March 26, 2008
If Fox News existed throughout history
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March 25, 2008
Carlow’s ELC
Some of you may be familiar with our wonderful daycare for Benjamin at Carlow University, which we’d planned to have him in until he was old enough for school. Earlier this month, we learned that Benjamin’s Early Learning Center plans to close the preschool half of the program in less than two months. Benjamin is not nearly as affected as some of his classmates by this–several have older siblings in the preschool. We parents (as well as the laid-off staff) have very little time to now find new quality programs in a city where nearly every program has a wait-list of at least four months (and some over two years). They are doing this for the measly addition of 10-12 dorm rooms, when clearly they simply need to build a new dorm for the University students they claim are begging for more on-campus housing.
As parents, we’re continually impressed with what the ELC have done both in their amazing projects with our children and the way their care freed us up to accomplish our daily tasks and our long-range dreams. We are pushing, quite hard, for them to reconsider. We have created an online petition to submit to those in positions of authority at Carlow as well as to the media. Please follow this link http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Save-Carlow-ELC-Preschool The link has both our letter and statement, and we invite you to read both and consider signing as supporters. Feel free to forward the petition link to anyone you think would like to support this cause.
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Baby!
Benjamin, H&R and I were in a local restaurant. The guy at the back was prepping. He happened to be one of those men who clearly balded young, and in an effort to retain dignity, shaved the remainder. He had a slight shadow, but was otherwise clean and shiny-topped. From our table, Benjamin pointed and proclaimed “BABY!” as most babies he knows are, well, rather less hairy than most kids, let’s just say.
We three adults did manage to control ourselves in the laughter department. Happily, prep-guy noticed none of this.
Filed by joy at 9:02 pm under baby, life
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