, if that, makes me resentful. We both work, and while we will make the time to visit some schools, I resent a system that asks me to learn about so many schools with absolutely no assurance that we will get into *any* of them. Location is huge for us. I refuse to drive 45 minutes across the city if we get assigned a school in, say, Bernal Heights--heck, I wouldn't even drive to Clarendon. That's more than an hour of driving for me before I even commute to work.
I get what the assignment system is supposed to do, but it doesn't work: It doesn't truly solve the diversity problem, and it causes undue strain on applying families--OMG, I would be losing my mind right now if I didn't know where my kid would be going to school in less than a month! Truth told, if we don't get into any of the fine schools in our general area, we're going parochial (we attend church, though not Catholic).
A few months ago, I was feeling sanguine about the public school process--even after the article-- but as summer wears on and I see people still having to stress about their assignment... Hmmm. We'll go through the process, but I just don't have it in me to turn this into my second job. It's not hard to see why some people just want to opt out.
What does it mean to improve the schools? Raising the API scores a hundred points? Reducing class size? Decreasing the drop-out rate? Increasing the diversity class level, culturally, etc?ReplyDelete
We improve USD by pulling in a wider range of families. But by increasing the pool this it become more competitive to get into the most sought after schools. Families do not want to sacrifice their children's education to benefit the greater good of the District. There might be a noble few who can say, "Sure I'll send little Johnny all the way across town to school with busted restrooms and poor teacher attendance, because I believe in public schools". But that's few and far between.
The problems that affect public schools in SF are affected by the greater web of problems of this City's economic crisis, laws that favor renters over home owners, and laws that don't make it easy to raise a family in this city.
I'm a native born, and raised San Franciscan. I went to some horrible public schools on the South East side of town. My immigrants parents were just happy to have me attend school. I am expecting more from my son who just entered kindergarten in the District. And I am blessed in the last round to have gotten a school of our choice. But we hadn't gotten that call from the District I am certain we would've paid for private school. I didn't want my son to experience what I did.
We need to make this City more livable for families, small business owners, and the working class. This will help bring in a wider range of families, and improve our schools.
"But I must say that, in the end, knowing that the *real* chance of new families to the district (i.e. not with sibs already enrolled) getting any of their round 1 choices is about 55 percent."ReplyDelete
It's not that low. It's about 68%. Shrewd choices can increase it, though not completely obviate the risk of going 0/7. Think of it in the same way as college applications, with your top choices and your safety choices.
"A few months ago, I was feeling sanguine about the public school process--even after the article-- but as summer wears on and I see people still having to stress about their assignment"
Some are still in limbo, yes, but a lot aren't. This year not as bad as last year (anyone remember Flynnarado?), despite higher enrollment. Also bear in mind that those most likely to be commenting here are those unfortunate enough to be still hanging in limbo.
[FYI, we were fortunate enough to get our second choice in R1.]
I am European and I posted about this before. Where I am from, most if not all public elementary schools are good and parents do not have to worry that their child will be left behind in some way, be it socially or academically. Education is a top priority for law makers and money doesn't get cut at every corner.ReplyDelete
We made the sacrifice last year to move our twins mid-year to a private school on the Peninsula (on our commuting route to work) that offered us to slots. I had a lot of anxiety switching them, but it all turned out great, the school rocked, both of the kids learned to read in less than 6 months and became such confident little people. It would have been okay to leave them there, albeit a financial strain, which we would have made, without flinching, hadn't we been one of the lucky families to get something in our top 3 out of round I.
Some might think it's unfair - some kids got neither public nor private - and I would almost have to agree, but unfortunately that's how things work in an unfair system. It's a shame! We walk away happy, but I feel for all those who don't - starting Kindergarten should be full of promises and excitement for the kids and the parents, and not heartache anxiety and sleepless nights. I totally understand if parents continue to pick private or parochial, if public schools cannot provide equal opportunities for all. Why would some be asked to settle for less when it comes to their kids?
I question the underlying assumption that in order to have "a top-notch district we need even more families to choose public (that are choosing private now)". I do not think that the latter leads to the former, rather the other way around.ReplyDelete
Also, if the assertion that "our city has more kids in private school than any other city in the country" is true, then the question to be asked is " what makes San Francisco different to produce this result?"
Are SF residents that much richer, elitist or religious than other communities? These are the qualities often cited as correlating to private school attendance. I don't think that this is true.
Absent any other obvious reason, it seems that the difference is probably the SF school lottery and the uncertainty that it engenders.
In financial investments, people will pay a premium to reduce risk and uncertainty to obtain a desired result. I think there are enough people on the bubble financially who do not want to risk an uncertain result for their kids, no matter whether their fears are valid. The same families, put into a different situation, would probably happily choose public school as a valid economic decision.
"Absent any other obvious reason, it seems that the difference is probably the SF school lottery and the uncertainty that it engenders."ReplyDelete
No, the proportion attending private & parochial schools was high even before the lottery was introduced. The consent decree desegregating schools increased the trend towards privates. The decline in %age of non-Hispanic whites decelerated marginally from 1997-2005, but did not reverse. The district-wide lottery was introduced in 2001, as a consequence of the 1999 judgement against SFUSD using race as a criteria for placement in the old Optional Enrollment system: up until 1999 you got your neighbourhood school automatically unless you filled out an Optional Enrollment form.
Anecdotally, I'd guess things have changed for the better, as SFUSD has registered 10% increases in applications two years in a row, but don't have data to confirm that.
