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Three R's by Ruth Beechick Book Review

Students for Life Groups Now Outnumber Planned Parenthood Campus Groups 4-1

Students for Life Groups Now Outnumber Planned Parenthood Campus Groups 4-1: Students for Life of America (SFLA) announced today that they now serve more than 1,043 college, high school, law and medical school, and young professionals pr

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

Abstinence Education Successful as Number of Teenagers Having Sex Has Dramatically Declined: “Teenagers have sex. Deal with it.” That was a dismissive statement by a blogger in 2012 who taught at Yale University’s School of Public Health. Fort

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”

Kids Send Precious Thank You Notes to Pro-Life Legislators: “Protecting Babies Makes Me Feel Happy”: I have found that some of the most eloquent spokespeople for the pro-life movement are the youngest ones. That truth became abundantly clear as I was reading

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