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Our poll allowing you to vote for the school with the most spirit is up and running.
We had some problems with getting it posted as early as we wanted this morning, but the poll is up now. Click here to vote and see video of last week's winner, the Calhoun Sandcrabs.
We had a lot of...
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I had an interesting tete-a-tete with someone today on another newspaper's website. That person said that whatever sex education is taught in school is up to the State Board of Education, not the federal government. I am way too tired tonight to go research that so I'll just agree with it for...
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I've been doing the big attic purge these past few days. Our house sold in two days--much more quickly than we imagined--and now I need to pick through 11 years of "family archives" in our brimming attic and decide what will be going with us, and what needs to hit the dump.
The...
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I encourage my children to keep a journal even before they can read or write. Of course, my six year old mostly draws:
He is on the verge of reading and he wrote his first few sentences yesterday:
"I miss you I loves you DAD"
I read it back to him and he...
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Hello all!
This is Wendy again, and once again I am speaking out to the parents of special needs kids here in Victoria and the surrounding counties.
I have been going around and around with VISD in regards to my special needs son, and everyone I have spoken with at the Administration...
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Hello fellow moms and dads!
My name is Wendy, and my son is just one of many special needs kids right here in Victoria. Currently, I find myself conflicting with the school system as to what is in the best interest of my child.
In talking to some other parents, I have found...
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I was very happy to see a young man we knew at Dudley become the valedictorian at MHS. His family has a long standing history of academic excellence, both of his sisters did very well.
I was intrigued by his very valid observation about "playing the AP game." This is something that...
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In the VISD School Board election there is a clear choice, Tami Keeling. She has been involved with our schools for several years voicing her beliefs for tough discipline policies, an improved student code of conduct and dress code, better acidemics, improved pay and benifits for...
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Your High School Student not going to get to wear a cap and gown even though they passed ALL their graduation requirements including the dreaded Senior English Paper?
Your Junior High Student losing out on ALL extra curricular activities so that they may attend special after/before...
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When you have a boy and a girl, you can't help but notice gender differences.
While attending the Victoria Independent School District's academic awards ceremony recently, I found myself counting the number of elementary-age boys being honored vs. the number of girls. I wondered how it could be...
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An article in the New York Times Magazine, "Teaching Boys and Girls Separately," discusses a new trend of all-girl and all-boy classrooms in public schools.
Theorist and author Leonard Sax convinces parents that single-sex education is the way to go, based on differences in biology...
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I feel like a hypocrite. I know I always say, “There is a difference between school and learning; focus on the learning,” but it’s really hitting home. Less (school) is more (learning.)
While looking over my learning journals I made some...
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Teaching your child at home is legal in all fifty states. The legal details and regulations vary from state to state but in Texas a homeschool is recognized legally as a private school so your child would be exempt from compulsory attendance laws.
As long as the materials you use...
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****TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT!****
The Victoria College Vocational Nursing Program will hold an information night on Tuesday, March 4 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the Allied Health Building, Room 122.
Learn more about this exciting career. Information on program requirements,...
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I blogged yesterday about keeping a learning journal and how this helps me document informal learning that takes place in the home. I thought that I would share a sample entry. This is from October 7, 2003:
Today, K**** taught me how to add 100 + 100. She even explained why...
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