By Y3K
Check your Brookline Tab newspaper over the next several weeks for information on Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s 10th Annual Animal Rescue League of Boston Collection Drive. Items collected will be delivered to their Dedham, MA shelter for abused and abandon animals waiting for adoption.
You can schedule a pick-up or find out about our drop-off locations conveniently located in Needham and Natick. For questions or to set up an appointment call (781) 492-8700 or log on to www.Y3KTutorInYourHome.com.
By Y3K
The animals need your help. You can make a difference for the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s animal shelters. Please help Y3K Tutor In Your Home aid abused and stray animals. You will have the opportunity to help dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and others. Please donate old or new towels, blankets, office supplies, and animal toys. Items will be picked up at your home between NOVEMBER 1, 2012 and JANUARY 1, 2013.
Please also tell all of your neighbors, friends and family. We will pick up from anyone regardless if they use our tutoring or not. We will be picking up items located in Brookline, Dover, Natick, Needham, Newton, Sudbury, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston MA. There will also be drop off locations for those living outside of these towns conveniently located in Natick and Needham, MA.
Call 781-492-8700 to schedule a pick up.
Here are the items to be collected:
Blankets Towels
Pet toys
Small animal food for birds and rodents · Pens
Copy Paper
Dry Erase markers
Sharpies
Heater/radiator for barn
Dehumidifier Liquid dish soap
Pet carriers
By Y3K
Since 2003, Y3K Tutor In Your Home has been the leader in Natick tutoring. We have made a difference in the lives of Natick students attending Bennett-Hemenway School, Brown School, Johnson School, Lilja School, Memorial School, Kennedy Middle School, Riverbend School, Tobin School, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Wilson Middle School, and Natick High School.
Check out our new web page link serving the students of the Natick, MA area. www.NatickTutor.com
By Y3K
If your student chooses to not dissect an animal and is given a hard time, explain to the teacher that you know the state policy. For example in Massachusetts the 2005 State Board of Education Policy gives anyone the right to refuse to cut up animals. In fact Massachusetts residents can mention the following policy:
“All public schools that offer dissection as a learning activity should, upon written request by a student’s parent or guardian, permit a student who chooses not to participate in dissection to demonstrate competency through an alternative method.” [2005 MA State Board of Education Policy]
Look up the policy where you live and have it ready to go to avoid being intimidated.
By Y3K
Many students feel the stress of peer pressure and fear of repercussions by the teacher when not wanting to dissect animals in biology classes. These students find cutting up animals to be morally objectionable, yet feel forced to do so. In fact this moral dilemma can cause grades to go way down. Some people do not realize that even though each year, 10 million animals (including frogs, cats, and fetal pigs) are killed and then cut up in classrooms across the country, humane alternatives do exist. Studies have shown that students who use alternatives to dissection perform just as well as, if not better than students who cut up animals. In most states students have the right to refuse to dissect animals if they choose and most do not even realize it. The reality is your student does not have to dissect animals if they do not want to and it is the school’s responsibility to find alternatives for each student.
By Y3K
Many high schools throughout the country have started to take extreme and varied measures to ensure drugs are kept out of the schools. Some different yet controversial drug prevention methods include:
At more than 100 high schools in Eastern Massachusetts, drug-sniffing dogs are brought in every year to search for everything from alcohol to marijuana.
In Quincy, MA video cameras follow students in the hallways while plainclothes security guards stay alert for drug activity.
At Westford Academy in Westford, MA the principal decided to add a full time police officer to the staff.
Newton North High School in Newton, MA feels that counseling is the best way to rid the school of drugs. The school has on staff a social worker acting as the school’s prevention and intervention counselor. This person offers several group therapy sessions for students including for youths who are struggling with alcohol and drugs.
All of these schools have a common goal of preventing drug use. Which methods do you think are best and which do you think are going too far? Share your comments.
By Y3K
Happy Yom Kippur to all of our Jewish members of the Y3K Tutor In Your Home family.
By Y3K
In the town of Natick, MA 42% (almost half) or $ .42 of every tax dollar the town receives goes to the school department. This leaves 58% or $ .58 of every tax dollar to be divided up among all remaining town departments. For example public safety only gets 11% or $ .11 of every tax dollar and most other departments receive significantly less (elderly, public works, park & rec, town hall, etc). Most other cities and towns have comparable figures. Some believe that more money should go to schools while others maintain that schools receive too much of a percent of the total tax dollars. What are your thoughts?
By Y3K
Your child takes in cues from you. If you are excited about school, they will be too.
By Y3K
The MCAS Retests for Natick High School in Natick, MA will be offered this November. The math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests will be given to those Natick High School students that did not receive a passing score previously. They will be given during the following days:
Mathematics Session 1 – November 1, 2012
Mathematics Session 2 – November 2, 2012
ELA Composition Sessions A & B – November 7, 2012
ELA Reading Comprehension Sessions 1 & 2 – November 8, 2012
ELA Reading Comprehension Session 3 – November 9, 2012
Last Day for Make-up Testing – November 13, 2012
Now is the time to call Y3K Tutor In Your Home to prepare. We have tutored many Natick, MA students in MCAS preparation with much success.
https://y3ktutorinyourhome.com/mcas-a-test-prep.html
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