Students at This Catholic College Will Lead the 2017 March for Life

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Pro-Life Students Threaten to Sue High School After Officials Trashed This Pro-Life Poster

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Elementary School Chapel

pros and cons of school uniforms

East High School fight prompts discussion at school board meeting

"Be Advised: The Power of Mentoring"

Private Baltimore school exceeds expectations

sunrise private school students - choreography RLV Soumya Prakash

Students host town hall meeting for District CEO Eric Gordon

Elementary Library Routines - Edgerton School District

Metro Schools Offer Free Summer Lunch To Students

recess at school

Vintage Trading Lunches (stock footage / archival footage)

2012 Texas Christian Homeschool Prom - "The Kingdom"

How-to Homeschool - High School Graduation Requirements

Student organizes bake sale for Japan

West Forsyth High School 1990-1991

The Night Before the SAT

Schools desperate for substitute teachers

A teacher describes why she left teaching in public schools... Common Core

Hall Monitors

When I was in high school we didn't have hall monitors. We had a home room teacher that told us that if we were late to class that we would get detention. Hall monitors would make things interesting because he or she would give a student or students citations for being late for school or class. 

MSPDP Sample Debate: Television is a Bad Influence

An Example of a Parent Teacher Conference

Parents May Sign Away Rights With School Permission Slips

When I was going on field trips back in the 80's and 90's that I can remember, it was the parents and teachers responsibility to make sure that the kids were well taken care of. The parents made sure that they read the permission slip or slips carefully before signing them and the teachers made sure that their students was not going anywhere without adult supervision. If there were any accidents like shown in the video on school buses the students parents knew about it. The kids were treated if there were any injuries and the teacher made sure that the students were excused from any activities that he or she couldn't participate in due to injuries. I can honestly say that the only field trips that I missed was because I didn't have my permission slip signed in time or I left my permission slip home while leaving for school (which didn't happen that often). Safety first must be taught in anything that the kids participate in.

Lessons in Faith: Bible Club Puts God Back in School

Pro-Life Student Group Wins Battle Against University Discrimination That Denied Its Club Status

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United With Christ-02/28/14 Alexandra & Joyce Swann "Common Core & Homes...

In today, I encourage parents to home-school their kids because the public school systems are so dumbed down (not at all when I went to public schools growing up). Parents have their reason for homeschooling their kids & it's safe to say it make a lot of sense. Peer pressure to do drugs, drink alcohol, and run the streets have zero influence on kids being home-schooled. I am encouraged whenever I hear stories of those who were home-schooled. I learned you can't judge people by the schooling or judge them because of the type of schooling (at the time I didn't understand). Alexandra Swann home-schooling experience is an inspiration!

Escape Common Core: Homeschool or Private School

Students for Life of America Announces New Pro-Life Outreach to Middle School Students

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Middle School Field Day, 2013

CES GR 8 Coolest School Trip 2013

Tutoring at Cornelia Elementary

High School Health Class Turns into Exam Room

Wow, I wish this was more thought of when I was in high school when I was in Health Class. I've used the grocery stores blood pressure and cholesterol machines and learned that I generally had excellent health. 

Clifford The Big Red Dog : Children Read Aloud Online Book by Norman Bri...

Students for Life Group at This Canadian University Sues After Its Club Status Was Yanked

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High School Quiz Show: Andover vs. Lincoln-Sudbury (707)

Evolution of Music: Woodinville High School Glee Club

Guidance Counselor

Project Shop Class spotlight school:- Britannia Secondary School

Mr. Newland's PE class of the 80s

Lassen High School Art Project

Homeschooling today

It's been going on 12 years since I've last did a 8-10 page research paper for English 101 for Community College Public school or private school vs. homeschooling. If you would have told me that homeschooling was the best solution, I would have probably argued why public school or private school might be the best solution for kids going to elementary school, junior high, and high school. However, my views have changed in the past 10 years. First of all, public school have been like a war zone for kids. Bullies are a lot more common, gang violence is happening more in the inner cities, gun violence has been on an all-time high, suicide rates are at an all-time high, and what is being taught in the school curriculum is a whole lot worse nowadays than it was back in the 80's and 90's. Private school, once thought of as a school parents wanted to send their kids to, have become more and more like public schools in their teaching criteria. Parents want the best education for their kids and their kids are getting a watered down version of learning to where he or she can just get their passing C or D to graduate from high school and not learn a thing after they graduate. Parents who have brought up their children in a Christian home where he or she was involved in the church and church activities instill Proverbs 22:6 (KJV) which says "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." This is a constant Bible verse that my mom instilled when she was raising me and my 6 older brothers. Some of us went through challenges while others of us didn't go through as much challenges. Out of all of my brothers, I was the only one that did 2 years at a private school.

