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tomorrow! I am excited! I was nervous, now an unexlicable calmness has come. Soon I will post a picture of my students.

Well, I know I’ve been a total slacker with this blog lately, and thought that now that I have some time, I should give you a little update. So below are a few pictures from the last month or two, with some brief captions. (Continued)

Thank you Charity, Rachel, Glenda, Levi, Vincent, Caleb, Abigail, Rolanda, Janelle, Dorcas, Loretta, Byron, David, Dana, Dorcas, Johnny, Deborah, Kendall, and Lorita for a wonderful year!

Where I teach–at our church school here in Stuarts Draft–high school is optional.  That’s because we’re “Amish” and Amish don’t have to go past the 8th grade, thanks to the 1972 Wisconsin vs. Yoder Supreme Court ruling.  While many students elect to take high school, some “graduate” from the 8th grade and quit.  To take high school or not has been quite the controversy this year in my class.  One of my students presented a convincing speech on the issue–and gave me permission to post it here.   I thought she did well in not only talking about the high school question, but also about our responsibility to learn

Dorcas Yoder

Mr. Hershberger

Tenth Grade English

10 October 2007

High School: Its Purpose and Benefits

Is high school necessary? Is it really good for teenagers to spend their time studying or should they be working and learning practical skills? Is high school just a boring waste of time or an unnecessary amount of hard work? I don’t think so. While it may be impossible to prove that high school is necessary, there are good reasons for doing it. High school is required by Virginia law. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it’s a good way to train your mind in order to use it for God and for the fulfillment of God-given responsibilities.

According to Virginia state code 22.1-254,

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My students have got an age long debate going again this year, between conservationists (anti-hunting) and hunters. They’ve put forth an impressive array of cartoons in support of their positions on the bulletin board. Here’s a sampling of the different viewpoints.

dumbhunter.jpg
friendlyconservationist.jpg
starvinghorse.jpg
hungryvegetarians.jpg
strongvegetarians.jpg

Here they are guys.  Got them to do the famous Asian Salute.  These kids are great!

School starts Tomorrow.  At 9:00 I will be smiling happily and nervously at a crew of 20 7-12ers.  Am I ready?  Not overly.   But I can’t wait for the thing to start so I get a feel for this thing.  I don’t know if I’ve ever been more keyed up about something in my life.  Seriously.

I feel bad that I haven’t posted more about IGo.  I want to sometime post more pics, tell you more about it, put a few more plugs in for the place for the benefit of all you future students out there.  I will do that, once I get a few free moments.   Not sure when this is going to happen.

In other news….  Eric is still gone…  Only 1 yr, 11 3/4 months till he comes back.  Yes, life is a tragic vale of tears.  But… at least I get this whole huge room to myself.  Not that I really like that or anything.

In other news… my laptop is now luxuriating in 2 GBs of memory.  Ahh….  Yup, it’s real snappy like.  Can’t wait to see what it does once I stick Vista on it.  On the subject of memory, let me put a plug in for crucial.com, the only place to buy memory.  I ordered yesterday, opted for the 7-10 day free shipping, and the stuff arrived today, all the way from Idaho.  Not sure how they were able to pull that off, but hey, I was very happy.  Crucial’s stuff is top notch, too.

On another subject… Passion Camp was a wonderful wonderful weekend.  We were incredibly blessed by God.   The guys loved it, and we were all impacted with some seriously life-changing stuff.  I will never be the same, for sure.  God is incredible!

Another piece of news I was really happy to hear was that the 19 Korean hostages in Afghanistan are set to be released!  This is very positive!  We had prayed a lot for these folks last month.

Well, I will hopefully post a picture of my 20 brilliant future world changers on here soon.   Peace out.