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Kids and teachers bond in annual clash on court

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:30:55 PM
The day had arrived.

You could tell by the trash talk in the halls. The students painted their faces at lunchtime. The teachers closed the books on their wardrobe plans.

There was only one thing left to do Friday afternoon.

Play the game.
For the past 20 years, Lewis and Clark Middle School,  has held a friendly yet competitive basketball game between a team of teachers and staff members and the boys top-level basketball team.

The annual game is a chance for students to have fun with their teachers and bond with one another, said Susan Toohey, Lewis and Clark's vice principal.

"I think this game unites the students with a common interest," Toohey said. "And it gives them a chance to see their teachers interact as real people."
Seventh-grader Laurie Jordan sang the national anthem.

No student team has ever beaten a staff team, Toohey said.
(It is great that teachers let students see them having fun. Read more of the above story Kids and teachers bond in annual clash on court.)
 
 
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The NEA Has a Plan for Government School Children

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, January 09, 2009 11:41:19 AM

Thank God for the good teachers in our government schools but please know if your child attends a public school or as I like to call them a government school, the NEA has a plan for your child. The plan may  not be  what you want, at least  if you are in the middle or on the right when it comes to politics or the culture.

NEA teacher by you.
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Students adopt a soldier

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:22:28 PM
Allied World War I soldiers by Dunechaser.
War is hell. But in the imaginations of second-graders, the everyday life of soldiers like Ben Chambers is more like play.

To the students at Bryan Elementary in the Millard school district, soldier Ben is someone to wonder about. Someone to whom they can send a handmade holiday or birthday card.

To Chambers' family, he's the son, brother, cousin and nephew constantly on their minds and in their prayers. The one they wish they could have sung "Happy Birthday" to on New Year's Day, when he turned 22.
Chambers, a Bryan alumnus whom the whole school adopted in the fall, is a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky. His unit traversed mountains near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan after its permanent outpost was bombed on Thanksgiving.

"Every day when he wakes up, he knows he has to save his life," said his mom, Laura Henry of Omaha.

But the Bryan second-graders aren't told that. Teachers give the children limited information about the Army specialist's duties. Nothing is said of the dangers.

When the second-graders drew birthday cards for Chambers, they were told that their soldier was part of the 3rd Platoon fire support, but that "he's not a fireman."

(Read more of the above story students adopt a soldier.)
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mom sues school over religious ed class

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, January 05, 2009 3:42:45 PM

  A parent is suing the Huntington County Community School Corp. in federal court, saying religious education classes held on school property violate the establishment clause of the Constitution.    ( read more at    WHAS11.com  )

A complaint filed by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union in Indiana on behalf of an unnamed woman and her 8-year-old son asks a federal judge to shut down the program and bar the school district from providing it with utilities or any other support.

The boy, identified only as "J.S.," attends Horace Mann Elementary School, which offers third- and fourth-grade students a "release time" program for "By the Book Weekday Religious Instruction" through the Associated Churches of Huntington, the complaint filed Wednesday states.

 

Huntington's program is voluntary. Classes meet once a week in mobile trailers near school buildings, and children who don't participate remain in their classrooms with school staff, according to a brochure for the program filed with the lawsuit.

On Sept. 11, one week before the program began, J.S. was taken from his classroom to one of the temporary classrooms and given a pamphlet regarding parental consent. His mother, identified only as "H.S.," did not give consent.

 

The suit alleges the school district violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allowing religious instruction to occur on school property during instructional time, by allowing the use of school utilities by a religious organization conducting religious instruction, and by supervising and promoting the "By the Book" program.

 

(OK so those on the left have no problem with children being taught  sex before marriage is ok, or a school leader taking my child for an abortion both things which  go against my values and faith. But those on the left get an outrage about children being taught about God. Now it is one thing for a parent to say their child can't be taught about God but this mother is trying to keep other children including those who have parents who have given the ok if their child to learn about God. Could things like this be the reason why so many parents are removing their children from the government schools.)

 
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Mentor finds joy in children

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, January 05, 2009 12:25:46 PM

 The third-grade students at Manchester Elementary look forward to Margaret Andrews' visits.

Twice a week Andrews, an 83-year-old former teacher, helps students with their studies. She enjoys contact with the young minds. She likes to teach and share.

"It's a wonderful age," Andrews said about the third-graders. "I would be happy to do more."

For her efforts, the Elkhorn Public Schools Foundation recently named Andrews mentor of the year.

"She is exceptional," said Susan King, a third-grade teacher at Manchester, near 174th and Blondo Streets in the Elkhorn school district. "There are times I think she is mentoring me, too."

Andrews is like clockwork, King said, tutoring students twice a week, spending about an hour each visit. For two years, she has helped with everything from social studies to science. But her main focus is reading and math.

