Kate Meadowcroft
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@Micaheadowcroft
and I welcomed our Buffalo Gal earlier this week. Her name is Jubilee, and she is our greatest joy
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I got "promoted"! Today was my last day in the workforce, and I'll now be raising my family full-time. I am unspeakably grateful to my husband
@Micaheadowcroft
for his tireless work and self-sacrifice to give me this opportunity to pursue my vocation in the home.
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What a difference 10 months can make!
June 2023: preparing to become man and wife
March 2024: preparing to become a family
I love you,
@Micaheadowcroft
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Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the children of one's youth.
Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
@Micaheadowcroft
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Sometimes I think I'm the only one whose hormones are going crazy preparing for the baby, and then I open my freezer and realize
@Micaheadowcroft
is nesting, too
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My daughter is bone of my bone and flesh of her father's flesh. Nothing about her life is due to chance or luck.
A loathsome lie. My week-old daughter is fruit of a thousand generations of blood, sweat, and tears, of faithful prayer and divine providence.
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This remains my biggest flex from my wedding (there were 11 more babies elsewhere)
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"The name 'Tyrannosaurus Rex' means 'Tyrannical Lizard King'. Very few creatures have ever been named so well. With 12 inch serrated teeth and cruel claws, he ruled Cretaceous America. He was our last real king: we fought a war to put an end to tyrants."
- 9 year-old boy
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All good gifts come from above. Merry Christmas
How it started. How it’s going. Merry Christmas, dear friends.
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@JeremyTate41
I'm a classroom teacher. The homeschool transfers I get are either:
1) Multiple grade levels ahead
2) slightly behind in 1 or 2 subject areas
99% are ahead. The ones who are behind are slightly behind in math or spelling or reading. They catch up halfway through the 1st semester
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Baby Meadowcroft is starting to show. My female students have taken to puffing out their bellies and pretending they're pregnant. They're also arguing over who will get to hold the baby first. As you can imagine, the boys in my class couldn't care less
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And for once it want me
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It seems that if you don't make frequent and effusive public pronouncements about your love online people assume you called off the wedding. Let me set the record straight:
@Micaheadowcroft
and I are still getting married the day after tomorrow. He appreciates your condolences
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@Micaheadowcroft
Happy marriages are built when husbands attentively listen to their wives gush over their friends' cute babies, and wives listen enthusiastically as their husbands wax poetic on the merits of Rome
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Many of my parents' "When You Were Little" stories used to seem far fetched; I always assumed they were embellished. But I just watched
@Micaheadowcroft
use a frozen banana to keep my daughter from falling asleep at the breast, so I guess my dad was truthing
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Former Student (9 year-old boy): Can I touch the baby?
Me: You may touch her toes.
9B: Yes! That's the part I wanted to touch!!
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As an expectant mother, why am I bombarded with media designed to convince me that my family and in-laws are "toxic" and intrusive for their interest in my pregnancy and desire to know, love, and bond with my child?!? Why am I being encouraged to set self-isolating "boundaries"?
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Me *trying to explain how male birds use feather displays as an alternative to physical contests*
Students *not getting it at all*
8-year-old boy: "Guys, it's like when we work things out by having a spitting contest rather than hitting eachother. "
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No.1 wedding planning tip: hire babysitters!
We had ~15 children under age two at our wedding, which meant that
@Micaheadowcroft
and I got to celebrate with MANY friends who wouldn't otherwise have been able to come. It was chaotic but joyful!
#FamilyFriendlyWeddings
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3:45am - Can confirm the baby is still breathing
I knew Kate would feel the need to check that sleeping baby is breathing, but I didn't expect how much I would. (She is breathing.)
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What a man! What a man! What a mighty, good man! Happy birthday, my Love
@Micaheadowcroft
. You are my joy and strength, and it is the greatest privilege of my life to be your wife. What an honor to stand beside a good man!
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"When loneliness is a disease to be cured by the state, when there can be no “others” but only an all-consuming “we,” then to break from the crowd, to ignore the consensus, to resist the march of progress—then that becomes a crime." - My Husband
@Micaheadowcroft
We are a village without our matriarch, but she is here to tell us everything is going to be okay—or to scold us, if we had the temerity not to vote for her.
An epidemic of loneliness? Come give a hug to grandma, or else.
