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Jenny Hatch

I asked my children at supper last night to tell me what the schools response was to the Bailey Gunman.
They said that the school practiced another lock down (which they do periodically anyway), all teachers and staff now have to wear identifying badges, and they were all encouraged to report anyone who was not wearing a visitor badge.
My oldest daughter told me that the Bailey school had an emergency plan and the teachers had practiced it, but they had not practiced it with the students. I don’t know if that is true or not, but it is what she was told by a teacher.
She also told me that several of the girls who are on the cross country team were really upset because they were good friends with Emily, who was murdered. The girls were crying and upset yesterday at school.
Every time something like this happens, I pause and consider the folly of putting so much of our family life, with pictures, up on the internet. I heard a story last night on the radio discussing the idea that the gunman had targeted the girls, and went looking for them at school.
I decided long ago that I would live fearless.
A story:
During the Clinton Impeachment hearings and just before the Senate was going to vote to confirm the impeachment, I went to a Town Hall Meeting with our Senator Allard. (My testimony begins at 2:30 – two minutes and thirty seconds into the broadcast).
During the question and answer period afterwards I raised my hand and he chose me to speak. I made some very pointed comments about President Clinton, that he and his wife were known felons and they should be in federal prison, that he had stomped all over the constitution during his presidency and that he and hillary should be put in a stockade in front of the white house as a witness that this is what will happen to those politicians who feel they are above the law and do not uphold their constitutional duties and oaths of office.
The crowd went wild as I spoke, applauding and clapping. A woman from NPR with a very long microphone that she had shoved in my face ran up to me afterwards and asked me for my name. Then, she looked me right in the eye, and she said “THANK YOU”.
I didn’t hear it but a friend told me that the NPR story ran the next day, with much of my quote on the radio.
I also appeared on all of the local news stations and was quoted in the Denver Papers.
A few days later I was walking down the hallway at church and an older gentleman, who is a patriot and one of the senior respected members of our congregation stopped me and said, “Jenny, I am afraid that you might end up dead if you talk like that publicly anymore”.
I just thanked him for his concern, and then spent the next few years wondering if I was wise and if I should continue to speak my mind in whatever forum on whatever topic was important to me. This was long before Blogging even became a possibility in my mind.
After thinking about his words and feeling his concern, I just decided that I was going to speak and let the chips fall where they may. If someone killed me or hurt my family for my political activism, so what? I’m not afraid of death. I’m not afraid of one of my children being tortured or killed or kidnapped. I know that this life is but a small moment, and my children have been sealed to me for all time and eternity. I know that eternal justice and punishment waits for anyone who might molest me or my family.
It was about this time I heard another story. A LDS missionary was working somewhere is south america, and he saw a child who was burned from the waist down. He asked the mother if that child had been burned by a cooking accident or some other tragic incident. The mother explained to him that she had been warned that if she went to vote, her child would be burned.
She voted.
Her child was burned.
End of story.
I was thunderstruck by this story. The courage of the mother and the evil that lived in her country. I believe similar evil exists in our country. Sure it is more hidden, but families are being hurt in similar ways. In thinking about this poor girl who was murdered in Bailey, my knee jert reaction to hearing about that type of a crime is “I wonder what antidepressant that guy was taking”.
So, in my outreach on the web, talking about subjects that make some people feel uncomfortable or have murderous rage towards me and my family. Wether it be from my religion, my politics, or my views on any number of issues, I choose to live free and not cave to the terror that is sometimes thrust in the direction of those who are whistleblowers or who speak the truth.
Does this make me stupid? Perhaps, but I am not living for this life. I am attempting to live worthy to spend eternity with my Father in Heaven. If in this life I am punished in some way for being “out there” in the public with my opinions, I am not afraid, and I will not shut up, give up, sit down, or Be still while I have breath in my lungs, and the power to write, yell, and speak my truth.
May Emily rest in peace and may her family find comfort while they Grieve….
Jenny Hatch
UPDATE:
I am not happy to have been right about this one….
“Tragedies like this one in pennsylvania and in colorado last week seem to be inexplicable, but listen to this. more often than not, antidepressants are involved. They found antidepressants in Duane Morrison’s jeep.”

