MIA

It's been a hectic week and a half and I really need a couple of days to catch up on life.

Last Monday I had a meeting for the Saint John Breastfeeding Alliance, yoga at suppertime and then a Home and School meeting.

Tuesday- playgroup at our Family resource Center and  Citizen's for Educational Choice   What are we?  From our website-  http://www.educationnb.org

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	What is the CEC?
	Citizens for Educational Choice” or CEC is an umbrella group that supports fundamental choice in the province's educational system and opposes the Liberal government's intention to remove it. Some of us don't want the EFI experience to be taken from NB's children; Some of us are sure that Gr. 5 Intensive French is not right for our children;  Some of us are Francophones concerned about our culture, and immigrants who would like our children to learn a second language. All of us know that the Liberals have turned their backs on the fundamental practices of democracy and have rushed to implement Lamrock's educational experiment. Click here to get the CEC FactBook which lays out the major reasons why we oppose the Lamrock Plan. "

 My son also had beavers Tuesday night instead of Wed.  and since we are a one vehicle family, conflicts in scheduling require some juggling.  They were going on a field trip at a local park so that meant hubby had to take the girls as well.  I also look after two little boys on Tuesdays so it was a very hectic day.

Thursday nights dh is out.  Friday night and Saturday I went to the provincial Home and School AGM.  I sat in on some amazing sessions about community schools,parenting the net generation and learning styles.  The presenter for the learning styles session was great.  He's from PEI and here's a link to the course he's doing for the PEITF http://www.peitf.com/ideas.htm  I'd love to go to a full course.  The little bit that he presented to us on learning styles, was very insightful.

Oh and there was a special guest appearance at noon. Less-than -Honourable Mr Kelly Lamrock.  :P I had a hard time eating with him in the room.  It made me quite nauseous and I almost choked when he said that with his new plan, gifted students will have SEP's.  This infuriates me so much .   Can you get more elite than that?   The current wait for a psycho-educational evaluation in this province is 1-2 yrs.  That's for struggling students who may have learning disabilities.  And we've got room in the system for gifted students as well??

Honestly I think the man dreams up a new plan each night while he's sleeping.  He should be writing them down though because he's constantly contradicting himself.  he told a well spun tale of being on the basketball team in high school and almost cutting his fingers off in shop class.  I mentioned it to someone last night and they laughed.  Basketball??  More like theatre, debate and mock parliment.  New Brunswick needs to exile Doug Willms and Kelly Lamrock to a deserted island.

Anyway.  I took Sunday off  from meetings and Monday night went to PSSC and CEC again Tuesday night.  I think I am good until Sunday when I hope to attend the AGM for CPF.  Joe Dicks and the Official languages Commisioner will be speaking.

For now, I need to catch up on laundry, do a meal plan for the next few weeks, get some cleaning done and figure out what to do with the kids this weekend.  Two days off school again.  No offence to the teachers out there, but union meetings should not take place during school hours.  We've missed enough classtime as it is.