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How do the choices you make affect your children and grandchildren? I read the following from a woman about her family, “Everyone in my family for the past four generations has cheated — except for me and one cousin. (And I’m not sure about him.) My greatgrandfather’s affairs were legendary, and I now own the mirror he bought my greatgrandmother as an apology after one particularly public affair. My grandmother had affairs. My grandfather [did to], and used to take my father along to see his [lovers]. My father cheated with girls I went to high school with, and my sister has never had a relationship in which she hasn’t cheated. One cousin has been divorced four times, and is always engaged to the next one before the divorce is even filed.”

As we wrap up the 20232024 school year, we take pride in the growth and accomplishments of Lamesa ISD. Faced with the constantly evolving laws and regulations surrounding special education, we remain dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and creating opportunities for our students to flourish in school and beyond.

Enough already. The eclipse of April 8 has been smothered with coverage by both mass and social media. Americans-- some who flail at things that go “bump” in the nightyearned for even more darkness! They carved out time from busy schedules and squeezed funds from their budgets to make their way to a slice of the globe where the solar eclipse darkened the day for some four minutes-give or take a few seconds.

President Abraham Lincoln once said, referring to America in the face of civil war, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” And Aesop, a great thinker and story teller of history, wrote something similar, “United we stand, divided we fall.”