Maybe it would have worked in 1963 George, but not in 2004!
Sorry you wasted all that money…boo hoo…
Jenny Hatch

Parents Are Right; Math Experts Are Wrong
Phyllis Schlafly whacks the educrats on Math Curriculum, Test Scores, and the CULT of the Expert.
“It took parents 17 years to overturn the tragic 1989 curriculum mistake made by the so-called education experts who demanded that schools abandon traditional mathematics in favor of unproven approaches. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics finally reversed course on September 12 and admitted that elementary schools really should teach arithmetic, after all.”
Read the Whole Piece!
During the five years we home schooled I had plenty of people question my ability to teach my own. Especially Math.
I spent many, many hours researching education issues, and read dozens of books.
My all time favorites were:
1. Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell
2. Why Johnny Can’t Read by Rudolph Flesch (Which the Educrats banned and I wrote an article about titled Birthin’ and Readin’)
3. Nea: Trojan Horse in American Education by Sam Blumenfeld
After doing this research while my children were babies, we decided that we would never send our children to public school.
When I gave birth to my fourth, a new charter school opened up teaching the Core Knowledge Series of Curriculum. They used the Open Court Phonics curriculum, which is one of the best phonics programs on the market and the Saxon Math Curriculum
We enrolled our oldest daughter in this excellent program in 2nd grade, and for four years she thrived. Then we pulled all of the children out of school for a couple of years and did three intense years of home school.
I was highly influenced by the writings of Dr. Arthur Robinson during these years and patterned our home school after his. As a single father, he had limited time and many children to teach, and his essays found at his web site really helped me feel like I could do home school well and be effective by focusing on the basics.
When Benjamin was a newborn in 2003, I was really struggling with my life. We decided to open enroll the children into the Peak to Peak charter school for the 2003 school year. Our oldest daughters started in the fall of 2003, and the boys made it in by lottery in the fall of 2004.
This charter is the school for us! It has been such a blessing not to have to home school and to feel somwhat safe with the teachers, staff, and fellow students at this public school. I won’t say that I will ever feel completely comfortable with Public Education, but for our family, this is what is working for now.
Benjamin will start at Peak to Peak in two years, and for the next 24 months I plan to systematically teach him math facts and phonics. We actually started last week.
I pulled out my favorite Reading Curriculum written by Sam Blumenfeld, Alphaphonics and purchased Ben book one of the Saxon Series.

We will spend a few minutes each day working with these texts for the next couple years, and hopefully by the time he enters Kindergarten, he will be reading for pleasure, and ready to conquer the Core Knowledge Curriculum at the school.
If you are a parent serious about education and would like the best for your own child, please take a few hours to read John Taylor Gattos book Dumbing us Down. It will give you all the motivation you need to never send your kids to public school, or encourage you to pull them out to make sure they are taught to read properly and think logically before you send them back.
Because it will take some time to shift the focus away from fuzzy math and reading, I would encourage all mothers and father to teach their own to read and learn basic Math Facts! And then take the time to educate yourself and go fight in your community for schools and curriculums which will best serve your child.

Jenny Hatch

I know it is not wise to count chickens before they are hatched, but if any democrats wonder why the conservatives blow them out of the water in the 2006 election, just remember: HUGO at the UN and in NEW YORK!
Here is a funny link to a satirical take on the HUGO speech yesterday!
I know Chomsky is getting some book sales from HUGO’s endorsement (and the reports of his death are greatly exadgeratted), but you have to wonder if a Marxist endorsement is really worth all the fuss…
GOP to fund speaking tour… BWA HA HA HA snort Heh heh ha
Jenny Hatch