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County Property Appraiser mails 2010 TRIM Notices

BY PATRICK SMIKLE

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roperty Appraiser Pedro J. Garcia is urging property owners to carefully study the Notice of Proposed Property Taxes (also called the TRIM — Truth In Millage — Notice), which his office recently mailed to more than one million Miami-Dade property and business owners. In addition to the TRIM Notice, the package each property owner should have received contains a guide to help owners better understand the document, and a message from Garcia reflecting on the change in Miami-Dade’s real estate values. The TRIM Notice itself has valuable information about each individual property parcel, including: • Property values calculated as of Jan. 1, 2010, the statutory assessment date, using 2009 sales and market data; • Exemptions applied to the property; • Taxes calculated on the basis of the taxing authorities’ proposed millage rates, and • The dates, times and venues of budget hearings which taxing authorities (such as the municipal governments) and the school board are required to hold. The 2010 Certification of Taxable Value, which the Property Appraiser released to the taxing authorities on July 1, showed a

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Hair for ‘love’

Bye bye to excellent customer service from FPL BY ERNIE DE LA FE Pinecrest resident

Over 400 Alper JCC summer campers watched as assistant camp director Dave Madden and senior counselor Dennis Harris allowed camp director Ashley Conant to cut their 12-inch ponytails, hair they have been growing for four years. The two men donated the hair to Locks of Love, a non-profit agency that provides hairpieces to financially-disadvantaged children suffering from medical hair loss. Of course, Madden and Harris were reading the Pinecrest Tribune during the hair-cutting process. Thanks for thinking of us, guys.

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All it took was a little squirrel looking for a mango to eat and poof! My next-door neighbor and I were out of electric power for 22 hours. Remember the good ol’ days postHurricane Andrew or even Katrina and Wilma, when FPL trucks were applauded by scores of citizens as they convoyed their way toward the next lucky area to be re-powered? Or prior days when hurricanes seemed to be a football team that we all cheered as they took the field at

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Positive PEOPLE in Pinecrest

JULIAN HARRIS Palmetto High School junior Julian Harris has a passion for music. He’s in the school jazz band and plays volunteer gigs at community events for the School of Rock. “I’ve been playing since I was 10,” Harris says. “I’ve always wanted to play guitar. I’d seen people playing. When I was a little kid I’d say ‘I want to do that!’” So he took lessons from a friend who went to Berklee College of Music and had just opened a recording studio in downtown Charlestown, where the Harris family was living at the time. They moved back to Miami just in time for Julian’s freshman year. Back in South Florida, Harris spent a part of the summer volunteering at the Museum of Science’s summer camp program. He remembered attending the museum summer camp before moving to Charlestown. “I was an assistant to the counselor for a snorkeling class,” he says. “I helped the counselor and helped them (the kids) when they needed help. My job was to keep watch over them and make sure they didn’t wander off.” One of his priorities when he returned to Miami was finding a good music teacher. His aunt told him about the School of Rock, located in the Falls area. After checking it out, he began taking lessons there and is

still involved in the school. “There is a certain section that I’m a part of that plays gigs around Miami,” he says. “We go and play for people, mostly at events. We play rock music; classic rock, new age. It has to have a certain level of musicianship.” The gigs are diverse, including a fundraiser at Sun Life Stadium. “We played at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival a couple of times,” he says. “We have five to seven people and we go and set up equipment, put on a show, take the equipment down. We’ve learned how to run the equipment, so we don’t have a supervisor.” This summer, Harris did something different. He spent two months at the Alexander Muss High School in Israel. Why takes classes there? Because he always wanted to visit Israel. “They taught us about the history of the Jewish faith and all the wars we had to fight,” he says. “We would learn about the history of some place and the next day we’d go on a trip to that place.” The students visited Eliat, the southernmost city in Israel. “We stayed with an Arab tribe and we were there for two days,” Harris says. “They are not like extremist Arabs; they are Bedouins, a nomadic people. The sheik talked to us and told us the story of his tribe and the story of the Bedouin people.” Harris says he realized while he was there that he was more Jewish than he had thought. And he learned that the idea of Judaism in the western world is completely different than the idea of Judaism in Israel. While he was in Israel, he did get to play guitar. “I actually met a guy who played bass and he brought his bass,” he says. “We went into the city and played there in a square in front of a supermarket. We sat there and we played for hours.” Harris says his college and career plans definitely include music. “I’m hoping that I can eventually go to Berklee and get my master’s from Julliard, and after that to go on a tour and play,” he says. By Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

