Posted By
Gena Suarez, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
It's really no surprise to anyone ever that the NEA was more interested in protecting its power than educating children. What is surprising is that they actually feel confident enough in their power to admit it. Here's the NEA's General Counseladmitting as much in his retirement speech this past summer.
"Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power....
This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights and collective bargaining. That simply is too high a price to pay.
If you're a parent with children in the public schools you can voice your objections here. But the best way to object is by removing your children from their schools. Without your children they have no real power.
In a related story, future teachers in Minnesota are being "reducated" and become "culturally competent"
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin in order to obtain a teacher certificate.
When I saw the theme for this week's I <3 Faces challenge,: “Sun Flare”, this picture just popped into my head! :) I love the Sun Flare coming down on her. Isn't Hannah such a pretty girly? I sure love that Dahling!
I've had many comments from people asking how I am doing. I thought I would share a prayer I wrote a couple of weeks ago during my quiet time. It will give you all an idea how my life is right now....
Dear Lord,
Thank you for showing me how to study your word. Please give me a strong desire to want to study your word and pray. To be honest, sometimes I just don't feel like it. Right now I am more confused than ever. I don't feel completely happy with my life. I still don't know for sure if I am supposed to stay with Eric. I have serious doubts about his recent "conversion." I truly do not believe that he is sincere. I know it is wrong for me to feel that way. Help me to faithfully keep praying for him. He says he loves me, but I have been pushed so far that I am just tired. There are times I just want him to go away.It seems as if our relationship is based only on sex. And while I do enjoy that with him, I miss having a true-deeper relationship with my husband. I care deeply for Eric, but I do not truly love him. I know in the back of my mind that our relationship is never really going to work. It will never work as long as he chooses to leave You out of his life. It was selfish of me to marry him-I didn't want/was afraid of being alone. Since our marriage, I haven't been as faithful to You-You should be my first priority. The things Eric does and wants to do really bother me and are a source of constant strife in our marriage. The things that bother me are: smoking pot, snorting pills, drinking, cursing all the time, his music-nothing but mind garbage, he makes fun of my music-which is all on christian radio, referring to other girls and my private parts all the time-the vulgarity, his disregard for what is right-he wants to rationalize everything to make it right for him, his constant mood swings(which are brought on by all the drugs he takes), I never know when I get home what kind of mood he will be in-he always wants to pick an argument with me, yet later turns it all around and blames it on me, doing needle drugs, his constant verbal and sometimes physical abuse - he snapped a couple of weeks ago in the car-left 2 bruises on my arm. Really scared me-this is the 3rd time he has shown violent behavior. I am afraid of him.
I think my biggest problem is just letting go of Eric-for good. My fear of being alone just terrifies me. It sounds awful, but I really hoped they would put him in jail(a charge he got for stealing). They didn't...they gave him a year's probation. I have so much to consider...I am pregnant with his child...due in February. I don't want him around the baby, not with his language and all that he does. Then again I am so afraid of how I will take care of this baby alone. Taking off work, paying bills, finding a good daycare(something I am so against)-these things are all constant stressors in the back of my mind. I know my mom will not help-I am a huge disappointment to her. I wish she knew all the struggles I have with my conscience, my faith, trying to let go of Eric. I am still a christian. I still want to do what is right-what God wants me to do. It's just finding that clarity-knowing for sure what He wants me to do. I spoke with people at my church and they encouraged me to keep trying to make it work and just pray for my husband.
And then there is my ex-husband. I am still very much in love with him. I still feel so much guilt for the things I did that led to our divorce. Sometimes I miss him so much I want to die. It still hurts so much. And I miss my children so much. Seeing them only twice a month is just not enough. I feel guilty for not being there for them. And Christmas this year is a constant worry for me. I simply don't have enough money to get gifts for my children, let alone anyone else in my family. I am struggling so much...sometimes I just want to quit.
Please Lord, help me to know for sure what it is you want me to do. Give me the strength to do what I need to do. Keep me and our baby safe. Please take all these things that are burdening me, Lord. Help me not to worry about them. Please take them from me and give me a peace about my situation. In Christ's name, A-men.