Whether it's her many life lessons, her approach to learning or her giving nature, Andrews' connection with children is evident. There is something special about her, King said.

"You can definitely see her bond with my kids because they are asking to go work with her," King said.

Andrews also spends two days a week with high school students at Boys Town. That work is more challenging, she said, but equally rewarding.

She's not interested in the circumstances that led the students to Boys Town - she just wants to help them better themselves.

 

(Read more about this Make A. Difference Lady Mentor finds joy in children.)

 
 
Our Teacher is Old Fashioned by natureluv.
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Canine helps lick class stress

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:37:35 PM

The preschool class at Millard's Reeder Elementary School started 10 minutes ago, but one member was a bit tardy.

As the 4-year-olds sat cross-legged in a circle on the floor and ran through a reading exercise, the door cracked and the latecomer nonchalantly trotted over to join the group.

Instead of a stern lecture on punctuality, though, Moses got nothing but love, which he returned with a couple of licks and a friendly tail wag.

Moses is an Edu-Pup, and the kids in Sandy Miller's class were wondering where he was.
(It is cool how they can use animals to help us humans including kids isn't it? Read more on this issue right here.)

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Funny But Good Point ( Principal's office )

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, November 24, 2008 8:27:41 PM

Here is a picture I was emailed. It is funny but  I also  thinks it makes a great point. What do you think?

Principal's office by you.
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Boys Town recaptures its gridiron glory days

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, November 24, 2008 11:16:20 AM

Kevin Kush took the locker-room floor.

Thirty-five young men with checkered pasts, hailing from 12 states, stared at him. With blue jerseys covering their shoulder pads, the pride of Boys Town listened to their coach before their state football playoff game against Syracuse last Saturday.

You don't have what your opponents have, Kush told the kids. You can't go home to your own house. You don't have parents.

But, Kush said, let me show you what you do have.

He pushed open the locker-room doors and beckoned his team to follow. On the other side, cheering, stood close to 600 Boys Town residents, faculty, staff and alumni.

When the undefeated Cowboys walk into Memorial Stadium on this Saturday morning, they won't simply be playing for a Class C-1 state championship. They'll be representing thousands of wayward boys and girls who have found direction at Boys Town - and hundreds of folks who have helped them become better people.

What happens Saturday against Pierce High School is about more than pigskins and three-point stances. It's about the abandoned finding a family, the transient settling into a home, the lost finding a path.

"These kids aren't alone," Kush said. "What they do on the football field and what they do in life, people here care about them the whole way."

Kristi Stowe is a Boys Town lifer. She has been the facility manager for the campus conference center for 31 years. She has about as little in common with Boys Town residents as possible, coming from a stable, loving, two-parent family.

But Saturday, she'll be nestled in the stands screaming for the Cowboys. When she isn't crying.

Stowe's husband, Bud, loved the Boys Town football team. The campus carpenter - responsible mainly for repairing broken glass - for years volunteered to man the chain gang at home football games. He braved frigid weather, holding first-down markers. Bud often sneaked away from his carpenter shop in the afternoon to watch the team practice.

Cancer claimed Bud's life in January. The team made him an honorary member this season.

Kristi Stowe went to hardly any games while Bud was a volunteer, because she didn't like sitting alone. But she'll be there Saturday to celebrate the team and honor Bud's memory.

"Everyone on campus gets excited about these kids' success and heartbroken over their failures," she said. "To see them out there on Saturday, it's huge."

 

(It is nice  to see kids who for whatever reason have had things go the wrong way, have something they can be proud of. Read the whole story about these kids and how  their school has changed lots of boys, Boys Town recaptures its gridiron glory days.  )

(Even though Boy's Town came up short that doesn't change the great things their school has done on and off of the field.Class C-1 State Football Championship: Pierce 20, Boys Town 10.)

 
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Obama's Team and School Choice

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, November 21, 2008 12:55:58 PM

 We need change in Washington and a different tone.. That was a theme during the last election of those who wanted Obama to be elected our next President which as we all know he was.

However is he bringing change. Think about the people who might be coming to DC to be part of the Obama team.

I talk about this issue in  my current video on You Tube and I also give my views on where President Obama  should send his kids to school in DC. To watch the video click here.

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Dallas ISD faulted for using fake Social Security numbers

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, November 14, 2008 11:16:46 PM

 Years after being advised by a state agency to stop, the Dallas Independent School District continued to provide foreign citizens with fake Social Security numbers to get them on the payroll quickly.  (   Dallas ISD faulted for using fake Social Security numbers |)

 

Some of the numbers were real Social Security numbers already assigned to people elsewhere. And in some cases, the state's educator certification office unknowingly used the bogus numbers to run criminal background checks on the new hires, most of whom were brought in to teach bilingual classes.

(How can this school  district and the leaders it has ever teach kids again to obey the law of the land.)

