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Bolton 2020 Vision
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BUDGET WORKSHOP
Thursday, February 4 at 6:30 PM in BOE Meeting Room at BCS
The 2010-2011 Superintendent's Proposed Budget, presented at the January 14 Board of Education meeting is now available to the public. Please follow this link for all up-to-date budget information.
CHINESE NEW YEAR
Friday, February 5 from 6:30 - 9:00 PM in the BCS All Purpose Room
All community members, parents, and students are invited to this free event!
The Bolton Community Education Foundation invites the community to celebrate the “Year of the Tiger” in a festive Chinese New Year Party to be held Friday, February 5, from 6:30 to 9:00 PM at Bolton Center School.
The school’s All-Purpose Room will be transformed into a colorful Chinese setting featuring decorations, food, paper lanterns, displays, and door prizes. Adults and children of all ages can sample Chinese finger food, enjoy entertainment, play games, and get a souvenir name tag with their name written in Chinese characters. The evening will feature special events, from the sharing of traditional “New Year’s Taboos” and wisdom from Confucius to dancing and music.
The Chinese “Year of the Tiger,” or Geng Yin, begins February 14, 2010, which marks the day when the Tiger takes charge of the Chinese lunar year. The New Year Party is the fifth event in the series “From the Great Wall to Town Hall” – programs sponsored by the Foundation to connect one of Connecticut's smallest towns with the country that has the largest population in the world.
Click here for more information on Chinese New Year in Bolton.
Superintendent's Advisory Council
Thursday, February 11 8:30 AM at the BOE office at BCS
This month's meeting is one that should not be missed by any parent! The February meeting will feature a book discussion on Hold On To Your Kids - Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Dr. Gordon Neufeld and Dr. Gabor Mate. Grab a copy at Amazon.com and join us for a discussion on your children! Even if you don’t have time to read the book, come to the meeting and be part of the discussion. This will be a lively session that will be based on the interests and concerns of the participants.
From – Hold On To Your Kids: “Parents haven’t changed – they haven’t become less competent or less devoted. The fundamental nature of children has also not changed – they haven’t become less dependent or more resistant. What has changed is the culture in which we are rearing our children. Children’s attachments to parents are no longer getting the support required from culture and society…Children are increasingly forming attachments that compete with their parents, with the result that the proper context for parenting is less and less available to us…The chief and most damaging of the competing attachments that undermine parenting authority and parental love is the increasing bonding of children with their peers…For the first time in history young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role – their own peers.”
Visit the link on the left (China Partnership) for information on the April 2010 Tour of China.
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