May 31st, 2009 07:32pm
by Disparate.Housewife
College was a no-brainer for me-or at least the decision-making process about where I was going to go to college was; it so simple that it didn’t require any special effort. My brothers and sisters and I grew up with the expectation that we would attend the university that was about 15 minutes from our house, that we would live at home for the four years until we graduated, and …
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May 24th, 2009 04:36pm
by Disparate.Housewife
The headline in last week’s Press Democrat story about the API scores for Sonoma County schools was “Mixed marks for schools: How did your school do?”
The implication is that the API scores are a report card for a school and that schools with high API scores are better schools. It’s tempting to scan the numbers and assume that schools with an API of 800 or above deserve an “A,” …
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May 17th, 2009 09:16pm
by Disparate.Housewife
Last Friday, the Petaluma Junior High Band was part of a group that played the national anthem at the Giants game at AT&T Park. My daughter and the other band students boarded the buses to leave for San Francisco at 4:00. Because of a long game, a few students who were prone to wander, and a broken-down bus, they didn’t get back to Petaluma until almost 12:30 a.m.
In the “what …
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May 10th, 2009 10:35pm
by Disparate.Housewife
There was a column in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal titled “What a Mom Wants.” Since it appeared in the paper the Friday before Mother’s Day, I thought that the author was going talk about the impact of the recession on Mother’s Day gifts. I expected to read that there are a lot of mothers out there like me who only want a card-and someone to empty the dishwasher without …
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May 3rd, 2009 08:38pm
by Disparate.Housewife
Last Wednesday night, I attended the second annual Westside Band Festival at Petaluma High. Probably like a lot of parents who attended, I walked into the gym a little tired and distracted. But by the time I left an hour later, I was energized and refreshed.
As you might guess, the Westside Band Festival brought together the bands from all the elementary schools on the west side, plus the junior high …
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