Christopher Gaze & The Bard and the Bees from “The Truth About Reading”
Christopher Gaze
Two Bees or Not 2Bs
Killer Spelling Bs from “The Truth About Reading”
The Killer Spelling Bs
From the book called The Truth About Reading
The most degrading elementary school ritual for me was the spelling B.
Twice a week a bunch of cruel violent words would appear with there sharp little stinger ready for stabbing with the weekly spelling B.
They started on Monday to find out the words that I could not spell and then appeared again on Friday to prove to me that even when I tried my hardest all week to learn the words that I still could not spell them.
Each week they kept coming back just as you new they would and that there was no way to escape there attack To make it worse those violent words got bigger harder and more difficult as the years went by.
With each weekly swarming I felt a little bit dumber and learn to fear them a little bit more poke by poke.
Apart from reading out loud the spelling B still to this day make me fell upset even though I have the ability to make fun and laugh at myself.
Torie Spelling Bee from the book “The Truth About Reading”
Torie Spelling Bee
The Torie Spelling Bee
My Torie Spelling is as well known in Burnaby as Hollywood’s actress with the same name. My Torie got her last name from her husband Rick Spelling and although she is not a performer she has her own action / drama /comedy called her life.
My Torie is like a swarm of bees on her own, she gets more done in one hour then most people accomplish in a week. If there is a job to do in business or one of her good deeds she does it and not just furiously fast but efficiently too.
If my friend Torie Spelling was a bee she would for sure be the Queen because of her natural ability to organize the group and lead the way.
She is always buzzing around here and their doing this, making that and at the same time looking out for her own colony
On the other hand if Tori were a bug she could also be a Social Butterfly because of her lavish parties and Martha Stuart beware style entertaining.
All kidding aside my Torie Spelling is a fantastic person and I am proud and pleased to call her my friend.
Rick Moore is my Hero
Rick Moore is filing an appeal of the B.C. Supreme Court ruling last month that overturned his win before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
To read the full story visit the reportcard by Janet Steffenhagen, Education Journalist of The Vancouver Sun
Rick Moore is my Hero
When I read that Rick Moore was filing an appeal I was so relived and overjoyed. I had been holding my breath wanting to hear his decision. But what ever he decided he will always be a hero to me. Rick Moore may have entered the lion’s den to fight for his son Jeff’s right to an education but he is really and truly standing up for all of us with a different way of learning.
Rick Moore did not just ask for the rights of his son to be considered by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal he ask for the rights of all of our children with learning disabilities to be honored within our BC education system.
Rick Moore is my voice the voice of my children and the voice yours and whatever the outcome is he will have been successful where others have failed simple by caring enough for us all.
Thank you for all of your hard work and continued strength to fight for our human rights
Respectfully
Tina H. McInerney
Thanks Vancouver Sun
As a person with an alternative way of learning to read (AKA Dyslexic) seeing my name in print never gets tiring. I never would have imagined in a million years that the day would arrive that my words would appear in The Vancouver Sun .
Although I have been quoted and the subject of several news articles in the Vancouver Sun, Burnaby Now and Burnaby New leader this is the first time my words have been printed as a letter to the a news paper.
This is just the kind of encouragement I need …we all need!
Thanks Vancouver Sun
Attention Deficit Disorder is like a never ending faris wheel ride form hell
At times for me living with “Attention Deficit Disorder” feels like a bad recurring dream
Like a ride on a faris wheel going around and around looking at all of the wonderful exciting things that you want to do but you just can not And the ride keeps going round and round
You get frustrate but don’t give up. You can see all of the other people enjoy themselves as they go from ride to ride and you wonder why you can’t do the same things as them
Eventually you get so sick to your stomach that you feel like you are going to lose your lunch And the ride keeps going round and round
Like an awful nightmare where you are screaming for help but you know that there is no sound coming out of you mouth and you know that no one can hear you and there is nothing that you can do and the ride keeps going round and round
No matter how hard you try to get there you never make it close enough to hit the stop button and like a never ending faris wheel ride form hell the ride keeps going round and round
Tina McInerney …Tuesday, March 18, 2008
I do not have a disability I have a different way of learning just like 1/5 of the worlds population
I was so happy to hear that Vancouver school board was stepping up to the plate, but what about our children that are drowning in our present education system. What about all the children that will take there own lives because they feel like a looser, stupid worthless and excluded from society because they can not read well enough What about the grade one who starts school in September but will never learn to read.
I can not just sit back knowing that nothing is being done now today, I fell so awful because my daughter in grade 12 has been squashed by a system and that that same system could be change over night if someone the right someone took the bull my the horns
We can change the outcome for all of our children if we just change our view
I do not have a disability I have a different way of learning just like 1/5 of the worlds population
Calling Eddie Vedder and Jennifer Aniston
I like the sound of Eddie Vedder and Jennifer Aniston together as Ambassadors
Last night I had a very vivid dream about Eddie Vedder and then today I read that he is coming to Vancouver …
This must be fate perhaps he will want to be the Ambassador for the immediate awareness of alternative learning (people with a different way of learning) along side Jennifer Aniston who is in town shooting a movie..
Calling
Calling
Stephen J. Cannell Cher Orlando Bloom
Dave Foley Danny Glover Whoopi Goldberg
Susan Hampshire Jay Leno
Keanu Reeves Kiera Knightley Edward James Olmos Oliver Reed
Billy Bob Thornton Tom Smothers Robin Williams
Henry Winkler Ignacio Gomez Tommy Hilfiger
Ian Marley Diamond Dallas Page Steve Redgrave
Richard Branson John Britten Jaime Oliver
