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But what they gain is a glimpse into the past that provides a fuller richer view of the present. Know Latin and you discern the Roman layer that lies beneath the skin of the Western world. And you open up 500 years of Western literature (plus an additional thousand years of Latin prose and poetry) … With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt you end up seeing more everywhere not only in literature and language but in the classical roots of Federal architecture; the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe and in turn. America; and in the American system of senatorial government. The novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes populate who know history's turning points as being able to look at the world as a sequence of rooms: Greece gives way to Rome. Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the Renaissance to the British Empire to America…. We may admit. I presume the disciplinary value of these studies since that has never been seriously disputed so far as I experience but we may say a word perhaps about their formative character. The literatures of Greece and Rome comprise the longest and fullest continuous record available to us of what the human mind has been busy about in practically every department of spiritual and social activity — every department. I think except one: music. This record covers twenty-five hundred consecutive years of the human mind's operations in poetry drama law agriculture philosophy architecture natural history philology rhetoric astronomy politics medicine theology geography everything. Hence the mind that has attentively canvassed this record is not only a disciplined mind but an experienced mind — a mind that instinctively views any contemporary phenomenon from the vantage point of an immensely long perspective attained through this profound and weighty experience of the human spirit's operations. If I may ingeminate the words of Emerson this discipline brings us into the feeling of an immense longevity and maintains us in it. You may perceive at once. I think how different would be the view of contemporary men and things how different the appraisal of them the scale of values employed in their measurement on the part of one who has undergone this discipline and on the part of one who has not. These studies then in a word were regarded as formative because they are maturing because they powerfully inculcate the views of life and the demands on life that are appropriate to maturity and that are indeed the specific marks the outward and visible signs of the inward and spiritual grace of maturity. And now we are in a position to observe that the establishment of these views and the direction of these demands is what is traditionally meant and what we citizens of the republic of letters now mean by the word "education"; and the constant aim at inculcation of these views and demands is what we know under the name of the Great Tradition of our republic. AT first glance it doesn't seem tragic that our leaders don't study Latin anymore. But it is no coincidence that the professionalization of politics — which encourages budding politicians to think of education as mere career preparation — has occurred during an age of weak rhetoric shifting moral values clumsy grammar and a terror of historical references and eternal values that the Romans could teach us a thing or two about. As they themselves might have said. "Roma urbs aeterna; Latina lingua aeterna."* None of the leading presidential candidates majored in Latin. Hillary Clinton studied political science at Wellesley as did Barack Obama at Columbia. Rudy Giuliani had a minor rub with the language during four years of theology at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn when he toyed with becoming a priest. But then he went on to major in guess what? Political science. Of the 7,000 books originally in Thomas Jefferson's library only a couple of dozen are still at Monticello. The rest were sold off by his descendants and eventually bought back by the Library of Congress. The best-thumbed of those remaining — on a glassed-in shelf in Jefferson's study — is a copy of Virgil's "Aeneid." Jefferson started learning Latin and Greek at age 9 at a school in Virginia run by a Scottish clergyman. When he was at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg a Greek grammar book was always by his side. Tacitus and Homer were his favorites. High school. Jefferson thought should center on Latin. Greek and French with grammar and reading exercises translations into English and the memorizing of famous passages. In 1819 when Jefferson opened the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (built according to classical rules of architecture) he employed only classically trained professors to teach Greek and Roman history. This pattern of Latin learning continued for more than 150 years. Of the 40 presidents since Jefferson. 31 have studied Latin many at a high level. James Polk graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 with top honors in math and classics. James Garfield taught Greek and Latin from 1856 to 1857 at what is now Hiram College in Ohio. Teddy Roosevelt studied classics at Harvard. John F. Kennedy had Latin instruction at not one but three prep schools. Richard Nixon showed a great aptitude for the language coming second in the subject at Whittier High School in California in 1930. And George H. W. Bush a Latin student at Phillips Academy in Andover. crowd. was a member of the fraternity Auctoritas. Unitas. Veritas (Authority. Unity. Truth). Following in his create's footsteps. George W. Bush studied Latin at Phillips Academy (the school's mottoes: "Non Sibi" or not for self and "Finis Origine Pendet," the end depends on the beginning). But then President Bush was lucky enough to catch the tail end of the American classical tradition. Soon after he left Andover in 1964 the study of Latin in America collapsed. In 1905. 