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  Should kids learn cursive handwriting?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  i am an elementary school teacher of the fourth grade.

  in times past, students would start learning cursive handwriting in third grade and by fourth should be transitioning to writing in cursive at all times.

  as you might be aware, this has all but been taken out of the curriculum.

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  When I was in grades 4-5, our favorite part of the day was our last half hour or so, when the teacher would write a sentence on the board from Dr. Seuss and we would practice our cursive. We always left relaxed, de-stressed, smiling and re-set for the evening (probably at a meeting for me...).

  I am 50 years old. I have been teaching high school for more than 25 years. My students today marvel that penmanship was part of our daily lessons and wish they could have had that instead of the academic pressures they faced even in 4th grade. If they ever forget to put their names on their paper, I write it for them with a classic flourish. They can't believe I could write like that when I was ten-that we all could. Some of them leave their names off their papers on purpose, just so I will write it for them (these are 17 and 18 year olds).

  They don't even need to type into a keyboard any more, they all just take pictures of everything they need to remember, or speak into their phones.

  I wonder what they used to say when people developed written language: the horror-no one will know how to memorize anything anymore.
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  New kingdom hall Washington State

  by Are you serious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  yesterday i drove passed a town a couple of hours from my home and saw this kh under construction.

  this is the first new design kh i've seen in washington state even though i would think by now another one or two have been built.

  maybe not with their financial situation being the way it is.

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  This design looks like a bank or credit union to me.

  That seems about right.
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  BOE letter 2018-06-01 Announcements

  by Fay Dehr in

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  Why only sisters with minor children need provide information regarding their care? Why are they not concerned about the brothers with minor children going off and abandoning their parental duties? Wow.
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  Home schooling website / system for JWs

  by sir82 in

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  2. friends

  so, apparently, there is an organization which provides structure, curriculum, etc.

  for home-schooling of jw kids:.

  http://www.newsystemschool.org/index.html.

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  http://www.osbeckeducational.org/curriculum.html

  Don't forget this one out of California. On it's face, not so obvious a dub school. But it is.

  You have to check out the last course recommended for each of the four years of high school. This one takes the poor dubs money and then suggests that they hit up the public schools for Career/Technical or Music.

  Now that's ironic. I got "marked," even though I wasn't baptized for participating in my high school's music offerings.

  This school claims credentialed teachers plural. That's two. I know one that effectively only made about $7/hour for those "credentialed" services of grading all the papers that the parents were producing for their kids instead of actually teaching their children how to do it.
  
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  2005 Big Announcement (Disappointment)

  by Fred Franztone in

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  2. friends

  i remember around 2005, there was an announcement made from the platform that in a few weeks time we would have to remain at the end of the sunday meeting for a big announcement, directly from the society.. i remember all the murmuring, people thought maybe this was going to be related to armageddon.

  everyone was excited, people were speculating.

  only the po in each congregation had any idea what was going on, and they were frequently pestered for information, but sworn to secrecy, which only hyped things up even more.. then the meeting came, anticipation was in the air, the announcement started, you could hear a pin drop.

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  The first time I saw A Christmas Story, the scene where Ralphie got his LIttle Orphan Annie Secret Decoder, only to find out that the secret message was a commercial, I was reminded of all these "special announcements" that were just crappy commercials. An early ah ha for me as a teenager in the 1980s.
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  California Tubbs Fire photos you might not find find anywhere else...

  by La Capra in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to quote someone near and dear: they should have built the whole kingdom hall out of the same thing they built the signs.... i had to wait nearly two weeks to get into the neighborhood to get these pictures for your voyeuristic interests...this is peanuts compared to the over 5,000 homes that were destroyed (this number includes individual units in large apartment complexes that were completely razed).

  those pictures and videos are available in the media.

  wine country is a community devastated..

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  To quote someone near and dear: They should have built the whole Kingdom Hall out of the same thing they built the signs...

  I had to wait nearly two weeks to get into the neighborhood to get these pictures for your voyeuristic interests...This is peanuts compared to the over 5,000 homes that were destroyed (this number includes individual units in large apartment complexes that were completely razed). Those pictures and videos are available in the media. Wine Country is a community devastated.
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  What is Ibid?

  by Belladonna75 in

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  hi all, i'm diving deep into historical jw literature research and i keep seeing ibid as a frequently cited source - what is this?

  i've tried the old google, but no luck.

  does this stand for something (i'm probably missing something incredibly obvious) or have i spent too many hours reading 1930s the golden age magazines and depleted all my electrons already?

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  The Latin abbreviation ib id. or ibid., followed by a page number means that the source of the material is the same as the previous source but on a different page. It can also mean a previous source (but not the source immediately prior) and will be used with an accepted diminutive form of the cite, and the page number.

  Now, if the source is exactly the same as the previous citation, including same page, the writer would use id.

  Style and Form manuals are essential to have around for anyone who communicates to a professional audience in writing. No one reads an article or a legal brief that is properly cited and says, "geez-what a prick, everything is properly cited - OCD much?" However, if the citations are loose, incomplete, missing a year, volume number, or page number, you can bet that some of the readers in the know will start to discredit the message because of the laziness of the writer or the mistake of the writer.

  However, in the legal briefs and points and authorities I read regularly, the citations I see messed up all the time are ib id. and id.
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  Sonoma County California Folks-Need Some Information Please

  by La Capra in

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  if you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the northern bay area medical liaison committee, i would really appreciate the information in a private message.

  this request is related to family concerns.

  he probably is based in sebastopol, but we don't know for sure..

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  nevermind...got the info elsewhere. Thanks.
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  Sonoma County California Folks-Need Some Information Please

  by La Capra in

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  if you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the northern bay area medical liaison committee, i would really appreciate the information in a private message.

  this request is related to family concerns.

  he probably is based in sebastopol, but we don't know for sure..

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  Hi there,

  If you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the Northern Bay Area Medical Liaison Committee, I would really appreciate the information in a private message. This request is related to family concerns. He probably is based in Sebastopol, but we don't know for sure.
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  Another big step on my journey

  by LogansRun in

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  1987 attended the memorial for the first time, and the last time?

  2016. it was a big step for me to not go last night i'm convincing myself that i really do have the strength to never return to this living nightmare of a religion.

  you may recall i'm a fader my last meeting was 9 months ago and i have deflected a number of attempted visits and dozens of phone calls they now just hang up on my answering machine, as a matter of fact they did it again this morning.

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  Oh wow. 1987 was the last memorial (tm) I attended. I was 19. It has been 30 years. Weeeeeeeeeee.