So, rather than the lottery specifically, the split is because of the consent decree trying to desegregate the schools of which the lottery is the latest mechanism to try and address this issue.ReplyDelete
It seems to come down to people being uncomfortable about race and class issues manifesting in school issues. I am sure private / parochial school attendance jumped after busing was started in school districts way back when. The divide is an ongoing legacy of this problem and one of the reasons reading this blog is so fascinating.
Speaking as a non-white professional, I think it is just an inherent problem of pluralistic societies and indicative of the tribalistic nature of human behavior. Not going to be solved easily or without pain.
I do think that trying to attract more "private school" families is really code for getting more white families into the system so that people will feel more comfortable with the schools. No one wants to be one of the only white families in a school. I am not judgmental about that desire at all. Just trying to get to the underlying basis so a better solution can be formulated. I do think that the needs of "poorer, non-white" students don't always correlate with the needs of middle-class white families.
I still think that the lottery probably accounts for more people opting out of the SFUSD system above and beyond those who would probably choose private school for the various reasons. This would account for the claim that SF has the highest percentage of private school attendance.
TeamLaLa has it right when s/he says the question to be asked is what makes SF different in the percentage of private vs. public attendance. For myself, the issue centers completely on the lottery and wild variances among our many choices. Great teaching but no on-site aftercare? Close to home or not? Close to home and with on-site before and afterschool program but no foreign language? There are certain things that just need to come together for us and that narrows our mileage here considerably.ReplyDelete
My impression so far is that the parochial schools--obviously not the right choice for many--are just as racially mixed as the public schools.
We might get really lucky and score one of our top picks in round 1 or 2. There's no Rooftop in our mix, but I'm not comforted even by the 68% figure. Fingers crossed.
I disagree that the lottery has a lot to do with the percentage of kids enrolled in private school.ReplyDelete
As tmcvey said and as I've read elsewhere, the percentage has stayed fairly steady since well before the lottery was introduced.
If you didn't have the lottery, you'd have neighborhood assignment or some other system where parents had no control, which wouldn't solve the problems WestSide mentions. In fact, WestSide, you seem to be arguing FOR the lottery because your neighborhood school is unlikely to offer the start time, after-school care, and enrichment programs you want.
But having a pure neighborhood assignment system might lower the percentage of kids in private because, in general, the kids who'd be assigned to low-performing schools in the southeast of the City are from families who'd be less likely to be able to afford private school. I don't think that's the goal the original poster had in mind.
I restate my point. Presumably, as others have noted , there is probably a baseline of parents in any community who will choose to send their kids to private no matter what It has been posited that SF has a higher percentage of private school kids when compared to other similar metropolitan areas. The question then becomes what separates out SF to account for this difference? If a similar increase from the mean occurred in Salt Lake City, I might postulate that might have something to do with a larger Mormon population. What then accounts for the presumed difference in San Francisco?ReplyDelete
The interesting data points to look at would be the following: Does SF have a higher rate of private school kids compared to similar metro areas? What was the private vs. public division before the consent decree? Did it increase after the consent decree? Did it increase again after the lottery was instituted?
Answers to these questions would help focus attention to the actual causes of any discrepancies.
I propose moving toward having neighborhood schools! This way, families buy into a school when they buy into a neighborhood. Until then, put this argument to rest, please! My neighborhood school is one of the hardest to win in the SFUSD lottery. And, my son lost. Not that it mattered much, because we had our eyes set on private school no matter what. The lottery was our back-up plan. Fortunately, he got a seat in our top private school choice.ReplyDelete
WE ARE NOT SNOBS! And, we have met many families attending my son's private school--and, THEY ARE NOT SNOBS! Trust me, I don't like snobs myself.
I like to think we are realists. Realistically, we know disenchanted families with older children in public school. These are families who were really into the public school experience in the early grades and who never even considered private kindergarten. We know families who moved out of the city after 3rd or 4th grade. We know families who looked at private school after dealing with the public school experience for a handful of years. This is the reality of the public school experience.
I have been told that there are some kids who do fine in SFUSD. I have been told that it is not for every child though...
So, we took the safe route with our child. It does NOT make us snobs. It is our way of being able to stay in the city we love.
PS-Good public schools should not have to rely on parent funding/fundraising. It should be built into the system. San Francisco is an affluent city. And, being an affluent city, it should be able to pay for good schools on its own, through its tax base. I propose that the city TELLS the state it wants to use its property taxes they way it chooses. Then, we as a city, can put the money into the schools. That is how it works in many other places.
I just want to add:ReplyDelete
Just this past year, one friend, who loved her daughter's SFUSD experience for two solid years, broke down. Her daughter was in a classroom with too many students and SFUSD did not place an aide in the room. The teacher was used to having smaller classes and was frazzled.
Another friend just moved because of an out-of-control class in one of the five dream schools (I am respecting my friends' privacy and not naming schools). The stories were bad. I asked, "How do the other parents feel?" Her reply, "Stuck."
I will say that in our experience, we would have gone public if not for the lottery.ReplyDelete
"I propose moving toward having neighborhood schools! This way, families buy into a school when they buy into a neighborhood."ReplyDelete
Problem is, what happens to the folks who can't afford to buy into the neighbourhoods with the good schools?
Second problem is, what happens when the district redraws the boundaries so that your house is no longer assigned to that desirable school?ReplyDelete
When you say you went private because of the lottery, I think you mean you went private because you were not guaranteed your neighborhood school. There's a big difference.
There are a lot of different ways to assign kids to schools, and the method is supposed to change this year. Here's a good thread from last year about it:
"The interesting data points to look at would be the following: Does SF have a higher rate of private school kids compared to similar metro areas? What was the private vs. public division before the consent decree? Did it increase after the consent decree? Did it increase again after the lottery was instituted?"ReplyDelete
That's probably Masters-level thesis questions you're asking, from my experience trying to get data to answer this question.
