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Skip to comments.Clintons Résumé Factor: Those 8 Years as First Lady
Posted on 12/26/2007 7:49:30 AM PST by Kaslin
As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward.
But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the presidents daily intelligence briefing. She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.
And during one of President Bill Clintons major tests on terrorism, whether to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998, Mrs. Clinton was barely speaking to her husband, let alone advising him, as the Lewinsky scandal sizzled.
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the Clinton's are not wanted by the drive by media....................cool
*Snort* Like she cared about that..
I LOVE that it was the Times that posted this.
I cannot believe this is appearing in the NY Times. Could this be the end of Hillary?
"I cannot believe this is appearing in the NY Times. Could this be the end of Hillary?"
Wishful thinking...it is just a ploy to energize her base (demons, liberals, leftists, socialists and actors).
With friends like the NYT...
Hillary was the Commander in Chief...she INSISTED that SERBIA was BOMBED!!!
Being present when something is done isn't necessarily a resume enhancer. For eight years she flew all over the world on planes provided by the taxpayers. I don't think that qualifies her to be a pilot.
She wouldn't be much help talking to wounded at field hospitals then, would she?
I doubt she could even stomach a trip to Walter Reed.
Yeah, return to Camelot.
So did the refugees.
They left out 2 crucial words.....
Billy Dale.
Anyone with a brain knows that Hillary has the early primaries locked up. So the media brings out all the minor negatives that come to mind,so that later they can say"That is old news we covered that last December!" "Why would we cover that story again?"
That way the media can claim they don't have bias, they attack Democrats when it does not matter and attack Republicans when it does.
Anyone who does not know that Hillary will win the Democratic nomination on the first ballot, only proves how easy it is for the MSM to fool them again and again.
wanna bet ?
Good point,
Funny how you NEVER hear of her going to a place like Walter Reed now do ya?
She finally experienced the effect she has on others for a change.
She couldn't even handle being photographed with the really sick kids at a hospital photo op.
"Funny how you NEVER hear of her going to a place like Walter Reed now do ya?"
I don't think her failure to visit the hospitals and bedsides of sick people is due to a weak stomach so much as her complete lack of compassion, which would be obvious to everyone at such visits. I have little doubt she is a sociopath who most certainly doesn't "feel your pain."
Remember the trip to Africa, with an entourage of about 1200, including Betty Currie, so she was unabailable to the Lewinsky prosecution to answer questions?
I have as much "foreign relations" experience as she does, with all my foreign ancestory and relatives being counted as "foreign" experience!
Different title, not my fault
There is no compassion in Hill's heart.
Its all about an abstract belief in "fairness" which is the childish vision of Marxists/Maoists everywhere. It is really juvenile anger towards "the system" that motivates most of these people - and many never grow up.
This is why I hate the government and their redistribution mentality. No compassion, just the dogma of juvenile hatred.
Sorry, I had in-laws from New York visiting. Most far left women who attended Smith College. Their total reliance on dogma and failure to ever look at both sides in a discussion is amazing.
See now Bill always felt your pain. Or at least he claimed he did.
Ya know he is full of pooh though.
Just watch the film of the Ron Brown funeral.
It's fine, I hold no ill will. :)
just never forget Katrina....................
...Bill and Hill were in hourly talks w/ the guv giving advice all while W was waiting to be asked to help....
The Clinton's delayed relief in hopes W would act and they would impeach him
then the dam broke flooding the busses and it became Chocolate Nagin's fault
Her only asset is that she is Mrs. Clinton. if she ran as Mrs. Jones, she never would even be a Senator.
Why did you change the the title in your thread?
Why did you change the the title in your thread?
It was the title on MSNBC's page.
This is not going to go away. The Times is used by editors — both print and broadcast — to make news assignments. What that means is you can expect a slew of similar stories as other news organizations "match" the Times' story.
You gotta love it!
Thanks, I appreciate that
Naw, it was the undertitle
I have watched the film. For both Clintons, it is always about how anything affects them and their hold on power. Every decision made by either of them is a direct result of their personal calculation as to how it helps or hurts them. Bill was just a better liar than Hillary and we have a higher standard of compassion for women than for men. And being a woman myself, I can tell you it scares me to meet a woman without compassion since it means that a very central part of her God-given nature has been destroyed.
Hillary Clinton did introduce "Hillary Care", a Communist plan for the government takeover of all health care.
Her plan mandated jailing doctors for 5 years if they administered care outside of the plan, such as for private pay client.
