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“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
Quotation and Originality 1876 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
American poet and essayist

Should we express our own thoughts in our own words? Or should we delight in repeating the sentiments of others? Disraeli, Johnson, Behan, Churchill, Wilde, and Emerson all voice their opinions in quotes on quotes. Even the book of Proverbs stakes out a position.

* “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may
be preserved by quotation.” Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
British politician and statesman

* “Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all
over the world.” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author,
critic

* “A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle
in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.”
Brendan Francis Behan (1923-1964) Irish author and poet

* “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books
of quotations.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British
statesman, soldier, and author

* “Every quotation contributes something to the stability
or enlargement of the language.” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English author, critic

* “Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first
quoter of it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
poet and essayist

* “He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great
rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily
impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the
mind.” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, critic

* “A man finds joy in giving an apt reply, and how good
is a timely word.” Proverbs 15:23

With all those persuasive pro-quote quotations, you might
think the non-quote crowd would run up a white flag and
admit their mistake. Not so fast. They’ve got their
advocates too!

* “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are
someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their
passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish
author and wit

Not only Oscar Wilde, but Emerson too. Yes, the same
Ralph Waldo Emerson who praised quotes, also said: “I
hate quotations, tell me what you know.”

Still others find humor in quotes:

* “I often quote myself; it adds spice to my
conversation.” George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish
playwright and critic

* “What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t
change it?” Doctor Who

So, where do you take your stand? All in all, I side
with the Disraeli - Johnson pro-quote gang. Quotes,
at their best, are either funny tidbits or juicy
little morsels of wisdom or inspiration. Sample these
witty quotes from Will Rogers, Mark Twain, and Oscar
Wilde and try not to smile.

* “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until
you can find a rock.” Will Rogers

* “He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old
iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy
in the Trinity.” Mark Twain

* “As long as a woman can look ten years younger
than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”
Oscar Wilde

Would you like to discover the secrets of human nature?
Antoninus, Bacon, Outlaw, Churchill, Colton, Publilius
Syrus, and Barrie unlock the mystery with these insights
and warnings:

* “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” Marcus
Aurelius Antoninus (188-217)

* “Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own
hands.” Frances Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher,
essayist, and statesman

* “Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
Frank Outlaw

* “Success is going from failure to failure without the loss
of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) British
statesman, soldier, and author

* “No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch
the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more
contagious than health.” Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Writer, author

* “Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is
he.” Maxim 1073 Publilius Syrus (first century)

* “Life is a long lesson in humility.” James M. Barrie
(1860-1937) Scottish dramatist, novelist

Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) once said: “Life’s a tough
proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.”
Point well taken, Mizner. So perhaps a few “words to live
by” quotes will make our burden a little lighter and guide us along the path. Churchill, Lombardi, Hazlitt, Jesus, Johnson, Proverbs, and Lincoln volunteer their advice.

* “Never, never, never, never give up.” Sir Winston S.
Churchill

* “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to
their commitment to excellence.” Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
American football coach

* “If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary
to victory.” William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English essayist

* “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Matthew
7:12 Jesus Christ (c.6B.C.- c.A.D.30)

* “Whatever you have, spend less.” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English author

* “Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone
else and not your own lips.” Proverbs 27:2

* And Abraham Lincoln sums our best of the best wisdom quotes with: “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

For fun, inspiration, or wisdom in a nutshell, it’s hard to
beat a good quote. Can your memorize one per day? Give it a
try! Quotations just might become a lifelong love affair.

Mr. Boone is a sailor, author, webmaster, and cartoonist. His
works include THE SAFETY LINE - EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN,
an apologetic study published 1998, and Victoria Station.us a
popular joke, quote, cartoon web site. He is also a contri-
butor to “Christian Living in the Mature Years” magazine, and
author of the article “God’s Billboards Invade Cyberspace.”

Every day is a struggle. No matter what authorized assigns from UNO say, every day is a fight that ends up with a glorious victory of one side and the shameful loss of the others. By struggle or fight we mean not only wars in Iraq, Israel and other countries that are constantly subjected to acts of violation and terrorism; we mean everyday things that also are worth fighting for. An average citizen of a mega polis knows how hard it is to fight one’s way in this competitive world. Some individuals count days till their miraculous victory comes and then only feel that their mission is complete. Defeated ones do not get frustrated and live their lives knowing that they are destined to loose and be defeated.