Now my attention will be focused on homeschooling. At this day and age homeschooling may very well be viewed as the best solution. Here's why, for one school is not held 5 days a week and 6 hours a day like both public school and private school. What children learn in public school or private school for all of those hours, children learn the same thing in 2 hours at home. Parents have an option of what subject or subjects that they want to talk about while homeschooling their kids and SAT's tests or any form of Aptitude tests are not focused on as much like they are in public school. The children are in their element and the parents who are teaching their children are like their children's advisers as well as their teacher. Public school or private school can be challenging for children and making friends can be tough because there are crowds. The popular crowd, the smart crowd, the thug crowd, etc. Not everyone is going to like each other and often arguments, bickering, and fighting may occur when children are in both public school and private school. Parents won't have to worry about things like that going on because they would be homeschooling their children at home. There are some knocks on homeschooling like home-schooled children could become emotionally and socially detached after they graduate from high school and decide that he or she may want to go to a Community college or a University. Also, home-schoolers are viewed as possibly being emotionally and socially detached in the workforce too. I think that may have to do with a lot of exposure that parents have going on for their children when he or she is meeting new people. In church, it's easy to fellowship and meet a lot of new people if a home-schooled child or children was brought up in the church. Another thing, you meet a lot of people traveling and going on different field trips. I think if parents are not satisfied with the education and if they feel that their children are not learning then homeschooling is not a bad idea. I think probably the biggest challenges that kids go through is being ridiculed or being made fun of in private school or public school. If a child have Autism, Down syndrome, Dyslexia, ADHD, etc., he or she is prone to being bullied because of it. Parents who home school their children with special needs or who have children with any kind of disability will feel a lot better than sending him or her to public school or private school. Public school and private school is where they label people and stereotype people. The education have been dumb down to the point that it's not worth parents sending their children to public school or private school.

Say No To Drugs - It's Your Decision / Educational Anti-Drug Documentary

Bully Prevention

The effect of bullying (A bully will target anyone who is defenseless)

A bully usually bully another person because they were bullied themselves when they were a kid. (An act of cowardliness)

It takes everyone in their towns of their respective states in 50 states that help prevent bullying in their community.

I thought I would write about a topic that is constantly occurring such as bullying. Bullying have been going on when I was in elementary school since back in the 80's, when I was in private school back in the early 90's, and when I was in high school back in the mid till late 90's. The definition of bullying is simply those who are bigger and stronger and picking on and harassing (both verbally and physically) those who are smaller and who are weaker than him or her. Bullies tend to be cowards, who prey on those who are intimidated by him or her. For example, a young teenager who is 13 years old in 8th grade might bully a kid who is in elementary school maybe who is 9 in the 4th grade. He or she may threaten to beat that person up if they don't give them their lunch money. When I was growing up people handled bullies differently. They usually stood up to them when he or she got tired of being bullied. Or they went outside and fist fought until the other person lost (9 times out of 10 it was the bully that lost the fight and he or she left that person alone who they were bullying). If you were in the inner city that is how people dealt with bullies or they got a bunch of friends who were small like them and ganged up on the bully and beat him or her up that so he or she would stop bullying little kids who were smaller than them.

You look back how things were back in the 80's and 90's and look how things have changed so much since then. For one thing people is bullying people online as well as in school. This form of bullying is Cyber bullying where a person meet someone online and just threaten to beat him or her up. Chatting online is not always the best way because people can cuss or swear and he or she know that there is nothing that the other person can do because they are anywhere between 20 miles- 10,000 miles away from them (one girl was being bullied online in Seattle, WA so much to where she got tired of it, so she left Washington State and moved to Connecticut to stay with her Aunt). People used to say things face to face and didn't hide behind a computer but people who are on social network websites like Facebook, MySpace, etc., are usually being harassed with hateful comments on their wall or in messages. It's really no use in anyone trying to make their profile private because everyone know who you are if you are an active user of those websites that were mentioned. I heard so many people who were bullied on social network websites who were young teenagers who committed suicide by hanging themselves from listening to the news. Bullying have been more common to where parents who have children carry guns, knives, and other weapons to school because their son or daughter is being constantly bullied and beaten up for their lunch money or their clothes. In a lot of cases the teachers are even bullying the students which is more common now. It's true, I've heard cases where a teacher slapped a student or punched a student in the face. The mom or dad of their son or daughter get a phone call from the principal that their child was beaten up by the teacher in class. How do you prevent bullying? How do you stop kids from committing suicide because he or she was constantly bullied to where they couldn't take it anymore? Well, it takes everyone as a whole that is going to help prevent the bullying that go on in the inner cities, in public schools, and online.

