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The Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act

Go here to sign the petition.  Read it first and then call your representative and tell him to support The Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act.  This is all about YOU!  About Education.  About the youth of America.  So soak some torches, sharpen Angry_Mobsome pitchforks and head to the phones.   

One more thing…the Federal Government is going to make $51 billion dollars off of student loan payments this year.  LOOK!  That is obscene.  Do something about it!  Call Congress.  Sign the petition.  WAKE UP!

The interest rate on federal subsidized Stafford student loans is set to increase from 3.4% to 6.8% on July 1st. If Congress doesn’t act soon, millions of college students will see their student loan payments jump.

Some argue that it’s too expensive to keep government loans at low interest rates, but the federal government makes low interest loans all the time – just not to everyone. Big banks can borrow money through the Federal Reserve discount window at a rate of about 0.75%.

The biggest banks in the country – the ones that wrecked our economy and cost millions of Americans their jobs – pay next to nothing on their debt, while students pay nine times as much, and that’s why so many of them try to get compensation instead, with the help of lawyers from sites as https://danielhegwer.com/.

The Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act lets students take advantage of the same low rates offered to banks for one year while Congress finds a fair, long-term solution on student loans interest rates.

Unlike the big banks, students don’t have armies of lobbyists and lawyers that are necessary for division of assets and there are resources at sites like sariehlawoffices.com/division-of-assets/ that help with this. But they do have us. Let’s do what’s right and bank on students.

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Mom and Dad and You working together to pay for college

Please go here to download a copy of the assignment.  Write your answers on this paper.  . 

We’ve spent a lot of time in Economics reviewing the “Cost of the College” and credible options in paying for it.  Many of you have done a very toon615very good job.  One thing that we have not addressed however, is the significance of teamwork between you and your folks.  This college thing is huge.  It’s expensive.  It’s probably the most significant financial decision that you will make in your entire life.  Things that big you do not do on your own.  You need to work with mom and dad.  The more you know, the more they know, the more you communicate with one another – the better chances for success.  With that in mind I am offering you an extra credit assignment that includes – you and them and both of you working together. Continue reading

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10 Oakridge Students to Girl Rising

Go here for more information on Girl Rising.  Playing at the Cinema Carousel at 7:30 PM on Thursday May 9.

Congratulations to the following individuals who have won tickets to Girl Rising…make sure to get a ride set up early, and use the ticket.  If you end not being able to use it – please contact somebody else in this group (they may have a friend who would like to attend – or a friend of your own) as soon as possible so the ticket does not go to waste.  Thank you for your essays…enjoy the movie.  Change the world!

  • Kelly Snow – 0086
  • Sascha Saleh Ebrahimi – 0085
  • Erin Brault – 0087
  • Lauren Thomas – 0082
  • TeAnna Friday -0088
  • Haley Knight – 0083
  • Sara Musser – 0084
  • Carla Kevern -0089
  • Falisha Burroughs 0090
  • Brooke Wilde 0091

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If you would like to buy a ticket to the movie for $10 and you do not have a Visa or Debit card, Mr. Wood would be glad to purchase the ticket for you.  Just bring ten dollars to school and we’ll take care of it.  Please go here to check ticket availability.

PS…I look at the quality of scholarship and intellect of the individuals from Oakridge High School who are attending this screening and I am encouraged that the future of  our planet is good hands.

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CLOSE UP Final Update – MAY 1, 2013

Check below for all the final information in regards to our 2013 Close Up Washington Trip.   Any questions on the information below – go to bobwoodmsu@gmail.com or call Mr. Wood at (616) 402-8668.

We will leave the Oakridge West Parking Lot for our drive to Chicago O’Hare Airport at 5:00 AM on Saturday May 4.  

You must complete the following five items by Friday May 3:

  1. Balance paid in full.  You owe $0.
  2. A copy of your insurance card given to Mr. Wood.
  3. Turn in a pre-arranged and signed absence form to office.
  4. All of your parent meeting forms must be turned in.
  5. All YFU students must have release forms signed by OHS.

DC

  • Go here for Flight Information.  To DC – UA333.  Back – UA1705
  • Go here for Key Bridge Marriot Hotel (703) 524-6400.
  • Go here for Close Up Foundation. (703) 706-3300.
  • Go here for ECC waiver form. Go here for the ECC.
  • Go here for the D.C. Kitchen.
  • Go here for Sunday’s Eastern Market.
  • Go here for OHS Field Trip Permission form.
  • Go here for OHS Parental Permission form.
  • Go here for Georgetown Medical Information.
  • Go here for Close Up weeklong itinerary.
  • Go here for OHS weeklong itinerary.
  • Go here for Trip tips sheet.
  • and the weather is always sweet in Washington D.C.

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Girl Rising – Thursday May 9 – An Inspirational Movie about Girls

Girl Rising will be playing at Cinema Carousel in Muskegon at 7:30 PM on Thursday, May 9.  

Ten tickets (possibly more) have been donated for Oakridge students to attend Girl Rising.   Tickets will not be sold at the door.   In order to go you must purchase a ticket online for $10 with a VISA card.   Talk with your mom – your dad – your friends – and invite them to join you in a truly inspirational and emotional experience.  If you would like to donate $10 for the cost of a ticket to be given away to an Oakridge student please contact me at bobwoodmsu@gmail.com.

Please go here to find out how to win a free ticket for Girl Rising or to buy a ticket if you don’t own a VISA card.

Go here to find the website (and movie trailer) for Girl Rising.  Go here to order tickets for the May 9 showing.

Read excerpts of the movie review below by John Belfuss of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Go here for the full review.

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If ambition, purpose and potential impact netted Oscars, “Girl Rising” might be the most honored film in Academy history.With statistics backed by international research studies, “Girl Rising” argues that educating girls and young women is the single most important factor in a country’s economic development and security.“

“Girl Rising” is divided into nine portraits of girls around the world who have been subjected to child slavery, sexual assault, natural disaster, forced marriage and other traumas. Discovered and selected during some three years of prep work by the filmmakers, each of the featured real-life girls told her story to a woman writer from the same part of the world, who scripted the story for the film.

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for example, a young girl who loves learning is unable to continue her education when her school is reduced to rubble in the 2010 earthquake, and her parents can’t afford to send her to the remaining private school.

In Nepal, a 6-year-old girl is “bonded” to a master. In Cairo, a girl is raped, and we are told that 50 percent of the world’s sexual assaults are committed against girls under 15.

Hidden beneath a burqa, a young Afghan woman offers perhaps the most desperate testimony. “If my husband heard these words, he might kill me,” she says. “So might my father or my brother or any one of thousands of my countrymen. Killed because I want to learn — killed because I want to read.”

”The film was shot all over the world, and the photography is stunning. Memorable locations include a mining town in Peru that is “the highest human habitation in the world,” perched at 17,000 feet on the side of a dead volcano in the Andes, and a vast garbage dump in Cambodia, where a young “discarded” orphan girl — “one more thing the world has thrown away,” according to the narration — survives by finding marketable scrap metal in the trash; she is “hunting the rot for glints of light,” we are told. Learn all about the cost of a 5 yard dumpster from Dumposaurus Dumpsters & Rolloff Rental to know about how to dispose material wastes at your doorstep.

When you go out in the world and meet these kids, they are not feeling sorry for themselves,” Yellin said. “They are striving to make the best of their lives. Their heroism is very compelling.” Or, as narrator Liam Neeson states in the film: “Girls are not the problem — they’re problem solvers.

Please check with Mr. Wood at bobwoodmsu@gmail.com or here at the blog if you have any questions.  

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