Monday, November 02, 2009
Patrents struggle
Hard times and higher fuel prices have followed kids back to school this fall. Many children are walking farther to the bus stop and paying more for lunch. Some are wearing last year's clothes. New textbooks and fancy field trips are a thing of the past, too. In addition, costs for air conditioning and heating, cafeteria food, and classroom supplies are rising. In some places, it's costing nearly twice as much to fuel the yellow buses that rumble to school each morning. Blame these rising costs on the shaky economy. School districts, like everyone else, are feeling the pinch this year. They're trying new ways to keep costs under control. Meanwhile, parents are making up the difference. Many school districts are trying hard to save money. Montgomery County is a district outside of Washington, D.C. Montgomery is heating or cooling only the rooms that are in use. Other school districts are trying to spend less on expensive bus fuel. Hundreds of districts have cut or reduced bus routes. This increases the distance that students must walk to catch the bus. In San Jose, California, parents must pay more for bus service. This helps make up for increased fuel costs. In California's Folsom Cordova School District, bus service for high school students was cancelled. A school district in rural Minnesota has taken a different approach. The district is cancelling classes every Monday. This saves the district at least $65,000 in fuel. Still, there is a cost. The rest of the week, classes are ten minutes longer each day. Kids have to stay awake and alert later in the day. Some parents have to find daycare for their children on Mondays.Other school districts are asking parents for help. In Paw Paw, Michigan, schools are asking parents to drive to athletic trips. Parents in Waterford, Connecticut, are paying for field trips that the school district used to pay for. What's more, many schools are cutting out field trips altogether. The Montgomery County district is cutting funds for its award-winning math team. Parents will have to step in to keep the team going. In spite of parents' help, many school districts will struggle to break even this year. As fuel prices have rocketed higher, the cost of food has also zoomed up. Some schools are charging students more money for school lunches. In Jacksonville, Florida, for example, the price of a school lunch rose from $1.45 to $2. More than half of all schoolchildren in the U.S. get free or reduced-price lunches. Still, government assistance is often not enough to cover what the meals actually cost. This often means that schools must pay the difference. It's not easy for school districts these days. With a little teamwork between parents and schools, though, the future might be a little easier.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
H1N1 Do's (and Don'ts) List
There are a few things you should -- and should not -- be doing at the moment.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Check this out ! Guy cries blood :'(
Check this out ! This kid cries BLOOD . Its very sad ... The name of that disease is "haemolacria"...
PS: At school we can't open YouTube , so you can see a picture of him.
PS: At school we can't open YouTube , so you can see a picture of him.
Dying Girl Leaves Notes Behind
VIDEO - Dying girl leaves notes for her mom and dad before she died. Multiple messages of the same thing to her loving parents.
One-eyed cat named Cy.
I was on Google one day and found this picture. Of course I wondered whether or not it was fake but it's very real.
Heres the article I found.
January 13, 2006 - 12:18PM
Cy, short for Cyclops, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, OregonPhoto: Traci Allen
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A photo of a one-eyed kitten named Cy drew more than a little scepticism when it turned up on various websites, but medical authorities have a name for the bizarre condition.
"Holoprosencephaly'' causes facial deformities, according to the US National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
In the worst cases, a single eye is located where the nose should be, according to the institute's Web site.
Traci Allen says the kitten she named Cy, short for Cyclops, was born the night of December 28 with the single eye and no nose.
"You don't expect to see something like that,'' the 35-year-old Allen said by telephone from her home in Redmond in central Oregon.
Allen said she stayed up all night with the deformed kitten on her recliner, feeding Cy a liquid formula through a syringe.
She says she cared for the kitten the next day as well, until it died that evening.
Allen had taken digital pictures that she provided to The Associated Press.Some bloggers have questioned the authenticity of the photo distributed on January 6.
AP regional photo editor Tom Stathis said he took extensive steps to confirm the one-eyed cat was not a hoax.
Stathis had Allen ship him the memory card that was in her camera.On the card were a number of pictures - including holiday snapshots, and four pictures of a one-eyed kitten.
The kitten pictures showed the animal from different perspectives.
Fabricating those images in sequence and in the camera's original picture format, from the varying perspectives, would have been virtually impossible, Stathis said.
Although it might creep some people out I find it very sad.
R.I.P Cy.
Fear the FANGS! >:B
Heres the article I found.
January 13, 2006 - 12:18PM
Cy, short for Cyclops, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, OregonPhoto: Traci Allen
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A photo of a one-eyed kitten named Cy drew more than a little scepticism when it turned up on various websites, but medical authorities have a name for the bizarre condition.
"Holoprosencephaly'' causes facial deformities, according to the US National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
In the worst cases, a single eye is located where the nose should be, according to the institute's Web site.
Traci Allen says the kitten she named Cy, short for Cyclops, was born the night of December 28 with the single eye and no nose.
"You don't expect to see something like that,'' the 35-year-old Allen said by telephone from her home in Redmond in central Oregon.
Allen said she stayed up all night with the deformed kitten on her recliner, feeding Cy a liquid formula through a syringe.
She says she cared for the kitten the next day as well, until it died that evening.
Allen had taken digital pictures that she provided to The Associated Press.Some bloggers have questioned the authenticity of the photo distributed on January 6.
AP regional photo editor Tom Stathis said he took extensive steps to confirm the one-eyed cat was not a hoax.
Stathis had Allen ship him the memory card that was in her camera.On the card were a number of pictures - including holiday snapshots, and four pictures of a one-eyed kitten.
The kitten pictures showed the animal from different perspectives.
Fabricating those images in sequence and in the camera's original picture format, from the varying perspectives, would have been virtually impossible, Stathis said.
Although it might creep some people out I find it very sad.
R.I.P Cy.
Fear the FANGS! >:B
A Baby kitty with Wings in China. =o
Is this Real?Your asking well it is Very Real and after the Cat turned 1 years old he grow wings. No one knows how it just happened but the Owners still Love her/Him.
look at this.Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Three men arrested in a college athletes death
It suprised me that they had to do 200 interveiws and 40 investigations and that a man died because two man pulled out a knife during a fight after the dance now at least the fellow team mates will finally know there freinds murderers
Beaten man accused of molesting boy moves from hospital to jail
I choose this article because there was a man accused for molesting a little girl.
" From Hospital to Jail."
" From Hospital to Jail."
ARTICLE: Coral Springs boy, 12, accepts plea deal in stabbing of 13-year-old
This article is very depressing, and happened on Oct. 20th nearby us (Coral Springs)!
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