This past week has been extremely hard for me. I lost my Great Grandpa, who I was very very close to. I can honestly say that he was THE best grandpa I've ever had. I am so thankful for the last 5 years of being able to grow closer to him, of course, it wasn't as long as I wanted, but I am very glad I had them. It was wonderful! It was wonderful to grow as close to him as I did.
Over the past 5 years, he really opened up to me about his WWII experiences which he hadn't shared them at all before. When I presented him the Armed Service album I made for him at his 65th anniversary, he was moved to tears. I knew that all the efforts and the sleepless night I spent on it was so worth it! Getting to know him was truly a blessing to me. I pray it was to him also. Since I did that for him and grew closer to him through it, I have a very important place in my heart for the armed service men. When we took him to the cemetery, they gave him a beautiful military salute with Taps and a 21 Gun Salute. I bawled through the whole thing. Knowing that his service was important to him, and that was so very important to me because of him. It was very hard to sit through for me.
Sitting in his funeral service remembering all the times we had together, the tears just flowed. We would color when I was younger and as I grew up, we would sit on his front porch and play cards. He taught me to play rummy, war, slap jack, and more. One of the last times he played cards he was 87 and got down on the floor with the Littles to play go fish with them. It wasn't easy for him to crawl on the floor but he showed his love to his family by doing it. He truly was a family man. That was all he was worried about: his family. He made it known that his family was all that was important to him.
I truly miss him. I miss his hugs. I miss his smile. I miss his playing cards. I now found myself crying when I pray because he is no longer on my list and it reminds me he is gone. I just miss him! But he lived a full and meaningful life. A life devoted to his family. I praise God that Grandpa knew our Savior and that I have the hope to once again see him on Resurrection Day. It hurts and its hard to have to wait for that day, but I know that the day is drawing close. OH, what a glorious day that will be!
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death forever. Adonai ELOHIM will wipe away the tears from every face, and he will remove from all the earth the disgrace his people suffer. For ADONAI has spoken.
Revelation 21 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away."
Posted By
Gena Suarez, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
For all my homeschooling friends who think ObamaCare will solve their financial and health insurance woes, think again. It may give you temporary relief for your financial headache, but it may also invite government nannies into your home to improve your child's well-being and health.
HR 3200 that passed the House of Representatives, currently has a provision for funding states that implement a "voluntary" home visitation program for parents with young children or who are expecting. (See Sec. 1904 sec. 440)
The intended purpose is to " improve the well-being, health, and development of children by enabling the establishment and expansion of high quality programs providing voluntary home visitation for families with young children and families expecting children."
"Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.
New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to “collect data” on properties where children are thought to be at “greatest risk of unintentional injury”.
Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.
The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny state”.
Where are the safety devices for the "creeping nanny" who keeps sticking her nose into our personal lives?
Why homeschoolers support this bill or President Obama is beyond my understanding.
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Nov. 16, 2009
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State Mandated Parental Interference
Posted By
Gena Suarez, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
Mike Huckabee, Chuck Norris, and Michael Farris talk about how the new health care bill that will allow the government to enter our homes and tell us how to parent our own children.
You can read Chuck Norris' article about the bill on World Net Daily.
Huckabee, Norris, and Farris also discuss how international law may be used to judge a case on juvenile heinous crimes instead of American law. This is important for homeschoolers to know because because the international law that may be used is from Europe and Europe has made the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. So Europe is telling us how we have to judge our juvenile criminals and that can lead to telling us how we have to raise our children as well.
I am Chris Read - wife to Bryan, my wonderful husband of 20 years, and mom to 8 precious children. I consider it a privilege and joy to be a homemaker and homeschooling mother! I praise God for His provisions and for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I have a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, but I am really interested in natural healthcare. My other interests are Bible study, interior decorating, gardening, farming, nutrition and preparing meals my family likes to eat. We have a little farm where we raise American Dominique chickens and fresh eggs, a few vegetables and fruits and some wonderful, active children!
Yes, this is a shameless plug on behalf of my familia...I'm sure y'all have heard that the Home School Blog Awards are going on... if not... they are. :) Well I would like to present to you where my votes are going...