My column at
@amconmag
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Pregnancy is beautiful and motherhood is empowering. I have to remind myself of this as I am constantly humiliated by the experience of being pregnant in a room full of 3rd graders who are "studying" me. One young man has even been recording the times of my trips to the restroom
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Federal headship: Daddy feeds mommy, mommy feeds baby. Thanks for making breakfast while I nursed,
@Micaheadowcroft
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Infants, much like firearms, should be pointed only at that you wish to destroy
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"I know you're not 'Miss Perry' anymore, but what's your new name again? It's Mrs. MeadowSomething, right? Mrs. Meadowfeather...? Is your name 'Mrs. Meadowfeather'?"
@Micaheadowcroft
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@MrDanielBuck
I've worn jeans to school 6 times: once, while taking my 1st graders on a field trip to a colonial farm; and then once a year for Field Day. My students wear uniforms as a sign of respect for their vocation as students. I dress professionally as a sign of my respect for them.
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@Advo_Katy
Congratulations to you and your daughter! My mom and I were in the same boat last year, and this Mother's Day, she's holding my daughter. God is so good!
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9B: Is the baby in your tummy by accident or on purpose?
Me: Remember, I don't answer personal questions...
9B: ok
...
9B: How do babies end up in people's tummies by accident? My dad was explaining it to me, and it sounds like the kind of thing that doesn't just happen...
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My daughter is growing at an alarming rate. Approximately 0.5 chins per week
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My nephew (17 months old) has started to use Baby Sign to ask for "more toes". More of my daughter's toes. He's obsessed
Former Student (9 year-old boy): Can I touch the baby?
Me: You may touch her toes.
9B: Yes! That's the part I wanted to touch!!
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Officially pregnant enough that strangers offer to help me with stuff. Mostly little old ladies in the grocery store who definitely can't reach things any better than I can. But it's the thought that counts.
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@MrDanielBuck
Today my 3rd graders:
- Recited Shakespearean sonnets
-Drew scientific cladograms from memory using the appropriate Latin and Greek terms
- Solved 9-digit long division problems mentally
- Diagramed sentences
- Finished reading their 3rd classic novel of the year
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"And the king thinks, 'who is this guy who thinks he can be prince of the new world? Get outta here, Columbus!'"
- King Ferdinand, as told by a 9-year-old boy
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One of my students slugged another in the eye. They both agreed it was an accident. The offender escorted his friend inside for an ice pack. When they got back out, they were allowed to keep playing the same game, using more care this time. Nothing else said
#BoyFriendlySchool
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Me: I'm going to have a baby
Students: You don't look like you're going to have a baby...
Me: That's because the baby is still really small: about the size of a lime
8 year-old boy: But it's gonna get bigger, right?!? It's not gonna be like Stewart Little...?
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My father is taking his wife, two daughters, two sons-in-law, and grandson to Georgia for a wedding. I'm told I will be handed my boarding pass "when it's time."
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Two things can be true at once:
1) Very young children should be embraced and accommodated in public spaces, even if they're disruptive
2) Elementary-age children should be expected to behave appropriately in public, and must not be allowed to disrupt others
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I teach 16 3rd graders. I never clean my classroom: my kids do it. I put a chart in the back of the room on the 1s day of school & I've reminded them 3 or 4 times. My room is clean, my kids take pride in the care of their space, & they have asked for more responsibility
Parents and teachers: Try the "Let Grow" project. Let kids nominate something they think they can do on their own. Kids feel "a hundred feet tall," they grow in confidence, overcome anxieties. Watch this:
@LetGrowOrg
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My New Years Eve Afternoon: A multi-generartional gathering of grandmothers, aunts, and nieces, sitting around discussing wedding plans, birthing plans, parenting, and the home economy. A little progress on the Christmas puzzle, some breastfeeding, and a plan for wine by the fire
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8 YOld Boy: But how, exactly, is the baby gonna get out of your tummy?
Me: It's super complicated and hard to explain...
8B: As hard to explain as calculus?
M: Almost. It's definitely too hard for me to explain.
8B: My dad's smarter than you. Could he explain it?
M: Yes. Ask him
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Give me a spreadsheet long enough and a box of colored highlighters with which to illuminate it, and I could organize the world!
- Archimedes's Fiancée (probably)
The Most Ancient and Sublime Taxonomical Art of Friendly and Familiar Seating Assortment
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"Although he was poor, he was wise. He did not believe the world ended where the blazing sun fell down into a pit of fire. He was a man of Great Faith, and he believed he could show the way across the Sea of Darkness."
