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53How To Be a "Stand-Up" Teacher
What is your position in the classroom? I am reminded of the story about the job applicant who responded to the space labeled "position desired" by filling in the word "sitting". As a substitute...
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73A Spoiled Carton of Milk
Child Meets Devil I threw up. Only problem with that, not a splatter of it got on her, not that she was the real target of the vomit, but it would have been a giggle, later. I can speak about her now, she's...
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62Back to School Ideas From One Mom to Another
Oh my! It's that time of year again. Back to School! Wasn't it only yesterday that we were planning our vacations and attending graduation ceremonies? How the summer flies especially for children whose days...
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755 Ways To Improve Your Child's Grades
Everyone wants their child to do well in school. Good grades impact a child’s self image and increase self-confidence. The ability to learn and study at an early age improves a person’s...
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54Holiday Parties Are Dumb
When I was in grade school, I dreaded the holiday classroom parties. For one thing, we never got to move from our desks unless given permission. The teacher would instruct us to “row by row” get into a...
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61Name Games and Trading Places
In a sixth grade class of bright, attentive children of diverse personality and race, I mentally deliberated the credibility of a pale blonde girl with a name tag reading: "Maria Sanchez-Garcia". ...
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54The Graded School System vs the Family School System
www.KnightsOfTrueNorth.ws The graded school system is a societal sacred cow. We have been doing it this way for so long that we rarely think about whether it is the best way. It has been the air that we...
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49Things I remember about music, movies, television and the performing arts throughout the years.
Hi. I am beginning to writing this blog this morning at 12:45 A.M on Tuesday, August 4, 2009. So this is obviously my very first entry. I would like to use the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing...
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69Celebrating Holidays with My Family
Family is the basic unit of the society.” Quoted from the basic definition of the word family which I shall never forget since I was in my grade school years. For us Filipinos, we give so much importance to...
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62I Am Not Barney
Somehow, over the years I have acquired the ability to do voices. Not great voices, not good enough to the "The Simpsons," and certainly not good enough for the cartoon show, "Mighty Mutant Mekong Muskrats."...
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