- Daniel's Tweets for 2009-11-29 ~ http://ping.fm/ZSdXe #
- http://ping.fm/p/sj3yo – Putting up Christmas lights downtown. #
- Star Wars marathon on Spike. The trilogy (I ignore those crap-quels) B2B2B. Wah-naaaay! #
Archive: November, 2009
- Daniel's Tweets for 2009-11-28 ~ http://ping.fm/8Czhv #
- Saturday. Nice day to prep the vehicles for winter. #
- RT @tweetmeme Social Media 101: Lurking Is Not Cool | blondish.net http://bit.ly/8gBuae #
- George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation ~ http://ping.fm/IbakR #
- George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation ~ http://ping.fm/EZaoK #
- Need some pick 'em up trucks if anyone doesn't mind getting up at 5 tomorrow morning. #
- Yup, I still enjoy Charlie Brown. #
- Wild night of nothing. It works though. Just some movies and brushing up on admn knowledge. #
- The Primary Center is a failure, or is it NCLB? ~ http://ping.fm/sVEHn #
- I guess it's time to nap before helping to put up the city's lights at 5am. #
For many years in a row now the Mount Vernon Primary Center has failed to reach the NCLB standards. This leads to an option for us to send our kids to other schools in the area, however the superintendents of the districts have allegedly colluded to not accept students from any of the other’s districts.
Recently, we were also informed that our children are afforded tutoring since the district continues to fail the standardized tests. I have not read up fully on that aspect, but how long can this go on before the government comes in and just shuts them down? I would think not too long.
Not to mention all of the wonderful new tools like smartboards the teachers have, but some don’t even know how to use by their own admission. No doubt these tools were paid for with one of the many, many fundraisers they send home for us to pawn junk off to our friends and family every year. Apparently the fundraising isn’t actually helping much.
However, the majority of teachers I have interacted with are nice and seem to care a great deal about the children they are charged with educating. However, the children must have some desire to learn. That desire to learn starts at home with parents enforcing that skool larnin’s is ipo’tent.
I fear that a chunk of the children are not receiving this reinforcement at home, and thus they do not give a shit about how they do on the standardized testing.
As a result, the rest of the school suffers with a continued failure to meed NCLB standards. This leads to absolutely zero education for our children outside of math, grammar, and spelling. A snippet of music, physical education, and a tiny bit of technology are about it from what I understand.
Now, instead of pinning the failure of the school to meet NCLB standards on one neighborhood school or two, all children must suffer. Those who can afford to do it, send their children to one of the local private schools to avoid the quagmire.
In turn, this leads to the school still receiving the same amount of taxes to operate, but having to educate fewer children. Was this planned? I don’t know. Still, it is the end result.
Still, the facility looks great when businesses or prospective residents take a tour. I feel sorry for them if they are not smart enough to ask for the NCLB results though…
I will not even pretend to have tracked down this cool bit of information. I saw it on http://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.com . That is a site run by Brother Christopher Hodapp who is (in my opinion) a pretty good author. With credit now given, here is the proclamation:
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish Constitutions of government for our fafety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us); and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
Source: The Massachusetts Centinel, Wednesday, October 14, 1789
From the Archiving Early America website.
Hope you enjoyed reading it as I have.
- Daniel's Tweets for 2009-11-27 ~ http://ping.fm/4QD0Q #
- Well, the tree is finally up and decorated. #
- Kids stayed up too late yesterday and got up too early today. I feel an early bedtime coming soon… #
- 2009-11-27 Twitter Digest ~ http://ping.fm/UhEXn #