- 8-year-old boy discussing the Great Faith of Columbus
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Hear me out: instead of "Drunk History" we do "History as Told by a 3rd Grader Who Missed That Day of Class"
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"You know how 'melancholy' means sad for no particular reason? Well, today I'm 'melanhappy'! It's just a good day to be a boy!"
- 3rd grader
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Part of growing up is learning how to occupy one's time in interesting, useful ways. In tech-free classrooms, students have plenty of opportunities to confront boredom and find healthy ways to fill their time.
🧵 Some things my students chose to do with their carpool time:
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Me: Does anyone know what "Black Beauty" is about?
Student 1: Yes! It's about a bunch of wh*res, and one of them works too hard and dies!
Me: Not quite..
Student 2: Isn't it about horses...?
Me: Yes!
Student 1: If wh*res aren't the same as horses, what are they?
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The closest I've ever come to offering a behavioral incentive in my classroom is offering to play Chopin's nocturne's on the radio while my students work if they PROMISE to keep their excitement under control
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🧵 Some highlights from my 3rd graders' recent exams. This is the fruit of a Living Education:
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Despite the registrar's failure to ask for proof of Costco membership,
@Micaheadowcroft
and I are officially licensed to wed
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An out-of-town friend reached out this morning because she "thought it was kinda weird" that I "didn't seem more excited" about getting married to
@Micaheadowcroft
. She based this purely on the fact that I haven't posted effusively about it on social media
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"It's crazy: in my Sunday School they give kids candy to get them to behave! I guess they don't trust us very much..."
- Charlotte Mason 3rd grader who's never been exposed to an incentive structure but is instead motivated by I OUGHT and I MUST
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@Micaheadowcroft
So this is everyone's daily reminder that the internet is not the real world and that it's weird to meticulously document your personal life online
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As we prepare for exam season, this is everyone's reminder that it's possible to both:
- keep detailed, quantitative records of student growth
- not "grade" them like lumber or eggs.
Children are made in the image of God, & the way we talk about them should honor their personhood
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@Micaheadowcroft
PSA: don't read this to a room full of 3rd grade boys unless you want to work them into a passionate, heroic fervor, hear them swear oaths of undying brotherhood to eachother, and then request the honor of dying in your service.
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Tired of curriculum deadens rather than inspires? Of policies that harm more than they help? Of assigning work just to fill your grade book? Of reducing to the lowest common denomiator rather than bringing all your students up together? There's a better way!
Teachers: tired of the ever-changing face of education? Tired of changing teaching philosophies every other year?
There is another way.
Learn more about a timeless Charlotte Mason education at Ambleside:
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On today's installment of "Pregnant Teaching": Spent 10 minutes wrestling 17 eight-year-olds into their snow gear, only to have to turn around and ask one of them for help lacing my boots.
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Putting pockets in a wedding dress is like throwing a pizza party instead of giving a cash bonus. The one day of my life when I have nothing I need to carry and an entire entourage to hold my stuff? My credit card is in my shoe right now! I refuse to be pacified!
#pocketsforwomen
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Watching a group of 8 year-old girls cradle and kiss their empty lunch boxes (baby dolls) while the boys pool their cutlery to build war machines. It's probably time to remind them that they are all victims of an oppressive gender binary...
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"Did you know that some schools have to PAY for a JANITOR because the kids there can't be trusted not to make messes and don't know how to clean up after themselves if they do?!?!"
- 9B, while mopping the floor
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@Micaheadowcroft
The surprise appearance of "Miss Perry's Big-Muscle-Boyfriend" caused quite a stir
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My strength, my honor
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TFW you see a model train for the first time and it permanently alters your brain chemistry
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9-year-old boy: "Do you think I'll live until the year 2124"?
Me: "No"
9B: "Why not?"
Me: "Because I think you're unlikely to live to be 109."
9B: "Well, if I have to die young, I might as well go out in a blaze of glory! Do you know of any noble but doomed causes I can join?"
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Teaching at a Charlotte Mason school is a lot like teaching at Hogwarts in the sense that you can almost always spot a member of staff walking down the hallway with a tank of newts and no matter how fast we order it, the school just can't seem to keep enough chicken food in stock
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"I heard pregnant ladies like to eat weird stuff, so I made you a cookie with potato chips mixed in."
