I know the term “at risk” is a catch-all term for students that have can have many different challenges. I am going to share my thinking about students, that first of all, are not having academic success in a high school setting. Some of you know I am “back in the saddle” so to speak …
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I did a little research to find when Armistice Day became Veterans Day. President Eisenhower signed a proclamation in 1954 officially changing the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day. The first Armistice Day was celebrated on November 11th, 1919 in recognition of the armistice that…
At the end of every garden year I try to go over my gardening year and think about what I want to do next year, and what did I learn this year. I keep a garden journal and I will spend some time this winter reading through my notes and thinking about how to get …
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After hearing about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband in his home, I think all of us, and especially the politicians need to step back and think about what they are doing to the temperature in the room. This recent period of hyper politics has been with us since the ascent of Newt Gingrich to …
Because I am still learning, the one thing I can tell you about most things, is that I am not that confident that I am right about most things.
Boy, such a mean title, kind of chilling that this is what is floating around in my head. I looked at the news this morning and there, you have my mindset. I know we are nearing the endgame of an election season, and the politics of late is not nice, but any restraints or nicities …
In the early days of the pandemic there was great fear our economy would collapse, and the fear was appropriate. We inacted many policies and pumped all kinds of money into the economy to keep it afloat like mulitple stimulus checks, PPP loans/grants for businesses to keep payrolls going, extended and expanded unemployment benefits, more …
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Ted Koppel, the veteran ABC journalist and anchor of the program, “Nightline” mentioned something yesterday that has resonated with me. He talked about the ideologues that are driving the Republican Party. I have seen this coming for years. I have talked about those that view political parties like it is their favorite sports team and …
Now, here is an abstraction I would fight for, as many that came before me here in America did as well. Without free thinking, there would be no Mayflower or Plymouth Plantation. Without free thinking there would be no American Revolution, no Constitution as we know it, and no 230 some odd years of American …
There is something I do not understand with the treatment of undocumented migrants finding their way to the U.S. border. Why are these folks coming under the control of the states and not Homeland Security/Immigrant Control (ICE)? Why are the migrants not being held in federal (ICE) holding/refugee camps until their requests for asylum can …
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