Peter G. de Krassel - Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder

I first want to acknowledge and thank the teachers I had starting in primary through high school who repeatedly tried to flunk me because of my incorrigibility. My father was a correspondent for the BBC who had been assigned to Switzerland and Cyprus. My parents divorced in Cyprus and I moved with my mother to Israel to attend high school. After graduation,I went to America to attend university. My wandering Jewish-Viking heritage has kept me on the road and in the air most of my life. As a result,I am a perennial geopolitical social and political student observer.

I want to thank all my teachers academic and social whose teachings and observations helped me coalesce my thoughts about our future educational necessities. These teachers taught me academic survival in environments in which I was destined to fail. It started with primary school at an English school in Cyprus. I had arrived from Switzerland, fluent in Russian and German. Academic survival got worse when the teachers at the Army Childrens School in Famagusta, Cyprus, repeatedly abused me verbally because I lived off base among the locals and was not an Army brat. The teachers at the American Academy in Larnaca, Cyprus, who flunked me because I was Jewish, gave me my first wake-up call about religious hatred and persecution. The teachers in Israel frustrated at my elementary knowledge of Hebrew, which I started to learn only when I enrolled in high school deserve special mention. Their determination to teach me Hebrew while I was preoccupied with the very approachable coeds who were unlike anything I experienced in Cyprus was commendable, but futile. My knowledge of English and Greek helped me pick up the walking dictionaries hot chicks who were impressed with my knowledge of foreign languages. Helping them with their English homework in exchange for Hebrew lessons and not just the language was quite an education.

Getting through university and law school in America and graduating with honors was largely attributable to the coeds impressed by the fact that I graduated high school in Israel and spoke Hebrew. Study groups were very helpful in picking up the smartest student always of the opposite sex, especially in the mid-to-late60s in Flower Children blooming Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. Im all for diversity these days, but Ive always stuck to what I know best.

Teaching university students, as I have on occasion, is a reminder that many students still try to beat the system and just get by, so they can get that piece of paper known as a diploma. I am grateful to my friends who are teachers, and their colleagues, for sharing with me their experiences and frustrations with the U.S. education system. They are the real dedicated Maids determined to sweep in the changes necessary to ensure that our children are able to intelligently compete and tackle the global mess they will inherit. Dr. Kristin Berman, Laurie and Mark Tigan, Scott and Valerie Beall, Heather Hill and Brandon Royal are teachers who taught me that the No Child Left Behind campaign actually puts all children further behind. These teachers kept me focused on what ails the U.S. education system today and why America is in dire straits academically as it enters the 21st century, unprepared for the geopolitical realities it faces.

Unlike many of the teachers I have met who engage in and practice phenomenological qualitative research I am an active participant-observer in the unqualitative political policies of America, domestic and foreign, that have adversely affected the quality of life of all Americans especially students.

The people acknowledged in Volume I of this trilogy, Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder , are again recognized and applauded for their ongoing contributions. David Weiner, Bill Corsa, Rose Carrano, David Farnsworth and Vivienne Wong deserve a special thank you for their patience and persistence in getting my books into bookstores.

My interlocal transglobal editors in North America and Hong Kong, Jim Houston, Jim Hollander, Stuart Wolfendale, Ralph Herman and Brandon Royal, took on the awesome editorial commitment to improve the reading quality of the book and deserve special mention for their editorial guidance and caustic scalpels.

American idiot.

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