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My name is Kevin and I am in the 4th grade. I received
first prize in school for this essay and I thought that I
would send it to you because my mom used to be a teacher in
the public schools.
WHAT I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP
My mom taught me always strive to reach my full potential.
She ha...See More/blockquote>
My name is Kevin and I am in the 4th grade. I received
first prize in school for this essay and I thought that I
would send it to you because my mom used to be a teacher in
the public schools.
WHAT I WANT TO BE WHEN I GROW UP
My mom taught me always strive to reach my full potential.
She has been a good example of this because she always
seemed to be doing a hundred and one things at once and
always seemed to enjoy what she was doing. I always
thought that she was kind of hyper. She is a musician and
always had private students, was always playing piano in
some restaurant, performing in recitals and weddings, and
having recitals for her kids. My mom always seemed to be a
happy person and taught me that you could always be looking
forward to the ‘NEXT THING’. She was always ready to learn
something new. For her it was going back to school. She
went to school everyday for 10 years, since 1994 – a hour
and a half commute from home! Rehearsing in the college
orchestra 2 days a week from 8:00-10:00 am – 2 days a
week. School was even fun for her! Then she even taught
kids at night and studied to the wee hours of the night. I
went to her performances at school. Although my mom is way
over 40, she had a philosophy that was all her own.
Instead of asking the question, “What would you do if you
knew you would die tomorrow?, she asked, “What would you do
if you would live forever?” So that’s why she went back to
school with 18-year olds and how she got her Masters Degree
at her age.
When she was a substitute teacher, I got to see her conduct
band concerts, string concerts and even choir concerts!
She saved a lot of dead-head music programs at the last
minute by putting on great concerts! We collected pictures,
videos and scrapbooks! The kids and the parents loved her.
Then she finally got her first real job in the public
schools. That’s when it all went downhill. At first even
had beginning students playing Mozart and Pachebel in many,
many concerts, and the parents were pleased as punch, and
gave her gifts and flowers. We have happy memories, videos
of concerts, festivals and awards. More happy parents!
Enter the new superintendent who just wanted keep the
budget low. He knew substitutes were a lot cheaper, and
said that earning “tenure” was a thing of the past. She
was fired without a thought except that she was unnecessary
fluff in the education system. She was just a teacher that
got placed on the wrong pile of papers, so that they forgot
to fire her before her expiration date. What they didn’t
teach my mom in her education classes was that she was
working for organized crime.
My mom didn’t really take it seriously, because at the time
we trusted everybody. She still denied it when she got her
termination notice and they zapped away our health
insurance at the same time. We used to trust Principals,
Superintendents, the Commissioner of Education, Labor
Unions, Boards of Education and Labor Boards. Mom couldn’t
wait to tell them about this! This new job took over my
mom and all she did was write legal documents, day and
night. She began to write to her Teacher’s Union, every
public agency, Boards of Education, and all the above. Her
every moment was spent writing, answering, petitioning,
replying and going to hearings regarding her illegal
firing! Yet she began to notice that there was great
resistance to coming to any conclusion about any issue.
And there was no legal justice. No one wanted to confirm
the fact that she had rights. No one wanted to confirm the
fact that a CRIME HAD BEEN COMMITTED. Although they all
encouraged her to write, to open cases, to go through
procedural hearings, and everyone pretended to be
concerned, nobody made a decision in court hearings!!!! It
soon became clear that this was intentional – and all were
doing this for the purpose of covering up their criminal
behavior! There was not just one agency. They were all
connected – like a medley of malorderous malfeasance. No
one person had to be accountable. Soon we came to the
conclusion that all were connected in this Education
System. It was a BIG BLOB!
When the superintendent fired my mom, it felt like an
earthquake. Like the very ground that you stand on just
gives way, only it’s people – the ones you once trusted all
of your life - the Principals, the Superintendents, the
Commissioner of Education – all the people that you thought
supported you, just crumble like the earth beneath your
feet. And you are left stranded and you don’t know where
to look for help anymore. You rack your brain but cannot
grasp the NEXT THING for you to do, to keep your life
hopeful.
