<html>
<head>
<style>
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Verdana
}
</style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Hi Again,</span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">I'd like to comment on two of Kathy's comments.<br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"4. Ensure, as a teacher, you have a printing and paper budget."</span> <br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">* Don't lay this in the laps of the teachers. They have far to much to do as it is.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 27px; "> </span><br></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">* Every child should have access to a computer al la the OLPC model (that is seldom really followed) and printers they can use at school for things from the textbook that need to be on paper. <br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">*Teachers should not be asked to do more than they already have to do. They should be provided with teacher workrooms at least, with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">up-to-date, working equipment at their disposal for duplication of special materials such as lab </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">sheets for experiments.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 27px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Ideally, every teacher would be supplied with their own equipment so they could do this in their own classroom (that they don't have to share with several other teachers as "traveling teachers" at crowded schools often do).<br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"5. As with everything, never assume funding. Make it work on a shoestring </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">budget. Be creative."</span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">*Teachers have been being creative for years. There is a limit to how much that shoestring can be stretched.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">*It is time we concentrate on supporting the teachers and treating them like the dedicated, highly trained professionals we want them to be, and most are. Only then will be find the "best and brightest" scrambling to get into schools of education rather than doing, as so many do, teaching until something "better" comes along.<br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Sorry! It is the old retired educator talking again!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); min-height: 34px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27.4px/normal Courier; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">Caryl</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; ">P.S. For some reason the formatting on this message is acting crazy. That's Hotmail for you.</span></span></div></body>
</html>