CARLEY SCHLEIEN Last year at this time, Carley Schleien was in the midst of planning her Girl Scout Gold Award project. The project was called the PAWareness Pet Fair and it was held in Pinecrest on the grounds of Bet Shira. “We planned for about eight months,” Schleien says. The fair turned out to be a huge success, drawing even more people than Schleien and her two friends, Brandi Applebaum and Lauren Gutlohn, had expected. “I learned an immense amount; I learned about leadership and responsibility and how to work with adults and businesses in the community and how to plan a pet fair,” Schleien says. “And I learned how to work with a group of people. I hope the public learned a lot from the fair.” Schleien and her friends have written a manual to give other Girl Scouts a road map on how to put on the event. So far, no one has stepped up to continue the project, but Schleien hopes that will change when the Girl Scout offices re-open and orientations resume. “We’re hoping at one of the orientation meetings to go and talk to a group that will take over the project in the future,” she says. “Looking back, I don’t have any regrets about the experience. I’m very happy with the way it turned out. It brought so many more people to the fair than we

expected to attend. Hopefully people walked away knowing more about taking care of their pets than when they came in.” This year, Schleien is a senior at Palmetto High. She’s very involved in extra-curricular activities and she holds a number of leadership positions. She’s moved up from news editor of the Palmetto Panther to Co-Editor in Chief. “Journalism is one of my passions,” she says. “I’m hoping the newspaper will be able to branch out this year. We’re going online this year. We’re hoping to get it started within the next couple of weeks.” The editors are also experimenting with a new design. “It should be a lot of fun for the entire staff,” she says. “Anyone involved with the paper should have a lot of fun this year.” Schleien is a member of the Quill and Scroll Honor Society, the English Honor Society, the Science National Honor Society, the Social Science Honor Society and the National Honor Society. She’s also the president of Key Club. “I’m really excited about that. It’s a great club to do community service and to learn how to give back to your community,” she says. During her first three years at Palmetto, Schleien competed in the Envirothon. She also competed in the Euro Challenge, an economic competition for ninth and 10th grade students. With all of her activities, she already has more than 500 community service hours. Those hours include time spent tutoring at Bet Shira and her work as a vice president of Israeli Affairs for United Synagogue Youth. Now, Schleien is starting to concentrate on going to college. She has 10 to 15 colleges that she is considering attending, though she does have her favorites. Some of her top schools include Stanford, Tufts, American and Yale. Schleien recently spent a couple of days at Dartmouth, which she says helped her focus on what criteria she will use in deciding on her final choice. While in college she plans to major in pre-med, but she would also like to join her college newspaper staff. By Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld

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JONATHAN BENSOUSSAN During his senior year in the International Baccalaureate program at Coral Reef Senior High, Jonathan Bensoussan will take the

most advanced courses possible to help prepare for college. “The IB program is challenging, but if you work hard and study, it’s also very rewarding,” said Bensoussan. “It is definitely preparing me for college.” His two summer internships also have helped prepare him for the future. With plans to become an orthodontist, Bensoussan has spent much of his summer interning two days each week at Dr. Richard C. Mariani Jr.’s orthodontist office and two days each week at Dr. Suzanne Abergel-Nahon’s dental office. “I had to wake up each morning at 7 a.m. to get to work and I was genuinely excited each day,” said Bensoussan. “I learned how to take impressions and make a retainer. I also helped the doctors with the equipment and tools they needed to assist patients.” Bensoussan said he has wanted to go into the dental profession since he was very young. He lost his two front teeth at age three and that he didn’t want to smile until his permanent teeth came in at the age of 10. “I know how important a healthy, nice smile can be to someone’s self-esteem,” said Bensoussan. “Nice teeth can change someone’s life and I want to help people maintain