Finding data on private school participation in SF was very difficult: I used at the percentage of Caucasian kids in SFUSD as a proxy (as Caucasians are the most likely to go private: about 2/3 do currently), but didn't control for %age of school-age kids that were non-Hispanic Caucasians (while the %age of non-Hispanic whites was pretty constant from 1983-2005, I don't know if the same was true for school-age kids in that ethnic group).
In other words, answering your (very salient) questions are not gonna come from some quick Googling.
"Second problem is, what happens when the district redraws the boundaries so that your house is no longer assigned to that desirable school?"ReplyDelete
I think there's a real "far away pastures are greener" fallacy amongst people thinking here. Whatever the SFUSD chooses as the alternative in 2011, you are going to see a lot of nostalgia for the current lottery that year. There will be winners and losers, and you may find out that the situation for your kid for their neighbourhood elementary school is different when it comes to middle and high school.
My preference for the lottery is that (1) outcome is independent of ability to afford to live in certain neighbourhoods, (2) it forces SFUSD to Do Something if a school is tanking in popularity, because the money follows the student, and below a certain enrollment level a school isn't viable. Does anyone think you'd have the rapid spread of immersion programs (e.g. Webster and DeAvila in teh past two years). A decade ago, Noe parents didn't consider Alvarado an acceptable option. Five years ago, the same was true for Bernal and Leonard Flynn.
Losing the quasi-market aspects of the lottery would be to the disadvantage of the public school system as a whole, IMHO.
On the subject of neighborhood schools, I just heard this from an American friend who's lived in Paris the last 15 years: She said school quality within the city varies a great deal depending on the affluence of the neighborhood. To get kids into a desirable school when they don't live near one, parents will be buy or rent a "chambre de bonne" (maid's room, barely more than a small closet) so they can claim an address near a desirable school. I know Kim Green has French connections--can you or anyone else corroborate or debunk?ReplyDelete
"To get kids into a desirable school when they don't live near one, parents will be buy or rent a "chambre de bonne" (maid's room, barely more than a small closet) so they can claim an address near a desirable school."ReplyDelete
Heck, that goes on in Piedmont and Marin, so doesn't sound like a stretch to me.
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The 1st choice lottery percentage is not 68%. That statistic includes siblings, who get priority, and that isn't a true lottery (albeit fair.)ReplyDelete
Also, there has been much discussion on this blog about neighborhood preference WITH EXCEPTIONS. Lots of great ideas. I think there is something much better than a straight lottery.
"The 1st choice lottery percentage is not 68%. That statistic includes siblings, who get priority, and that isn't a true lottery (albeit fair.)"ReplyDelete
We've been over this before. You have to subtract the sibs from the nominator and denominator to get the right percentage of non-elder sibs who get one of their choices.
~30% of applicants get sibling preference. 78% got 1 of their 7 choices this year. So the correct fraction of non-sibs getting one of their choices is 48/70 = ~68%.
Thanks for the clarification, tmcvey. I've seen wild comments around here about that rate being 50% or less--I guess a combo of bad math and high emotion. 68% is about correct, I think, in the aggregate: 68% of non-sibling applicants get one of their seven picks for kindergarten.ReplyDelete
Of course anyone can raise or lower the odds on an individual basis. Basically, add two or more schools that have not been oversubbed in past years and your odds go way up (though still no guarantee). I mean this exactly--schools that have not been over-subbed. That doesn't mean schools that used to be much less popular but have since climbed the charts (like McKinley, Flynn, etc). The round one numbers are posted on sfusd.edu under enrollment--you can figure out exactly which ones did not have more apps than spots in the last few years. These numbers will also give you a sense (fwiw) of which schools are gaining in popularity over time.
I don't say that to mean there is some kind of moral obligation to do this--anyone has a right to list only the top-requested schools if those are the only ones you like. Just that eyes wide open is good. If you do put only popular (over-subbed) schools, you *may* hit the jackpot on a popular school that you like. But the odds are good that you won't, especially if those schools are *wildly* over-subbed (Clarendon, Miraloma, Rooftop).
My takeaway point from having gone through it is that the universe of schools that are not over-subbed is really varied, so you might to include a couple of them of *your* choosing. JOES in the last year would be a good example, though I bet it climbs a bit this year--as Sunnyside has also been doing. Paul Revere or Rosa Parks or Daniel Webster or Glen Park or Sheridan would be ones to look at next year. Harvey Milk is a sweet school that is is perennially undervalued (imo)--it tends to sit right on the bubble of getting the same # of apps as spots.
Anyway, the point is that if you don't put down a couple of these schools, you are more likely to be assigned to a school in round one that is not of your choosing or liking.
The advice on having a backup plan is good. Especially a first-come, first-serve parochial, since the odds of getting accepted at that private school (let alone getting financial aid) aren't so great either, and that process is arguably more stressful than any.
Following on an excellent post by grylkymt:ReplyDelete
"If you do put only popular (over-subbed) schools, you *may* hit the jackpot on a popular school that you like. But the odds are good that you won't, especially if those schools are *wildly* over-subbed (Clarendon, Miraloma, Rooftop)."
Also, as how you rank a school is used as a tiebreaker between kids with the same diversity index in the lottery (or at least it was in this year), if you put a heavily oversubscribed school like Clarendon, Miraloma or Rooftop lower than 1st, 2nd or 3rd place, you've essentially wasted that slot on your application.
The only reason to list a "trophy" school in 6th or 7th place is if you've only interested in the trophy schools, and are optimizing your chances of getting into a trophy school by making sure that you go 0/7 if you don't get one of your top 2-4 choices. But that's a high risk strategy requiring gonadal fortitude and a private or parochial or "move to the burbs" Plan B.
