This is excellent, Julian. Thank you so much. -Katy
This event is NOT open to the public. Students who are attending have been especially invited.
I've been to Yummy Finds and eaten their cupcakes. It's a very cute little store and the cupcakes are exceptional. I am looking forward to taking my son there during Spring Break, I know he'll love the chocolate peanut butter cupcake.
Excellent article, Julian. Gorgeous photo, too. Bless his heart.
So far I'm pretty happy with Torres and my kid loves it there. He especially loves his teacher, Ms. Kruppa. Now, if only there were some option for afterschool care for single parents (like me), I would be completely happy.
It is the Workforce Commission that has additional stimulus money for training that is available through their office to train unemployed workers or help businesses train their employees. In many cases, TWC partners with the College to provide the training.
Employers who need customized training seek solutions to their training needs directly from the College.
To find out more about what kind of training is available and who may be eligible, contact the Workforce Solutions office.
This article makes it sounds as though the college just received the $1.7 million. That is not true. That grant began in 2007 and is just now finishing. The College is now looking to submit new grant proposals to make use of the $90 million available over the next two years from the state, both in partnership with the petrochemical consortium and other area business and industry.
To Catahula: Please contact the College to learn more about the grant proposal criteria and submission process.
Seven weeks off in summer does in no way, shape or form constitute year-round anything. “Extended schedule” is much more accurate, however, as the parent of a child who has attended a school on extended schedule for the past two years, I must also voice my opinion against it.
The argument that it interferes with summer vacation is weak. The only way that could possibly be true is if a family were, for some reason, limited to taking vacation time in June and I suggest that the number of families for whom that could be the case is extremely small. I don’t disagree that an extended schedule may in a few cases help somewhat with retention and I do appreciate the law enforcement argument. However, for students who get no educational stimulation outside of school whatsoever, three extra weeks in school is probably not going to make a tremendous difference. And the law enforcement argument would be much stronger if middle and high schools had an extended schedule rather than elementary schools.
The biggest issue here is that there is NO childcare available in this town for children on intersession. I know because at the beginning of the first intersession this year, when I discovered that the YMCA had discontinued its intersession program, I called every single church, daycare and charitable organization I could find listed in the phone book and asked around to friends and co-workers and could find no where that would accept kids for only two weeks. The Boy’s and Girl’s Club, where my child usually goes after school, does not offer childcare during intersession. They do, however, offer summer day camp.
I’m a single mother and I work for a living. I do have family, but they don’t live close, so dumping my son on them for two weeks was not a very happy choice for any of us, especially at the last moment. Now that Hopkins is no longer a magnet school and only serves its geographical area, consideration for the demographics of that area should be (and should have been) taken into consideration. I doubt that many families in that area of town are able to afford a private nanny to care for children whose parent(s) work. I know I certainly can’t.
Either the extended schedule is great and ALL schools in the district follow it, which would ensure appropriate childcare is available through various sources, or it’s not great and ALL schools are on a traditional calendar. My feeling is that it's appeal is mostly to teachers and administrators rather than students. But either way, consistency and the availability of childcare is at the heart of the issue in this community… the opinions of educators in other areas are very nearly meaningless to me as a single-parent to child who consistently makes the A-B honor roll.
Not only that, but a crime lab here could conceivably generate income as well if some of the smaller surrounding cities send their evidence here for analysis. I'm sure all the little towns in the Golden Crescent area have the same issues with sending evidence off for analysis and it taking upwards of six months to get back. Good point, Clyde, I agree. If the CJ program here in Victoria takes off as much as expected with the downward expansion, odds are good that the crime lab here would expand.
What really frosts me is that my bank shows a $200 balance when it's actually $0 because it has "overdraft protection." It's not, though, because if you go into that $200, you pay the $30 overdraft fee. That's got to be some kind of scam! I'm guilty of not looking at my bank statements, but I never go more than one or two days without looking at my balance online and checking up on my transactions and I do keep a budget because of the very thing you've pointed out here. Overdrafts can suck your money away quicker than anything else. Dave Ramsey says to keep an eye on your money or it will wander off like a 2-year-old in a department store. That is totally true.