Her plan mandated personal care requirements such as diet and excercise. (Imagine being woken at 5:00am for jumpingjacks!)
Her plan controlled who could and couldn't attend medical school. She effectively took over all medical colleges as her plan also regulated their course content and admissions.
Her plan mandated the government be given full privilege to your medical records to know your every problem.
Her plan mandated complete regulation of hospitals such as to render all hospitals property of the federal government; the control was over their construction, administration, income, doctor pay, patient care, etc.
Hillary is a Communist! Where in the Constitution is there any allowance for Communism??
You're playing into the "comeback kid" scenario that is the current order of battle of the Clintonistas.
***Her plan mandated complete regulation of hospitals such as to render all hospitals property of the federal government; the control was over their construction, administration, income, doctor pay, patient care, etc.***
Excellent post. And don't forget that right after she was elected junior senator of NY State, she said that she had learned that she couldn't get socialized medicine passed ALL AT ONCE, but she would do it increment by increment. And the socialists in the democrat party are doing her bidding with the bill they want to put children into socialized health care even though their parents have them under private health care.
My bad!
"And the socialists in the democrat party are doing her bidding "
So are many in the Republican party. I can't tell you how many people I know who claim to be conservatives who think socialized medicine is the best way to go.
That is my understanding, as well.
There was a news story shortly after the beginning of the Kosovo Adventure which gave her "credit" for initiating hostilities.
She and Chelsea were then on their "worldwide tour". She purportedly called Bill from Egypt, as I recall, and instructed him to start dropping bombs on Serbia.
Oddly, no rationale was given for the First Lady's advice to a President on a matter of war and peace. But one can speculate that it was fundamentally political advice -- a war would effectively draw attention away from the damaging triune of a.) impeachment, b.) the Cox Report and c.) Juanita Broaddrick.
Urging military action for political purposes does not constitute a credential for the Presidency.
* Sanitized Vice Foster's office before investigators arrived.
* Squirreled away and sanitized ROSE LAW FIRM records before "finding" them in her closet.
* Met in secret with cronies for purpose of nationalizing health care.
* Held door for fired travel office employees so pals from Arkansas could have the jobs.
* Ignored strange sucking sounds coming from Oval Office during Lewinsky affair.
* Ignored mysterious splatterings on Oval Office sink.
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A finer First Lady there has never been.
It would, if it ever happened, strictly be a photo op with her posing and making sure her good side was showing. (( ! ))
I'll never forget him brushing that imaginary tear away right when the camera caught him laughing coming out of the church.
Major Barf.
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Frank Hurley (1885-1962)
Glacier Moraine Fjord, South Georgia Nov 1914
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Photograph of a glacier moraine lodged between a fjord in the background with a man who faces the viewer standing in front of two boats on the shore. Before the start of the Endurance expedition, Hurley took full advantage of a delay in departure from South Georgia, by travelling along the coastline around Grytviken with his camera equipment in search of subjects. The rugged, craggy mountains and glaciers provided ample material for striking landscape shots, while the shoreline teamed with wildlife.
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How should teachers and parents talk to kids about police violence?
Published July 9, 2016 by the Washington Post
In the hours after a Minnesota police officer shot school cafeteria manager Philando Castile during a traffic stop Wednesday evening, the teachers who worked with Castile — and the parents who knew him — endured waves of shock and grief. And then, alongside their own tumult of emotion, they began grappling with how to explain Castile's death to the children who loved him. Anna Garnaas, a teacher at the St. Paul, Minn., elementary school where Castile worked, is already anticipating what she will hear from her first-, second- and third-grade students when they return to class in the fall.
Increasing diversity in children's books still a challenge
Published April 4, 2016 by the Missourian
Statistically, children's literature tends to look into a not-so-diverse world. The Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin estimates that in 2015, about 10 percent of children's book authors and 15 percent of the books' characters were African-American, American Indian, Asian Pacific and Latino. Meanwhile, close to half of American children were not white, according to a 2014 census report. Nationally, activist groups are speaking out against industry bias and hoping to make widespread change.
The power of parent advocacy to expand afterschool access
Published March 29, 2016 by Afterschool Alliance
Sometimes, you hear a story that's simply inspirational—the kind of story movies are based on. I recently heard such a story from Allyson Criner Brown, associate director of Teaching for Change, an organization with a family engagement approach that works to include families and communities in decision making around children's education. This story concerns a group of empowered parents who successfully argued for expanded afterschool offerings in their community.