Also, getting in off the waitpool may leave you scrambling for an aftercare slot.
"My takeaway point from having gone through it is that the universe of schools that are not over-subbed is really varied, so you might to include a couple of them of *your* choosing. JOES in the last year would be a good example, though I bet it climbs a bit this year--as Sunnyside has also been doing. Paul Revere or Rosa Parks or Daniel Webster or Glen Park or Sheridan would be ones to look at next year. Harvey Milk is a sweet school that is is perennially undervalued (imo)--it tends to sit right on the bubble of getting the same # of apps as spots."
Other schools that are underappreciated relative to their quality are Moscone, E.R. Taylor, and S.F. Community, all in the SE of the city. All are very solid in their test scores. Longfellow also has good scores, but to be honest left me cold for a couple of reasons (mostly lack of aftercare for the kinder year).
Regarding SE schools, I echo tmcvey's assessments, and note that the Daniel Webster campus is looking great these days with the new coat of green paint and all the greening (planting) efforts.ReplyDelete
On the other side of town from SE, I would add William Cobb as one to look at as they expand the Montessori program.
And I say again: Rosa Parks; great parent base, intentional approach to diversity and connections to their diverse neighborhood.
Also on the north side, I would urge parents to check out Redding, which has a diverse student body, decent test scores, an experienced staff, and a decent arts program.
Then there are several high-performing schools in the Chinatown/Russian Hill area that may be accessible to "not-poor" families as many of their students are free-lunch qualified. In other words, the mostly middle-class and well-off SF K Files base would actually represent diversity in the lottery. These schools might be good options for parents who work downtown.
Potential options abound below the radar, but you have to look, ideally in the first round. To my mind, these are the schools most worth touring, because there is so little information available online compared to Miraloma (which even has virtual tour available online) and Clarendon et al. If you have limited time available to tour, I'd put the time into finding the below-the-radar options rather than be one of the huge herd on the tour of Clarendon.
"Then there are several high-performing schools in the Chinatown/Russian Hill area that may be accessible to "not-poor" families as many of their students are free-lunch qualified. In other words, the mostly middle-class and well-off SF K Files base would actually represent diversity in the lottery. These schools might be good options for parents who work downtown."ReplyDelete
Man, I never even thought of using looking at the %age free-lunch qualified to figure out the socioeconomics of a school and how that would affect what that school needed to add diversity. My hat's off to you.
Listen to grylkmnt. They speak wisdon.
Tmmcvey - I believe this is not the case. "Diversity" at SFUSD is not true diversity. There is no attempt to get a cross-section. Percentage of kids on free-lunch is often used as an indicator of a school's "poor" index. Marshall is close to the top of the list w/only a few schools in Bayview having more % free lunch kids.ReplyDelete


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The fact is that I sort of had two mothers, growing up. One is my real mother, Lee, who has always been the rock upon which my two brothers and I stand. The other is my aunt, Rena, who I consider in many ways to be the mother of my intellect. Certainly she's the mother of my reading passion. I would not be who I am today without either of these two strong women, my mother and her sister.
Lee, my mom, has always been there and always been a staunch lover of her children, from the very first day any of us were born. (Sorry about that breech thing, mom. Honestly, I saw no sense in plunging head-first into things. I preferred to come out sitting down, so I could ponder thoughtfully.) When mom found herself supporting us three kids pretty much on her own, around the time I turned 17 (my brothers were younger), she buckled down and did it. She had occasional help, but she was the one who took four people who were pretty separate beings at the time and kept us alive and melded us almost single-handedly into a close family.
The truth is, though, that we argue a LOT. Our personalities and beliefs are extremely different, so the clashes are inevitable. And yet the one day that I think best exemplifies my mother was the day after I had to take my sick cat, Pieces ('cause we loved her to pieces), to the emergency animal hospital because she'd become so sick that I knew it was time to say goodbye.
Mom came to get me the next morning, and spent the entire day driving me around, to the mall, out for coffee, and visiting my brother and sister-in-law and their new baby. Mom was the driver, but she let me take the lead. When I felt like talking about Pieces, we talked about Pieces. When I got the sniffles, she let me cry. When the topic wandered away to other things, she wandered with me. She was a cloak of support the entire day, not pushing about anything, not intruding, but just holding me.
That's how my mom is. I have always said she is probably the kindest person on the planet, to almost everybody. And anyone who has worked with her or known her would tell you I'm not just saying that because I'm her daughter.
Then there's my aunt, Rena. A survivor of polio which she had contracted as a child, she went on to get a university degree and become a highly respected teacher. She sensed very early how much I loved to read, and loaned me her hardcover Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books when I was ten years old. And she loaned me her Chronicles of Narnia too. She introduced me to several writers as I grew up, and I grew fascinated by her enjoyment of history and art.
Rena was the only one of the five sisters who went to university, and I think she was disappointed that none of her nieces or nephews followed her. Then I started university at age 25, a bit late, and I was always extremely proud that I, at least, valued higher education as much as she did. Her love of knowledge was part of what spurred me on. I used to phone her every week, my first year, and talk about the great things I was learning.
When Rena moved into a smaller place and gave away a bunch of things, I got a lot of her books. I have the copy of Hamlet that she studied in university. I have her Faerie Queen and Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century, and her hardcover copy of John Donne's poetry sent me over the moon. These were some of her textbooks from the 1960s, and they are my treasures.
