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Good morning. Up at 5am to bid hubby farewell for the day. Have prep work to do for school today...interesting, I've gone from prep work in my catering days to prep work for school. And I love the change.

Thank you for the history links for Ancient Greece! Bookmarking...

Can't recall the ages of your kiddos...but do you know junior high is more challenging? *it's a revelation to me at this very moment*...Calgon take me away!

Good morning TxBec! Thank you Linda!

I'm cleaning house today. I'm ready for a nap. I'm trying to do some serious Fall cleaning before we start school next Tuesday.

i just received this:

This is a poem written by a home school mom as a spoof on The Grinch . It is in response to Gray Davis' education person who is trying to stop home schooling in California.....unfortunately the ending is not as happy. For thus far, her heart has not grown a bit.

Date: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:47:34 AM Subject: Poem: The Easton Who Tried to Steal Homeschooling (From CHN Yagoo Group)

The Eastin

I hope my rather amateur stab at poetry makes someone smile!

The Eastin who tried to steal Home Schooling By Donna Pryer with apologies to Dr. Seuss!

The kids in California, liked home schooling a lot.
But the Eastin, who lived way up north,
She did not!
The Eastin hated home schooling
The whole home schooling scene.
Please don't ask me the reason,
Because it's only a guess, 
That the answer may be
All the scores on the tests.

"They're buying curriculum and boxes of pencils,
They've maps on their walls and drawers full of stencils.
They have no credentials, no papers, no unions!
To think that a parent could direct education,
Why it's blasphemy! thought the 
Much put out D. Eastin!

"And the tests that they take, 
And the scores they receive,
Give me aches in my head that
I can not relieve!
And the more that the Eastin thought
Of this home schooling trend,
The more Eastin thought, 
"Why I must make it end!"

The Eastin looked up the coast 
And looked down,
And she wore on her face 
A most unpleasant frown.
Then she got an idea.
An awful idea!
The Eastin got a wonderful 
enormously awful idea!

"Those pesky home schoolers, 
They simply must stop!
My kingdom's in trouble, 
Why I'll call the cops!
I'll make up a law and
I'll make it up quick.
Who cares what the code is,
Or that it will not stick.
I'll send out a memo, a memo of lies-
I'll scare those home schoolers
And watch them all fly.
Right back to the districts,
Where the children belong.
Who cares about rights!
I believe they are wrong!"

So the Eastin sent all 
of the districts a letter,
In hope that their lawyers
Wouldn't council them better.
"Home schooling's a crime,
In case you don't know it.
Parents must have a 
teaching credential and show it!
Now harass and harangue
All those parents out there.
But don't quote the code, 
Just give them a scare.
And they'll come back to the districts
and give you their kids. 
Because only the state can
fill up their lids!"

The Eastin thought with a smirk,
"Well that'll fix all their wagons!
Pretty soon all the kids in the state
Will be laggin"!"
When suddenly she heard a 
sound on the wind.
A sound that grew louder till it became
quite a din.
And the sound that she heard
On the wind as it rode,
Was none other than home schoolers singing
"Know the code!   Know the code!"

Written By: Donna (wife to Ron and mom to the blessings 11)