Students and Faculty Discuss #BlackLivesMatter in Education
Published November 19, 2015 by The Writer's Bloc
"We need more teachers of color. We need more teachers who are very conscious of these issues, and who are really prepared to do the work," graduate student Nana Brantuo said.
"Colorblindness has been so tied into the curriculum throughout the United States. It's really time to break that. It's time to teach what's happening. It's time to teach what's real."
Students, faculty and the public gathered to discuss Black Lives Matter in education systems, speakers unabashed and unafraid to voice their opinions Wednesday evening.
Bringing Parents of Underserved Students Into Schools: Ways to Go About It
Published November 1, 2015 by Education Week
School leaders often say they want to engage families, but it can be a struggle to know just how to do it.
While most teachers in the nation's schools are middle class and white, experts say diversity and poverty among students are creating a growing mismatch between educators and students and families. To build partnerships with parents from different cultures takes some intentionality and creative outreach.
Schools Enlist Parents to Bridge Cultural Barriers
Published October 27, 2015 by Education Week
The key is to change the relationship from one of distrust to one of respect and collaboration. "We are moving from thinking of parents as the problem to parents as partners," said Henderson, a co-author of the 2007 book Beyond the Bake Sale.
In partnership with Teaching for Change, a nonprofit that helps schools and parents build positive connections, Mt. Rainier last year invited parents into the classroom, with translators who could help educators explain how lessons were taught so they could replicate the methods at home. Hintz also hosts regular parent-principal "chit-chats" where parents are encouraged to raise issues.
Parents Struggle With The Ways Gentrification Changes Bilingual Schools
Published October 12, 2015 by Think Progress
Sometimes parents dismiss other parents or don't hear other parents' concerns because of differences in race, income, language, and education, said Allyson Criner Brown, associate director of Teaching For Change. Criner Brown has been working with parents at Powell to make sure parent communities are able to communicate across race, education, language, and income, but it's a work in progress. Now that parents in the evening meeting have started a nonprofit organization for parents at Powell, Parents Organized for the Power of Powell, or POPP, many of the differences between parent communities are being highlighted.
Has the D.C. Council Forgotten Orr Elementary School?
Published May 26, 2015 by Young Education Professionals (YEP)
The D.C. Council promised Orr funds for modernization in 2012. Last year, Teaching for Change and Orr parents successfully advocated for a $3 million grant to secure an architect to design a new school that would open for the 2017-18 school year. Due to the vast amount of renovations that would be needed, it was decided that it would be more cost-effective to build a new school than to modernize the current one.
Mayor Launches Art Program With Pop-Up Showcase in Navy Yard
Published May 22, 2015 by Hill Now
Go-go musicians, a symphony and a performing arts group descended on a Navy Yard park today for a pop-up showcase, as part of a new program to encourage art in D.C. neighborhoods.
Teaching for Change, the Gourmet Symphony and the Atlas Performing Arts Center came to Canal Park to show off projects they're working on for the Capitol Hill area and other parts of the District.
Teaching for Change moves online amid challenges for diversity in books
Published March 18, 2015 by The Washington Post
Books seem to consecrate certain spaces — especially rooms where you don't expect to find them. Like gracious hosts, they welcome you. Like confidants, they reveal far more about where you are than the decor ever could. When I first walked into Busboys & Poets' 14th and V Street location, the hostess greeted me warmly, but it was Teaching for Change, the bookstore tucked into the corner behind her, that beckoned me in.
Politics and Prose to Sell Books at Flagship Busboys and Poets
Published March 5, 2015 by Shelf Awareness
This spring Teaching for Change, which for 10 years has owned and run the bookstore at the flagship Busboys and Poets restaurant at 14th and V Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C., will hand over responsibility for the bookstore to Politics and Prose, which now operates bookstores at the five other Busboys and Poets locations, which are in Maryland, Virginia and the District. Teaching for Change will continue to review, recommend and promote books that address key themes in the classroom and current events online through its webstore, tfcbooks.org.
Works4Me: Making the Connection
Published November, 2014 by National Education Association (NEA)
When parents and students come from various countries, different backgrounds, and even have language or literacy skills that vary, it's sometimes difficult to know where to begin with parent outreach and involvement.
At Mt. Rainier Elementary School in Prince Georges County, Md., story sharing is the first step.
That's the foundation of Tellin' Stories, Family Partners, a new program made possible through the social justice organization Teaching for Change.
D.C. mayoral candidates sound off on future of charter and traditional schools
Published October 23, 2014 by The Washington Post
D.C. mayoral candidates faced a math problem of sorts Wednesday night at the campaign's only major forum devoted to education: In 1966, the District had about 147,000 students in 196 schools. Now, there are 86,000 students in 213 neighborhood and charter school buildings, yet the city continues to open charter schools.