Rena helped my mom sometimes, as mom had to take care of us three kids alone. These two strong women have always been an integral part of my life – there for every birthday, Christmas, and other special occasion, right up until ten years ago when I moved to Toronto. I sometimes feel like these two women literally grabbed and dragged me up from being a kid until I was finally an adult. I don't know how I would have gotten here without the two of them. Granted, I've done most of the work of creating myself through my adult years, but they set my feet on the road and walked along it with me.
So really, if anyone thinks I've turned out okay, I should point to them and say, "Yeah, well, they started it."
Happy Mother's Day to my two mothers!
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This post would have gone up for Mother's Day anyway. But it was originally going to be part of the Twitter Chats Blog Tour, and then I couldn't get it done in time to be part of that. However, if you'd like to read the tributes, poems, stories, and posts about mothers from the members of that blog tour, start with Anne Tylor Lord at the Don't Fence Me In blog, and follow the tour from there. It's really very special.


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Famous Pakistani film star Sana Nawaz pleads to the government to reckon the Pakistani film industry and allocate budget for it.
"The government can play a significant role to develop the film industry," said the 37-year old actress and model. Sana started her career in 1997 from film Sangam. This famous Pakistani film star has starred in around 16 films since then. Her latest film 'Jackpot' has earned quite a business lately. Sana has also participated in reality shows like Madventures as a winner and Mazak Raat as a guest.
Being a famous film star, Sana Nawaz has been nominated for several awards as Nigar Awards for Best Supporting Actress in 1981-2001 and 2001-2002 for Urdu films category. She has been nominated for Lux Style Awards for both Best Film and TV actress.
The Revival Of Pakistani Film Industry
Talking to App, Sana hopes the government will surely meet all demand for giving Pakistani Film Industry recognition it rightfully deserves. The revival of Pakistani film industry began with the film Khuda Kay Liye which made $1.1m at domestic level alone.
Khuda Kay Liye was the first Pakistani movie released in India after four decades which encouraged producers and directors to initiate producing movies at home. 'Waar' is an extraordinary example of it. Since then till now, a lot of Pakistani movies have been released making a good deal of business. Wrong Number, Karachi Se Lahore, Janaan, and Actor In Law have attracted the audience.
It looks like the old Pakistani Film Industry that was slowly strangled on purpose in Zia-ul-Haq's era has already learned to grow and exercise its power. The amendment in censorship laws has also made a good deal of difference. Owing to these reasons, Pakistani artists are demanding the government to fully reckon the industry and allocate a budget for its growth.


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A series of this Blind Masks were made, coming in a variety of colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Black, and White. Each has the same pattern of silver embrodiery across the face and head, a seemingly abstract pattern.
When placed over the head, they allow the wearer to breath normally and do ont block any water, smoke or gasses. Hearing and scent are muffled, and sight is blocked.
The mask can expand to fit an oger's head, or shrink to fit a halfling or kobold.
Magical Properties:
Once the mask is secure on the wearer's head, the blackness remains for a moment, then a type of vision returns. The wearer sees a place similiar to where they donned the mask, but different. It may be a different season, a different time of day, different weather, even a whole different location, but different somehow.
The wearer will notice they are equiped differently as well, and dramatacilly, or even over dramatacilly. Impossible weapons or outfits are common place, like 8 foot blades and chain mail bikinis. Soon a mysterious voice or sign made of eye catching and gaudy colors will lead them in a direction, and the begining of a challenge. After a fairly easy series of encounters, they find a larger opponent who is almost thier equal. Once defeated, the "boss" dissolves as the other opponents have, but a prize of some type remains.
These are really just games, diversions to entertain. But the Blind Masks are magical and can create power they were never intended to have.
Once a boss is defeated, the guide will inform them how to 'draw' thier prize. Untill they draw thier prize, they do not possess it in the game. To draw thier prize, they usually need to place thier hand inside the mask and say a word or phrase, although some of the higher level prizes require things to be placed inside the mask and the things are consumed when the prize is drawn. Each prize can only be drawn once per day, but more levels have more prizes.
The Blind Masks are cursed as well. While the wearer might learn some new technique or move from the imaginary encounters, most of the things in the games are impossible. In a real life situation, they would fail and leave the performer exposed. And real life happens.
About every seven to nine levels into the game, the Blind Mask doesn't make the vision similar to the surronding area, but directly based from them. Aslo, instead of thier movements being solely in the imaginary world, they move in real life as well.
In this level, they may find theyselves dissapointed slightly depending on how many people are around them. Their companions now look like vicious monsters similiar to what they have seen and sound like them as well. The only differnce is the monsters will move like their freinds now. These levels often lead to the slaughter of many friends and the wearer as well.
Each color of mask has it's own kind of theme to it. Red tends to show creatures and places assocated with fire, Orange is more comical, with vicious bunnies and cream pie weapons. Yellow is desert palaces and open plains, Green is plants and forests, Blue has the ocean with it's ships and seas. Purple has a posionous swamp and lightless cave system, Black is a mertopolis with an underground of demons and undead. White is a cold tundra waste with horse riding hoards.


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This week in far left extremism…
Students at Oberlin College have drafted a 14 page document demanding that the school begin creating spaces designed for racial segregation and that students who organize protests against the school itself be paid $8.20 per hour for doing so.
"This institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy," the document reads. It goes on to state that the document's list of demands "are not polite requests, but concrete and unmalleable demands."
In an email to the Telegram, Oberlin spokesman Scott Wargo said that although the school would need time to look over this particular document, it has already been working on an "inclusion and diversity strategy" for 18 months and that strategy will "be complete" by March.


