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The state legislature is raising the bar for our students and we, as Oldham County Schools, support this effort. 

When the state enacted Senate Bill 1 in 2009 it called for the immediate adoption of new academic standards that are more challenging and focused on readying students for college and 21st century career skills. 

Community is a word too often thrown around without much thought to its meaning in regard to the human element it connects.
NBC television launched a sitcom called “Community” to parody the humor of small town America and the typecast personalities often found among elected officials, neighbors and local businesses.
It seems to me that the rest of the fast-moving “big world” defines community as a thing of lore or of some black and white rerun of a fictional Mayberry.

The human eye tells more than it actually records. It was the look in my new family doctor’s eyes that telegraphed the seriousness of what he had just shown me. 

On a desk below, a computer screen showed a CT scan. The white image in my body was not supposed to be there. 

My soul sunk into fear and a mental gasp of “Oh my God, no.” 

To draw a picture of the average life is not difficult. 

We begin early in life looking forward to what we want to do, what we want to accomplish and what we want to possess.