a healthy smile.” The schools that Bensoussan is considering to prepare him for his career include the University of the Pacific and Boston University as both have a seven-year dental program. He also will apply to the University of Florida. “I went there on a college tour in March and really liked the campus,” said Bensoussan. “Plus, I’m a big Gator fan.” Bensoussan is also hoping to continue playing tennis when he attends college. He plays for his school team at Coral Reef Senior High and also trains each day for twoand-a-half hours at Coral Pine Park. Bensoussan volunteered as a ball boy at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne for the past two years and earned over 170 hours of community service. “I was on the courts picking up balls for great players like Federer and Nadal,” he said. Bensoussan began playing tennis in Paris, where he was born. He came to Miami during the summer of 2005 and was immersed into American culture and the English language. “I lived with the Klunders family for one month so that I could learn English quickly,” said Bensoussan. “The first week was very

hard, but I did learn!” Bensoussan earned 175 community hours as a volunteer youth soccer coach at Vineland Elementary School during his junior year. He’s been a member of the Model UN, National Honor Society and French Honor Society. As a member of these clubs, he’s participated in the Relay for Life and Dance for Darfur, and has raised money for people in Haiti. Bensoussan is also a DJ and music is a big part of his life. He created his own company, DJ for Teens, and plays tunes at house parties, birthday parties, Bar Mitzvahs and even at weddings. For the second consecutive summer, Bensoussan attended LEAP in Los Angeles, a week-long youth conference that fosters “leadership, excellence and accelerating potential” through workshops and guest speakers. “Last year, I attended as a student; this year, I attended as a coach,” he said. “You learn to set goals, accept advice from mentors and become a positive influence. It lasts only one week, but it changes your whole perspective on life.”

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the old Orange Bowl? A time when, if your lights went out, you called some friendly person at FPL who had a truck in front of your house within an hour to get your lights back on? You’re dreaming! Those days are gone, my friends. The other day when my lights went out with a loud bang shortly after mid-day, I walked out into the back yard and, sure enough, the fuse over the FPL transformer had blown. Right there over the edge of the transformer, I could see the tail and twitching hind legs of a poor electrocuted squirrel that had obviously caused the sudden outage. I quickly realized that all that was necessary was for somebody to show up with one of those long extension poles, change the fuse and snap it back in place. So, I made the call to FPL. Well, I immediately bumped into their automated customer “service” telephone system: “Press one for residential; Press two for your FPL account number; press one if your power is out, press one for a downed power line; press two if you have a dog. Your problem has been reported, we’ll have a specialist out there ASAP to determine what is wrong.” When I realized that I was being electronically placed in a queue with much more complicated problems, I called back to try to get a human being on the phone so I could tell them that this was a simple fix and all we needed was the guy with the pole. I finally got through to a live person, told them about the squirrel and they thanked me. I was happy. The power would be back on in no time. Yeah, sure! Soon, the wait started to get long, so I called FPL again. The automated system told me my estimated time of completion was 4:45 p.m. When 4:45 rolled by without the appearance of a truck, the estimated time got pushed back to 9:45 p.m. After 9:45, there was no new estimated time of completion in the system. I called

FPL, and called again. Every time I called, I got more of those fake “corporate-speak” apologies: “We DO apologize, sir.” You know, the ones who are not really apologizing to you, they’re really just trying to get your hot and hopelessly agitated butt off the phone at one o’clock in the morning so the computer records will show that their El Paso, Texas call center “successfully handled” one more complaint. After that, it was time to call it a day and I put my steaming body to rest, safely assuming that no-one would come until the following day, anyway. When I got up the following morning, I discovered that my cell phone had recorded a call at 2:36 a.m. from an FPL field supervisor telling me that somebody had been at my door “and couldn’t wake anybody up.” None of us — not my wife, my two grownup kids or I heard a thing. What did the guy do, stand there and attempt to ring my nonworking doorbell? Did he determine from seeing my pitch black house that we must no longer need his services? Did he think that it would be too dangerous to walk through the gate into my back yard because he or the company feared an attack from my 14-year-old Golden Retriever? He could not possibly have heard my dog because the dog was inside the house. Right now I’m thinking: big mistake to answer yes to the “Do you have a dog?” question on the automated system. After eight o’clock, I started calling again and only got a few more of the “We DO Apologize” apologies thrown my way, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and try to randomly hunt for an FPL crew in the area. When I happened upon one that was on the side of a nearby road, I asked them to please come to my house, only 18 blocks away. They called their dispatcher to get authority to do so and the guy refused to give them the go-ahead. He advised them that there was already a truck on its way to

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my house. I left disappointed and discouraged, but when I turned the corner on my block, lo and behold, there it was — a precious FPL truck sitting in front of my house! “Good morning,” I said to the driver with glee and appreciation. Then he proceeded to tell me that he couldn’t do it, that the transformer that we had was too small for my house and my neighbor’s, and that he was calling for another crew to come by in a couple of hours to install a bigger transformer. “Can’t you connect us until they get here? I asked. “Our food is going to spoil and, frankly, I don’t trust another crew to show up in two hours. I don’t care that the transformer is too small. It has worked fine for eight years. I’ll call and have them look at it some other time. Don’t go away! Just reconnect me!”

