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THANK YOU to the families who participated in the "Springfield Cardinals!" FIELD TRIP!!! and the "Snowcones, Popsicles, and Soda!" Reading Party. It was a GREAT baseball game. The Reading Delicious Ice Cream Party has started so keep track of the books you read between now and May, 2010.
The Autism walk is this Saturday, September 12, 2009. Start collecting spare change from your neighborhood. I'll send the details out as soon as our team website works for this Autism Walk. This walk is the best. It is held at Jordan Valley Park, perfect for strollers and kids and pregnant moms and families.
The flatbed trailer was admitted for surgery yesterday morning. HURRAH! We've raised $350 THANK YOU!!! Now, let's finish off the year's expenses, website is due in November ($20) and I need to mail all these THANK YOU notes ($30) for postage. The EduFair books are sorted, packed, and stored for EduFairs 2010. HURRAH!!! Whew! What a summer this has been! THANK YOU. So, help us out with the final website payment and the postage with your tax-deductible donation!
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Here's tidbits of things happening right now, the biggest yard sale ever, an important update about the Home Reporter, and History Club. I've also included the Families For Home Education Lobbyist response to President Obama's September 8th speech.
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Hello to you all !!!
I hope you had a wonderful summer. For me at The Home Reporter it has been a time of change-a farewell, a miracle, and a time for reflection.
The farewell-many of you know Brandi Fitzpatrick as our editor. She graciously continued as editor for this past year, even though she didn't have any more home school children. She now has three grandchildren and many other interest, so the May issue was her last one.
The June/July issue that we have offered in the past was always an extra FREE copy that we would do if there was enough info. This year there was not a June/Junly issue.
The miracle- the last of June my husband, Kevin, was injured at work. He was hit in the head by a falling hanging branch from a tree. Had it not been for his hard hat he would have been killed. God protected him from head and neck injuries, but he
did sustain a major injury to his leg. For those of you who have had someone close be ill or injured you know that our world turned upside down. I am afraid I had no extra time or energy to put out the August Home Reporter which would have been prepared in mid-July. At that time we were still dealing with the injury in a major way. He just returned to work with the crew on August 19th. The prognosis is great for no permanent damage to his leg. We are reminded daily of God's grace and goodness. And, I am grateful to still have time with my husband and best friend.
A time of reflection-The accident was definitely a reminder of how our lives are truly in God's hands. We may think we are in control but when you have a love one passing out in the ER you are reminded of just how dependent you truly are.
So, in the end my summer has been a lot about change. But, isn't that the same way with you too? I know many of you have had changes with jobs, moving, babies, illness, etc. Not one of these moments has been overlooked by our Heavenly Father. Change causes us to grow, to be creative, to look at what is truly important.
Brandi and I prayed for two years for another editor for The Home Reporter. At this time, I still don't have a person to fill that position. Since I know that my Father can do anything I believe it would be wrong for me to continue The Home Reporter in its current form.
So, from now on The Home Reporter will be an e-mail based clearinghouse of news and activities for homeschoolers. This means no subscription price (I told you that change can be good).
So send all your homeschool news and activities to HomeschoolNews@.... The post office box has been closed because we will no longer be receiving subscription checks and ads by mail. The only way for this to work for me is to have everything done by e-mail. Please send in any info by the 25th of the month (Sept. 25 for the Oct. e-mail). Please e-mail me if you want to run a business ad. Please put business ad in the subject line.
May I encourage you also to check out the various homeschool co-ops and schools in the area, as well as the local message boards.
These are a great way to be involved with other homeschoolers so that you can be encouraged and be an encouragement to others.
May God bless you,
Sandy Harrel
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Dear friends! I am having a huge yard sale and would love to have you stop by. The info is below. Hope to see you! Stormy
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History Club meets in Springfield, Missouri every Monday night. The David Barton Videos are shown, in order, 1 video each session. Families are expected to view the video together, there is no child care available for little ones. No drop-offs. No fees, no charges.