LEARNING HOME ECONOMICS

Three R's by Ruth Beechick Book Review

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Teaching How to Write the ABC's and 123's to 3 and 4 year olds.mov

Abstinence Education Successful as Number of Teenagers Having Sex Has Dramatically Declined

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Missed the bus 1989

I will never forget it was the summer of 1989. You are out of school for the summer and what that means is that there are summer programs for kids who are out of school ( 3 months to be exact). I remember how students who participated in this program all went to Sarah J. Rawson Elementary school and rode the school bus to go to Trinity College in Hartford. The City of Hartford had a lot of programs like that every year for 6-8 weeks. You went to Trinity College every day and took classes like if you were in Elementary School. The major differences is that you enjoyed better food for breakfast & lunch and got involved in sports more and took classes like the following: Tennis, Swimming, Enrichment, etc. Enrichment wasn't considered a sports class because it was a class where you were more sociable (A lot of students wish that there were more classes like that in school, lol). I would enjoy the classes because they were chill and students had a chance to relax from the work they have done in elementary school. At 11, I enjoyed doing some Gymnastics (not much of a gymnast but it didn't stop me from trying anyway) and it was fun. Everything was going well but there is always one thing that can happen that will cause you to be wondering what are you going to do to get out of the dilemma you are in? Well, me and another classmate, who was about 10-11 years old both went to the same elementary school Sarah J. Rawson and we both somehow managed to miss the school bus that we normally would take to go back to Sarah J. Rawson. The other classmate & I was not the best of friends but we both realized that we were going to have to put aside our differences and be friends if we were going to go home to our family.

 

Meanwhile, the first thing you do when you are lost is go to a police officer. That's what we learned to do and is part of the "safety first" manual. Me & the other classroom saw a woman police officer (Hispanic woman) and told her that we were lost and that we were trying to figure out how we were going to get from where we were at from Trinity College to Hartland Street & Pembroke Street in Hartford. The police officer woman told us to go to the fire station and ask the fireman if we can use his phone to phone our parents. Me & the other classmate did exactly what the woman police officer had told us to and asked the fireman if we could call our parents. At first the fireman wanted to know if we were lost and we told him "yes." Then he wanted to know where we live and me and the other classmate told him Hartland and Pembroke Street. The woman police officer came inside the fire station and filled the fireman in on everything that was going on and the fireman let us use his phone so that we can call our parents. My friend called his parents and I remember calling my mom telling her how the bus left me and another classmate and that we were calling because we are going to be late to both Hartland Street (where the classmate lived at) and Pembroke Street (where I lived at). My mom understood and was calm because she knew this was a different case scenario then the time I went missing back in 1986. I let her know that a police officer will be taking me home to the house and the other classmate home back at his house. The other classmate & I filled the woman police officer in that our parents understand that we will be coming home in a police car on Hartland Street and Pembroke Street. The woman police officer dropped me off at my house first to Pembroke Street and dropped off the other classmate off to his house at Hartland Street. By the time I got home I remember my mom telling me, "The school bus driver is not going to always ask is everyone on the bus like he didn't in you and your classmate's case so you have to make sure that you are out there in time to catch the bus from now on." I listened to my mom and made sure that nothing like that ever happened to me again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me and my classmate missed our bus at Trinity College

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We met a woman police officer and asked her for help at the police station and told us to go to the fire station and ask them if we could use their phone to call our parents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me and my classmate asked the fireman if we could use his phone to call our parents, the woman police officer filled him in on everything and the fireman let me and my classmate use his phone so that we could call our parents.

Kids Send Precious Thank You Notes to Pro-Life Legislators: “Protecting Babies Makes Me Feel Happy”

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Nick on Romper Room (1985)

Summer Reading Program

A Day in the Life of a Teacher (1988)

This was back in the days when there were not much teacher scandals & where the school system had "One nation under God" in their school curriculum as well as cursive, learning where kids could take what their learn and it helped better themselves and prepared them to go on to higher grades and excel at whatever they were trying to succeed at using the proper resources. Computers that focused on learning first & fun after the kids were done with homework.  Now that's Common Sense Education!