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“Alright,” he says with a bit of irony in his voice. “You want me to reconnect you, I’ll reconnect you.” It was almost as if he was telling me that, after that, I was on my own. So, in a matter of three minutes, the guy put on his helmet, grabbed his pole, replaced the fuse and bingo, we had power. The old adage: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” is alive and well. I’m just sorry I can’t say the same thing for good ol’ FPL’s previously outstanding customer service. And now, here I sit at my computer a day later, writing this column, small, underpowered transformer and all. I’ve called FPL about trying to get a bigger one. I wonder how long it will take them to replace it, but I’m not gonna worry about it. I don’t want to hear “We DO apologize” anymore.

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13.4 percent countywide decline in taxable values, with municipalities experiencing declines ranging from a low of 3.8 percent to a high of 31.2 percent. While individual properties are likely to show similar declines in market value, depending on their location, Garcia has informed that some property owners, who have long benefited from the Save Our Homes cap on value increases for properties with Homestead Exemption, approved by Florida voters in 1994, may see a 2.7 percent increase in the property’s assessed value. This increase is mandated by Florida law, which requires raising the assessed value of homesteaded properties by three percent or the Consumer Price Index (CPI), whichever is lower. This only applies to homestead exempted properties with an assessed value lower than market value. Property owners wishing to dispute their assessments have until Sept. 20 to

file a petition with the Value Adjustment Board (VAB). However, Garcia is encouraging property owners who have questions about their assessments or their exemptions to visit either the Downtown Miami (111 NW 1 St., Eighth Floor) or South Dade Government Center (10710 SW 211 St., Second Floor) offices of the Property Appraiser to discuss and resolve these questions in one-on-one interviews with his staff. They should bring to these interviews any documents such as appraisals, photographs and insurance claim paperwork, which may support their case for an assessment reduction. Questions about property tax rates, budgets, budget-hearings and related issues, should be directed to the respective taxing authority listed on the TRIM Notice. Property owners can contact the Appraiser’s Office by calling 786-3315321.

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Pictured are Karen Peterson Dance Company members John Beauregard, Jennifer Smallwood, Katrina Weaver and Karen Peterson Corash relaxing in Dubrovnik, Croatia after a five-day workshop in Trebinje. Thanks for thinking of us, guys.

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Read in Colorado

Here’s Kelsey Laura Giebel on vacation in Durango, Colorado. Of course she remembered to take along a copy of her favorite hometown newspaper and snapped this shot for us. Thanks for thinking of us Kelsey!

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Fatal February, Justice in June — by retired Judge Levenson BY BOB LEVY

I have managed judicial campaigns in Miami-Dade County for over 30 years. There are many judges that we helped in their campaigns 30 years ago who are retiring this term, and even more in two years. Time flies when you’re having fun and winning is fun. Losing? Well, there can only be one winner in each election. Because of the intense nature of campaigns, we often become friendly on a personal level with the candidate (and subsequently with the judge) and sometimes with the spouse. And so it has been with Bob and Judge Barbara Levenson. We have maintained contact even after Barbara retired. And so when she told me she was writing a book, I reminded her that it’s even more difficult than writing a legal opinion. She told me the real challenge was in getting more people to read your book than those that read your legal opinion. I told her there were those who had to read the legal opinion, but no one had to read the book. Having now written two books, I can tell you if you are from Miami-Dade and love fiction that is so real it jumps off the page at you, then you want to read her two books. Her first book is Fatal February, released in 2009, and her newest contribution is Justice in June. Let me urge you to read them in order, as the characters will develop for you in clearer detail (I think; of course I haven’t written a book review since college when I used my Cliff Notes to develop my report). The thing that makes these books so exciting to me personally is that if you’re involved in the justice system, every single person in the book comes alive for you and you can picture that person as someone you literally know. When in Justice in June Barbara talked about the Clerk of the Courts, that person was Harvey Ruvin for me; didn’t matter what his name was in the book. When Barbara talked about the chief judge, I saw Gerald Wetherington, Joe Farina and Joel Brown, who have spanned 30 years as chief judges. And when the story developed — and I don’t want to give away too much of the plot here — I knew the good guys and the bad guys in the book, but the lines were crossed and it’s only as the story develops that you learn who really “did it.” The stories about Guantanamo and how the system works today are as scary in the book as they are in real life. All one has to do is go to a Florida Association of Women Lawyer’s meeting