56 percent of American high school students studied Latin. By 1977 a mere 6,000 students took the National Latin Exam. Why is this a good thing? Not all Romans were models of virtue — Caligula's Latin was pretty good. And not all 134,873 of those Latin students are going to turn into Jeffersons. But what they gain is a glimpse into the past that provides a fuller richer view of the present. Know Latin and you discern the Roman layer that lies beneath the skin of the Western world. And you open up 500 years of Western literature (plus an additional thousand years of Latin prose and poetry). Why not just chew over all this in English? What do you get from reading the "Aeneid" in the original that you wouldn't get from Robert Fagles's fine translation which came out just last year? Well no translation however fine can ever sound the way Latin was written to appear. To hear Latin poetry spoken smoothly and quickly is to hear a mellifluous rat-a-tat-tat language the rich distilled romantic pure heady blueprint of its close descendant. Italian. But also learning to translate Latin into English and vice versa is a tremendous way to train the mind. I think of translating concise precise Latin into more expansive discursive English as like opening up a concertina; you are allowed to inject all sorts of original thought and interpretation. As much as opening the concertina enlarges your imagination squeezing it shut — translating English into Latin — sharpens your prose. Because Latin is a dead language not in a constant state of flux as living languages are there's no wriggle room in translating. If you haven't understood exactly what a particular word means or how a grammatical rule works you are likely to be not off but just plain wrong. There's nothing like this challenge to teach you how to navigate the reefs and whirlpools of English prose. With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt you end up seeing more everywhere not only in literature and language but in the classical roots of Federal architecture; the move of Christianity throughout Western Europe and in turn. America; and in the American system of senatorial government. The novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes people who know history's turning points as being able to look at the world as a sequence of rooms: Greece gives way to Rome. Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the Renaissance to the British Empire to America. You can gain this advantage at any age. Alfred the Great the ninth-century king of England who knew how crucial it was to learn Latin to become a civilized leader took it up in his 30s. Here's hoping that a new generation of students — and presidents — will likewise recognize that *"if Rome is the eternal city. Latin is the eternal language."

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But what they gain is a glimpse into the past that provides a fuller richer view of the present. experience Latin and you discern the Roman layer that lies beneath the skin of the Western world. And you open up 500 years of Western literature (plus an additional thousand years of Latin prose and poetry) … With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt you end up seeing more everywhere not only in literature and language but in the classical roots of Federal architecture; the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe and in turn. America; and in the American system of senatorial government. The novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes people who know history's turning points as being able to look at the world as a sequence of rooms: Greece gives way to Rome. Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the Renaissance to the British Empire to America…. We may admit. I presume the disciplinary value of these studies since that has never been seriously disputed so far as I know but we may say a word perhaps about their formative character. The literatures of Greece and Rome comprise the longest and fullest continuous record available to us of what the human mind has been work about in practically every department of spiritual and social activity — every department. I think except one: music. This record covers twenty-five hundred consecutive years of the human mind's operations in poetry drama law agriculture philosophy architecture natural history philology rhetoric astronomy politics medicine theology geography everything. Hence the mind that has attentively canvassed this record is not only a disciplined mind but an experienced mind — a mind that instinctively views any contemporary phenomenon from the vantage point of an immensely long perspective attained through this profound and weighty experience of the human spirit's operations. If I may paraphrase the words of Emerson this discipline brings us into the feeling of an immense longevity and maintains us in it. You may perceive at once. I evaluate how different would be the view of contemporary men and things how different the appraisal of them the scale of values employed in their measurement on the part of one who has undergone this discipline and on the move of one who has not. These studies then in a word were regarded as formative because they are maturing because they powerfully inculcate the views of life and the demands on life that are appropriate to maturity and that are indeed the specific marks the outward and visible signs of the inward and spiritual grace of maturity. And now we are in a position to observe that the establishment of these views and the direction of these demands is what is traditionally meant and what we citizens of the republic of letters now mean by the word "education"; and the constant aim at inculcation of these views and demands is what we know under the name of the Great Tradition of our republic. AT first glance it doesn't seem tragic that our leaders don't study Latin anymore. But it is no coincidence that the professionalization of politics — which encourages budding politicians to think of education as mere career preparation — has occurred during an age of weak rhetoric shifting moral values clumsy grammar and a terror of historical references and eternal values that the Romans could teach us a thing or two about. As they themselves might have said. "Roma urbs aeterna; Latina lingua aeterna."