High School Coach: 'Don't Go to Study Hall, You Don't Play'

Working at Prosser Public Library 1997 (Contemporary Issues Project)

Prosser Public Library

I really enjoyed doing Community Service.

Contemporary Issues dealt with everyday issues in society, media, politics, and was a fun class that I took my senior year of high school.

The first thing that come to people's mind when they think of Community Service usually is that someone is working off a criminal record. That is usually the conception that people have of juvenile delinquents or people who have had criminal records. Trust me when I say this, there are a lot of people who do Community Service for voluntary work or in my case for a school project for Contemporary Issues class. It was my senior year of high school I was 18 going on 19. Contemporary Issues was a new class that was added to the high school teaching curriculum and class of 1997 had to take that class and do Community Service in order to graduate. I learned a lot from that class, me along with a lot of students learned that we not only had a new class but also a new teacher. We learned that the teacher who we was supposed to have got a better offer to be a Vice Principal at Suffield high school in Suffield. As a class we learned to adapt to our new home room teacher. Contemporary Issues was a class that dealt with issues such as discrimination of all kinds, politics, media, etc. I was getting a good feel for the class and for some reason kept delaying to do my Community Service. I was the type of student that was at my best when "my back was up against the wall" meaning I always seemed to thrive when overcoming a lot of adversity. Community Service was 1/3 (33%) of our grade and this included the self-evaluation that the director or supervisor had to do for our Community Service hours (we had to complete 24 hours of Community Service). The early people made sure that they started doing their Community Service in October of 1996, November of 1996, December of 1996, etc. I on the other hand, waited like late February of 1997 and early March of 1997 to do an assignment that was do in late April of 1997 and early May of 1997.

I am thinking that it was time for me to act very quickly if I was going to get my Community Service hours in. The assignment was worth 33% of my grade. Mathematically, in order to pass Contemporary Issues class without doing Community Service you would have to have an average of 93-100 (too much of a gamble to risk chancing). My average in Contemporary Issues was 70-73 and I was thinking about how hard I worked in summer school in 1996 to make up for failing 2 of the 4 classes my Junior year of high school. I decided to make an appointment and meet with the director at Prosser Public Library in Bloomfield. The woman I will never forget her name was Elaine (not quite sure of her last name) and Elaine had a chance to explain to me what I would be doing while doing my 24 hours of Community Service. I would be in charge of shelving books, magazines, and videos in alphabetical order by last names and titles. Elaine mentioned to me about doing a sign in/out sheet where I would sign in every time I came to the library and sign out every time I was done that particular day.  I was very eager to work because I had a little less than 2 months to complete my Community Service and I gave Elaine my self-evaluation paper that she had to fill out on how well or not well I was working at the Library. Once I started working I remember working 1 1/2 hours for the first time I was working at the library and my hours gradually increased every time I went to Prosser Public Library. I finished off my Community Service hours by doing consecutive 8 hours from 9 AM-5 PM on Friday and Saturday. One of the Librarians noticed how hard I was working and offered to pay me for my service. I kindly told her "no" because I had to work at the library for my Community Service. By the time I was done with my Community Service, it took me approximately 3 weeks to complete 24 hours. Elaine, the director of the library wrote such a really good self-evaluation about me, it looked like a letter of recommendation. Elaine complimented on how eager I was at working at the library and getting in my 24 hours of Community Service, on how hard I was working at the library, and on how much I did a very good job shelving books, magazines, and videos in a very well organized way in alphabetical order, and on how I did all that was asked of me. I was so glad to complete Community Service and I wound up getting an 80 (I had a 78 but the teacher was convinced to give me 2 extra points for working so hard). My senior year I graduated along with 112 classmates with B's and C's at 19 on June 13, 1997.

Edmonson County High School Junior - Senior Prom (1997)

This brings back memories when I was at me Senior prom at Chez Josef in Agawam, MA back in 1997. I remember the 2 girls that I danced with & the 2 girls I took photos with. Not bad for someone who went solo.

Recess at Piedmont High School

Letterville: Cursive Handwriting Series

Summer School 1996

You are in high school and you are working (at least giving all of your effort anyway) to do all you can to try and graduate. You never would dream of having to go to summer school unless it's to try to get ahead. Well, summer school was not the case for me. The reason that I had to go to summer school was because I had got 4 F's in 4 classes and the only alternative for me was to go to summer school. I will never forget at 18 in 1996 how I had to go somewhere that I never thought I would spend the majority of summer at and that being summer school (ouch). I had perhaps the worst year my junior year of high school. I had a chance to think really long and hard thinking to myself my "could haves, should haves, and would haves" while being in summer school for 6 long weeks. I was thinking if I could rewind and "turn back the clock" and say that the grades that I got for first marking period were the only grades that counted in high school then I wouldn't even have to go to summer school. However, that would be a "pipe dream" because I had a chance to do really well and realized how much I "dug myself into a hole" that there was no way I could avoid going to summer school. I worked so hard my sophomore year of high school to avoid going to summer school for Sophomore English by getting a good enough grade on my final (barely getting by with a 60 or higher).