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and you’ll meet a dozen women like Mary Magruder Katz, the main character in the book. And when in Fatal February she meets a Hispanic male, well, it’s so Miami. And when they want to go for dinner and it’s off to the Forge or when she talks about the excitement the first time she walked up the stairs of the Justice Building (73 W. Flagler Street or l35l NW l2th Street, doesn’t matter which), one feels the book developing around you with familiar scenes. Carlos Martin, the boyfriend, is someone you’ll meet and feel like you already know, because we all know Carlos and many like him. This is a duo of wonderful books that anyone living anywhere can enjoy, but if you are a Miami-Dade resident, it is must reading. I literally could not put either book down, anxiously awaiting further exciting developments in the daily life of Mary Magruder Katz. The scene where the two families meet for dinner is just hysterical and all of us have had similar experiences. That’s what makes these books great, you will feel like you are reading something you have experienced yourself; because most of us have.

Bob Levy is president of Robert M. Levy and Associates, a lobbying and campaign consulting firm with over 30 years of history in Miami Dade County and Tallahassee.

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Bag’n Baggage is the one stop destination for all travel needs. Recently, the Bag’n Baggage store in the Dadeland Mall moved to a new location in The Falls shopping center at 8888 SW 136th St. near Bloomingdale’s. The store in The Falls is a part of the Colorado Bag’n Baggage group of stores. There are 27 Bag’n Baggage stores across the country. Each store is staffed with experienced, dedicated and helpful employees and the company prides itself on its customer service.

The Falls Bag’n Baggage store manager Luis Sanchez and his staff have almost 60 years of combined experience in the luggage industry. The staff is diverse, with backgrounds from North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, which is beneficial in assisting all customers. The store carries such brands as Victorinox, Kipling, Briggs and Riley, Samsonite, and Rimowa and Heys, and stocks merchandise from handbags and travel accessories to luggage. For more information, call 305-259-5163 or log on to <www.bagnbaggage.com>.

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FWC REPORT State wildlife grant program kicks off for 2011 BY RODNEY BARRETO Chairman, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Keeping common species common is the battle cry for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) Wildlife Legacy Initiative. This program creates strategic approaches for conserving all of Florida’s wildlife, from the fish in fresh and salt water to the invertebrates that remain unseen to the naked eye. There are many ways the Initiative works behind the scenes to prevent any new species from ever having to be listed as threatened by extinction. First, it develops the state’s Wildlife Action Plan which is the strategy that manages all wildlife in Florida. Second, it develops and maintains partnerships so resources can be pooled to conserve wildlife throughout the state. Finally, this is the place where Florida’s State Wildlife Grants Program is administered. These grants, funded by the federal government, provide the opportunity for some very important conservation work and research by the FWC and our partners. This year’s grant application period started Aug. 20. Applications will be taken through 5 p.m. Oct. 15. Grants will be awarded in February and selected projects will start on July 1, 2011. This is a milestone year as the state wildlife grants program celebrates 10 years of providing funding to the states for managing and conserving wildlife. Sept. 4-12 celebrates this occasion with the Teaming with Wildlife Week by highlighting some of the projects over the past decade that have benefitted from the source of these funds. These projects not only keep common species common throughout the United States, but conserve all species so they don’t become so rare that the price to protect them becomes too costly economically, socially and environmentally. The State Wildlife Grant program crosses state boundaries as well to work throughout the whole habitat of a species. A project, begun in 2008, to restore the habitat of the red-cockaded woodpecker involves the states of Alabama, Georgia and Florida as well as the federal government. Grant funds cover the cost of restoring sandhill habitat that has disappeared in the Southeastern United States at an alarming rate in the past half century.