- former student
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Do not be deceived: God will not be mocked. A man must reap what he has sown.
The latest from my brilliant fiancé,
@Micaheadowcroft
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"Happiness is found in virtue; that is, in choices and habits... This made luck of ours is all grace, our mortal selves upheld in marriage covenant by the same power as moves the spheres of heaven."
Daily laying fresh stones on this ebenezer with you, my Love,
@Micaheadowcroft
Christmas is a time to reflect on blessings, both personal and universal, and on what must be done.
@Micaheadowcroft
for
@amconmag
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@libsoftiktok
@KarlFrisch
@fcpsnews
Everyone's daily reminder that there are a LOT of really good private/charter schools in the DMV, but spots go FAST
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Neat, beautiful work is a matter of habit as much as skill. In schools that train virtuous habits and hold students to account for what they create, ugly, sloppy work is rarely seen.
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Marry the man who is serious about biceps and babies
Didn’t get there. But curling a newborn has been great for the mind-muscle connection.
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70-80% of my job as a 3rd grade teacher is just stomping out heresy
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6 years' worth of gifts from my students (not including the many offerings that were in such a state of decomposition that they had to be destroyed, the numerous live animals that were liberated, and the flowers long since wilted).
#LivingEducation
#CharlotteMason
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Don't think classical music is exciting? Try playing some Vivaldi in a room full of 3rd graders. I dare you.
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Imagine this: a school where 5th grade boys go home in the afternoon and instead of plugging into video games they spend hours nurturing their captive praying mantis named "Chloe". And when it dies in the autumn they bring it to school to grieve with their friends
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"But all was not at peace inside the colony. Their leader was a wicked man, who met their black looks with blacker deeds. When they could bear it no more, they put an end to his miserable life."
- 9-year old, recounting the tyranny of Albert de la Pierria
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Saying you set reasonable limits on your child's use of the internet is like saying you set reasonable limits on their use of cocaine
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In a school with a life-giving curriculum, exam week is viewed as a bit of a holiday. The students arrive excited to interact with the ideas they've studied and are proud to show what they know. The atmosphere is one of delight, not anxiety.
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My students asked if they could listen to Vivaldi during chore time. Usually I wouldn't allow this, but today I thought, "What the heck. Why not?" Needless to say: one is weeping at his desk and the rest are dancing in circles. No chores have been completed
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Libs need to stop gatekeeping being alive
Of course the speaker is never part of the population that must be "reduced."
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Today my class visited
@ngadc
. They spent over 4 hours in the gallery quietly attending to great art. At the end, they had a spontaneous conversation about the different uses of light in American Neoclassical & Impressionist works. This should be standard in all American schools
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"He saw an Egyptian slave master beating a Hebrew. So he looked around and saw no one was there, so he bashed in his face, so you couldn't even see his face."
- 9-year-old boy telling back Exodus 2 😳
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Congratulations, my dear
@Micaheadowcroft
I am excited to announce that
@Micaheadowcroft
is joining
@amrenewctr
as Research Director. He is going to be absolutely critical to expanding our capacity to deliver paradigm-shattering America First research on our most serious national challenges. Welcome aboard Micah!
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There are some WILD rumors floating around the primary grades about "how the baby got in Mrs. Meadowcroft's tummy"
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This is the work of 8&9-year-old children, completed in a single draft with pen and ink. This is what young children are capable of when held to a high standard and guided by a skilled teacher. If your child's school allows sloppy work, the school has already failed you.
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The zero-tech schools are already here, and we are thriving!
I’d wager there’s going to be a real demand for zero tech schools soon.
No computers. No screens. No AI chatbots.
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Today my 3rdGraders sat for 42minutes quietly listening to all 12 movements of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons". They could name & recognize each movement by ear. When properly exercised and cultivated, this power of sustained attention is as natural to all children as running & jumping
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@tsh
Hand crafts: learn a skill. Crochet, woodworking, paper machete. Take it up a notch and learn to rewire a lamp or reupholster a chair.
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It may be a losing battle, but it's worth fighting anyway. Comb your hair and fight in the shade!
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"Mrs. Meadowcroft, I'm writing a book about your future. I think you'll have a happy life but you'll die under suspicious circumstances."
- 3rd grade sage
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@MrDanielBuck
And we achieved all this while charging less than 80% of what the local public schools spend per student
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