Everyday my mom and I would go to the mailbox to see if
something has been resolved, maybe a decision from the
Commissioner of Ed, since it’s been more than a year. He
has documents, evidence and proof of all the crimes of the
mob. But the only thing we get from him in the mailbox is
a monthly payment bill for $30,000 from the Commissioner of
Ed for her school loan that she needed to work for them so
that they could ruin her life! Another scam! Another rip-
off! I’d like to punch that guy’s lights out!
And that superintendent still works in that district and
business is as usual. There are enough laws to protect
him. He could have fired my mom legally and didn’t have to
botch up her career and cause the taxpayers to pay a
fortune in legal expenses! But the system even protects
pin-heads like him! There is no consequence for the crime
that he committed and what he did to my mother.
My mom used to be a happy person. She gave up all her
restaurant gigs, and her private students so that she could
work full time for a job that’s a proven scam, but the
public does not want to believe this horror and would
rather believe that she is incompetent. She wasted more
than 12 years of her life and is expected to $30,000 school
loan to a Commissioner who could have saved her job, but
DIDN’T. She had to wait in the unemployment line to pay
the rent, but now that’s all used up. We had to apply for
Medicaid, and wait in that line too, so we can pay for the
doctor. We don’t know what to do for the NEXT THING. She
just sits and says that she doesn’t know what to do with
her life now. She doesn’t play much music anymore, she
only sits at the computer, her eyes are red and she never
takes off her bathrobe.
When I grow up I’m going to have my kids home-schooled so
they don’t get near any of this stuff. I want to keep my
kids away from all of this, or else they might become like
them. I’m going to become the first Criminal Lawyer who
fights this kind of crime in the school system. I won’t
just take more money from teachers like some other
lawyers. That field is wide open, since no one has ever
done that before. But I'm gonna get back at them for what
they did to my mother! I’d have that superintendent in an
orange jumpsuit and cuffs, just like their poster-boy
Tassone, before he ever knew what happened to him. My
mother always said that in life you should always have a
mission. THAT is my mission, WHEN I GROW UP!
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On my website [link removed].
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Does anyone has a great lesson on disease transmission? I
have an observation and am looking for some new ideas.
Thanks in advance, Rebeca
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The Century Council, a national not-for-profit
organization dedicated to fighting drunk driving and
underage drinking, is inviting girls, ages 15-18, to
submit a three-minute concept video to illustrate the
negative effects of underage drinking. Videos may not
exceed 3 minutes to include a 30-second PSA ...See More/blockquote>
The Century Council, a national not-for-profit
organization dedicated to fighting drunk driving and
underage drinking, is inviting girls, ages 15-18, to
submit a three-minute concept video to illustrate the
negative effects of underage drinking. Videos may not
exceed 3 minutes to include a 30-second PSA and up to 2.5
minutes of an explanation by the participant as to why her
PSA should be selected as the winner. Girls can enter
from now until 11:59 pm EST May 31, 2007
The grand prize winner will be chosen from the Century
Council assembled panel of judges and will receive $5,000
as well as have her PSA concept produced and distributed
as The Century Council’s first Girl Talk national
commercial.
The contest judges are:
·Amy L. Campbell – Vice President, On-Air Promos, MTV:
Music Television
·Kate Emanuel – Senior Vice President, Non-Profit and
Government Affairs, The Ad Council
·Katherine O’Hearn – Executive Producer, This Week With
George Stephanopoulos
·Ildy Modrovich – Writer, CSI: Miami
Full contest entry details can be found on Girl Talk’s
website: [link removed]
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And That's why I always use footinance friday.
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And That's why I always use footinance friday.
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And That's why I always use footinance friday.
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And That's why I always use footinance friday.
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And That's why I always use footinance friday.
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You do just that Kevin. Tell your mom, she is not alone. You
could be telling my story too.