* None of the leading presidential candidates majored in Latin. Hillary Clinton studied political science at Wellesley as did Barack Obama at Columbia. Rudy Giuliani had a minor brush with the language during four years of theology at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High educate in Brooklyn when he toyed with becoming a priest. But then he went on to study in anticipate what? Political science. Of the 7,000 books originally in Thomas Jefferson's library only a couple of dozen are still at Monticello. The rest were sold off by his descendants and eventually bought back by the Library of Congress. The best-thumbed of those remaining — on a glassed-in shelf in Jefferson's study — is a copy of Virgil's "Aeneid." Jefferson started learning Latin and Greek at age 9 at a school in Virginia run by a Scottish clergyman. When he was at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg a Greek grammar book was always by his side. Tacitus and Homer were his favorites. High school. Jefferson thought should center on Latin. Greek and cut with grammar and reading exercises translations into English and the memorizing of famous passages. In 1819 when Jefferson opened the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (built according to classical rules of architecture) he employed only classically trained professors to teach Greek and Roman history. This pattern of Latin learning continued for more than 150 years. Of the 40 presidents since Jefferson. 31 have studied Latin many at a high level. James Polk graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 with top honors in math and classics. James Garfield taught Greek and Latin from 1856 to 1857 at what is now Hiram College in Ohio. Teddy Roosevelt studied classics at Harvard. John F. Kennedy had Latin instruction at not one but three prep schools. Richard Nixon showed a great aptitude for the language coming second in the subject at Whittier High School in California in 1930. And George H. W. Bush a Latin student at Phillips Academy in Andover. Mass. was a member of the fraternity Auctoritas. Unitas. Veritas (Authority. Unity. Truth). Following in his father's footsteps. George W. Bush studied Latin at Phillips Academy (the school's mottoes: "Non Sibi" or not for self and "Finis Origine Pendet," the end depends on the beginning). But then President Bush was lucky enough to catch the tail end of the American classical tradition. Soon after he left Andover in 1964 the study of Latin in America collapsed. In 1905. 56 percent of American high school students studied Latin. By 1977 a mere 6,000 students took the National Latin Exam. Why is this a good thing? Not all Romans were models of virtue — Caligula's Latin was pretty good. And not all 134,873 of those Latin students are going to turn into Jeffersons. But what they gain is a glimpse into the past that provides a fuller richer view of the present. Know Latin and you discern the Roman layer that lies beneath the skin of the Western world. And you open up 500 years of Western literature (plus an additional thousand years of Latin prose and poetry). Why not just study all this in English? What do you get from reading the "Aeneid" in the original that you wouldn't get from Robert Fagles's book translation which came out just last year? Well no translation however fine can ever sound the way Latin was written to sound. To hear Latin poetry spoken smoothly and quickly is to hear a mellifluous rat-a-tat-tat language the rich distilled romantic pure heady design of its close descendant. Italian. But also learning to translate Latin into English and vice versa is a tremendous way to train the mind. I evaluate of translating concise precise Latin into more expansive discursive English as like opening up a concertina; you are allowed to inject all sorts of original thought and interpretation. As much as opening the concertina enlarges your imagination squeezing it shut — translating English into Latin — sharpens your prose. Because Latin is a dead language not in a constant state of flux as living languages are there's no wriggle room in translating. If you haven't understood exactly what a particular word means or how a grammatical rule works you are likely to be not off but just plain wrong. There's nothing like this challenge to teach you how to navigate the reefs and whirlpools of English prose. With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt you end up seeing more everywhere not only in literature and language but in the classical roots of Federal architecture; the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe and in turn. America; and in the American system of senatorial government. The novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes populate who know history's turning points as being able to look at the world as a grade of rooms: Greece gives way to Rome. Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the Renaissance to the British Empire to America. You can gain this advantage at any age. Alfred the Great the ninth-century king of England who knew how crucial it was to learn Latin to become a civilized leader took it up in his 30s. Here's hoping that a new generation of students — and presidents — will likewise recognize that *"if Rome is the eternal city. Latin is the eternal language."

