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Once these aspiring educators enter the teaching sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
...rain, a character offers up her shirt to shelter the group's campfire. But just when it seems like there will be some gratuitous seminudity, the scene devolves into a gruesome amputation ending in death. Plus, she gets her shirt back by the following scene. And when these women enter the Amazon, they get wet only up to the waist. It's like a whole show of nothing but lifeguard rescues. "One of the challenges we face is to keep the historical and anthropological interest alive while also having beautiful women in jeopardy," explains Benchley. How about you just find...
...Enter the poseurs: Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Donna Karan...
...Enter the scavengers: The Gap, Banana Republic...
...African-American dancers saunter onto stage wearing black (get it! get it!) and start to boogie--and I mean exaggerated, highly offensive, stereotypical "boogie-ing"--to the generic beats of a sunglasses-wearing saxophone player. A second later, a group of beautiful blond Irish dancers all wearing white (aha!) enter stage left to start a little friendly competition with these upstarts. It's embarrassing. But the audience ate it up. Even more embarrassing...