9/04/18
I drove past this between Salida and Cotopaxi on State Highway 50 in Colorado. I had to turn around and tell whoever that I stood with them totally assuming I was correct. I was and got the biggest hug of appreciation for doing so.

From my understanding, there are close to 3000 children being held around this country after being seized from their parents at the border.

Many will never see their Mom and Dad again because Republicans are totally evil.

You bastards!

4/10/12

Happened To See These Kids

Just a little over a week ago I was in this area and where I went you go past this school and it stands out as it's a cool building and location.
The linked to article below tells the very interesting history of this school and the difficulties it faces today as many do. The piece also mentions the whole school hiking in Sand Canyon just up the road. I met all of them on the way back and even after almost six miles every one of them including the teachers were wearing huge smiles. I like that! Here's a picture I took that same day.


The school was built in 1915 to serve families in the canyon, most who made a living ranching or farming. In 1994, when the district threatened to close Battle Rock because of low enrollment and the retirement of its longtime teacher, the community pulled together to save the school by turning it into a charter. It was the first of its kind to be created under such circumstances. 

In the 18 years since, the school has faced its fair share of financial, administrative and academic struggles. Wright, the school’s director, is working for free this year to help the school scrape by. Somehow, it has continued to weather those storms and remains a central pillar of this historic canyon community.

We need schools like this no matter where they are. Corporate power chooses war over education damn near every time. If the right saw god associated with this the money would flow you can bet on it.

The kids pay the price and and the War Machine grows larger and more powerful.
Posted by One Fly at 7:13 AM
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 10, 2012 7:21 AM

    Hey, Have you ever been to Westbend?

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  2. Teresa EvangelineApril 10, 2012 8:14 AM

    I find it very heartening to hear of school such as this still in existence. Very cool old building, nice ruin, too. :)

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  3. Jan BlawatApril 10, 2012 1:01 PM

    Yes! This is a great kind of school. When I worked with teachers, some of them fantasized about what they would do under a voucher system. They would open their own schools. One wanted 18 students, of all ages, and would keep them, like a family, from the beginning to the end of their primary education. I went to a school that had about 70 students, it was wonderful. Maybe the best thing that could happen would be to have public education as we know it totally die off. I'd volunteer in a minute at a neighborhood school.

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  4. Terry and LindaApril 10, 2012 7:25 PM

    I went to a small school 7 kids in my class until 8th grade then went to a huge school of 33-35 kids until graduation. I understand small.

    Love your header!

    Linda
    http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com

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  5. One FlyApril 11, 2012 7:09 AM

    Thanks girls! The one at the top is not a girl but a Wisconny feller who's a real mess.

    I'll say again the skills that carry me today were mostly learned from K-6th grade in a very small building that educated little cornfield kiddies like myself from K through grade 12. I am so happy for that. What a fantastic learning environment that was. There is one teacher left who taught me. I went to see her last time I was back. This time she didn't tell me that I was her best student ever. That's okay.

    I graduated from a different school in the largest class and that was 50. That school has been consolidated some time ago.

    Schools like this can work so well and we could use more but again the religion aspect can not be part of that.

    If you read here much you know the two years I had to attend (7&8) a catholic school that it was so terrible for me and not all the fault that is was catholic. I'm honest damn it. Those negatives experienced there I carry with me today.

    It was fun to see how happy every one was in this group of people from this school. They were all simply beaming.

    This ruin Teresa was in Sand Canyon. I may hike one more time there - where I did the first time and go "off trail" to ruins I saw a ways away. It's emphasized by park people to stay the hell away from what's here. I understand all that but ---. I'm too old to chewed out but I maybe will chance it. I can be real quite and generally hear others before they hear me. Like an Indian ya see. I do want to get closer to the couple I saw the first time.

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