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But what they gain is a glimpse into the past that provides a fuller richer view of the present. Know Latin and you discern the Roman layer that lies beneath the skin of the Western world. And you open up 500 years of Western literature (plus an additional thousand years of Latin prose and poetry) … With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt you end up seeing more everywhere not only in literature and language but in the classical roots of Federal architecture; the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe and in move. America; and in the American system of senatorial government. The novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes people who know history's turning points as being able to look at the world as a sequence of rooms: Greece gives way to Rome. Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the Renaissance to the British Empire to America…. We may admit. I presume the disciplinary value of these studies since that has never been seriously disputed so far as I know but we may say a evince perhaps about their formative character. The literatures of Greece and Rome comprise the longest and fullest continuous record available to us of what the human mind has been busy about in practically every department of spiritual and social activity — every department. I think except one: music. This record covers twenty-five hundred consecutive years of the human mind's operations in poetry drama law agriculture philosophy architecture natural history philology rhetoric astronomy politics medicine theology geography everything. Hence the mind that has attentively canvassed this record is not only a disciplined mind but an experienced mind — a mind that instinctively views any contemporary phenomenon from the vantage point of an immensely long perspective attained through this profound and weighty experience of the human spirit's operations. If I may paraphrase the words of Emerson this discipline brings us into the feeling of an immense longevity and maintains us in it. You may perceive at once. I think how different would be the view of contemporary men and things how different the appraisal of them the scale of values employed in their measurement on the part of one who has undergone this discipline and on the part of one who has not. These studies then in a word were regarded as formative because they are maturing because they powerfully inculcate the views of life and the demands on life that are appropriate to maturity and that are indeed the specific marks the outward and visible signs of the inward and spiritual grace of maturity. And now we are in a position to sight that the establishment of these views and the direction of these demands is what is traditionally meant and what we citizens of the republic of letters now mean by the word "education"; and the constant aim at inculcation of these views and demands is what we know under the name of the Great Tradition of our republic. AT first glance it doesn't seem tragic that our leaders don't study Latin anymore. But it is no coincidence that the professionalization of politics — which encourages budding politicians to evaluate of education as mere career preparation — has occurred during an age of weak rhetoric shifting moral values clumsy grammar and a terror of historical references and eternal values that the Romans could teach us a thing or two about. As they themselves might have said. "Roma urbs aeterna; Latina lingua aeterna."* None of the leading presidential candidates majored in Latin. Hillary Clinton studied political science at Wellesley as did Barack Obama at Columbia. Rudy Giuliani had a minor brush with the language during four years of theology at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn when he toyed with becoming a priest. But then he went on to major in guess what? Political science. Of the 7,000 books originally in Thomas Jefferson's library only a couple of dozen are still at Monticello. The rest were sold off by his descendants and eventually bought back by the Library of Congress. The best-thumbed of those remaining — on a glassed-in shelf in Jefferson's study — is a copy of Virgil's "Aeneid." Jefferson started learning Latin and Greek at age 9 at a school in Virginia run by a Scottish clergyman. When he was at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg a Greek grammar book was always by his side. Tacitus and hit were his favorites. High school. Jefferson thought should center on Latin. Greek and French with grammar and reading exercises translations into English and the memorizing of famous passages. In 1819 when Jefferson opened the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (built according to classical rules of architecture) he employed only classically trained professors to teach Greek and Roman history. This pattern of Latin learning continued for more than 150 years. Of the 40 presidents since Jefferson. 31 have studied Latin many at a high level. James Polk graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 with top honors in math and classics. James Garfield taught Greek and Latin from 1856 to 1857 at what is now Hiram College in Ohio. Teddy Roosevelt studied classics at Harvard. John F. Kennedy had Latin instruction at not one but three prep schools. Richard Nixon showed a great aptitude for the language coming second in the subject at Whittier High School in California in 1930. And George H. W. furnish a Latin student at Phillips Academy in Andover. Mass. was a member of the fraternity Auctoritas. Unitas. Veritas (Authority. Unity. Truth). Following in his father's footsteps. George W. furnish studied Latin at Phillips Academy (the school's mottoes: "Non Sibi" or not for self and "Finis Origine Pendet," the end depends on the beginning). But then President Bush was lucky enough to catch the tail end of the American classical tradition. Soon after he left Andover in 1964 the study of Latin in America collapsed. In 1905. 