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Perhaps the least famous usage is the expression on MO's face. 
Posted on 04/18/2014 6:29:08 AM PDT by tioga
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Perhaps the least famous usage is the expression on MO's face.
Good FRiday Ping. Class is in session...homework on the blackboard, apples on my desk.
“I lay every burden down at the foot of the Cross”
Excellent practice. A+++
oh, look. it blocked MO’s sour face....wow.
To sanctify Christ on The Cross
Americans seem at a loss
Easter’s now about money
Some Peeps and a Bunny
Though not as crass as Santa Claus
Morning Ti
Excellent summation. A+++
Good morning! A sunny 40°F here already.
And though there are times I wonder if He hears our pain, understands our frustrations, I know they are petty compared to all He took upon himself that day.
So I will bear my cross, and I will try not to be bitter over my little woes.
My youngest son, now a PhD in materials engineering and a high ranking researcher in nuclear materials, almost “flunked” kindergaten over the word “cross”.
The teacher (must have been a preceeder of Common Core) asked the children to draw a “cross” on a pre-reading test. My son (good Catholic) drew a Roman cross. She wanted something akin to a Red Cross. So she didn’t recommend him for a regular 1st grade, but a “special”, all boy, first grade where the children would not be forced to learn to read. Books and papers would just be left around the room and they could teach themselves to read while they played games, if they felt like it.
Needless to say, I enrolled him in a Catholic school with a nun who taught phonics, and he was reading the San Francisco Chronicle classifieds by Christmas.
True story.
Ohhh.
But I’m sure that look is a cross she will bare.
Yes, we all make those pledges, but then we get weak and whine. A+++
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I got fouled up the other way coming out of St Thomas More in San Antonio after 1-8 there. Mom was enrolling us in the local high school, and the counselor asked if I had algebra yet while she wasn’t at the desk. I didn’t recognize the name “algebra” but I knew i couldn’t lie about anything.
So I asked, “What’s algebra?”
Ooopsie. They stuffed me back in the regular/catch-up classes, rather than the advanced science and math. Yep - I had all of Algebra I already, and a running start at geometry - but the nuns didn’t it “algebra.” Long story short, I did some substituting and fixing in the sophomore year, and got Algebra II, geometry, physics, chemistry caught up with the other AP classes so I could get to Trig, calculus,chemistry II, physics II in the senior year.
But mom learned her lesson too.
All 7 following brothers and sisters got registered “right properly” by HER rules each following year!
Wow. I just shared it on my FB page. Don’t put much up there, but it’s so perfect for today.
The interesting thing about this “test”, that the teacher admits she had devised herself, is that the other skill that my son flunked was using scissors to cut a circle out of construction paper freehand. Apparently, my son’s circle was lopsided and crooked. He was 5.
I asked the teacher what kind of scissors did he use. Were they “left handed” scissors? No. Turns out that 11 out of the 13 boys chosen for this “special” class were/are left handed. Several moms pulled their kids out, like I did, and when the “left handed boys’ class” assembled in the fall it had only about 9 of the original 13 left.
One of the boys almost died in a horrific house fire in his second year in the class. We had moved to TX (this crazy educational experiment was in CA) and didn’t learn about Scott’s tragedy until a couple of years later. After 12 operations and a year of home tutoring, he rejoined his class. It was then that the other mothers “woke up”. Scott (despite months of horrifying pain) was way ahead of his classmates. The other mothers complained and demanded that an end be put to this ridiculous experiment.
BTW, my son won the top Science Fair prize at his Catholic School when he was 6. His older sister copied his experiment at her school in TX when she was 10 and won a blue ribbon there with the same experiment. LOL.
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