 
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Ayers says UNL shouldn't have canceled his speech

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:07:55 PM
Despite threats against him and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, William Ayers says UNL shouldn't have canceled his speaking engagement this weekend.
"I wouldn’t force myself on the college, of course," he told The Omaha World-Herald, "but I felt that canceling would send a terrible message to students, bring shame to the university, and be another step down the slippery slope of giving up on the precious ideal of a free university in a free society."
(So stopping a man  from talking on the tax payers  bill who did evil things to America sends a terrible message. I think having this man talk  would have sent a terrible message.  I am proud that most of the people in my home state of Nebraska did the right thing. Read more about William Ayers  here .)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nebraska State Capital with red lights. by Overduebook.
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Obama urged to choose public schools for daughters...

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:25:15 PM

 Barack Obama made history as America's first African-American president. He now has a chance to shatter another historic White House convention — as the first chief executive in three decades to send his children to a local public school.

 Such a decision would have more than mere symbolic importance. The District of Columbia's troubled system has come a long way since little Amy Carter attended Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, and even a scouting visit by the first family to some of our city's outstanding public and public-charter schools would validate education-reform efforts here and across the nation.

 (If President Obama sends his kids to the government schools in DC. which has some of the worst schools in the nation he is nuts. By the way a good question if Obama sends his kids to a private school is why won't he and others on the left give that choice to all Americans including those who don't have much money. Read more of the above story Obama urged to choose public schools for daughters... )

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Gay-Straight Alliance group at the High School

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Monday, November 10, 2008 9:08:24 PM

There's no denying that those who frequent the Gay-Straight Alliance group's weekly meetings at Bellevue East High School are a diverse bunch.

But they chafe at the school district's suggestion that they meet as the Diversity Club.
Bellevue Public Schools officials say the group can call itself the Gay-Straight Alliance. But if the organization wants to be sponsored by the school, it must operate as the Diversity Club.

"The school needs to have equal treatment across the board for all noncurricular clubs," ACLU legal director Amy Miller said. "Right now, some get in the yearbook and get to invite speakers, and some apparently do not."

Sponsored, or curricular, clubs are eligible for yearbook coverage, a paid adviser and funding for events and field trips, according to the district.

ACLU threatened to sue the district in November 2007, when the alliance couldn't get the school to provide a meeting place or permission to announce meeting times, Miller said.

 

(I wonder if this group would allow a Bible based  Christian who believes the gay life is sinful  to join their group? I don't think so. School is not the place for a group like this. Perhaps groups like this is a key reason why many parents are removing their children from these government schools. Read more on this issue Group is diverse, but just don't call it that.)

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Boy Sent Home From School For Dressing As Jesus

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Friday, October 31, 2008 11:40:49 PM
A Paramus middle school student was sent home Friday after he came to school dressed up as Jesus for Halloween.

For a few hours, Alex Woinski was the messiah of West Brook Middle School, but like the real Jesus, Woinski was condemned, so to speak. 

Decked out in sandals, a robe, fake beard and thorns, the 13-year-old joined 500 other students at his school's Halloween celebration, and on this day, he was the chosen one - to go home.

"It was offensive to some students," Woinski said, when asked what school officials told him the reason for being sent home was.
"I don't think I overreacted," Principal Joan Broe told CBS 2.

Broe said too many students were drawn to the costume, and that was reason enough.

"Children were [asking], where is the boy who is Jesus Christ?" she said. "It was disrupting the education process."
His school says this was the first time anyone had ever dressed up like Jesus. They say other students were ordered to alter their costumes because they were deemed inappropriate. 
 
(This is more PC in our government schools. You notice other students who had  costumes  deemed inappropriate were told to alter their costumes but only the kid who went as Jesus was sent home. People of faith are being attacked in these schools everyday but one time a kid goes to school as Jesus it upsets others so he is sent home. Watch a video and read more on this issue right here.)


 
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50 Teens Exposed to HIV

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Saturday, October 25, 2008 1:51:01 PM

Students at a suburban St. Louis high school headed to the gymnasium for HIV testing this week after an infected person told health officials as many as 50 teenagers might have been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS. (Up to 50 Teens Exposed to HIV at Missouri High School -  )

A teacher in a neighboring district singled out a girl who dates someone at Normandy High and instructed her to get tested, Hochstedler said. A competing school's football team initially balked at playing Normandy's 8-0 team.

Marcus Holman, a 14-year-old freshman, said he never imagined HIV would become such a widespread threat at school.

"I'm just trying to pass, get to the next grade, safely," he said.

(It is sad that today's high school students have to worry about this. However this is what we get for letting value free sex education in our culture and in at least some government schools. I hope in your home you are teaching young people value and Bible based sex education.)

 
The Failure of Sex Education by x-factor-e
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