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My husband just recently made the comment (after we both heard an emotional and non-factual commercial about how Charter schools would be the downfall of civilization) that we need to keep up better with what the AEA (Alabama Educator's Ass. , the local version of the NEA —the teacher's union) is up to, just so we can be FOR whatever they're against.

 The below is an article on what charter high schools are actually doing.  Like, increasing the percentage of graduates, and of those who go on to college.

educationnext.org/the-unknown-world-of-charter-high-schools/




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What I learned this year:

1. Wrap presents as you buy them. Never Never leave them all until Christmas Eve.

2. Even tho they REALLY want to help, Cats just don't get the subtle differences between wrapping and unwrapping.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel 
Socrates
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point.

A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

– H. L. Mencken

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