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When you speak out with the courage of conviction, people will follow you. It's a voice that everyone will be bound to listen.

Some one tried that is the reason, today we have �zero' invented. Rome was not built in a day and someone really tried that is why we are the most powerful country in the earth and we are proud of it. We tried that is why we all are together here in this community. So speak up, folks those things which need to be discriminated. We should erase the bad things from the society. We can only start that when we can stand together and raise our voices.

Encourage the person next to you to speak up. There is lot of POWER IN UNITY. Keep coming one by one with your comments and suggestions. Oppression is the root cause of failure. Speak up the things that just should not happen. Let's break up!!

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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:36 pm Subject:

Roxette,

Your posting is very inspiring! I think it will reach those that are afraid to say anything as well as reaching those to tell others to speak up. Well done!!!

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:45 pm Subject:

I really think your post is great!And many more should come and speak up its very good that you thought of that and I admire you for that!Good Going Girl Keep Up The Nice Work!

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:06 pm Subject:

Rhonda, Ch, I need you to speak up. Things that you won't tolerate in front of you. I go out of my house and find girls carrying sprays along with them to prevent from some teasers. Why is the security of girls on the edge?

Rhonda, Ch, what do you feel? I am waiting to hear from your side.

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:16 pm Subject:

As a mother of three young girls, I am somewhat familiar of this type of situation. I think it has to do with these girls afraid of speaking up to their parents. They maybe embarassed to have their parents involved in this type of thing. Carrying the spray may provide these girls with a false sense of security and may even get these teasers to back off a lit bit.

My oldest who is 9, has been in karate since the age of 4. She tells me everything. And she has had her share of bullies. There was a time when she would fight them, until she was told that she should not do that.
Another thing that I may think is putting the security on the edge, is the fact that they hear of other kids being killed and kidnapped almost everyday.

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:17 pm Subject:

Roxette,

What is your take on the question? It would be interesting as well to hear your side.

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:21 pm Subject:

Well, I do understand how much responsibility it involves to be the parent of young girls. And moreover, the fact is that they are just growing each day. I have a son (14 yrs) and a daughter(13 yrs). My son is very polite and descent and very less with his words. But my girl is very talkative and sporty. She loves to go out and stay with her friends participating in co-curricular activities most of the time. This puts me to a thought about our responsibility we have towards our child. My son shares everything with me and during discussions, I feel his concern towards his sister. My children are very friendly related to each other. Thus, my daughter shares everything with my son, so that he can take my advice on certain issues and pass on the message indirectly. It's like the things that she won't tell me is told to her brother and my boy gets good advice from me and makes her feel secure.

Slowly and slowly, they are growing each day and we are getting older. Let them get matured in their own ways and be a support to each other in every sphere of life.

Dear Rhonda, let everything in personal fronts be like that. I prey for yours and mine's kids all time welfare.

Regards
Roxette

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:32 pm Subject:

Roxette,

It is interesting to see what I have to look forward to. My two younger ones (4,2) I have yet to see what their outlook on this will be. All though I can say that I am not looking forward to the kids reaching the teenage years.

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:39 pm Subject:

well, what else will you like to raise your voice against? Rhonda, we are the voice of America...right??

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:59 pm Subject:

I would like to speak up regarding education in america today. Why are teachers underpaid and the students overworked? What are your thoughts on this Roxette?

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:19 pm Subject:

Roxette,
I am a mother of only one daughter and three sons and if anything ever were to happen to any of my kids i don't know what i would do but like Rhonda said it is a since of security they think they should carry that around just to feel safe even though they should be able to handle it another way,some think thats the best but my philosophy if someone is teasing or fighting or trying to bully my kids,I think it should be handled in the right way maybe a sit down with the parent to find out why is their child teasing my kid or kids and is their a way they can possibly stop the teasing!I don't recommend a child carry spray for their teasers but then again the parent may not be around at all times to protect them or help them in that kind of situation.My daughter is 4 going on 5 and my oldest son is 3 then comes my second youngest is 2 and finally my youngest is 7 months.But My oldest son got into a fight at his school before over a toy and the little boy hit him in the face with a toy and left a scar on him my son is not a fighter.And the school didnt do too much but make an incident report I feel that the child who hit my son shouldv'e been disiplined in the right way because he couldv'e took my sons eye out where he hit him was close to his eye if it was any closer he probaly wouldv'e took his eye out!The boy shouldv'e been disaplined but he didn't and no apologies came from that parent either and it was their child who started it!

