First posted on October 6, 2023…Here we are Today….3 years later…
In the many years of my teaching… I realized October was one of those favorite months for children…We had our daily routine down; teaching those essential, required learning activities…And now by October, I could add those creatively fun activities through art, writing, and play, centered around this glorious season…
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” ...
~ L. M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
Art by S. Hee…
In the challenges of Today, our precious children are dealing with such a very divisive political climate …
I must acknowledge and admire the teachers and essential staff that are still providing them with those creative activities that are characteristic of October’s Magic…🎃
Hope for our precious children’s future: a Strong, Successful Public Education…
Americans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to unaccountable private entities. Even Betsy DeVos’s lobbying group is getting nervous about the voucher backlash…
That’s how many Arizonans support that state’s Wild West voucher scheme. If the figure seems surprising given the ardency of the sales pitch for “education freedom,” its source should send your eyebrows skyward. This bleak view of Arizona public opinion about the state’s $1-billion-plus Education Savings Account (ESA) program comes not from voucher haters but from their superfans: the American Federation for Children (AFC), the deep-pocketed and highly influential school-choice lobbying firm started by “Betsy DeVos”…
To understand why AFC is decidedly downcast even as vouchers are on the move, we need to make a trip to the Grand Canyon State, where last month, the state Supreme Court deprived voters of the opportunity to weigh in on whether the famously fraud-ridden voucher program should be more tightly regulated. The backstory is complicated — riddled with backstabbing, late-night shenanigans, and dueling ballot questions — which is why we’re speeding ahead to the aftermath. While Arizona’s pro-voucher forces popped the champagne corks over the death of the ESA reform effort, DeVos’s crew sounded a far more cautionary note to the effect of: “This program is deeply unpopular, and unless we crack down on fraud and implement some standards to convince the public that it’s actually working, vouchers in Arizona are doomed.”
Ruby Bridges was born today… Sept 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi… At just 6yrs old, became a historic icon of the Civil Rights Movement…
Nov 14, 1960, became the first African American child to integrate a white public. elementary school in the South…
#Blackhistory #OurPreciousChildren
“Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!”
Thoughts About ChildrenDear America…We Can Do This…For Our Precious ChildrenFirst Posted on September 18, 2024… This post, from last year before the election, gave us hope as a possibility… Despite this opportunity, and perhaps because of the divisive political climate, we did not heed the message… Now, we must take charge to open the hearts […]
SHAMEFUL: The Trump administration is planning to gut Head Start, a program offering free preschool to over half a million children.
The administration plans to remove quality standards and require more paperwork for hardworking families who need support the most.
This comes after many Head Start programs had to temporarily close over the past year due to the Trump administration’s funding cuts.
Donald Trump is taking away education from young children.
Trump administration weighs proposal to gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules | PBS News https://share.google/4V8tOQ1kp2PjtOEFO
Unconscionable…I was so fortunate to begin my teaching career in 1972… Head Start and Federal Programs began 1965…Thanks to President Lyndon Baines Johnson…We had such hope…
I did have the Blessed opportunity to lead a Headstart Parenting group in 1974…Parent involvement essential…Together we can educate our precious children…
Daylight Savings Time does give us more daylight… However, our precious children waiting for school buses and arriving at school in the dark is dangerous!!! Speaking from experience…
When I was teaching…Each day, I would arrive at school around 6:15 in the dark, and parents who needed to leave early for work would drop off their children in the darkness too. Fortunately, we were able to keep our cafeteria open…Our Cafeteria Ladies were already preparing breakfast…
Permanent DST would cause the sunrise to be past 8am more than 3 months in most states and past 9am in 18 states. It cost children’s lives when last tried! Ditch the switch with permanent Standard Time instead.