56 percent of American high school students studied Latin. By 1977 a mere 6,000 students took the National Latin Exam. Why is this a good thing? Not all Romans were models of virtue — Caligula's Latin was pretty good. And not all 134,873 of those Latin students are going to turn into Jeffersons. But what they gain is a glimpse into the past that provides a fuller richer view of the present. Know Latin and you discern the Roman layer that lies beneath the climb of the Western world. And you open up 500 years of Western literature (plus an additional thousand years of Latin prose and poetry). Why not just study all this in English? What do you get from reading the "Aeneid" in the original that you wouldn't get from Robert Fagles's fine translation which came out just last year? Well no translation however fine can ever sound the way Latin was written to sound. To hear Latin poetry spoken smoothly and quickly is to hear a mellifluous rat-a-tat-tat language the rich distilled romantic pure heady blueprint of its close descendant. Italian. But also learning to translate Latin into English and vice versa is a tremendous way to train the mind. I think of translating concise precise Latin into more expansive discursive English as like opening up a concertina; you are allowed to administer all sorts of original thought and interpretation. As much as opening the concertina enlarges your imagination squeezing it change state — translating English into Latin — sharpens your prose. Because Latin is a dead language not in a constant state of flux as living languages are there's no wriggle room in translating. If you haven't understood exactly what a particular word means or how a grammatical rule works you are likely to be not off but just plain wrong. There's nothing like this challenge to teach you how to navigate the reefs and whirlpools of English prose. With a little Roman history and Latin under your belt you end up seeing more everywhere not only in literature and language but in the classical roots of Federal architecture; the move of Christianity throughout Western Europe and in move. America; and in the American system of senatorial government. The novelist Alan Hollinghurst describes people who know history's turning points as being able to look at the world as a sequence of rooms: Greece gives way to Rome. Rome to the Byzantine Empire to the Renaissance to the British Empire to America. You can obtain this advantage at any age. Alfred the Great the ninth-century king of England who knew how crucial it was to learn Latin to become a civilized leader took it up in his 30s. Here's hoping that a new generation of students — and presidents — will likewise recognize that *"if Rome is the eternal city. Latin is the eternal language."

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It all seemed rather strange at first – to go away the school year and to stay there all year – no talk of moving to another place or a new school.  There was a part of me that could not believe it would be this way from now on but another move kept thinking it would happen all over again.  You see – this was the 1st time in my life that we had a permanent home.  Even though all the moves and transfers had become a ‘way of life’ they had also become a burden. But it was also different in another way – it was my first real experience in a ‘civilian community’.  During the 1st 13 years of my life. I had been a ‘military brat’ which meant we moved wherever Dad was transferred unless it was an overseas assignment. We never knew where we were going to live or how long we would be there.  We usually had little warning or time to prepare. But after this last assignment he decided he was also tired of this as a way of life and decided to retire from the Air Force.  So we moved back from Chicago. Illinois to a small town in western Washington State. It was always so much fun to spend weekends and Holidays in Steilacoom with my grandparents.  What fun it was to take the train to Tacoma and get tours of the big engine from the conductor! You see my grandfather retired from the Northern Pacific so he knew all these people.  And we would play card games when it was raining while we popped popcorn on the old wood kitchen stove.  And my grandfather would tell stories – probably more fiction than fact – about his railroading experiences. But school remained the bring out of my life.  There was no need to worry any more about having to dress schools – Junior High and High School were on the same campus!  Now there was some routine to my life – and there was finally a come about to make and act friendships.  I will never forget my disappointment when we came back from Chicago and learned my best friend from elementary school had moved away while we were gone.  It really made a world of difference during the teenage years to be able to share experiences with friends you knew pretty well. This issue must have been important in those years.  You see. I just found this poem written sometime in high school and published in the Anthology of High School Poetry: Days of My LifeThe days of my life have been busy onesTraveling and adventure they areOver to many lands and seasIn the air to places afarSome days have been happyAnd some very sadOnly I know truly the causeBut now with our bright home straight up aheadI can sign with relief for I knowThat my traveling is over and gone

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It all seemed rather strange at first – to start the school year and to stay there all year – no talk of moving to another place or a new school.  There was a part of me that could not believe it would be this way from now on but another part kept thinking it would happen all over again.  You see – this was the 1st time in my life that we had a permanent home.  Even though all the moves and transfers had become a ‘way of life’ they had also become a burden. But it was also different in another way – it was my first real experience in a ‘civilian community’.  During the 1st 13 years of my life. I had been a ‘military brat’ which meant we moved wherever Dad was transferred unless it was an overseas assignment. We never knew where we were going to live or how long we would be there.  We usually had little warning or time to alter. But after this last assignment he decided he was also tired of this as a way of life and decided to retire from the Air Force.  So we moved back from Chicago. Illinois to a small town in western Washington State. It was always so much fun to spend weekends and Holidays in Steilacoom with my grandparents.  What fun it was to take the train to Tacoma and get tours of the big engine from the conductor! You see my grandfather retired from the Northern Pacific so he knew all these people.  