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Colonel Worthington Worm called his tactical team together in a planning meeting one balmy evening in Oklahoma.
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When facing difficult times, having a good support network you can turn to for advice and encouragement helps you feel socially connected and gives you a sense of belonging and purpose. Connecting with others helps put your own experiences living or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s into perspective, and provides you with much-needed support and encouragement.
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My concerns about public education in America piqued after reading a tweet authored by the U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona. In his tweet, Dr. Cardona celebrated the innovative efforts of schools and districts nationwide to ensure K-12 students are vaccinated against COVID19. Dr. Cardona mentioned “scholarship opportunities” and “prizes” among incentives to encourage students to get vaccinated. The Secretary of Education thought this was worthy of celebration.
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My time working in Nebraska is almost done, and I’m happy to be returning to East Texas in about 12 days. Working so far away from home hasn’t been easy, but, fortunately, I was able to make some friends in the Village of Campbell (population 350). I attended church regularly at an Evangelical Free Church, which is an offshoot of the Lutheran church, but not nearly as (pick your preferred adjective: reverent or dull).
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Peruse social media and you will find a variety of discussions related to COVID, masks, vaccinations, and schools reopening. These “discussions” often devolve into political dumpster fires as participants hold on to their positions with death grips, refusing to consider alternatives to what they believe. Increasingly, it seems that medical necessity and public health have been reduced to political tools of manipulation being used against our children. It’s hard to judge the accuracy of COVID related information being disseminated. Are the current CDC stats and recommendations legitimate or just a means to an end of someone’s agenda? What’s certain is countless students are not learning. Many students are falling farther behind and may never catch up.
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The school year was about to begin when the principal assigned the ‘troublemakers’ class to his newest teacher, a retired Marine Corps sergeant major. And as expected, news of this got out. However, what the kids didn’t know was that the former Leatherneck had undergone spinal surgery just days before, requiring her to wear an upper body cast beneath her pant suit. Calling the students to order on the first day, the new teacher was met with cat calls, sneers, and jeers; exactly what she had been warned to anticipate. But when the overhead fan began to blow her necktie around, she picked up an industrial-strength stapler and proceeded to staple the errant tie to her chest. She encountered few discipline problems that year.
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