Some people are bathing in the rays of fame after completing their writing doctoral dissertation has been completed successfully and some always stay in the shade as assistants and never complaint on the unfair fate that made them stay unknown for the rest of their lives. There are winners and losers in this world, no matter what they are or who they are. It is quite easy to recognize winners; they are always outstanding from the crowd and possess natural magnetism and exude self-confidence and charm. Losers, on the contrary are very hard to determine and the reason is the denial of being a big time loser. As psychiatrists say, “Admission is the first step towards being cured.” That is true not only in psychology. Here are ten tatements, or otherwise commandments of those who are respectable winners and know that perfectly well. A winner has a busy life and always has time for anything else. A loser has a free schedule but never makes anything on time. A winner focuses on the aim and goes straight through hardships is there are any; a loser is always distracted and seeks a way to get over a hardship without touching it. A winner blames himself in case of a loss though it was bad luck and attributes a victory to good luck even though it was a 100% effort. A loser blames a loss on bad luck, though it was only absence of effort, and attributes a victory to the effort when it was a 100% of good luck. A winner never gets jealous of somebody’s achievements and strives to work with people more experienced than he to get better himself, a loser is always jealous, hates better than him and seeks faults and errors in their work never improving himself, considering his skills perfect. A winner has friends and acquaintances that he loves to spend time with and ask for advice. A loser has friends but never is able to trust anybody, looking only for evil even in the lightest good. A winner never hurts a loser, though it would be fair to take revenge, a loser will wait for an opportune moment to stick a knife in someone’s back considering this revenge. A winners sleeps with clear conscience and a hope for tomorrow; a loser spend a sleepless night seeing night mares about yesterday.

After this short description of both types do not be afraid and consider every point and admit that you may be a loser or be proud of being a winner. Do not forget about this truth you could know even before this article. Once the project has been completed, you should look through dissertation and thesis from start to finish. You still have time to become a winner or keep the position of a one.

Plato observed that the advent of an alphabet making writing efficient for average people actually lead to less knowledge or disciplined communication. We need not blame the Phoenicians for this because people really could benefit from writing.

John Locke and many other scientists during the time when man thought there was some reality in prejudices like The Scale of Nature observed that language was a pre-requisite for consciousness. Although there is some truth in his observations which include the Tabula Rasa, this is pure hogwash and perhaps even worse than that. He may well have sought to make people feel inferior just as that Scale of Nature was designed to do to so many non-Europeans.

Common sense is a most uncommon thing it appears. We still have many people living under the pall of the Bible Narrative and other ‘absolute religions’ (Fukayama and social engineers know how to use) which have whole histories of deceit woven into their dogma and the laws that form the structure of our society. I am all for the Kat-ma concept of Karma which would have these social engineers meet their maker and put an end to that Dog-ma. It is unfortunate that scholars who are interested in making a living often have to go along with things they know are only half true at best. It is more unfortunate that good money can be made debunking real scholarship and exploration by the likes of Barraclough Fell and other Epigraphists. Please take a look into Rob Gombach of Utah State University as he says Fell was only a hobbyist.

The treatment of the concept of OM by the Catholic Encyclopedia is a fine example of what is wrong with our society I think. Here is a little of what they say to start our voyage beyond conventional thinking. Om is the sacred syllable of Hinduism used by all schools in their meditation system. It expresses the ‘world-soul’ concept of Brahman. It is pronounced at the beginning of the recitation of the ‘mantras’. In practice, this concept is expressed in Hindu teaching as:

“‘All humanity converging at the foot of that sacred place where is set the symbol that is no symbol, the name that is beyond all sound.’ In the system of practices that make up Hinduism, there is the possibility of introducing this concept through an intensified psychic response or through practices that are diabolic {What?! This is certainly a great expression of the Pope’s ecumenical interests. This mentions nothing about it being like the Holy Spirit or what physicists say which I relate to the Logos. It is racial in the level of its prejudice and it is the kind of thing one should expect from ‘Crusaders’ with no soul.}. Here there is real danger, for this concept permits one to enter into a simple, self-delusive attitude {Rather than one created by the priests of this group of ‘churchians’ who do not follow the ‘living father within’ that Jesus taught.} that misleads while at the same time acts to shut out all other avenues of Christian response. Its danger is in the blandishment whereby a Universal Religion (the core of Karma or the at-onement of divine assumption of all into one) precludes sin since there is no one to sin against. Thus it has often been cryptically likened to the evolutionary religious concepts advanced by Teilhard de Chardin {Who almost was ex-communicated and is a great ecumenicist.}, namely, the ‘omega’ concept: ‘The revealed Christ is identical with omega. This christology of Chardin, an evolutionary complex, is stated in like manner: ‘Man bears along with him the world of beings inferior to God.’ (Letter 8/7/23 in ‘Letters to Leontine Zanta.’) (See Omega Point: Teilhardism.)” (1)

The Homeric scholars have found some things to prove the myth was not all mere fiction and this continues to the present in even more fascinating ways due to satellite technology as well as a weakening grip of Biblical intrigues or religious suppression. In the final analysis it is my sincere hope that people will become more spiritual and able to appreciate their religious icons were far more than the interpreters who used their image and good works. I am of the belief that when Homer wrote about ‘the underworld’ he was writing about North America and I know for certain that these people knew the earth was a sphere and had means to map and travel throughout the whole world since long before Homer. Much of knowledge started with observing the stars in world adventures or travels and man has always been adventurous. Here is the other ‘Om’ written as Ogham or Ogam.

“‘While some marks may be related to Ogam, we are skeptical of translations because the perception of the marks on the rock, often worn or damaged, is subject to considerable variability from one observer to the next.’

No nation has a monopoly on illegibility, and the authors could profitably have consulted any edition of any ancient work, at the bottom of any page (where the variant readings are listed); there they would find subjectivity galore, and accepted as a matter of course. In any case, they should keep mum; some people have the same complaints about standing stones and alignments.” (2)

The cover-up of Ogham and all of its branches of knowledge may have started before Rome and there certainly was a lot of plagiarization or Hellenizing going on as new leaders usurped the history, technology and science of the Kelts or ‘keltoi’ and ‘Ogygia’, as the Greek (Danaus) called them. Ogygia in itself means ‘ancient ones’ and Plutarch has a map identifying Iceland as Ogygia but that does not mean it was anything more than an ancient Thulean outpost.

Not long ago the Catholic Church had a fit of honesty and considered removing St. Patrick as a Saint. They knew all along that it was a near total fiction replete with removing snakes that had never been there in recorded or remembered history. They knew he had been sent there to make deals and re-write Scriptures or destroy things which would show the real roots of their faith and culture. He personally destroyed over 150 hand drawn books and we have proof of his editing of the Senchus Mor which had been a fantastic book with numerous volumes of law and culture. There are only a few glosses with obvious re-writes remaining. But the enslaved people of Ireland who have had their true history destroyed or hidden from them were all upset to find their Patron Saint might be a saint no more.

Uncial and Insular are languages that were developed in Irish language centers for writing the Scriptures (Uncial) and what later became English (Insular). Ogham was around a long time before these more sophisticated alphabets as any person with no grasp of linguistics can easily see and yet Britannica and others maintain the cover up to this day. Here is a little confirmation that St. Patrick was part of a major effort to bring certain people into the fold and develop schools to teach what the Druids like Columcille (later St. Columba) had learned at real centers of learning like the Isle of Druids or Iona. This is taken from the Annals of Ulster. This is a record of just one source in just one year (439). Bishops gathering in one place like this is not common as I understand it but I may be wrong.

“Secundinus, Auxilius and Isserninus, themselves also bishops, are sent to Ireland to assist Patrick.” And there is also an entry that has Patrick being confirmed as a bishop a couple of years later. So he clearly was not the top person or grand Pooh-Bah of the hegemony that was there in the first place. Rome was always looking to get more local ‘fronts’ for their deals so that the average person would not clue in to what was really going on. Here is that entry from year 441. “Bishop Patrick was approved in the Catholic faith.” Of course I could be cute and suggest he had not even been Catholic before this but I frankly don’t think that would be unusual either. Augustine is a study in greed and need for power too.