Meanwhile, I put myself in this predicament and I had "no one to blame but myself" for failing the following classes: Gym where I got a 59, ( I asked the teacher if she could give me an extra point where I would pass with a 60 but she said no and I didn't deserve it anyway because I skipped class during Senior skip day when I was a Junior), Chemistry, (which I learned that I didn't need that class to graduate anyway until after I took it), Geometry, and Junior English. Summer school was held at Hall high school in West Hartford and it was me & a hand full of classmates from Bloomfield high school that came to the high school and rode the school bus to Hall high school. Some were 3-weekers and others like myself were 6-weekers. Summer school was in the morning for 4-5 hours a day and 5 days a week. The first 3 weeks I didn't learn until after I finished the first English class that I was in (strictly a writing essay class) that I was in the wrong English class (not my fault).  I got credit anyway and then it was on to the next 3 weeks of English class, me along with a hand full of classmates took Computer writing English class. The English class that I was in was more of a chill computer writing English class where I would write about anything creative and fun into a great story! This class you could say was kind of like creative writing. For fun we would mostly play Tetris on the computer (which I was terrible then now pretty good at now, lol). For those who are not much of a gamer, Tetris was a game that came out on regular Nintendo game boy in 1989. After my 3 weeks were up for the English class I got credit for Junior English (Hall high wrote a note to Bloomfield high that I made up Junior English).

In the meantime, I had to register for classes to make up for failing gym by 1 point my Junior year of high school. I had no time to feel sorry for myself because I did this to myself. The classes were Tennis & Swimming that I had to take and they were in the evening from 6:00 PM- 7:30PM at Carmen Arace Middle school in Bloomfield. They were broken up into 3 weeks sessions. For the first 3 weeks I took swimming because I wanted to get that class out of the way (I also can't swim & still can't swim till this day). However, I knew I couldn't swim and needed to practice. Swimming class was everyday 5 days a week (one day swimming class was canceled because of thunder). I remember going into the water and learning how to float and in that 3 week time span I remember having only one week left to show the teacher how much I have learned. I will never forget how I got to the point where I barely learned how to swim on the very last day of swimming class. I got credit for a great effort the 3 weeks that I took swimming class. After the 3 weeks of swimming was complete it was on to a chill sport in tennis for 3 weeks. I was not much of a tennis player but it didn't matter because it was all a form of exercise. I was full of energy and was motivated every day to come to class. I also was thinking how much I wasted time in school and how I had a chance to redeem myself for messing up in school like I did. What was really fun about playing tennis was playing a classmate or former students who graduated from Bloomfield high school. By the time the 3 weeks were up for tennis class I received credit for junior gym class. I was remembering how I had 2 weeks left of summer before my senior year of high school would start. I had a chance to go to the West Indian Parade (this was back when the West Indian Parades were still popular in Hartford) and I had a chance to reflect how I used to enjoy my summers of 3 month vacations and not having to go to summer school with the knuckle heads who chose this route (some classmates went to summer school every year). Once, I had a chance to think about my "would haves, could haves, and should haves" I had such an attitude that I was never going to go to summer school again.

Summer school is both good and bad. If you are trying to get ahead and stay focused then summer school is good. However, if are going to summer school because of failing courses that you have to make up then that's bad.

Tetris was a popular game on Nintendo Game boy back in 1989.

Tetris is a game that we played on the computer for fun in summer school back in 1996.

Swimming class

Prepared for tennis class



Appomattox Raiders Players Praying Before Game

K3 kids recites the Pledge Of Allegiance

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Double Dare, September 17, 1988

Lamb Chop's Play-Along (1992): Action Stories

Classic 90's - The Kids Guide to the Internet

Show and tell in pre-school

Degrassi High S1 Ep15 Part 1 Stressed out

Hooked on Phonics worked for Ryan!

Shining Time Station: Schemer's Robot (S3E46)

Arkansas Mother Obliterates Common Core in 4 Minutes!

Blind Second Grade Student Creates Amazing Braille Valentine’s Day Cards for Her Class

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