COURAGE – When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take – choose the bolder. – W.J. Slim

“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin

What’s mainly wrong with society today is that too many Dirt Roads have been paved. There’s not a problem in America today, crime, drugs, education, divorce, delinquency, that wouldn’t be remedied if we just had more Dirt Roads, because Dirt Roads give character. People that live at the end of Dirt Roads learn early on… Read more »

…the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. – Charles Dickens

1. Hang pictures of heroes and heroines in halls or classrooms. 2. Institute a student tutoring program. 3. Promote service clubs with real missions for the school community. 4. Be vigilant about preventing and stopping scapegoating of one child by other children. 5. Create recognition programs and acknowledge something besides academic, athletic, or artistic achievement…. Read more »

A Tribute to My Dad I was cleaning out the cabin recently and I ran across Dad’s old tool chest. As with most of his things they were second hand and heavily used. I began to throw out most of the contents knowing that most people would pass them by in a garage sale, but… Read more »

SACRAMENTO–As a dedicated teacher, Jenny Dermody took it personally when her son fell behind in school. Though he tested in the gifted range, Kevin acted spacey and didn’t work well independently. Then one morning Dermody found Kevin, now 11, curled up on the shower floor with water pelting him. He was fast asleep. It took… Read more »

The use of anti-depressant drugs such as Prozac and Zoloft soared in usage in the late 1990s among young people, the first government study of its type found. Prescription drug use among people 20 years old and younger jumped 62% from 1995 to 1999, according to research by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and… Read more »

1. PROBLEMS ARE MERELY QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED. (Webster s Dictionary) 2. WHAT IS THIS PROBLEM TEACHING ME? DON T ASK WHY, ASK WHAT. 3. WE LEARN BY BEING BURNED. 4. IT S NOT THE PROBLEMS WE ENCOUNTER THAT MATTER IT S HOW WE RESPOND TO THEM. 5. PROBLEMS NEVER LEAVE YOU WHERE… Read more »

One of the more challenging things on a teacher’s plate these days is to convince difficult and challenging children that they are capable and responsible. Their attitudes typically are “I can’t do it!” “I don’t know how!” or “You can’t make me!” This prevents them from taking the first steps from the learning opportunities you… Read more »