In the apologetic words of the current Pope whose heritage includes the ‘Holy’ (?) Emperors of this heinous group of ‘churchians’ he asks for ‘forgiveness and renewal’ as he admits to dastardly deeds of the Crusades, Flagellants, and Inquisitors. But is there a day care center in the Vatican? How about a female priest or God forbid, a Bishop? Most of humanity doesn’t even know what a Druid or ‘proto-Celt’ is or was. There is an old saying ‘if you want to know what a Druid knows, ask a wild bee.’ The bee was important to the Phocaeans, Napoleon and now the Mormons. Symbols (like the bee) communicate, letters are symbols, language or communication is more than the intellectual sum of its letters or words. The heart and soul make the beauty of true wisdom comprehensible to far greater depths than the intellect can imagine.

How did we sink so low as to barter the lives of our mothers and ’sisters’?

Why have those who arranged these horrors tried to blame the Jews (and in an indirect manner, all ’sinners’) for the death of Jesus? He did not claim to be a co-equal member of the Holy Trinity. It wasn’t the Jews who ‘killed our Saviour’. John Ralston Saul says this about the whole matter

“HOLY TRINITY-CHRISTIAN A pre-alchemist alchemist concept developed by early Christian administrators to soften the hard-edged simplicity of straight monotheism.

The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost {That the beatniks called ‘Laddio, Daddio and Spook’.} made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism {And raised un-natural ‘virginity’ or possible non-sense such as immaculate conceptions, which fathers must have loved and priests certainly benefit from, to heights of increasing obscenity!}. Twelve Disciples as semi-deities then made it sextusdecitheism. Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain, old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion ever to have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with {And this is the MOST important observation of a technique known in psychology as ‘projection of a pluperfect paranoid’ or the ‘BIG LIE’ of alphabet soup agencies and ‘black ops’; the less organized criminals like the Mafia call it a ‘frame-up’.} by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view {Also they began at least 700 years of war, A CRUSADE! against the remnants of the Kelts in Ireland.) - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan. ..These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered {ego ‘Manifest Destiny’} and/or killed for their own good in order that they may benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages.

HOLY TRINITY - POST CHRISTIAN So far Nietzsche has been wrong about GOD. We have not managed to become Him in His place. Instead we have replaced God with a yet more abstract divinity based upon pure rational power… Organization or structure replaced the Father, TECHNOLOGY displaced the Son and the Holy Ghost gave way to information. The new priesthood was made up of technocrats. As the etymology of the word ‘technocrat’ indicates, from the beginning they were to be specialists in power… And they would stand guard over information.” (3)

The fears and apathy of average people are as much to blame for this history of managed and ‘guarded information’ that records the acts of bad people. ‘We are all our brother’s keepers’ is not just an idle platitude. The Druidic concept called IESA or ‘The Brotherhood of Man’ apprehended the Cosmic Thought Field of Faraday and Tesla or the ‘Cosmic Soup’ of Deepak Chopra. NASA scientists have just announced that Life is Everywhere including microbes in outer space. They talk about cell membrane formation that makes we wonder if these are conscious connected ‘info packets’(Tesla) or ‘templates’ (Teilhard de Chardin) from which energy can create in a manner more akin to ancient creationist theories of the supposed pagans.

Author of Diverse Druids

Columnist for The ES Press Magazine

Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

Why Consolidate Your Student Loans?

It’s January of your senior year and time to start thinking about all those loans you took to help pay for college. Between Stafford Loans, Perkins Loans and all the rest, between subsidized and unsubsidized you begin to realize that a year from now you will have run out of grace period and have to start paying back all those loans. You’re going to be paying back eight different loans at eight different interest rates and eight terms. It’s time to start thinking about a student consolidation loan.

A student consolidation loan could be worth it just to simplify your repayment schedules. But more importantly, if you can get a loan with a lower interest rate than you are paying on your school loans, then you can save yourself some money. If the consolidation loan extends the length of your student loan payback term, then it may have the added benefit of lowering the monthly payment now (when you aren’t making a large salary). You can always increase your payments as your salary grows.