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|Becky's Thanksgiving Vintage Book Table Decorations From Murfreesboro, TN
There are many things you can create with old books; they also look great on a bookshelf as decor. You can find instructions for advanced projects such as purses and book safes online, or you can tear out the pages to use in a myriad of ways. I like vintage books, magazines, and maps for card making, decoupage, wrapping small packages, and shredding into confetti. In the last picture, you can see how I used them to wrap small sample candles that I enclose with orders for my etsy shop.
Today, I am going to show you an easy holiday project, making the paper ball Christmas ornament in the picture below.
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Character Birthday Challenge ~ Madara
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- AnonymousDecember 30, 2013 at 5:40 AM
Happy belated B-day Madara !ReplyDelete
He's not as cool as Orochimaru, but he's still better than Obito as a villain (actually, everythin is better than Obito as a villain, even my neighbor's dog's shit). I hope we'll get to see real fighting now that it is Madara's turn, instead of Obito's *sob* story (that no one is interested in BTW).
Dunno if you read the reports of the recent JUMP fest, but if not : Kishimoto said that at the moment, he still has no idea who to kill Madara, so he's not going to die anytime soon. Hopefully he doesn't get TnJ-ed like Obito and remains true to his ideals to the end.<
But yeah, can't wait for him to die too, so we can see NARUTO's big finale : Naruto vs. Sasuke !Replies
Yeah, he's a great villain. And yes, Orochimaru was/is way cooler. Obito's story didn't chance my opinion about him at all. Losing a friend is horrible, but trying to put everyone under an illusion, is quite drastic if you ask me. He could've just asked Kakashi what happened. But we'll see what happens to him at the end.Delete
I've heard these rumours and like everyone else, I'm wondering who and how they (eventually) will be able to kill him. It isn't going to be an easy task for sure. But I do want him dead.
And besides all that, I'm still wondering what Sasuke's deal is by helping Naruto. He didn't change at all I think. And that would change everything. No big finale. Nothing to discuss. Who knows what Kishimoto has in mind? We'll have to see.
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2013 at 10:36 AM
It is not the first time in literature, movie, manga, etc. that a foe has been so much powered up by the author that even he, the author, can't kill the said foe.Delete
And usually, this kind of invincible foe is defeated by a smart but extremely simple strategy, so simple that no one would have thought about it (and if I'm right, then it will soon be Shikamaru's time to shine, he'll find a smart but simple strategy, relayed to everyone by Ino, and yay ! war over).
But since Kishi doesn't know how to get rid of Madara yet, it means that the manga is going to drag for week AGAIN.
About Sasuke, I think he's simply helping getting rid of the "junk" that is standing on the way of his great battle with Naruto, so they can fight "peacefully", for the simple sake of fighting (oh, and maybe for the Hokage seat too, but I think this is just an idea Sasuke got in order to give to Naruto a good reason to fight him).


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Louis Bircham scored a hat-trick as Leverstock Green came back from 2-0 down to beat Hoddesdon Town 5-2 in Saturday's SSML Premier Division game at Pancake Lane.
Leverstock started the game well, and had a good chance in the 11th minute when Callum Wright turned in the box and put the ball across the face of goal, but nobody could get on the end of it.
It was somewhat against the run of play when Hoddesdon took the lead in the 27th minute, Daniel Udoh breaking through to slot the ball past Dan McNicholas.
However, the visitors then took control of the game, and almost added a second in the 38th minutes when Udoh was put through again, but McNicholas saved well with his legs.
Hoddesdon did get their second goal in the 43rd minute, when a ball across the box found Aaron Crockett all alone with time and space to shoot home.
Crucially, however, Leverstock pulled a goal back on the stroke of half-time.
A free-kick into the box was not cleared, and Louis Bircham found the composure to hit an angled shot from six yards into the corner of the net.
There was little sign of what was to come in the early stages of the second half, with Hoddesdon looking more likely to add to their lead, only being denied by good work from McNicholas.
The turning point came midway through the half when a quick turn from Bircham inside the centre circle launched an incisive Leverstock counter-attack.
Bircham found Luke Warner-Eley, who put Wright clean through. Wright took the ball past keeper Sonny Sheed-Ryan, but was then pulled down by the keeper.
The referee awarded the penalty, but remarkably took no further action against Sheed-Ryan despite him clearly being the last man.
However, Bircham stuck away his 20th goal of the season from the penalty spot to level the scores at 2-2.
Within two minutes the game had turned completely as Leverstock were awarded a free-kick just outside the box, and Luke Warner-Eley curled it over the wall superbly to put the Green 3-2 ahead despite Sheed-Ryan getting both hands to it.
Hoddesdon should have brought it back to 3-3 in the 83rd minute. Udoh was clean through and could have scored himself, but instead laid off to Jamie Brandon who was even better placed. Brandon had only McNicholas to beat, but slotted his shot inches wide.
That proved crucial as Leverstock went on to score two more goals, both of them created by Luke Preedy, one of the talented U18 players who came on as a 75th minute substitute.
In the 86th minute Wright crossed to the back post, where Preedy met it with a cushioned header back into the six-yard box for Bircham, who brought it down and stabbed the ball home to complete his third hat-trick of the season.
Two minutes into stoppage time a pass from Preedy put Callum Wright clean through, and Wright neatly lobbed the ball over Sheed-Ryan to complete an excellent 5-2 win.
The three points were enough to ensure that Leverstock are mathematically safe from relegation, with two league games remaining – the first of them being next Saturday away to Colney Heath.
Leverstock Green: 1. Dan McNicholas, 2. Damien Cruickshank, 3. Luke Warner-Eley, 4. Dwaine Bryan, 5. Danny Arnett, 6. Timi Salako (12. Luke Preedy 75 mins), 7. Elias Moses (14. Ricky Dash 68 mins), 8. Tommy Walsh, 9. Louis Bircham, 10. Carl McCluskey, 11. Callum Wright. Sub not used: 15. David Paredes.