Not only does the restoration conserve the habitat of the red-cockaded woodpecker, but all other species dependent on the ecosystem benefit. Project activities include prescribed fires and thinning dense pine stands. A 2008 project, headed up by the Florida Natural Areas Inventory, ended up with the discovery of a new species of invertebrate. The Auburndale scrub scarab was discovered by a volunteer and its known habitat is only in a very small patch of scrub in Polk County. This gives scientists hope that there are more species out there yet to be discovered which points to healthy habitats and thriving species. Another project, completed last year, studied the impacts of coral bleaching across the South Florida reef tract from Martin County to the Dry Tortugas. This project provided further detail on the genetic makeup of the two species of coral studied. These important data will assist scientists in the future as the stresses on our coral systems become greater. Grant applications this year must be relevant to the Florida’s State Wildlife Action Plan. In addition, the projects must address a conservation threat to a priority habitat or address the needs of a Species of Greatest Conservation Need. Priority habitats include coral reef, sandhill, scrub, softwater stream, spring and spring run, and seagrass. Preference will be given to projects that address multiple species of Special of Greatest Conservation Need and climate change. In addition, projects must be collaborative in nature and contain a non-federal match of 35 percent. Each year the Wildlife Legacy Initiative gives out dozens of grants to worthy projects that are feasible, logical and have a high probability of success. This program stands for the very best of what we all can do as wildlife managers to ensure the future sustainability of our fish and wildlife resources. Here’s the chance for our partners to come together in a win/win situation for Florida’s species. Doing something now to conserve our common species will prevent the high price we’ll have to pay in the future to keep a species from going extinct.

To find out more about Florida’s Wildlife Legacy Initiative and Florida’s State Wildlife Grant program, go to <ww.MyFWC.com/WILDLIFEHABITATS/Legacy_index.htm>.

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Emergency Exit Row August 2010

BY KAREN ARONOWITZ, President, United Teachers of Dade Steve Slater, the flight attendant who grabbed himself a couple of beers and slid into folk history, has become my imaginary pressure release valve. I can conjure up Steve, cursing out passengers, broadcasting his rage on the PA system, pulling the handle of an emergency exit for his own emergency escape, any time I must act better than the people around me. Steve, who has lost his job, his pension (twenty-eight years on the job!), and who faces a lengthy stay in the hoosegow, has provided a service to millions. He has provided a mental escape hatch when others are rude, disrespectful, arrogant, or just plain obnoxious. Who hasn’t wanted to open one’s mouth, let it rip, and flee through the emergency exit? Let the image of Steve be your own step back from the precipice of bad behavior. Let a Mona Lisa smile carry you through those times when the behavior of others is too much to take for even another second. As we prepare for the opening of school, how do we create an environment for children that teaches them the social skills needed to behave well? Of all the lessons learned by students, the most important one of all is called “Getting Along With Others.” “Getting Along With Others” has changed greatly, and yet, not a whit. Columbine and Virginia Tech changed our perception of the type of action students will take when they feel ostracized. Thirteen-year-old Megan Meiers took her own life after other stu-

dents ruined her reputation through cyber bullying. These chilling reminders of out-of-control behavior in our schools are reflected out of school as well. Their actions are not the sole province of mentally ill children. Who doesn’t know the meaning of going postal? As students head back to school, our teachers will provide a welcoming environment for all children in their classrooms. We will teach students to take turns, raise their hand to be recognized, wait in line, and share. We will work to provide a place of safety and respect for our students, and we will ask that they provide us with the same. Good schools provide safe, orderly environments for their students. Of course, our children live in the world. They bring to school the same behavior they see all around them. If they live in a world where people push and shove their way off of airplanes, disobey the rules to remain seated until the seat belt sign is turned off, ignore instructions to turn off all electronic devices, and who yell and curse at flight attendants, they will think this is acceptable behavior. Steve Slater lost his cool. He was unprofessional. He does not exemplify the behavior we expect of those who serve. But for a moment, as he made his escape, we cheered.

The United Teachers of Dade represents 38,000 teachers and school support personnel in MDCPS. The union is committed to being a leader in creating public school reform, fostering a quality public education for all students and elevating the professional status of teachers, paraprofessionals, office employees, and all school support personnel.

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News from the UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

UM physicist studies remnants of light from the dawn of creation

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News from the UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Miami and Notre Dame renew historic football rivalry starting in 2012

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