UNITED WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people’s homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.
– Bishop Carlos Belo
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Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred – when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute – collectively and individually – to build peace through non-violence.
– Anwarul Chowdhury
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
– Cherie Carter-Scott
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
– Elderidge Cleaver
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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
– Dorothy Day
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man’s road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.
– Oscar Arias Sanchez

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT A FAD, IT CONSTANTLY PLAGUES OUR COMMUNITIES

Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner.”
– Dianne Feinstein
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“If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.”
– Rep. Mark Green
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
– Salma Hayek
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
– Salma Hayek
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“One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.”  Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.”
– Nicole Kidman
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Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
– Herbert Ward
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That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.
– Joan Baez

OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MONTH

“Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.”
– Dianne Feinstein
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations –in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. Judith Bardwick- the Plateauing Trap 8, 1988
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. by Mark Caine – author
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill
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“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.” Charles Jones

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New principal at Rogers Elementary aims high

Ann Broomes is the new principal at G.D. Rogers Garden Elementary in Bradenton. The school will have about 300 students for the 2010-2011 school year. Last year the school received the only F grade of any traditional public school in the region.
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By ROBERT NAPPER
Correspondent

Published: Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, August 20, 2010 at 9:38 p.m.

BRADENTON - Things could not have gone much worse at G.D. Rogers Garden Elementary School in Bradenton last year, when the new school received the only F grade by any traditional public school in the region.

Facts

Ann Broomes

Age: 45
Family: Husband, Darwin, four sons and a daughter, all
grown.
Education: Bachelor's in accounting, master's in
educational leadership from the University of South Florida.
Teaching experience: 7th-grade Haile Middle School
math teacher for five years.
Administrative experience: Three years as assistant
principal at Orange Ridge-Bullock Elementary School.
Teaching Philosophy: "As a
school system we deal with the whole child. These kids are good kids, they
all just need someone to care."

But the F grade, and test scores that showed only one in five third-graders were proficient in math, have not dampened the enthusiasm of the school's new principal, Ann Broomes.

Broomes faces the same challenges as any new principal -- from learning the names of teachers and staff, to building momentum for learning, to just discovering the lay-out of a new campus.

But Broomes arguably has the toughest task of any of the roughly 15 new principals who take the helm Monday at schools in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Broomes must bring up dismal test scores, and prepare a staff that was almost completely turned over during a shake-up that came in the wake of the F grade.

But she also has to find a way to improve learning among a student population that is overwhelmingly poor and highly diverse at a school whose inaugural principal was ousted after just one year.

And yet, Broomes carries a grin from ear to ear while talking about those challenges, in part because she knows that with an F grade from the state last year, things can only improve.

"I am just so excited. There is just so much positive energy around me," she said. "And the district has given us so much support in everything we need."