StrongMom

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California, USA

Birthday

January 11

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No personal confessions. Look up Balaam in the Bible and consider that her rider was a (male) prophet gone astray for love of money, but still unable to properly curse Israel. On whipping his ass enough for not following orders, finally, miraculously, the beast of burden talks back and warns him of an angel in the road with drawn sword. Had she not stubbornly refused to go forward, Balaam would've been killed. I believe God has a sense of humor, and that it was not accidental that the ass was female. I'm a Christian Feminist Mom Musician and it's a credit to Education Doublespeak that 10 years after leaving domestic violence (with a restraining order and kickout), and moving from literal welfare (Food Stamps and Cash Aid) to a solvent lifestyle within my former profession, in UNDER two years, I am not practicing any of the above, and am a noncustodial, non-singing, non-church attending for the most part, women's advocate who doesn't belong to any known feminist organization. I am four-decades diversified experienced educator and two-decades experience trying to do this around abuse, and have two remarkable daughters (neither of which I basically am allowed to see any more, despite no identified crime committed, court order broken, or law for that matter) one of which just, I hear, got into UC-Berkeley. I already have two bachelors, and have completed a 3-course copyediting program from UC Berkeley-Extension (while in the abusive marriage), and in general try to pick up a degree a decade, but as the first decade of this millenium consisted of exploring, one by one, by now it must be almost all of the nonprofits and arms of government that I mythically thought would be there to protect me when called upon, I had another hands-on education of a different sort. I am stunned by, not the "Closing of the American Mind," but the fragmentation of it, and how swiftly we have farmed out our thinking (along with our children) to experts who have no intention of actually experiencing what they pronounce upon. The real experts are the burden bearers who have gotten tired of it and simply will not go forward. That's why Balaam's female ass plans to speak back, and tell the truth, as she perceives it, about: No Child Left Behind, Zero to Five, Early Early Headstart, and what is being served up during an average school day, the Black Hole of Special Education, and why it is when I google "lockdown" I get tons of incidents involving schools. Yet, in California, 3 judges determined based on 1 case that literally thousands of homeschoolers were at educational risk (I attempted to follow this somewhat, and believe that actually the Education Code was misquoted by them at one point), while it's commonly known that the U.S. is trailing the rest of OPEC national (academically) and California was at last check trailing the U.S. Luckily for those thousands, our governor, the Terminator (after recovering from his nurse-bashing slip, and -- let me see, didn't he portray also a pregnant man in a film?) halted this. It was, however too late for me, being single, and in case you are not yet aware, we single mothers are causing a plague of fatherlessness that is responsible (cf. "Juden"?) for a whole host of social ills. As to actually trusting us to raise the children we gave birth to, if the government is not watching it (or a resident male), it is per se suspect, and those kids must be coughed up and taught their place in society, namely, taking orders and thinking in a politically correct manner. Accordingly, our trusty President is going to reform K-12 Education, and help balance the budget by quadrupling Head Start, based on the presumption (and WHAT presumption it is!) that it helps children succeed in life.