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Get those kids to law school – with happy hearts!

Oct 302007

You see, here’s the deal at my house – my hubby preaches ‘law school, law school, law school’ to the kids. And I preach ‘be happy, learn to love, be happy’ to the kids. So I figure we balance each other out perfectly in our parental preachings! They’ll go to law school – and be happy doing it!

Wouldn’t that be great if they went to law school and worked for one of those pro-bono places? And they were deliriously happy doing it? Or is that just my evil, I-told-you-so heart being snooty again?

Well, anyway, let’s say they (or any of them) decide to go ahead with law school. They have got their work cut out for them. Taking the LSAT is no walk in the park. Anyone considering it will need some serious LSAT prep help and guidance. And at Prep101, they are sure to gain a much more competitive edge. And we are assured of this by the money back guarantee, which says:

After taking our Comprehensive Prep Course your LSAT score is guaranteed to improve.

The LSAT Prep Course is so comprehensive, that I don’t think they’ve left any stone unturned! They even offer follow-up email tutoring from instructors and an Applying to Law School Seminar.

They also have a free repeat policy. You can take the course as many times as you need, until you feel ready.

I definitely think Prep101 would be awesome help for anyone considering law school.
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Gifted Education

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Oct 212007

My older son just finally got into the gifted program out here. I have been asking about it since signing him up for the school last year, but, through one communication gap after another, it was slow going. Anyway, he is just loving it. And the way that they do it, is to replace one of their academic classes with it, weaving that subject into the gifted curriculum. Last year, if you were in the gifted program, that meant you were in gifted social studies. This year, however, that means that you are in gifted English. My other son loves his regular English teacher so much that he didn’t want to switch. He might do it next year, though. He had the gifted teacher for another six-week long class, and he really liked her, too. And she was very happy having him in her class, as well. We went ahead and did the paperwork for him, so he can easily go in next year, if he chooses.

Anyway, Patrick has some cool projects and things coming up in his gifted class. And one of the things that he needed right away was a thumb drive, for taking material back and forth between home and school. Isn’t technology amazing? I just love it. It would be so neat to be in school during this exciting time! I think thumb drives are external hard drives, right? Anyway, it is just neat.

I’ll have to post some more about the gifted class and all they have planned this year – it’s definitely going to be cool!
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A T-Rex Named Sue

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Oct 182007

That’s who I’m going to meet tomorrow – well, me and a couple busloads full of fifth graders. I’m so excited. I’m scared already, just from looking at the pictures. I mean, really – do you think these three boys ever have nightmares?

See, because, what I am seeing tomorrow is a cast replica – but, those sweet boys are looking at the real, for real, actual ….head of a T-Rex!

Maybe it didn’t help that I watched Godzilla with my son yesterday! The images of Godzilla are helping Sue ‘come alive’ for me, you know? I mean, good gosh! Sue’s hips are 12 feet high! Just her hips!

I have been doing some reading up on her and I am getting more excited with every page that I read. The Field Museum, in Chicago, Illinois, with the help of many sponsors – purchased Sue for $8.4 million!

Her debut was in May 2000, and she even had a special piece of music written just for her big debut, by The Chicago Chamber Musicians. The piece is called, “Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto”. I just love the sound of that! I mean, the name, that is. I haven’t actually heard the piece. That would be really cool if I could find it on YouTube and then I could post it here for all of us to enjoy together!

Ok, I’m sure I’ll have lots of good stuff to report after ‘meeting’ her – so for now…
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Shawn could go to Texas Culinary Academy

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Sep 282007

Recently I was talking to a friend about the magnet schools back home in Texas. I was really excited for Shawn because one of them had a culinary arts program. He would have loved that. And after graduating, he could have gone to Texas Culinary Academy – I was just looking over their website, http://www.tca.edu and it sounds like it might have been just perfect for Shawn. And he would have only been three hours away from us, in Austin, TX. And the magnet high school was actually in our school district! Here in our small town in Alabama, the closest magnet school is six hours away! Six hours?! Yikes! I have a neighbor friend who just sent her son there this year for the first time – he is a sophomore! Send my boy SIX hours away from me in the tenth grade?! That would be so hard – and both of my boys are expressing an interest in going. Oh no! Tell me again – why did I move to Alabama?
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A very involved principal

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Sep 232007

We had a very involved principal at one of our schools and it was so awesome! Actually, I think we might have a principal who may be just as cool at Sammie’s school, but, I don’t have time to be up there all the time like I was at our last school. The one I was talking about at first, though, was so cool, because he went out of his way to make everyone feel special. I don’t know how he did it, but, he would learn almost all of the children’s names and call them by name when he saw them. And it wasn’t just the kids that he treated special. He was very good to his teachers, as well. Every Friday, he and the assistant principal would go all around the school with popcorn machines, giving the teacher’s a yummy afternoon snack. When a principal gets involved like that, the whole school runs better – and there is a great community feel to the school, too!