About me - Richard Holmes
Richard Michael Holmes, a freelance writer, lives a double life. Six months a year, the icy, snowy, frigid months, he resides in sunny Venice, Florida. Late spring, summer and early fall finds him in upstate New York. Retired from forty-three years in a number
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RSS Feed- Education > Study Skills & Test Taking Getting good grades in high school: Secrets of success
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A few years ago when I was a junior-senior high school principal, I always posted our school academic honor rolls outside my office. I also mailed home a personally signed letter of congratulations to the family of students on the various honor rolls. Besides the honor rolls, we also recognized students whose academic progres... More..
- Education > Secondary School (Other) Why parents need to be involved in their child's school life
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Parents...let me get right to the point. I've worked in the great field of education for over forty years. I've been a classroom teacher for twenty of those years. The remaining twenty of so I've worked in the guidance field, in a number of levels of building administration, including principal, and even in central office(I ... More..
- Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Yearbooks
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Yesterday I received an invitation to a 1968 high school class reunion. This was not from my alma mater. It was from the high school where I was a teacher in 1968. Fortunately I had a copy of the 1968 yearbook. I began to leaf through the pages to refresh my memory of just who was in that class. As I did this, the span of for... More..
- Arts & Humanities > Arts & Humanities (Other) Life after retirement
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RETIREMENT-a word that lights up the face of every red-blooded American. Work like a dog day in and day out the better part of your life and, decades later, enjoy the fruits of your labor. Thank God you made it out alive. Dream becomes reality. The life of leisure tugs at the heartstrings. Or maybe it strikes fear in the pit... More..
- Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My great, true, personal garden story
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THE SUMMERS AND THE GLADIOLAS When I was very young I lived with my Aunt Bess and Uncle Hank for three years. That was in the late 1940's when I was about ages four through six. I don't recall very much, if anything, about my life before... More..
- Education > High School Humanities Art and Music disappear from American schools
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More and more high schools, both public and private, are feeling the money crunch in recent years. Certainly in the past year that situation has been intensified. Often, the courses that fall to the cutting room floor are programs in art and music. Almost all states require some minimal coursework in art and music for all stu... More..
- Education > Secondary School (Other) Keys to successful study
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What I am about to tell you is what a ninth grade girl told me about fifteen years ago when I was a high school principal. At the end of one of our marking quarters, I called to my office the top achieving student in each grade level as evidenced by the highest honor roll standing. My purpose was to personally congratulate th... More..
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