And we would compete card games when it was raining while we popped popcorn on the old wood kitchen stove.  And my grandfather would tell stories – probably more fiction than fact – about his railroading experiences. But school remained the highlight of my life.  There was no need to worry any more about having to change schools – Junior High and High School were on the same campus!  Now there was some routine to my life – and there was finally a chance to make and keep friendships.  I will never forget my disappointment when we came back from Chicago and learned my best friend from elementary school had moved away while we were gone.  It really made a world of difference during the teenage years to be able to share experiences with friends you knew pretty well. This issue must have been important in those years.  You see. I just found this poem written sometime in high school and published in the Anthology of High School Poetry: Days of My LifeThe days of my life have been busy onesTraveling and adventure they areOver to many lands and seasIn the air to places afarSome days have been happyAnd some very sadOnly I know truly the causeBut now with our bright home straight up aheadI can sign with relief for I knowThat my traveling is over and gone

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It all seemed rather strange at first – to start the school year and to stay there all year – no talk of moving to another place or a new school.  There was a part of me that could not believe it would be this way from now on but another part kept thinking it would happen all over again.  You see – this was the 1st time in my life that we had a permanent home.  Even though all the moves and transfers had become a ‘way of life’ they had also become a burden. But it was also different in another way – it was my first real experience in a ‘civilian community’.  During the 1st 13 years of my life. I had been a ‘military brat’ which meant we moved wherever Dad was transferred unless it was an overseas assignment. We never knew where we were going to live or how long we would be there.  We usually had little warning or time to prepare. But after this last assignment he decided he was also tired of this as a way of life and decided to retire from the Air Force.  So we moved back from Chicago. Illinois to a small town in western Washington State. It was always so much fun to spend weekends and Holidays in Steilacoom with my grandparents.  What fun it was to take the train to Tacoma and get tours of the big engine from the conductor! You see my grandfather retired from the Northern Pacific so he knew all these people.  And we would play separate games when it was raining while we popped popcorn on the old wood kitchen stove.  And my grandfather would express stories – probably more fiction than fact – about his railroading experiences. But school remained the bring out of my life.  There was no be to worry any more about having to change schools – Junior High and High School were on the same campus!  Now there was some routine to my life – and there was finally a chance to make and keep friendships.  I will never forget my disappointment when we came back from Chicago and learned my best friend from elementary school had moved away while we were gone.  It really made a world of difference during the teenage years to be able to overlap experiences with friends you knew pretty come up. This issue must have been important in those years.  You see. I just found this poem written sometime in high school and published in the Anthology of High educate Poetry: Days of My LifeThe days of my life undergo been work onesTraveling and adventure they areOver to many lands and seasIn the air to places afarSome days have been happyAnd some very sadOnly I experience truly the causeBut now with our bright home straight up aheadI can sign with relief for I knowThat my traveling is over and gone

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My family is considering embarking on a new adventure in our children’s education. We have been involved in the public school system for a dozen years since our first child started school. We undergo at least one child in each of high school junior high later elementary and early elementary school. We also undergo one in private preschool. So we are experiencing the full spectrum alter now. My wife recently saw a small lawn write advertising a new charter school that will open next go. While all of the public schools our kids have attended have been relatively close to our home will be about 10-15 minutes away (under good traffic and road conditions). A couple of nights ago I attended a meeting for people interested in the academy. Venture Academy is being put together by a assort of interested parents. This assort has done a great broach of work to get the school chartered for K-8 obtain funding recruit principal staff and go the construction of the facility. (They are applying to add grade 9 in the 09-10 school year.)While charter schools are part of the public school system they do not work under the auspices of any school district. They must comfort meet all of the same state and federal qualifications as do regular public schools. They must still accept any student that would otherwise attend regular public schools up to their enrollment levels. However they are at liberty to create by mental act their own curriculum (within limits). The school come in for Venture Academy is made up of concerned parents. These are people that will be known and accessible to parents whose children be the academy. There will be no massive administrative structure. No layers of middle management. Just the parents the staff and the kids. And while they cannot require such they will ask parents to gift at least 30 hours of service to the school annually. (That should be no problem since we already do far more than that at our local elementary school.)The message came across very clearly at the meeting I attended that Venture Academy ordain be scrupulously frugal and will administer its resources mostly to implementation of core principles values and curriculum. Fluff and elements that do not directly support the core will be minimized or eliminated. As if to underscore this there were no handouts of any kind at the meeting flashy or otherwise. They simply provided their website communicate. Don’t expect to see any competitive athletic teams. There will be a music program but I am concerned.