Is this path sustainable?
After the forum, Deborah Menkart, executive director of the nonprofit Teaching for Change, said she was dismayed that the candidates seem so focused on expanding choice, which she believes could undermine neighborhood schools. "It's a runaway train," she said.
Cool Idea of the Day: 'Sponsor a Bookshelf'
Published October 6, 2014 by Shelf Awareness
The Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C., which features "books that encourage children and adults to question, challenge and re-think the world beyond the headlines," has launched a "Sponsor a Bookshelf" initiative "to keep the bookstore in operation, curate the selection of books and coordinate author events. Become a part of our bookstore by sponsoring one of 20+ shelves from which thousands of parents, teachers, activists, and the general public browse and buy books."
Race, Perspective, and Bookstores: Local Shops Promote "A Fuller Picture of Life"
Teaching About Ferguson: Do's and Dont's
Published August 17, 2014 by The Root
Do take advantage of prepackaged lesson plans: You don't have to start from scratch. Teaching for Change goes beyond proposing individual materials and offers a set of full-formed lesson plans relevant to the issues raised by Mike Brown's death. (There are materials on everything from the militarization of police to human rights.)
Limbaugh Attacks D.C.'s Busboys and Poets
Published July 12, 2014 by The Washington Afro American
Radio personality Rush Limbaugh, known for his racist tirades, attacked popular D.C. bookstore, Busboys and Poets, because "it dissed his tow children's books." The ultra-conservative talk show host was upset that the executive director of teaching for Change remarked on a C-Span network that it specialized in children's books written by and about people of color and many times ignored best sellers, like that of rush Limbaugh.
Rush into Battle
Published June 19, 2014 by Teaching Tolerance
You wouldn't expect a health food store to carry Pringles.
Nor would you tune in to the Cartoon Network in search of episodes of Mad Men or Breaking Bad.
So we're wondering why Rush Limbaugh thinks the Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C., should carry his Rush Revere line of books for young readers?
If you don't know about the Teaching for Change Bookstore—and it's well worth knowing—here's the lowdown. It's small and selective. Its children's section gives priority to books that feature children of color. They do not offer Mr. Limbaugh's books.
Teaching for Change, Supporters React to Limbaugh Slam
Published June 19, 2014 by American Booksellers Association
The Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C., strives to feature titles reflecting the country's population, including the 37 percent of Americans who are people of color, despite the fact that only 10 percent of books published in the past five years have been about people of color.
During a C-SPAN Book TV broadcast last week, Teaching for Change Executive Director Deborah Menkart discussed the need for diverse children's books and noted that nearly 90 percent of the children's titles sold by the store are about or by people of color. Rush Limbaugh's Rush Revere books for children are not carried at the store because they don't adhere to the store's mission, she said.
Rush Limbaugh Goes on Rant Accusing Teaching for Change of Racism
Published June 19, 2014 by Human Rights Campaign
Rush Limbaugh doesn't seem to understand what racism is. On Wednesday, he called out Teaching for Change for not carrying his own children's books and for promoting books written by and about people of color.
Rush Revere: Victor Vanquished by Tiny Bookstore?
Published June 19, 2014 by Education Town Hall
"American children are growing up with a distorted sense of reality: white children see themselves reflected endlessly" in children's books, says author and activist Zetta Elliott, "whereas children of color rarely see themselves at all."
The Cooperative Children's Book Council has been reviewing and documenting the state of children's publishing for more than 25 years. Their report finds that most children's books — well over 90% of those reviewed in 2013 — are still about white children.
Rush Limbaugh Calls Teaching for Change Racist
Published June 19, 2014 by Shelf Awareness
On his show yesterday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh devoted an entire segment to harshly criticizing Teaching for Change for emphasizing children's books about people of color at a time when just 10% of titles published during the last five years were about people of color.
Limbaugh called the organization "racist" for not carrying his bestselling children's books at Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C., where Teaching for Change runs a bookstore and schedules/hosts many of the author events. He learned about the decision while watching a recent C-Span 2 Book TV broadcast during which Teaching for Change executive director Deborah Menkart introduced Dave Zirin, author of Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy.
Support Teaching for Change!
Published June 17, 2014 by Fledgling, Zetta Elliott's Blog
Rush Limbaugh has directed his hordes to attack the nonprofit bookstore run by Teaching for Change. Believe it or not, he thinks they're racist for promoting books by people of color!