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This is excellent, Julian. Thank you so much. -Katy
This event is NOT open to the public. Students who are attending have been especially invited.
I've been to Yummy Finds and eaten their cupcakes. It's a very cute little store and the cupcakes are exceptional. I am looking forward to taking my son there during Spring Break, I know he'll love the chocolate peanut butter cupcake.
Excellent article, Julian. Gorgeous photo, too. Bless his heart.
So far I'm pretty happy with Torres and my kid loves it there. He especially loves his teacher, Ms. Kruppa. Now, if only there were some option for afterschool care for single parents (like me), I would be completely happy.
It is the Workforce Commission that has additional stimulus money for training that is available through their office to train unemployed workers or help businesses train their employees. In many cases, TWC partners with the College to provide the training.
Employers who need customized training seek solutions to their training needs directly from the College.
To find out more about what kind of training is available and who may be eligible, contact the Workforce Solutions office.
This article makes it sounds as though the college just received the $1.7 million. That is not true. That grant began in 2007 and is just now finishing. The College is now looking to submit new grant proposals to make use of the $90 million available over the next two years from the state, both in partnership with the petrochemical consortium and other area business and industry.
To Catahula: Please contact the College to learn more about the grant proposal criteria and submission process.
Seven weeks off in summer does in no way, shape or form constitute year-round anything. “Extended schedule” is much more accurate, however, as the parent of a child who has attended a school on extended schedule for the past two years, I must also voice my opinion against it.
The argument that it interferes with summer vacation is weak. The only way that could possibly be true is if a family were, for some reason, limited to taking vacation time in June and I suggest that the number of families for whom that could be the case is extremely small. I don’t disagree that an extended schedule may in a few cases help somewhat with retention and I do appreciate the law enforcement argument. However, for students who get no educational stimulation outside of school whatsoever, three extra weeks in school is probably not going to make a tremendous difference. And the law enforcement argument would be much stronger if middle and high schools had an extended schedule rather than elementary schools.
The biggest issue here is that there is NO childcare available in this town for children on intersession. I know because at the beginning of the first intersession this year, when I discovered that the YMCA had discontinued its intersession program, I called every single church, daycare and charitable organization I could find listed in the phone book and asked around to friends and co-workers and could find no where that would accept kids for only two weeks. The Boy’s and Girl’s Club, where my child usually goes after school, does not offer childcare during intersession. They do, however, offer summer day camp.
I’m a single mother and I work for a living. I do have family, but they don’t live close, so dumping my son on them for two weeks was not a very happy choice for any of us, especially at the last moment. Now that Hopkins is no longer a magnet school and only serves its geographical area, consideration for the demographics of that area should be (and should have been) taken into consideration. I doubt that many families in that area of town are able to afford a private nanny to care for children whose parent(s) work. I know I certainly can’t.
Either the extended schedule is great and ALL schools in the district follow it, which would ensure appropriate childcare is available through various sources, or it’s not great and ALL schools are on a traditional calendar. My feeling is that it's appeal is mostly to teachers and administrators rather than students. But either way, consistency and the availability of childcare is at the heart of the issue in this community… the opinions of educators in other areas are very nearly meaningless to me as a single-parent to child who consistently makes the A-B honor roll.
Not only that, but a crime lab here could conceivably generate income as well if some of the smaller surrounding cities send their evidence here for analysis. I'm sure all the little towns in the Golden Crescent area have the same issues with sending evidence off for analysis and it taking upwards of six months to get back. Good point, Clyde, I agree. If the CJ program here in Victoria takes off as much as expected with the downward expansion, odds are good that the crime lab here would expand.
What really frosts me is that my bank shows a $200 balance when it's actually $0 because it has "overdraft protection." It's not, though, because if you go into that $200, you pay the $30 overdraft fee. That's got to be some kind of scam!
I'm guilty of not looking at my bank statements, but I never go more than one or two days without looking at my balance online and checking up on my transactions and I do keep a budget because of the very thing you've pointed out here. Overdrafts can suck your money away quicker than anything else.
Dave Ramsey says to keep an eye on your money or it will wander off like a 2-year-old in a department store. That is totally true.