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To: Rambi who wrote (425)	8/20/2001 9:12:09 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 51713

I am very relieved you're back, Rambi. Please join the sanity circle here and on the LWP.

To: Rambi who wrote (425)	8/20/2001 10:07:21 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51713

Thank you. I am happy for me too! I just got an email from my reading professor last night. He said I did a superb job on my tutorial. When it rains it pours. I knew I was happy with what I did, but one never knows about professors. My notebook ended up being 200+ pages- and he said my lesson plans were "beautiful." I had my little tutee draw a picture of herself at the beginning of our tutoring, as part of my student interview. She drew in pencil and refused to color it. The little girl she drew had no hands and no feet and just floated on the page with nothing around it. I put her final picture for me on the back of my notebook. If you could see it- you would be amazed. In her final picture (in color) she is standing on the top of a green hill (such symbolism!). The sky behind her is colored orange and red and yellow (for sunrise) and she is standing at the top of the hill with a huge smile on her face, arms wide open and she is fully detailed, hands feet, all there! I put a lot of stock in the emotional messages of children's drawings. Her mother said the most wonderful things during our parent teacher conference.

To: Rambi who wrote (425)	8/20/2001 3:34:30 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 51713

I read this today- it struck me as a very interesting idea. Half grades prepare lagging students for promotion August 17, 2001 Posted: 10:26 AM EDT (1426 GMT) ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) -- Nearly 500 struggling students who haven't learned enough to advance to the next grade will start school this fall in "half-grades." They will be 3.5, 5.5 or 8.5 students instead of fourth-, sixth- and ninth-graders. School officials said the program makes St. Paul the first district in the nation to advance students incrementally. "It is the only (program) of its kind that we know of," said St. Paul schools spokeswoman Christine Wroblewski, adding that the district's research showed that only Florida had an even similar policy of incremental advancement. The lagging St. Paul students will be channeled into a new program, where they will do intensive work in reading, writing and math. If they do well there and in summer school next year, they will rejoin their peers in fall 2002. The program is a key part of Superintendent Patricia Harvey's effort to end social promotion, the practice of passing students on to the next grade regardless of whether they've mastered their work.