John Taylor Gatto on Required School and the history of Schooling in America

In my opinion, this is a guy to listen to. I found some of the information he had to be a bit shocking and felt that I should post links to interviews and his website.

www.johntaylorgatto.com

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8404777388320594019&q=john+taylor+gatto&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3197707524036023590&q=john+taylor+gatto&hl=en

Building a house

Here are the blueprints of the house we are building in Egypt. The room names are in Arabic but I'm sure no one will have any trouble telling which room is which, i.e. the rooms with the beds are bedrooms, etc. ;-)

But I don't know how to rotate the pictures so everything is sideways!

Yousuf

And Yousuf is just coming out of that "terrible" stage as he comes up on 5 (July 2007). I think they planned the exchange though since he suddenly got much sweeter and easier to negotiate with at *exactly* the same time his sister became, well, let's just say, difficult.

Tabarak, age 2

This should have been my first hint that we were in for trouble. LOL. Now she's going to be three and she is turning into a Diva!

First Post

OK, so I really have nothing to say. I'm basically starting this blog because:

1. Everyone else has one, so I want one too.
2. I don't know how else to link stuff to my posts on other boards. :-)
3. I just like the word "blog".

So now I'm off to see if it's possible to link a file to this blog........