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This week: June 12, 2026 - TBA - TBA
Dr Katherine James proposed year-round education in secondary schools. Dr James, as a teacher and principle in Montgomery schools, observed that after summer vacation, 6 weeks of review was required in the new school year to make up for the education loss over the summer vacation.
The National Association of Year-Round Education has produced a plan that redistributes the 180 school days and budjet over the whole year. Summer vacation would only be the month of July and days-off and optional days-off would be distributed throughout the rest of the year. The Teachers Union is the opposition to the yearround plan. Her object is to convince the teachers and public to try a year-round pilot in a Montgomery school.
Reggie Mark-Hansen has a recessed red-head gene from his Great-Great-Grandfather Hansen from Scandinavia and is from the Republic of Ghana (West Africa between Ivory Coast and Togo).
Ghana was under British control from 1874 to 1957 and became a Constitutional Republic in 1961. Ghana is non-aligned with English as an official language, and a free market economy that is growing at 7%. Reggie’s father was a band leader and mother a tough-love hostess. Reggie graduated from college in ’89 and has worked in HR (human resources) Management for oil companies in Ghana and the US.
He plans to start his own HR firm and says the object is to make the employees the best they can be. The Rotary Four way Test is the best business code. He has been married for 17 years.
Heather Calvert, Marketing Executive at ScotlandsDNA, which can trace British and Irish DNA lines back 3k to 10k years. Humans started in Africa; went to Saudi Arabia; and branched to everywhere else. Each of us inherits 6 B letters of DNA from our parents (3B each).
Occasionally tiny errors of copying are made in reproduction and it is these minute changes that are called “markers”. Geneticists can locate marker’s origin and date its creation. By looking at its frequency in modern populations, they can also track the movement of a marker across the face of the earth. Examples of markers are “Jewish” and “redhead”. For those interested, go to website www.scotlandsdna.com.
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