Let me be very clear about my bias. Two of my kids attend University Schools. One was in the TLC program, which teaches third and fourth grade hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired kids in one classroom. Every lesson is signed and spoken. From the perspective of a parent of a child who is not hearing impaired but was in the classroom, it is a wonderful program. She is bi-lingual along with a whole slew of other students at UH. The relationship between UH and the DHHP goes back to the 1960s. These DHHP students are part of the greater school community.

Question: Why is District 6 administration moving the DHHP students from UH to Chappelow (which is a good school too)?

After some investigating, which includes reading the audit and talking with parents, teachers, DHHP experts and elected officials, I think it’s a power issue. Rather than work with UH, the administration tried to force its curriculum on UH, while not fully supporting (both administratively and financially) DHHP. Understandably UH said no and told the District to take the DHHP. There’s much more to it than that but you get the gist. Check out the University Schools Board of Governors meeting minutes from December 2007.

The minutes indicate that even before the audit was completed the District had no intention of supporting the DHHP at UH. From my perspective, this was not a child centered decision but a power or ego centered decision.

I’m boycotting Pepsi.   I’m a Diet Coke girl anyways so it’s not hard to do.   (And yes I CAN tell the difference).   It was a little harder for my 14-year-old, Gatorade-addicted  son.   The problem is that the global warming “cool-aid” has infiltrated Pepsi products.  PepsiCo  buys into the cult of  climate change  propoganda and  now contributes to a lobbying campaign to persuade Congress to pass mandatory carbon emissions caps.   Meanwhile Pepsi gobbles up massive amounts of energy but repents by purchasing indulgences in the form of “renewable energy certificates.”   Like the rest of the eco-socialists, Pepsi buys it’s way out of its sins against Mother Earth while lobbying Congress to mandate how the rest of us should behave.   Ugh.   I threw away my Diet Coke can.   Guess I’ll just say ten “Hail Mother Earths” and buy a few carbon credits and do it all over again!