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Things That May You Say 'What'? (or our weekly Curmudgeon-in-Training Post)

The Columbus Dispatch reprinted a Wall Street Journal article with the headline "Spiritual activities make us happiest".

I figured by spiritual activities they meant prayer, volunteer work, bible reading, etc...

But spiritual activities are defined therein as exercising, visiting friends, listening to music, fishing, attending church, reading a book, sitting a cafe or going to a party.

The word "spiritual" has really got watered-down if it means going to a party.

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I live in a typical suburb, neither too rich nor too poor. And it was interesting to recently see how many employees have been hired who are not teachers but whose job seems to be handling troubled students. (There are six principals for the local high school - in my day we had one principal, and we liked it!)

Here is a partial breakdown from a local blog:

82 Intervention Specialists including...:

*17 "gifted" instructors & 19 psychologists (Does not include 33 Guidance Counselors)

*17 "gifted" teachers & 40 Reading Recovery/Title reading teachers

*13 Kindergarten Intervention teachers KINDERGARTEN????

It's interesting how over the years the mission of "school" has expanded. Now it includes elaborate sports programs and psychologists, and probably sports psychologists. :-)