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At this time of year even those of us who love to sew are looking for gift ideas that are easy and quick and may not involve sewing at all.  Sometimes money is tight and we may not undergo the funds to buy the supplies to sew or craft holiday gifts.  I have had many holiday seasons where I had no money to buy anything so I had to be very creative.  In some cases. I had left over craft projects lying around so I finished those and gave them as gifts.  When I didn’t sew or fashion holiday gifts. I gave other creative no sew gifts. There are many gifts that you can furnish that require no sewing.  One year when our budget was really tight. I wrote out “coupons” for various things and gave them to my husband.  My husband likes to fish so one of the coupons was for one full day of uninterrupted fishing measure.  Perhaps you could furnish these types of coupons to your family or friends.  Perhaps you could furnish a friend a coupon for the two of you to spend time together sewing quilting or  crafting or going fabric shopping or whatever the two of you desire to do together.  Children could furnish these types of coupons to their parents or grandparents–coupons for cleaning their rooms or helping to clean out the garage.  There are many ideas for these types of coupons.  These coupons could be put into a coupon “book” of sorts; it could be as simple as punching holes in the cover using construction cover as the schedule cover” and tying it with a ribbon. Gift cards are always nice gifts.  If you know someone who sews a enable card to a local fabric store is always appreciated.  Men always be to desire gift cards to the domiciliate improvement stores.  There are gift cards to department stores for someone who likes to shop; enable cards for restaurants; and many other places.  Gift cards make nice gifts and many of them can be purchased online as well. Another no sew gift idea might be to create out a favorite recipe  that you apply making and furnish that to a relative or a friend.  Also there are lots of ideas for gifts in a jar–the cookies and cocoa mixes.  You could acquire a mug and some cocoa mix displace it in the mug and that is a nice enable as well. Sometimes the best gifts are the simple ones and the ones that aren’t expensive or are totally remove.  Two of my favorite gifts were not store bought but came from the heart.  When my oldest daughter went to college it was a bittersweet time for us because she was in the midst of that teen rebellion that often comes with the senior year of high school.  About a month or two into her freshman year of college. I got an e-mail from her but wasn’t written by her; it was a poem.  This poem expressed the sentiment that as a child she had never understood all the hard work that moms did all the prayers that mothers offer up for their children and so on until the poem concluded with an expression of love for mom.  My daughter added a personal note to that and of course. I sat reading it with tears streaming down my face.  That Christmas she didn’t undergo much money so she bought a very inexpensive close in printed out that poem and put it in the frame.  It is one of my favorite gifts. ) but she too gave me a similar enable.  She is interested in music and she copied some of the words to a sweet song bought a simple close in that says I Heart  My Mommy and placed the handwritten paper in that. It too is one of my favorite gifts.  She also gave us (my husband and myself) a poem about how parents had nurtured their children and sacrificed for them through the years.  This was also given to us in a simple close in.  I think she just printed this out on the computer so it was a quick easy enable for her to give.  However in all the above cases it took some measure and effort to find these poems or words.  Sometimes the very best gifts are the simple ones. […] Heidi Caswell had some great ideas on this topic. You can read a snippet of the post here. At this measure of year even those of us who love to sew are looking for gift ideas that are easy and quick and may not bear on sewing at all. Sometimes money is tight and we may not have the funds to buy the supplies to sew or fashion … […]

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As you may recall from years past it is the Month of September which to those of us who work in schools means this is the month when everything gets loaded up into a really big cannon which is also given a fresh cover of create and then the whole kit'n'kaboodle is fired straight into a gigantic fan set to high. Needless to say writing/free measure has been minimal to the point where I didn't change surface get out a roundup post last week. Leather has suffered from this missing two Tuesday engagements (in move because this is a pretty big part coming up so I don't be to half-ass it) and which means I have a nice thick passel of links to furnish you guys to read. And flog's more than halfway finished now so it's looking good for her on Thursday of this week. Just think of this as part of the New Fall Season Shakeup. Wednesday: Storytelling: "." Probably as brutal a story as I'm going to put a superhero disguise on -- not in explicitness though this one has a develop warning slapped serial. Where other stories have been about the end of the era of mystery men (displaced by the superhero) this is a story of the All-American Lad and the transition between the two eras in a more enjoin sense. Quite well received. Monday: The Mythology of the Modern World: . Seriously. If I can't hook you with a call desire Manannan mac Lir and the Isle of Ninjas there may be no hope. A myth of celts pigeons ninjas a bear poptart reference goddesses playing electric mandolin and Sir Francis Drake. Tuesday: Random: "." With Leather slotted for Thursday of this week this gives us a chance to present the back up part of the "Homecoming" Serial. I hope you like it. Nine links eight of which are stories (if you ascertain the poem towards that be). If nothing else that should provide some decent reading material for the next couple of days. Hopefully as the school year stabilizes into routine there can be some nonfiction goodness as come up and Websnark can have one of its periodic emergences from torpor. We can only hope.

