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2013 FCFTPresident’s Award

for Outstanding Advocacyfor the Employees of FCPS

The Fairfax County Federation of Teachers would like to thank all ofthe 2013 award winners listed above for their consistent advocacy,proactive communications, and support of our workforce over thepast year. We publicly acknowledge their efforts to make a differencein the lives of FCPS employees. Thank you for caring about us; itmatters and is appreciated.

Megan McLaughlin (Braddock District)Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield District)

Pat Hynes (Hunter Mill District)Patty Reed (Providence District)Sandy Evans (Mason District)

Dan Storck (Mount Vernon District)Tammy Derenak Kaufax (Lee District)

Ryan McElveen (At-Large)Janie Strauss (Dranesville District)

Pat Herrity (Supervisor: Springfield District)Kaye Kory (Delegate: 38th District)

Other Award Winners:Phyllis Pajardo (FCPS)Louise Epstein (FEC)

Michael Hairston (FEA)Erica Hendry (media)

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Children’s Connectinon 2013

Dear Readers:This week, the Oak Hill/Herndon Con-

nection turns over its pages to the youthand students.

We asked principals and teachers fromarea schools to encourage students to con-tribute their words, pictures and photos forour annual Children’s Issue.

The response as always was enormous.While we were unable to publish every piecewe received, we did our best to put togethera paper with a fair sampling of the submit-ted stories, poems, drawings, paintings,photographs and other works of art.

We appreciate the extra effort made byschool staff to gather the materials duringtheir busy time leading up to the holidays.We’d also like to encourage both schools andparents to mark their 2014 calendars forearly December, the deadline for submis-sions for next year’s Children’s Connection.

Please keep us in mind as your childrencontinue to create spectacular works of artand inspiring pieces of writing in the com-ing year.

The children’s issue is only a part of ouryear-round commitment to cover educationand our local schools. As always, the Con-nection welcomes letters to the editor, storyideas, calendar listings and notices of localevents from our readers. Photos and othersubmissions about special events at schoolsare especially welcome for our weeklyschools pages.

Our preferred method for material is e-mail, which should be sent [email protected], butyou can reach us by mail at 1606 KingStreet, Alexandria, VA 22314 or call 703-778-9414 with any questions.

Editor Kemal Kurspahic

Welcome

By Ashley Powell, 3rd grade, Floris Elementary School. By Chinmai Muskari, 13, Rachel Carson Middle School.

By Cole Gillions, 14, Rachel Carson Middle School.By Roshni Manikarnika, 2nd grade, Floris Elementary School.

By Mia Olek,6th grade,DranesvilleElementarySchool.


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I have a dream. I want tobecome a teacher. I want toteach children in kindergarten. Iwant to teach in Washington,D.C. Learning is very importantfor children. I want to help thekids in learning. I have a dream.

— Alison Realegeno

I have a dream. I want tobecome an artist. I will bring myguerilla art all over the world.Guerilla art is street art. It iswhen an artist leaves theirartwork in public for everyonecan see. I will sell my art tomake money. I will use thatmoney to go all over the world.I will go on art shows and talkabout my art. I will go on“America’s Got Talent” and drawmy best picture yet. I will havemillions of fans who love art. Iwill make a lot of art movies soother children that love art willbe really good at art. And that ismy dream.

— Teagan Williams

I have a dream. I want to go toIndia and see my family. But firstI have to go to college. I want toget a job as a doctor and adentist. Then I can go to India. Ireally want to go to the TajMahal and ride an elephant.

— Keshav Nair

I have a dream. I want to be adancer. I hope to make peoplehappy. I want to make peoplebelieve in themselves. I wish togo to college and take danceclass. I hope to live in New YorkCity and perform in the NewYork City Ballet. With the money

Students in Mrs. Shahidi’s 3rd grade class atDranesville Elementary share their dreams.

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I make, I will donate some to St.Judes. Then I’ll go to Hollywoodand walk the red carpet. I have adream.

— Kaitlin Snow

My dream is to become ananesthesiologist. My dad is one,and I want to be one too. I wantto help people in the hospital. Iwill be an anesthesiologist inWashington, D.C. They putpeople to sleep before they havesurgery. It takes five years foryou to become an anesthesiolo-gist. You have to go to medicalschool. It might be challenging,but I will try my best. I have adream.

