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In a message dated 2/17/02 6:45:28 AM, ezmaralda@... writes:

<< http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/alwayslearning/ >>

The reason we can't use those links is the archive is for members of the
group only and you have to go to yahoogroups and say the password.

But I was just looking at the photos again, with the two new ones, Joanne's
and Reenie's, and some of the older ones. And the light coming out of a
bunch of those kids, and the relaxed faces of the moms reminds me of how lots
of the families I see are NOT.

There are the faces of kids who don't have to wake up at 6:00 a.m. to get
ready to get on a bus. There are the faces of moms who aren't forcing kids
to finish homework before they can read for fun, or play. There are the
faces of a bunch of dads who know their kids on a daily basis, not just
weekends or report card days. There are parents who can see their kids
dance, or sing, or demonstrate this'or'that without waiting for the school
concert or science fair.

Kirby heard a schoolbell up close for the first time when he was thirteen.

Marty will be surprised, when we go to the Japanese drumming performance
later this month, that we'll have to line up to go into the theatre, and be
dismissed "by class." That's never happened to him. He's thirteen. He's
going to laugh. (Holly and I went to one of the shows in this series last
week, and it was TOTALLY a performance for schools. So we were with
Tumbleweeds homeschool group, and the dismissals started in this order: a
high school group, probably the drama group; Monte Vista elementary, because
they're two blocks from the university and the kids would have been walking,
not getting on a bus; then us, then another homeschooling group. So they
called our "school" and we filed out from the rows they had told us to file
into.)

Thanks for sharing those photos, and I hope we'll get to see more as others
here get to scanners, or join the group, or find just the coolest photo of
their family.

Thanks again for being here.

Sandra