re East Grand Rapids Middle School: I remember a guy named Steve Brinks from Calvin College in the dormitories apparently he is a teacher here now. you normally expect people who go to Calvin to be conservative Christians b/c Calvin is a denominational college (now a university) affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church . but Brinks was a different character and his wife even more radical in the liberal-left direction. Originally from Seattle, a farmer's daughter, once again you would expect conservative, but she became a far left politician in Michigan. how the two of them met I do not know but it's a liberal family cesspool. you would never expect this coming out of Calvin College . And neither of them have that loyalty to other people that you would expect . they are there for themselves. Brinks himself originally always talked about how much he cared about poor people, but if that was so ,why did he jump over to the wealthy side of town as a teacher at the first chance he got ❓
(and his roommate in the dormitories i won't say his name, but he's a professor now at a top university in California... there's some mystery about him.. Where he came from etc...he became very adept at "acting intelligent" re pie-in-the-sky unprovable stuff.. yes... but total lack of values is the problem. )
And sometimes Brinks would take cheap shots at you . brinks never had a tough day in his life. Contrary to popular belief, being a missionary is NOT a rough life. and being a missionary kid is even easier. it's like being a child of a diplomat . This kid was spoiled to the core . exacerbating The problem was that he started hanging around with Rick DeVries...a whole 'nother character...& another character analysis needed. You could write a book about this group : a good title would be " the Perfect Storm". & Grand Rapids is stuck with them for at least another several decades until they retire . They're not going anywhere.
...I'll leave it at that for now.
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The problem with teachers like mr. Steve Brinks is because he was a missionary kid he didn't grow up here in the United States ,so he didn't even play team sports like football basketball baseball. I think he knew a little bit about fishing.. but not about hunting though ... just mainly fishing in Argentina... he just didn't have the basic sense of American camaraderie... problem with being a missionary kid is also his sympathies lie with the people of other countries more than with fellow Americans even though he has an American passport because his parents were American missionaries.
