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The story of Ross Sheppard High school teacher Lynden Dorval relates to a post I am working on that looks at the delivery of education in broad strokes and (congrats Lynden) also relates to a post just published last week by yours truly titled "When one person stands up".  What I am saying here is that his story has an under current that connects it, no different than any other news story, to other stories. Mr Dorval has been suspended by the Edmonton Public School Board with pay for the crime of what? He is not some child predator, he teaches physics and he seems to be a person who has a beef with the way he must grade his students. He has looked at his profession as something that has a long term impact on the behavior and perhaps success of his young charges. He has what seems to me a very realistic view of what "the system" is creating in the way of  a work mindset and he questioned the wisdom of the system and was as he puts it, considered a firebrand ...

So you gonna vote? Spoiler Alert!  There are no  (more) nude women in this post! Its just that the NDP need help so thought I'd draw more of an audience to my humble blog of course the honorable folks in the NDP would never stoop to the lowest rung like yours truly, maybe they should. When you consider my roots are in Saskatchewan you'd think I would be all over the NDP and until the Green Party I did. Hey  I do like NDP policies and in the pack of wolves who are vying to be top dog in Alberta the NDP are the only ones who field a leader who has a degree in Political Science, more ironic than anything of substance. Truly I find the fact he was an Edmonton city bus driver for many years to be of more interest and IMO of more value to the electorate. New Democrats have pretty much always been third or forth in the popular vote in this province and while we do not have huge numbers of union members you'd think they'd do better than they do. Brian Ma...

So the history of my left thumb is one that defies logic. I would have been 16 and I put it through a table saw, just a flesh wound or so it was thought.. The two screws are holding whats left of the bottom knuckle A few stitches  and no X-ray which was unfortunate if I'd had one it would have shown the bone fragment on the inside of the knuckle which would cause me some discomfort latter. Then when I was married just before the first one arrived I managed to plunge a razor knife into the end of it cutting to the bone that took two or three stitches. After marriage I took a corner of it off with a chef's knife at a restaurant I was co running I drove to emergency and they could only tape it back on so that when it healed I had a thumb that looked like Hannibal Lecter had tried tasting by slicing a morsel off . Then the Oct  incident in  a week after which I pretty much  severed it at the knuckle. about two weeks ...