Hoddesdon Town: 1. Sonny Sheed-Ryan, 2. Sean Stock (17. Dejan Yornadov 83 mins), 3. Kevin Metivier, 4. Ike Nzuruba, 5. Joe Welch, 6. Tom Proudlock, 7. Aaron Crockett (12. Adam Arnold H/T), 8. George Lyons, 9. Daniel Udoh, 10. Kambo Smith, 11. Jamie Brandon. Subs not used: 15. Sonny Evans, 16. Thomas Cowell.


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Organizational Engineering Track at ACM SAC 2006 (ACM SAC 2006 - OE)
Venue: Bourgogne University
|Event Date/Time: Apr 23, 2006
|End Date/Time: Apr 27, 2005
|Registration Date: Feb 01, 2005
|Early Registration Date: Nov 05, 2005
|Paper Submission Date: Sep 03, 2005
Special Track on ORGANIZATIONAL ENGINEERING
23-27 April 2006, Dijon, France
Full paper submission: 3 September 2005
Author notification: 15 October 2005
Camera-ready copy: 05 November 2005
ACM SAC 2006: 23-27 April 2006
For the past twenty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has
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Organizational engineering aggregates concepts and methods from
multiple areas of knowledge, including requirements engineering,
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Happy Raksha Bandhan Wishes, SMS & Messages in Hindi, English – The eternal love and bonding between brothers and sisters are commemorated as a festival which is known as Raksha Bandhan or Rakhi Purnima. It is basically observed on the full moon day in the Shravan month. So, in this ongoing year, it will take place on Thursday, August 18th, 2016.Raksha Bandhan is enthusiastically celebrated around each and every corner of India. After offering prayers to God, this precious day commences by applying tilak on the forehead of brothers, performing aarti and tying a sacred thread on their wrist as a symbol of protection. And then brothers delight their beloved sisters by giving lavish gifts.
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Rakhi is just an excuse for me to express myself:You mean the world to me. Happy Raksha Bandhan to my sweet sister.
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always being there on my side and for helping me innumerable number of times and in infinite ways ! Happy Raksha Bandhan
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Raksha Bandhan SMS – Raksha Bandhan is a religious feast of India which commemorated with the utmost of charm and happiness throughout several regions of the country. On this special eve, sisters tie a beautiful Rakhi to their brother's wrist and pray for his long life and well being. Here, we have gathered a wide range of Happy Raksha Bandhan SMS. You can send these meaningful and fabulous wordings to your brother/sister and greet your sibling on the heart-warming occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
Behano Ko Bhaiyon Ka Saath Mubarak Ho;
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Rahe Ye Sukh Humesha Aapki Zindagiyom Mein;
Aap Sabko Rakhi Ka Paavan Parvati Mubarak Ho!
Tyoharo ka tyohar
Rakhi ka tyohar.
Jis se jhalakta he
Bhai Behen ka Pyaar..
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Yeh Lamha Kuch Khaas Hai,
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O Behna Tere Liye Mere Pas Kuch Khaas Hai,
Tere Sakoon Ki Khaatir Meri Behna,
Tera Bhai Humesha Tere Saath Hai.
Sister is someone who is caring and sharing. Sister can understand things you never said. She can understand pain which is not visible to anyone. I love my sister.
Happy Raksha Bandhan SMS in Hindi
May this Raksha Bandhan bring U all the prosperity and good luck in your way of life.
Happy Rakhi Sister…
"A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams."Happy Rakhi..
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Raksha Bandhan Messages – Raksha Bandhan is a most auspicious Indian festival that symbolized the loving and cute bond between brothers and sisters. Every year, this blissful feast is celebrated with lots of enthusiasm and joy. As, this year's Raksha Bandhan is just round the corner, here we brings to you most beautiful Raksha Bandhan messages. You can send these lovely greetings to your beloved sister and let her know how much she is mean to you and cherished her presence in your life.
Dear Sister, May your desires and prayers come true this Rakhi and may you flourish and reach great heights in your live. With warm wishes… Happy Raksha Bandhan.
My caring sis, you are my sweet angel. I pray to Almighty that may your entire life filled with joy and happiness. Happy Rakhi!".
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No matter how far you are, my warm relates to are always with you… this Rakhi, we will once again revive the spirit of the happy days … … Happy Rakhi!
Delighted Rakhi, my loving sister … You are my sweet angel… your are my dear friend… I will certainly always be with you… you are my real joy. I love you my dear sister… Happy Raksha Bandhan.
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A sister is an unique present of life… a life long buddy … My sister … a really Happy Raksha Bandhan. May God bless you and may each of your day full of delight and success.
Rakhi, it is the ideal time to thank you for your love, support and care. Thank you sister very much … and wish you a very Happy Raksha Bandhan !!
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In which a zombie imperialist space cop gets caught up in a complex plot to—well, this enjoyable sci-fi outing gets even more complicated than all that.
Those who have seen the film Event Horizon will remember that a starship that got caught up in a time-space-continuum eddy got all, well, weird—or, as its creator puts it, "[w]hen she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back—she was alive!" Debut novelist Leckie's premise dips into the same well, only her spaceship has become, over thousands of years, a sort-of human that is also a sort-of borg made up of interchangeable-parts-bearing dead people. Breq, aka One Esk, aka Justice of Toren, has his/her/its work cut out for him/her/it: There's a strange plot afoot in the far-flung Radch, and it's about to make Breq violate the prime directive, or whatever the Radchaai call the rule that says that multisegmented, ancillary humanoids are not supposed to shoot their masters, no matter how bad their masters might be. Leckie does a very good job of setting this complex equation up in not many pages, letting detail build on detail, as when Breq finds—well, let's say "herself" for the moment—in an increasingly tangled conspiracy that involves the baddest guy of all, the even more multifaceted head honcho of the Radch. As the action picks up, one just knows there's going to be some battering and bruising out on the shoulder of Orion.
