MAI KIDS - I WILL REMEMBER YOU - The Days We Thought Would Never End

I have many happy memories of the MAI classes; the faces; the personalities; the great times; the high test scores; the hundreds of books we read, the reading trophies we won; the Candlelight Dinners; the class plays; the camping; the parties; the projects; and the "Improvement Table."

Mrs. Pruzin shows a hand written list of numbers one of her students adds to every day. He is so excited about learning, his list gets longer and longer. I wonder if he will reach ten thousand? a hundred thousand? a million?

Almost time for me to pass the torch. Let someone else carry the burden. Time to start preparing for a new life, a new beginning, a new adventure.

lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the word

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day

Arizona Education Targeted For Funding Cuts

The Senate education budget includes devasting cuts to Arizona's K-12, universities and community colleges. If this budget is enacted, our education community will see cuts of an astounding $552 million! Added to prior cuts, this would mean that over the last three years, our state will have experienced cuts of $1.44 BILLION out of our state's education funding. Do not go past GO. Do not collect $200! In the educational game of Monolopy, the charter schools and private schools win; the nation's poor and disadvantaged lose.