Happy Valentine's Day.

Dual Immersion, I Had to Say Something...

Dual Immersion. You see- this is why I love living in a small town, everyone seems to have an opinion about everything (including me). Especially when it doesn't directly affect them. Of course without differing opinions our world would be a depressing and bland place to live. Recently an elementary school in our community announced that it will implement the Spanish dual immersion program starting next year. This simple and seemingly harmless topic brought out some interesting and conflicting view points. I personally don't see the problem with children being encouraged to learn two languages, considering the fact that many Spanish-speaking students are already doing this. Why shouldn't English-speaking children have the same opportunities? Knowing multiple languages could only further a person in any career/field. Am I missing something? Not everyone agrees with my viewpoint. That is fine. What I don't understand is why they must impose their contradictory thoughts on everyone else? If you don't like- fine, but let's be fair. Let students/parents decide for themselves what is best. I wonder if these same people who are against dual immersion would feel the same about another language, something other than Spanish? Certainly they wouldn't frown on an excellent educational opportunity because of their ignorant and downright nasty prejudices? No of course not, people couldn't possibly be that unreasonable, so it must be for some other reason I'm just not noticing at the moment. Silly me.

Mahalia Mouse

I never know what is blog-worthy. Do people really care? I just don't know. I try not to get over zealous with the posts about so-and-so blowing their nose and what I saw on T.V. last night, etc....

John Lithgow is a children's book author (a good one if you ask me). I must say, I really liked this book and his reading of it was excellent. That's it, for my boring post of the day.

Number 44

So, watching the inauguration with 26 kindergartners turned out to not be as successful as one would imagine. That is what youtube was invented for, right?
Congratulations to the new President.
He certainly has his work cut out for him.
It will be nearly impossible for him to live up to all the hype surrounding his administration, he would have to be magical- which of course he isn't.
The most exciting thing to me is that the President listed in our new baby's book at the time of his/her birth will be
Barack Obama.

The Praxis.

I had to take an all-important test last Saturday. Hello 5:30am in the morning to drive to Orem by 7:00! P.S. Pregnant people should not have to wake up that early, ever. I am not a good test-taker. I over think. I knew (well, not 100% knew) that Lyndon Johnson was the President in 1965 but I second guessed myself at the end and changed it to Kennedy- wrong! Praxis II is the test perspective and already licensed Elementary Educators must take- it is 120 multiple choice questions that consist of material you would see featured on the show, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". Stupid tests.