Re: Intro and PA help request

[Jedoyon@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/6/03 5:10:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
hardingpj3@comcast.net writes:

> So I'm coming at this whole issue from a very different perspective than
> most of you.

Welcome, Pauline!  A couple or three things about this list: 1. Never assume  
2. We like you already  3. We're all sort of "one size fits few" so you fit 
right in

Oh, and don't mind us if we're rude and obnoxious at times-- it's the 
conditions under which we work-- no pay, long hours, idiots in control of what we're 
working against.

My first suggestion as the distinguished button queen here on ARN is that you 
get yourself some red slashed PSSA buttons.  I can make a starter pack up for 
you in a couple of weeks.  Right now I'm in the middle of getting this 
test-resistance gar-bage cleared away so I can enjoy my son's wedding and the 
company and entertaining that goes with it next week.  ARGH!!!!  

Warning: more shameless self-promotion (though I really like that word 
shameless these days, since it's the antithesis of Rod Paige's tactics toward kids, 
parents and teachers)

I happen to have a book of my own out, which could be helpful to you:  Not 
With Our Kids You Don't! Ten Strategies to Save Our Schools, Heinemann, 2003,  
which just happens to be an instruction book for test-resistance and 
educational activism.  Button stories and graphics included.  You can get it online at <A HREF="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=549C7QD4P7&sourceid=00393694018164525297&bfdate=06%2D06%2D2003+09%3A37%3A18&isbn=0325004862&itm=1";>
Barnes & Noble.com - Not With Our Kids You Don't! Ten Strategies to Save Our 
Schools</A> or Amazon, or some Barnes and Nobles have it in stock or they can all 
order it in for you, or you can get it ordered at your local library if they 
don't already have it, or I could even send you an autographed copy.

If you like Ohanian and Kohn, you'll like Doyon.  Oh, my!  I am shameless.  
LOL!  Actually, Susan O. wrote the intro to my book, not to mention mentoring 
me through the writing of it.

One more thing I've found really helpful, if you don't have one already, is 
an opt out form right on my website.  My website isn't what it should be, 
because the son who is a little preoccupied with getting married is the one who 
handles it for me, but the opt out form has been used many times, and often I 
hear about it much after the fact.  People have been printing it out and 
distributing it.  see <A HREF="www.rereformed.com">www.rereformed.com</A>

Good luck in your efforts.  Feel free to write me off-list too, if you want 
to give me your address so I can send you some buttons as soon as I can.  I can 
tell you where best to get a machine of your own too-- hey, it could be craft 
time for your kids!  They're handy things to have-- the button machines and 
the kids.

Juanita Doyon
Mothers Against WASL
The test stops here!

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of 
thinking we were at when we created them." 
Albert Einstein