It’s very cold here today (it will be in the ’60s this weekend), and I’m preparing to head to Albany to meet with Bishop Maginn High School officials about their new Regents Test Review Wish List – which I hope to post on the blog tonight.
I’m also going to visit Judi Merriam and her new choir maybe get a video of them singing, I hear they are wonderful. This is an Army Of Good funded choir, and I thought you should see the progress they are making.
The Wish List is also important. Every June, every senior student in New York state must take a Regents Test in order to graduate.
These tests are very important in helping to determine a students’ future, this is especially so for refugee students who have to work so hard to overcome cultural and language barriers.
It is not possible to go on to college without graduating.
The school has not been able to afford study review books for all of the students, we are hoping to buy 50 or 60 of these books at $600 apiece so each senior will have the review they need and get to work studying. There is still about six months.
The review books cost about $10 apiece. The teachers are making sure we are getting the books their students need. This will be a great move for Bishop Maginn. I’ll check in later.
I appreciate how the animals on the farm deal with the cold. They simply get out into the sun and stand or lay still. Their bodies warm-up and they soak in the sun. Animals are wizards of Radical Acceptance.
I’m excited to be seeing the kids at Bishop Maginn and hearing the choir. It was our first project at the school. Thanks for everything.
I sometimes find myself being envious of your kind of winter. When we get winter here in Edmonton, it arrives in October and doesn’t end until April and we don’t get weekends where the temperature jumps into the sixties. It drops below freezing and stays there for the duration. ❄️