You can read all about it over at the TFC blog, OR you can show your support by purchasing more multicultural books from them! All of my titles are available on their website and I know you can get Max Loves Muñecas! in the D.C. store. You can't really reason with online trolls but you can put your money where your mouth is…
Rush Limbaugh Attacks the Bookstore at Busboys and Poets
Published June 17, 2014 by Washington City Paper
The independently operated bookstore at the V Street NW location of Busboys and Poets became the target of one of conservative radio hosts Rush Limbaugh's on-air diatribes Monday.
Limbaugh blasted the store, which is operated by the nonprofit Teaching for Change, for not selling his new children's book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
Aw, Rush Limbaugh's Sad – Tiny Bookstore Rejects His Books & Won't Play With Him
Published June 19, 2014 by Daily Kos
Finally, it took a small, independent bookstore in Washington DC to stand up and turn down Rush Limbaugh's children's history books. The words sting my fingers as I type: Limbaugh-Children-History-Books. (One of these things is so not like the others.)
Teaching For Change, a non profit organization that owns, operates and is housed in Busboys And Poets, 'encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens.' It's no wonder they flat out rejected Limbaugh's ridiculous 'Rush Revere' books. Limbaugh's response?
Tellin Stores, Finding Common Ground
Published Spring, 2009 by Rethinking Schools Online
In October 1999, a small group of African American and Latino parents gathered at Washington D.C.'s Bruce-Monroe Elementary School to begin a workshop series facilitated by Teaching for Change's parent empowerment project Tellin' Stories. During the first workshop, the organizers placed a "story fortune" bag in the middle of the room. The bag was filled with evocative storytelling prompts, such as "My first day of school," "A time my Mom/Dad made me proud," and "A time I felt I had no voice." As the parents chose prompts and shared stories, they began to build bonds of empathy. During the next few weeks, they shared stories and participated in other trust-building activities through which they talked about their challenges, their children, and positive and negative experiences with the school.
Rethinking History's Heroes: Parkland teacher says heroes are ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Published May 4, 2005 by The Gazette
Activist-educator Alana Murray's world studies students are rethinking history's heroes and how they achieved great things. "If you start with the premise that kids interact everyday with people who are doing pretty extraordinary things, then it gives them a sense of empowerment," said Murray, a teacher at Parkland Middle School in Aspen Hill.
That idea is nothing new to Murray, who comes from a family active in the civil rights movement for generations. Growing up with examples like her paternal grandfather, Donald Gaines Murray, the first African American to attend the University of Maryland School of Law, she says heroes are not born extraordinary, but are ordinary people who learn to do great things as they confront problems.
Parents protest state of Bruce Monroe classrooms
Published June, 2004 by DC North
A diverse group of parents and children marched in the quickly heating sun to urge the construction of walls in the school's open-space classrooms on the morning of May 25 in front of Bruce-Monroe Elementary School at 3012 Georgia Avenue NW.
"DCPS, are you teaching our kids to lie?" one mother shouted into a megaphone. "No more lies, we want action," another called, with mimicking cries echoing from the crowd.
Beginning in April 2001, Parents and Friends of Bruce-Monroe began a campaign writing petitions, making phone calls, sending e-mails and visiting the superintendent's office to insist walls be constructed to enclose the open-space classrooms the school has on its second floor.
Residents Find Common Interest in Children: Nonprofit Group Helps Black, Hispanic Parents Reach Out Each Other, Educators in NW
Published November 2, 2003 by The Washington Post
Chiquita White and Ana Urrutia are two women who, if not for their children—students at Brightwood Elementary School in Northwest Washington—would likely never have met. And even if they had, the chance that they would have developed a friendship was slim. But here they were, one gray, overcast morning last week, walking side by side, leading a group on a tour of the Brightwood neighborhood, which straddles the upper reaches of 14th Street and Georgia Avenue NW.
Parents at DC Elementary School Demand Classrooms with Walls
Published in Summer, 2004
For three years, parents at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School in the District of Columbia have been demanding facility improvements. First and foremost on the list are walls.
Walls? Yup. Bruce Monroe is one of 23 schools in Washington, DC that does not have walls separating classrooms. The building was remodeled decades ago, as part of an experiment in "open floor plans." School systems across the country tried such plans during the 1960s and 1970s, hoping that taking down the walls between grades and classrooms would encourage students and teachers to collaborate and work across age and subject groupings.
