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February 2012
Dear Katie Ford: I always enjoy reading your magazine. It’s fresh, up to date and helpful! Thanks for what you do! A very good friend of mine is Riney Jordan, so I always look forward to seeing his article. Sometimes I laugh; sometimes I cry. But I always agree that Riney and you have your finger on the pulse of what is going on in our state. Thanks again!
Thank you very much for including Alvarado ISD in Texas School Business’ Fifth Annual Bragging Rights 2011-2012 issue! We were honored and humbled to be considered and ecstatic that we made the cut! I think that Mr. Carmack did a wonderful job on the article and represented our program/community extremely well. I enjoyed working through the process with him. Thank you again and God bless!
Not just because he is my boss and friend, but the story “Northside ISD’s John Folks fights the good fight for public education,” by Bobby Hawthorne (November/December 2011), is so well written and really tells Dr. Folks’ story and why we love him so much in Northside ISD. Thanks for sharing our Dr. Folks with the rest of Texas.
Dear Jim Walsh: Each week, I find magazine or newspaper articles about world, state or national news that I think will be of interest to the students in my pre-AP English classes. I also look for articles about young people and topics that pertain to their interests. The students are to write a minimum of a one-page response, giving their opinions and/or reactions to the article. We call this our Weekly Homework Assignment Material (WHAM). Our junior high principal had put a copy of your Law Dawg column, “Queen of charm loses her crown” (September 2011) in the faculty mailboxes earlier in the year. After reading it, I felt this would be a topic my students would really get into. We read and discussed the article together in class, approaching it from several different angles. Cyberbullying and bullying in general, of course, were the main topics we discussed. But we also brought in ideas about how much responsibility the school system has in teaching moral responsibility to the students and whether it should be left up to the parents to teach this. The students also discussed the question of whether the punishment was appropriate for the behavior. Several thought the punishment of 90 days of social suspension was too severe. The article brought out much interesting discussion, and the students really enjoyed responding to this topic. The students were quite impressed with the fact that one of their peers was interested enough in the assignment to go the extra mile and write to you to seek more information, and so was I. Also, the students were impressed — and so was I — that in your response, you said that you thought what we were doing in class was “cool.” Thank you for being interested in education.
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