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:30 pm Subject:

Ch,

I am apalled that the parent didnt even offer any apologies.The school should have at least put the child in time out. In a situation like that a sit down between both parents is the appropriate thing to do.

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:53 pm Subject:

My biggest problem with schools today is all the homework they give.There are more single parent families today and its very hard to spend fun time with your kids when they have so much homework to do.
The schools in my area start at 720am for the high school kids.That means bedtime at 10pm if they want a good 8 hour sleep.Alot of these kids must have jobs to pay for all the things the school require them to buy for each class(the list gets bigger and bigger every year)so they are not getting enough sleep.One year my daughter came home with hours worth of homework to do and when I asked what they did in class,she said they watched a movie.Dont get me wrong there are alot of good teachers out there but they are not allowed to always teach what they want because of the Sol test required by the state.They must prepare them for that in class,so the rest they must do at home.I say get rid of the SOL test and let the teachers run the class not the state.I have not met a teacher yet that thought these test were a good thing.And lastly let the younger students go the school early,since they normally go to bed early and are up at the crack of dawn anyway,and let the older children go a little bit later.Sleep is important to learning.Many are going on to little sleep,and I think this has become a big problem with our high school kids today.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:17 am Subject:

I think a big movement that needs to be made is people standing up for what is right. I know this sounds a bit "easy" but I think we all know how hard it is.

For example, I used to work for the DoD (I'll spare you the details so I don't get myself in trouble, lol) --but let's just say that it is one of the "larger entities". While working there I met my current fiance. One day at work she was being sexually harassed at work and no one did anything about it. When I convinced her to have "the balls" to take action herself and be persistant, the guy ended up kicking the back of her chair really hard in an attempt to intimidate her.

Now who the hell does that to a woman? What kind of a man hits a woman? And what kind of tasteless ninny would take such a cheapshot?

I marched myself right over there and gave him a few words of my own. Keep in mind this is *AT* one of the most prestigious places to work in the US ... where everyone carries a fake face and never has the courage to speak their mind.

When he started lipping off to me and giving off this feeling that he couldn't be touched because of our location, I grabbed him by the shirt (up high) and started yelling at him telling him to leave her alone. He asked me if I was going to let him go in front of a group of white collars and military and I said "No.". Shortly after I was asked to unhand him by a fellow military co-worker - so I kept my honor and let it go with that. I walked out, only to find the horror that lay before me.

The military ended up trying to kick me out with an "Other Than Honorable" discharge for "Assault Consumatted by a Battery". They reduced me in rank, took half of my pay for 2 months, and put me in confinment for 45 days. The "kick" didn't end up happening, though, because my record was clean and they didn't have the grounds to kick me out. It was at that point that I realized how corrupt the military was becoming and how lost our nation was in regards to morality and "standing up for the right thing". I requested to be let out early (I completed a little over 5 years of my 6 year contract). The request was approved suddenly when I made an appeal and tried to have the command investigated. I was honorably discharged. Very Happy

I know all about this topic, and quite frankly I'm sickened by the backbone this country has developed. We're so quick to send troops into countries because "its the right thing to do" but we can't manage our own civil affairs in a moral way.

I'll be interested to see where this thread (and others that are simliar to it) go. Thanks for the startup, Roxette.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:19 pm Subject:

Twokidtwocat,

I do agree with you about the homework overload. However, it is not just a high school problem. My 9 year old faces the same sleep deprivation dilemma as well. She has already began studying algebra and geometry. By the time she is in high school, what is going to be left to learn? She does go to school early. Her school starts at 800 so she is gone by 715. Here in Florida, there is the FCAT test, which determines whether you pass or fail. Most of the school day is spent studying for this test which is taken twice a year. Therefore she is left with more homework. That is a lot of pressure to put on any kid no matter what the age. Then I have my 4 year old who is to start kindergarten next year(as long as she passes the entrance test). Kids these days are expected to know and do so much more with so little time. Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:13 pm Subject:

And that too another point if your child is born after a certain time of the year when school starts they are not able to attend till the following school year,take my daughter for example she was born in November last year when my parents were trying to put her in school they said she had to wait because of her birthday was late I think when a child is having the ability to start learning and their developmental skills are there to learn and stuff they should be priviliged to be able to go to school.But the system is so messed up now a days they have to be a certain age to go to school and that their birthday has to fall in a certain month just to attend!Now don't get me wrong now there are places that have and or help them prepare for school but I think it should'nt have to be that they have to have their birthday fall in a certain month while other kids are ahead of them in grades while the others who were born late are held back because of the birhdays sometimes that can delay a child!

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