How to Consolidate Your Student Loans

After deciding to consolidate your student loans, the next step is to figure out how to go about it. You may have several choices of lenders, and what you choose could affect the amount you ultimately pay. Choose carefully.

The Department of Education provides the Federal Direct Consolidation Loans Program. Numerous states have student consolidation loans, some for your federal loans and others for your state loans. Then there are private lenders offering consolidation loans as well. You might first check with your current loan providers to see what they have to offer. They may have a better deal for current customers.

Federal Direct Consolidation Loans

Federal Direct Consolidation Loans are run by the US Department of Education and provide a means to combine multiple Federal loans into one.

You can apply online for the Federal Direct Program by visiting the FDCL website.

State Student Consolidation Loans

Several states offer consolidation loans as part of their education loan programs. Check with your state to see if they have a loan consolidation program.

Private Student Consolidation Loans

Private loans can not be consolidated under the Federal Direct Plan. If you have private loans that can’t qualify for the federal and state student loan consolidation programs, there are many lenders who make private consolidation loans available to students. Check with your own lenders first to see if they have a consolidation program.

Student loan consolidation is another case where a little work now can pay off in the long run by saving you time, money and lots of aggravation.

Copyright 2005, Ken MacKenzie http://www.college-loans.us

Pokertime, an online poker provider, has developed an innovative new marketing technique that has online poker players scrambling to get into as many tournaments as possible in order to qualify for a 25000 USD jackpot. The concept is simple: Play in as many sit-n-go tournaments as you can. Place either first or second in five consecutive tournaments and win a flash jackpot of 500 USD.

Do this five times, and the player wins 25000 “Full Monty” jackpot. That sounds simple enough right?

But there are other implications that may not be the best for serious players who are looking for a good poker game.

This quote, coming directly from the spokesman James Grand, marketing director of Pokertime, “…it doesn’t matter how good you are at the game of poker, just play as much as possible. Anyone can win!”

Now I’m all for supporting the growth of the online poker industry, but for the serious poker players out there, this turns a solid game, into a coin toss. It’s like tossing a steak into a pit of dogs that haven’t eaten in weeks. And without a doubt, we’ll see the all-in craze in full force in this type of swap-meet. Hopefully it turns out well.

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The commonest fault in any written work is a failure to keep to the point and inability to answer the question completely. When you write an answer you are engaged in an assessment of what is relevant. What does the examiner expect as an answer? Most people do not think about this seriously enough and believe that more verbiage is better than less - the opposite is the case. The shorter a piece of written work is, the more critical thought has been applied to writing it and the sharper it is. Moreover the examiner or tutor can read it more easily and with less effort. Here are some points to remember while answering a question paper: -

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Education in today’s world is a must. No longer can the youth of today rely upon only a high school education to get them where they want to be in life. As a matter of fact, today’s 4-year college degree is becoming yesterday’s high school diploma. There are some specific reasons as to why this has happened. Students in America’s educational system are growing at a rate that the schools are not able to keep up with. We can also look to America’s involvement in globalization. America has more international students studying in the states than ever before. This has created even more competition for the youth of America. Another aspect to look at is the life of students and resources available to them by the school. So what is being done now to help students deal with all these factors that have never before been an issue? The answer is online tutoring and education.

With the large growth in students throughout America, schools have struggled to keep with the basic needs. According to OnTheIssues, the population of students in grades K-12 is over 50 million. This number is and has been steadily rising by 1 million students per year. OnTheIssues also notes that school spending for grades K-12 is now at $260 billion per year. As the amount of students continues to increase, the amount of spending will also continue to increase. This is not the only factor that is affecting students in a negative way.

Many students today, high school and college, do not have the time to research for sources and help on-campus. Mainly because students today are working jobs while taking full-loads in school. This leaves minimal time to be able to take advantage of a school’s resources. Online tutoring and education is becoming the answer to this problem. WashingtonPost author, Mike Chediak, says that according to Sloan Consortium, more than 2.6 million students studied through online tutoring and educational courses last fall. This number is up from 1.9 million back in 2003, which is about a 23% growth rate in only one year.