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The Monday Poetry be at is blues poetry. Tricia listened to blues music to get in the mood to create verbally. The recommendation from The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms is "think of something that depresses you."I started to create verbally a self-serving whiney poem about too many meetings that each generate more work to be done and yet eat up all the measure in the day in which that bring home the bacon might actually get done. Then I decided to create verbally about something far more important and exponentially more depressing. I've got... The AYP* BluesNo child left behind brotherNo child left behindNo child left behind sisterNo child left behindWhy measure develop with one testAnd call it accountability?The bar's so high it can't be reachedIn some parts of the city. Poor child left behind brotherPoor child left behindELL child left behind sisterELL child left behindLet's tell our leaders what we need:a copy based on GROWTH. decide each child's yearly learningAnd see who GAINS the most. No child left behind brotherNo child left behindNo child left behind sisterNo child left behind*AYP stands for Adequate Yearly develop. It is move of. The label is misleading. AYP does not really measure progress it measures the ability of children to get a certain advance on a hit test. Children take the evaluate whether or not they are fluent (or change surface proficient at a basic level) in English. The bar is the same height for children who have had all the advantages of an affluent home life and for children whose only two meals of the day are the remove eat and lunch they receive at school. Researchers are able to guess with 95% accuracy which schools ordain not make AYP based on such factors as poverty levels and number of English Language Learners (ELLs). A more sane come would be to decide student learning with a pretest at the beginning of the year and a posttest at the end of the year. Teachers should be required to alter sure that every child achieves a year's growth in a year. This would actually be more challenging for teachers in schools that easily cater AYP. Their students are already so change state to the bar that it's no stretch to make it over. If they had to make a year's obtain in a year's measure those students would really undergo to be for once. i desire we could sit drink together in a smoky bar and comprehend to this with a sax piano and a bass behind it.... clink ice ahhhh shucks. Now I'm feeling color but kinda cathartic blue desire we're all in this mess together blue. As you know if you've been visiting any children's book blogs for the past few weeks is an online sell that benefits Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Over 200 children's book illustrators have created art on individual snowflake-shaped wooden templates. The snowflakes ordain be auctioned off with proceeds going to cancer investigate. You can view all of the 2007 snowflakes. Jules and Eisha from have found a way for bloggers to help with this effort by blogging about individual illustrators and their snowflakes. The idea is to drive merchandise to the Robert's come down place so that many snowflakes ordain be sold and much money raised to fight cancer. The illustrator profiles undergo been wonderful so far - diverse and creative and colorful. And there are lots more to go. Here's the plan for Week 4 which starts Monday. As previously this early schedule links to the participating blogs instead of to the individual posts. You can find links to the posts themselves and any last-minute updates each morning at. Jules and Eisha have also set up a containing a comprehensive list of links to the profiles posted so far. Also not to be missed is Kris Bordessa's affix summarizing over at. gratify take measure out to tour all of these blogs and read about these fabulous illustrators. And if you're so inclined think about bidding for a snowflake in the. Each snowflake makes a unique gift (for yourself or for someone else) and supports an important cause. See also the following note from Elaine Magliaro of : Note to Blog Readers about Blogging for a aid: When Jules of 7-Imp put out her label in September for bloggers to converse/feature artists who had created snowflakes for Robert’s Snow 2007 at their blogs a number of artists had not yet sent in their snowflakes to Dana-Farber. As time was of the essence to get Blogging for a Cure underway we worked with the enumerate of artists whose snowflakes were already in possession of Dana-Farber. Therefore not all the participating artists will be featured. This in no way diminishes our appreciation for their contributions to this worthy create. We hope everyone will understand that once the list of artists was emailed to bloggers and it was determined which bloggers would feature which artists at their blogs a plan was organized and sent out so we could get to work on Blogging for a Cure ASAP. Our aim is to increase people’s awareness about Robert’s come down and to back up the three auctions. We wish our efforts will back up to alter Robert’s come down 2007 a resounding success.

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