(These are GREAT videos and if I didn't have my sales meetings on Monday nights, we'd be there!, Pamela)
Leave a message at 417.209.2024 and Lisa will call you back after 5pm. If you don't leave a message, she won't call you back!
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PRESIDENT
OBAMA
TO ADDRESS SCHOOL STUDENTS NATIONWIDE – WHY I AM UNEASY
We
will all know
more tomorrow – for now all I can say with certainty is that I am
uncomfortable with the President of the United States using a captive
audience
of children to sell himself (the head of his political party) which at
the
least indirectly promotes his policies.
President
Obama’s “prepared” remarks sound like a great and challenging
pep talk aimed to motivate school students to apply themselves.
However
the entire American political experience (although I must include all
of human
history also) and particularly our recent exposure to President Obama,
should
caution us to not sit by idle while approximately 80% of our nation’s
children and youth are required to participate in this extraordinary
event.
Keep
in mind the
major media’s use of the phrase “bully pulpit” when talking
about the undue influence a president has when advocating conservative
ideology. This president is never accused of such things as he pushes
the
country as hard as he can into extremist socialism. In fact, one of
the
overarching issues with his speech is President Obama’s assumption that
we are to be motivated to do our best “for our country” and that
giving up in any way is to “give up on your country”. While
this sounds good on the surface few will note that the speech, taken in
whole,
leaves out a student’s future place in the free market and shifts the
student under a burden of a national collective.
I am
a high
critic of the American education system being based on getting the
education
that will make you the most amount of money. It has long been my
assertion that students should be taught to seek after the Lord, His
standards
and His call on their life. Students should be educated under the
banner
of the greatest commandment – to love the Lord with all of your being
and
all you have, and to love your fellow man as yourself. President Obama
seems to be swinging the pendulum from a self-absorbed education to one
focused
on the State, rather than focusing on the fellow citizens that make up
the
State.
Please
take the
time to listen to this speech. It is much more than a cheap political
stunt; it is more than Just another opportunistic political maneuver.
Listen with a discerning ear. Where in this speech is an encouragement
to
join the free market, invest oneself in capitalism, or otherwise
participate in
those larger concepts that have made the United States the great nation
we have
been?
Remember
history. Time after time nations have turned quickest not when an
enemy
destroyed and interrupted education, but when internal foes were
allowed to
redirect philosophies and ideas within the classroom. Our children are
NOT our ‘greatest natural resource’ as so often espoused by
cultured politicians, they and their education are our stewardship
responsibility before a holy God.
Note
that this
speech will be presented to an impressionable audience, in a captive
environment, with required attendance, no parental guidance or
criticism, no
alternative political challenge, hyped by a supportive media, under the
directives of school authorities we tell our children to respect. In
the
end anything objectionable to any parents will have already been well
seeded
before you get to even see your child.
Yes I
am opposed
to the President of the United States of America addressing the
nation’s
school children in this fashion. Maybe I am cynical, but this is why
– I am a professional lobbyist who has worked with the Missouri State
Legislature for 25 years. As a professional I would consider it
unethical to lobby your child to accept my political ideology while you
are
locked out of the room. As a professional I would consider it
immoral for you to lobby my child as part of a captive audience.
Likewise, I consider it downright dangerous to our country for a
hard
line socialist to do this very thing on such a grand scale.
Listen
with both
ears. Agree or disagree. But please do not ignore what’s
happening. Your children and grandchildren will inherit the nation we
give
them.
Kerry
K. Messer
Missouri
Family
Network
P.O.
Box 1288, Festus,
MO 63028
573-483-2007
Home / Office 314-971-2477 Jefferson City
mofamnet@...
MissouriFamilyNetwork.net
The
White House
has published "Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama - Back to
School
Event" and "Menu of Classroom Activities PreK-6 and 7-12".
http://www.whitehouse.gov/mediaresources/
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