It’s also important to look at the resources that are offered by schools. The main goal of education is to prepare students for a career path. In high school this is a general path and in college this is a much more specific path. It is estimated that only 25% of 4-year college graduates actually work in the field that they earned their degree. Since online tutoring and education is able to cover such a broad area, students are able to get the help they need, when they need it. Online tutoring and education is now offered by some programs over a 24-hour period, which completely caters to the student’s needs.

While schools are not keeping up with the resources to fully help their students, online tutoring and education is able to fill the gap. Many schools are starting to partner with online tutoring service companies so they can get their students the help they need. Online tutoring and education is a service that will continue to grow and thrive in the upcoming years for America.

Resources

Background on Education. On The Issues. http:// www.issues2000.org/Background_Education.htm

Chediak, Mark. Online Tutoring Part of Growing Trend. 16 Aug. 2005. Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/15/A R2005081501265.html

The Sloan Consortium. Committed to Quality Online Education. http://www.sloan-c.org/

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There is no secret that volunteering activities at the school level enable families to share their time and talents to support the school, teachers, and students. It matters not if volunteers are working at the school, in the classroom or in the community, they are essential to promoting parent involvement and student achievement.

It’s no secret that some teachers can be territorial when it comes to letting someone into their classroom or accepting assistance from individuals not employed by the school district. Sometimes it is easier to just do everything alone or ask family or friends to help out on weekends or after school hours. What would happen however if a teacher took a chance and decided to consider working with one or two committed volunteers?

Various strategies may be used to recruit and train volunteers and to match their time and talents to the needs of teachers, students, and administrators. Two years ago a middle school in Michigan recruited six parents as “Den Mothers” responsible for contacting parents about issues and concerns addressing the grade they were assigned. Two sixth grade parents would create flyers for the sixth grade teacher concerning field trips, remind parents about upcoming parent meetings and conduct fundraisers used to purchase items the teacher needed in her classroom. There were two parents assigned to the seventh grade and the eighth grade. The group of “Den Mothers” met twice a month to talk about parent communication methods and met once a month with each teacher. Additional correspondence was made via email and phone calls. The principal met with the teachers and their assigned “Den Mothers” every six weeks.

Each “Den Mother” was responsible for creating a Parent Resource Directory for their assigned grade. The directory was used to solicit volunteers for field trips and special school events. There is little doubt that parent volunteers who serve as assistants and contributors to school and classroom programs and as audiences at school activities and events help strengthen school programs. By organizing and training volunteers to assist in the schools, educators are sending a clear message that parents and others are welcome and that their time and talents are valued.

Here are a few rules you might want to remember when planning a volunteer initiative.

-In operating a volunteer program, it is important to keep a broad view of potential volunteer involvement. Do not assume that the only people who are likely to volunteer at your school are the same types of people who previously volunteered

-Program planning and design begins with an initial assessment of why the school wishes to use volunteers and what benefits and problems are likely to be resolved with the use of volunteers

-What are the benefits of having school volunteers? Delivery of service at a reduced cost - There are a number of volunteers that will be able to assist the school in areas that might otherwise topple a school’s budget. If the school in able to create a pool of retired volunteer teachers to help in the reading or math lab, or with students one-on-one sessions, this is a great benefit to students, teachers and parents at virtually no cost

-Teachers and parents can not do everything that is needed to increase student achievement. Volunteers are needed to assist in listening to a poor reader, acting as hall monitors, walking through the neighborhood before and after school and planting flowers so the school and community can take pride in their school

-Additional eyes and ears in the school and in the community - Parents, business owners and other community members are the eyes and ears of the school community and when something is not what it should be; rest assured someone in the community knows the story

-”Training” is the process of instructing volunteers in the specific job-related skills and behavior that they will need to perform their particular volunteer job. This is particularly important in a school setting because staff and students will focus on the task and behavior exhibited by the volunteer in the school setting

-Volunteer training at the school level should be practical, and tailored to the individual needs of the volunteer. If a parent is not a good reader, do not have her read to a group of 2nd graders while the teacher is administering a make-up standardized test

Contact your principal or a school district administrator to see how to start a parent volunteer initiative at your school. If you do not have a volunteer initiative plan, contact the Red Cross. They wrote the book on volunteer initiatives and will be able to create a skeleton plan for your school. Remember to include parents and community members on your school volunteer initiative planning committee.