D.C. Project Puts Parents in Classrooms: Building Bridges with Books
Published Spring, 1993 by Rethinking Schools
They are urban education's silent partners: parents with a direct stake in the quality of urban public schools but whom, for a variety of reasons, the schools have been unable to involve in school activities. Yet in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, a small group of such silent partners has gotten involved. For the past six months, they have spent their Saturday afternoons writing about their lives and sharing the stories as part of a writing workshop. As a result of the project the parents, who are predominantly African-American and Latinos, are learning about each other and are helping to write a new chapter on family involvement programs.
Historian Juan Garcia Salazar shares stories with children
Published March 26 1993 by El Tiempo Latino
Ecuadorian historian Juan Garcia Salazar shared stories with children at the Mt. Pleasant Library to highlight the African influence on his country's culture. The children were from Tubman Elementary School.


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Dear Ann Reid Families,
May is here! We are enjoying the last few fun-filled weeks with your children in the building. Please be sure to check the Ann Reid calendar for the times and dates of our special events! We are especially looking forward to the Duckling Dash on May 23rd. Please be sure to arrive early as parking is always limited on this day. Our students are busy training for their run!
We have exciting news to share! This week we learned that Ann Reid has been awarded the Governor's Award of Excellence in the area of Linguistically and Culturally Appropriate Practices in Excelerate Illinois. Over the past 15 months our team has completed learning modules and collected evidence in our classrooms of high-quality, culturally sensitive and appropriate early childhood practices for children with diverse learning styles. We have learned so much, but know there is more we can do to embrace the rich languages and cultures our students bring to our amazing school each day. Thank you to our parents who have volunteered their time to record stories and read vocabulary words in their home languages, as well as the many who shared information and artifacts in the classrooms about their cultures and many native countries.
Enjoy the summertime fun and weather with your children. We look forward to welcoming back many students and wish good luck to our graduates moving on to Kindergarten this fall!
Mrs. Allen
Ann Reid Principal
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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Hard Year Blues by Tim O'Brien. Please check back for more Tim O'Brien lyrics.
Hard Year Blues Lyrics
Artist: Tim O'Brien
Album: Hard Year Blues
I tried to tell you that we'd make it through somehow
You wouldn't listen and I wouldn't blame you now
I ain't got money but I sure got bills to pay
I roll my cigarettes a little smaller every day
It's been a long hard year
That wouldnt be so bad
Darlin, if I only had you near
My kids need new shoes
But I ain't no money machine
All my overtime is gone for gasoline
On a car that's running down
Getting me to work in town
Meanwhile you're running around
My heart is wearing a frown
I read the news in the papers everday
Hard times a comin and I guess they're here to stay
I ain't got money I've just got some bills to pay
I roll my cigarettes a little smaller everyday
If I had you near
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Tim O'Brien Hard Year Blues Lyrics
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Stanley Cup Wedding
Stanley Cup 7 tier wedding cake, red velvet, silver sprayed fondant with silver chefmaster spray- took 4 cans, top done in dummy sphere and covered, and some on bottom are dummies also, customer only needed to feed 100 guests. royal icing script.
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Silent Sundays: Dennison's Bogie Book for Halloween (1920)
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The Pumpkin King photographed by Cazador24, Halloween 2015.
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In the days leading up to the quarter-finals, both Canada and Finland tried to convince the other that it was the underdog. Both were wrong
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A sea of red filled the stands during Canada's 4-2 loss to the U.S. on Boxing Day
Virtanen, who has the Finnish coat of arms tattooed on his right forearm, might have the second-most popular surname in Finland
At present, many unemployed people in Finland would be worse off if they took on low-paid temporary jobs due to loss of welfare payments
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The finance minsters of 19 euro zone nations were not able to come together Sunday on a solution for Greece after a marathon round of talks
Finland is not a member of NATO and the country shares a 1,335-kiolometre border with Russia — the longest of any European nation apart from Ukraine. In the aftermath of Russia's annexation of Crimea and the invasion of eastern Ukraine, Finland could be vulnerable to any further aggression
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Berghaus Women's Spectrum Micro Half Zip Jacket
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Step out into the cold and face the elements in this good-value women's Spectrum microfleece half zip pullover. Good for fast and light activities, the sporty AT-Micro fabric used to make this half zip fleece is light and sporty - better for walking, running or everyday city use.
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Ok but didn't like the feel of it.The quality wasn't as expected which is a shame.Published 4 months ago by earwen
This is so soft and warm next to the skin and the shaping of the side panels suits my curvy figure.Published 5 months ago by Patricia Bradley
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