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20 year old Nigeria full back Tyroone Ebuehi has sign a new contract with Dutch Eredivisie side ADO den Haag extending his deal to the summer of 2018.
The club announced they extended his contract via their official website ending speculations about the future of the right full back who was born in the Netherlands but has a Nigerian father.
Ebuehi turned professional with ADO Den Haag last season and made 7 appearances but this season he has already better that tally by one more appearance with more matches to go before the league ends in Holland.
Known for his calmness and neat tackles he has only being booked once in the 15 games he has played in the Dutch top flight league.
He is eligible for Nigeria at international level through his father but he also qualifies to represent the Netherlands where he was born.


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Happiness is not an easy feat. A sliver of wisdom from past Anna (me haha!) that I had forgotten about.
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Roselyn Sanchez first erupted onto the big screen with her role as sexy Secret Service agent Isabella Molina in the second installment of Brett Ratner's Rush Hour. Sultry and exotic, the Puerto Rican beauty sizzled onscreen. And now, a decade later, she's managed to maintain her career, proving that she boasts a whole hell of a lot more than just stunning good looks.
An actress, writer, producer, and philanthropist, to say Sanchez stays busy would be an understatement -- even following the departure of cop drama series Without a Trace. And she's all about taking on new projects such as Los Monólagos de la Vagina, a Spanish-language production of the infamous Vagina Monologues, which plays in Miami this month. We recently got a chance to catch up with Sanchez to talk about her career, her success, and her long-time desire to flex her funny bone.
New Times: Your first big break was Rush Hour 2. It's been a long road since. How have things changed for you?
Roselyn Sanchez: Immensely.
It was a huge break for me, that movie, that I will be eternally
grateful to the director, Brett Ratner, for. At that moment, it opened
so many doors. And I've been very blessed. I've been working non-stopped
since that movie. In this business it's up and down. And I can't
complain because it's been pretty consistent, the way Hollywood has
treated me in terms of work.
And I think doors are opening for
Latinos, though it's still a bit of a battle, raising your hand and
being like, "I'm here, I'm here. You know, I don't always have to play
the Latina. I'm an actress. See me as something more general." But I
can't complain. It's been really wonderful.
Your next movie was Chasing Papi, with Sofia Vergara, and she's had tremendous success recently with her ubber-Latina role on Modern Family. What do you think it says about Latinos' role in American entertainment these days?
think the business in America was ready now to embrace a character like
that, compared to five or six years ago. I think it is a testament that
things are changing and they're more open to us.
You've done a lot of comedies. Is that a natural aspect of your personality that you embrace?
I would love to do even more, especially after doing five years on Without a Trace.
I've done a lot of comedies, but I'm not the funny one in the movies.
I'm always the normal element. I'd love to do something more comedic,
but I think people see me more as playing the lawyer, the cop, these
serious roles because of Without a Trace.
So I've been fighting to do more comedy. One of the reasons I did Vagina Monologues in Miami, is because the material is so rich. And it can be really sad, but also very funny.
Tell us a bit more about the Monologues.
loved it. It was just incredible. I took some time off after Without a
Trace, and I really was looking forward to doing something that was just
going to feed my soul and make me fall in love with acting again. And
it was my first time basically acting in Spanish. It was just the most
surreal experience. I'm madly in love with it.
Back to Without a Trace. Tell us about that experience.
became a family. That was the most beautiful thing for me, besides it
being a huge show and being so recognized. I made friends for life. I
wanted to move on, because when you do a procedural cop show, you don't
feel, as an actor, like you're doing a lot. So I was looking forward to
doing something else. And now we all miss it, and I'm like, I wish I
could've done just one more year. Because I miss everyone.
You've accomplished a lot thus far. What are you most proud of?
proud it makes my family feel, I think. I left Puerto Rico at 21
saying, I just want to act. I want to be a star. And I was able to pack
my bags and leave, and actually make something out of it. And it really
makes me proud to see that they are proud of me.
And I think the
platform that my position has given me in Puerto Rico--to be able to do
charity work and have a voice because people know who I am--that's been
the most fulfilling thing ever.
Tell us a bit about all that charity work, and the Triathalon for Life.
the godmother and the spokesperson for this organization called the San
Jorge Children's Foundation, which is a foundation for kids with
cancer, lupus, but mainly cancer. And it's just parents that are low
income families that don't have the money or the education to be able to
deal with these horrible sicknesses that their kids get. So I do a lot
of events in Puerto Rico throughout the year, and then last year I came
up with he idea of doing something that was health-related, and that I
could involve the committee and raise a lot of money. And I just came up
with this triathlon and we put it together last year and it was an
incredible success. And it's just amazing. It's a lot of work, but at
the end, it's incredible the experience everybody has.
I also
give money to another foundation called Casa Cuna de San Juan, which is
another organization in San Juan for kids that have been abused and have
been removed from their families and are up for adoption. And there are
just these horrible stories that you hear. And in that temporary place
before they get adopted, there's a lot of need. So I help raise money
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for all those nurses and social workers and volunteers that take care of
them until they get adopted.
Rosalyn Sanchez appears in Los Monólagos de la Vagina at the Trail Theater (3715 SW 8th St., Miami) Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7. The production is entirely in Spanish. Tickets run $20 to $35.
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