Anna M. Aquino

  Last week my youngest daughter had her artwork chosen to represent her school at our local library.   We were all excited and went to the opening of the art exhibit.   We happily took a couple of pictures, saw her work, said a round of “hello’s” and came home.   The next morning when I dropped the kids off at school, the art teacher practically ran me down.   Given the problems we’ve had recently at my children’s school, I thought Really?   What now?   Evidently the art show had been independently juried, and my daughter won 1 st place in her division.   Evidently they’d had an awards ceremony that we hadn’t known about and unfortunately missed.   Had we have known all of this we’d have happily stayed for the awards, but we hadn’t known.   My daughter was so excited to have won, but we all felt bad we missed the ceremony.   Though there were several things roaming in my mind, when the art teacher chased me down, I aut...

              For those of you who follow my blogs, you know we’ve had some ongoing arguments with my oldest daughter’s science teacher.   I understand that faith and science don’t always agree.   I understand that the whole Creation Vs Evolution has been an argument in public schools for years.    I understand that currently my child goes to a secular school, and thus is subject to what the state standards say.   Believe it or not I am not a person that tries to start arguments, but in this case I feel the situation got thrown in my lap.             The first time I blogged about this I was legitimately mad because I felt the Science Teacher was telling me that my daughter was not allowed to view her opinion.   That felt to me like a violation of the Freedom of Speech, and no matter if I agree with a person’s opinion or not, I thin...

  We live in an America where it seems more and more our freedoms and the Constitution continues to be trampled upon.   It’s shocking to me that it’s gone beyond just religious prosecution, but it’s violating the ideals that America was founded.   While I live in a small part of the US, I have seen things swing more and more towards a Socialistic or Communistic society.   We are sadly leaving our free democratic nation aside and moving to ideologies that is not how this nation is founded.   In short I believe our forefathers are “rolling in their graves.”   The United States was founded in order to give people a nation to have the freedoms to worship and be who they felt their Creator called them to be.   It wasn’t freedom from all religion, but freedom from a set religion being forced down ones throat from a government. My children have gone to a public charter school for the last 8 years.   For the most part, I have loved that sch...