— Nadia Hanfi

I have a dream. My dream is tobecome a volcanologist. I wantpeople to be safe from lava. Ihave a family that lives in ElSalvador. It is dangerous becausethere are volcanoes. I will save

the world. I will learn aboutvolcanoes. I will visit a lot ofvolcanoes and study. I wouldinvent something to stop volca-noes from erupting. I will go tocollege and study math lots ofscience. I have a dream.

— Luis Escalante

My dream is to become afamous dance teacher. My momteaches me how to dance. I wantto make my mom proud bybecoming a good dance teacher,and I want to teach kids todance. I want to see me on thetelevision, and I want people tohave good dreams.

— Marcie

I have a dream. I will sell myart to make money. I will go toart school. I can’t wait to have anart show. I will display mybeautiful drawings. When I draw,I have fun. I have a dream.

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The Wind’s SeedThe trees sway as their leaves

fall to the ground. The squirrelsfind food, for winter is near. Thegrass rustles because of the wind.But what does the wind do? It car-ries a special touch of hope. Thescent of the wind mingles with thetrees as it flows in the sky. Thewind twists through bushes andturns around houses until it findswhat it needs. A seed. A seed fullof kindness, and a seed that willnot droop or fall when it sprouts.

Once the wind finds this seed, itleaves the hope it carries to lingeraround the seed. The seed thenturns the hope into nutrients forit. The hope and the seed thengrow together, creating belief. Thegrown seed now believes in some-thing it needs to change or correct.This belief grows stronger in thegrown seed until the grown seedknows what to do with it. Thegrown seed now creates a dreamof what it will do to make a differ-ence of its belief. The grown seednow grows even larger until it be-comes a small tree. Now this smalltree will do a few things of itsdream as it keeps growing into amedium tree.

As it becomes a medium tree, itwill start doing bigger things tosupport its dream. When the me-dium tree completes its final stageto become a grown-up tree, it willdo more than ever before toachieve its dream, since it hasmore authority. This grown-uptree will keep working until itsdream has been accomplished.The grown-up tree will get hisdream accomplished eventually.

The grown-up tree still keeps hiskindness because he comes to in-spire others and lead them to apath of beliefs and dreams. The

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grown-up tree’s inspiration islike a bridge for others to cross tostart their beliefs and dreams. Buteventually, the grown-up tree getsold and can do no more. The oldgrown-up tree becomes a legend.That is when the wind twiststhrough bushes and turns throughhouses to find another seed thathas kindness, just like the old one.So then, a cycle begins full of hope,beliefs, dreams, and inspiration.Any kind seed can be the wind’schoice. Even you.

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And since I’m not a betting man – ormuch of a gambler, I usually stand pat andact as if life will go on as it sort of has:with fits (not literally) and starts, withsome good results – and some not sogood results. On balance though, myresults have been above and beyond theexpectation of my oncologist. And in apeculiar way, that’s what I sort of live for:to surprise my doctor. There’s no betterfeeling I have than to see my oncologistsmiling back at me, almost inexplicably, asto why I’ve been able to live for as long asI have. Though I’ve always maintained apositive outlook and kept my sense ofhumor, I can’t really speak to whetherthese two traits would have convinced myoncologist that my initial “13 month totwo-year” prognosis was merely a startingpoint, not the end game that he had pre-dicted. Moreover, given the severity of myoriginal diagnosis: stage IV, non-small celllung cancer; metastasized, inoperable,terminal; and supported by all the less-than-encouraging, life-expectancy-chal-lenged statistics from your favorite cancersociety, I am in fact living proof that whathas gone around is not always what goesaround. Patients are different. Lifestylesare different. Drug/medication interac-tions are different. Commitment levels toalternative methodologies are different. Ingeneral, there are many variables. As badas the diagnosis/prognosis was, I nevergave up hope, never gave in to my dis-ease – emotionally.

Now whether there’s a rhyme or rea-son to my exceedingly good fortune – orwhether I’m just incredibly lucky, I can’tsay for sure. Certainly I don’t have anydefinitive keys to the kingdom, so tospeak, that have enabled me to live freeand not die. I just try to take each day asit comes, and not expect too much andnot overreact to what symptoms/feelings Imay be experiencing. As my father usedto say, every day that he would wake up isa good day. And since I’ve been wakingup now going on five years, in spite of mymany three-week/three-month intervals,I’m happy to say: keep those intervalscoming; it may very well be what’s beenkeeping me alive.

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