110. CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, May 2 - May 8, 2003
SCHOOL EDUCATION
Milton Middle Sch( )1 students display their talents
Taking first place in the 5-6 grade division were Deshi
Cephas (L) and Phillip Hazzard with a vocal performance.
Dan Cook photos
Talent Show director and Boys to Men Club advisor Fred Harvey, above left, addresses the
audience during the show held in April.
Taking second place in the 7th and 8th grade division was Renicia Daniels, center, reciting
a poem she wrote for friends.
Milton Middle School eighth grader Will Betts, right, took first place in the MMS Talent
Show sponsored by the Boys to Men Club. Betts sang the country song The Good Stuff to a
rousing applause from the audience.
Cordrey Scholarship adline extended until May 31
The Delaware Community Foundation
recently announced that the application
deadline for the Richard S. Cordrey
Scholarship has been extended to May 31.
Seniors from the Cape Henlopen, Indian
River and Sussex County Vocational
Technical School districts who have been
accepted at a Delaware college or universi-
ty are eligible to apply.
Applications for the $1,000 one-time
award are available at the guidance office
of each school.
Sen. Cordrey established the Richard S.
Cordrey Scholarship Fund at the Delaware
Community Foundation in 1996 to help
deserving students from his district pursue
a college education.
Donations in honor of his retirement from
26 years of service in the State Senate were
used to start the fund, David Simmons, a
2002 graduate of Sussex Tech who attends
the University of Delaware, received the
Cordrey Scholarship last year.
The Richard S. Cordrey Scholarship
Fund is one of about 400 charitable funds
adhainistered by the Delaware Community
Foundation,. a nonprofit, philanthropic
community organization created by and for
the people of Delaware to build communi-
ty.
The Foundation enables you to easily and
effectively support the issues and organiza-
tions you care about through a charitable
fund, which can be started with a variety of
assets.
The Delaware Community Foundation
offers personalized service, local expertise
and community leadership and serves
Delawareans through offices in Wilmington
and Georgetown. For further information
about creating a fund or learning about its
scholarship or grantmaking process, call
302-571-8004 or visit its website at
www.delcf.org.
Some of my favorite education jokes and anecdotes
The students are back in school!
Time for a little levity? This is
from the archives of my favorite
education jokes and anecdotes. If
you have a funny or interesting
school story contact me at the
Cape Gazette so I can share it with
the world.
You were warned!
When Mrs. Cook saw one of her
fourth graders making faces, she
stopped and said "Ricky, When I
was a child, my mother told me
that my face could freeze like that
and stay that way forever."
Ricky replied, "Well, Mrs.
Cook, you can't say you didn't get
a warning."
Diane Albanese
The most important
lesson in life
While.I was getting my teach-
ing degree, a professor gave us a
pop quiz. I was a good student
and breezed through the quiz,
until I came to the last question. It
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asked "What is the name of the
woman who cleans this classroom
when we're done for the day?"
As the class ended, and our pro-
fessor collected the quizzes, one
of the other students said "Did
that last question countT'
The professor said "In your
careers, you will meet many peo-
ple, All of them deserve your
attention and care. Yes, that ques-
tion counts."
Her name was Betty.
Do what I do
A mother once asked Gandhi to
get her son to stop eating sugar.
Gandhi told the child "Come back
in two weeks." Two weeks later
the mother brought the child
before Gandhi, who said to the
boy "Stop eating sugar."
Puzzled, the woman asked,
"Why didn't you tell him that two
weeks ago?"
Gandhi replied, "Two weeks
ago, I was eating sugar."
Do the math
Discussing the problem of
recruiting and retaining teachers,
you often hear people giving an
opinion like "I know teachers only
make (fill in the salary levels in
your state), but they only work
five days a week, 180 days a
year!"
"Well, how much should they
be paid," you might ask, "maybe
$4 or $5 an hour, like a babysit-
ter?" And if they go for that, you
should remind them, "Of course, a
babysitter isn't in charge of 25
kids."
Usually, they'll see the fairness
of that statement, and reply, "Still,
if each parent just paid $4 or $5 an
hour, hey, that would be much
fairer than these salaries the teach-
ers make now."
Sure would. At $4 an hour from
each of 25 kids, for five hours a
day times 180 days, these darn
overpaid teachers would have to
settle on compensation of only
$90,000 a year! At $5 an hour, it's
$112,500. Now, in the more
expensive parts of the country, it's
hard to get a reliable babysitter
(much less one with a master's
degree) for less than $6 an hour.
That, you could report, addsup to
$135,000. All this, of course, is
assuming 25 kids-in a class.
Given the state of overcrowding
these days, 30 is just as likely,
which, at $6 an hour, is $162,000
a year.
Add a little something for being
the faculty advisor for an after-
school activity, and you might not
need a summer job!
Stuff teachers
have reported that kids wrote
Syntax is the money collected at
church. A monologue is a conver-
sation between a husband and
wife. The Mediterranean and Red
Sea are connected by the Sewer
Canal. Some people are wise,
some are otherwise. Climate is
permanent, but weather is only for
a few days. Iron was discovered
when somebody smelt it.
Appendicitis is caused by the list-
ings in the appendix.
Diane Albanese is a parent and
teacher in the Cape Henlopen
School District.
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