December 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
I hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving holiday, despite the disappointments of these past few months. I also have grieved by some of the changes that have taken place.

Even though these changes have taken place we CAN'T GIVE UP!!!!!!

We have to keep fighting. I just want sometimes to throw up my hands and quit, but then the still small voice says, "keep on keeping on!" We all need to join hands and bond together as a group. I'm hearing there are people who are not joining NCATA because they believe there's no use. There is some use. We need to let our county officials and our people in Raleigh know that we are still here and we still believe in what we do and we will still fight for what we believe in.

We can't do it without you. So please, please, please join with us and support our cause.

I hope you will spend several minutes during the coming holidays to sit and just write your blessings down. Because I firmly believe our blessings list will be a lot longer than our disappointments.

I look forward to seeing you soon,
Judy Barnes, President 2009-2011
email: jbarnes AT teacherassistants.org