By Y3K
Check your Brookline Tab newspaper over the next several weeks for information on Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s 10th Annual Animal Rescue League of Boston Collection Drive. Items collected will be delivered to their Dedham, MA shelter for abused and abandon animals waiting for adoption.
You can schedule a pick-up or find out about our drop-off locations conveniently located in Needham and Natick. For questions or to set up an appointment call (781) 492-8700 or log on to www.Y3KTutorInYourHome.com.
By Y3K
The animals need your help. You can make a difference for the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s animal shelters. Please help Y3K Tutor In Your Home aid abused and stray animals. You will have the opportunity to help dogs, cats, rabbits, birds and others. Please donate old or new towels, blankets, office supplies, and animal toys. Items will be picked up at your home between NOVEMBER 1, 2012 and JANUARY 1, 2013.
Please also tell all of your neighbors, friends and family. We will pick up from anyone regardless if they use our tutoring or not. We will be picking up items located in Brookline, Dover, Natick, Needham, Newton, Sudbury, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston MA. There will also be drop off locations for those living outside of these towns conveniently located in Natick and Needham, MA.
Call 781-492-8700 to schedule a pick up.
Here are the items to be collected:
Blankets Towels
Pet toys
Small animal food for birds and rodents · Pens
Copy Paper
Dry Erase markers
Sharpies
Heater/radiator for barn
Dehumidifier Liquid dish soap
Pet carriers
By Y3K
If your student chooses to not dissect an animal and is given a hard time, explain to the teacher that you know the state policy. For example in Massachusetts the 2005 State Board of Education Policy gives anyone the right to refuse to cut up animals. In fact Massachusetts residents can mention the following policy:
“All public schools that offer dissection as a learning activity should, upon written request by a student’s parent or guardian, permit a student who chooses not to participate in dissection to demonstrate competency through an alternative method.” [2005 MA State Board of Education Policy]
Look up the policy where you live and have it ready to go to avoid being intimidated.
By Y3K
Many students feel the stress of peer pressure and fear of repercussions by the teacher when not wanting to dissect animals in biology classes. These students find cutting up animals to be morally objectionable, yet feel forced to do so. In fact this moral dilemma can cause grades to go way down. Some people do not realize that even though each year, 10 million animals (including frogs, cats, and fetal pigs) are killed and then cut up in classrooms across the country, humane alternatives do exist. Studies have shown that students who use alternatives to dissection perform just as well as, if not better than students who cut up animals. In most states students have the right to refuse to dissect animals if they choose and most do not even realize it. The reality is your student does not have to dissect animals if they do not want to and it is the school’s responsibility to find alternatives for each student.
By Y3K
In Massachusetts there is legislation to close the antifreeze poisoning loophole. S.88 An Act Relative to Anti-freeze and Engine Coolant, which would require the addition of a bittering agent to wholesale containers of engine coolant or anti-freeze, which were exempted in the law that passed during the last legislative session. This would expand the current antifreeze law to prevent poisonings of children and animals. On June 12, 2012, S.88 passed the Senate unanimously and is awaiting a final vote in the House. Find out what the laws are in your area and speak to your representatives and let them know that you want to put an end to child and animal antifreeze poisoning deaths.
By Y3K
As of 2011, Massachusetts law requires the addition of a bittering agent to retail containers of antifreeze to deter ingestion and poisonings of children and animals. However, many people get their cars serviced at garages, which use wholesale containers of antifreeze that are not treated with a bittering agent. Leaks of untreated antifreeze still result in poisonings. In MA legislation has been filed that would require that wholesale containers, such as those used at automotive service stations, also contain a bittering agent to prevent ingestion. Find out what your state requires and speak to your representatives about a national law.
By Y3K
Y3K Tutor In Your Home is proud to donate tutoring to be auctioned off at the Fur Ball. Fur Ball 2012 is a dance party to benefit the Animal Rescue League of Boston and its programs. Join Y3K Tutor In Your Home at this event as we raise money for the rock stars of the animal world! The Fur Ball will feature DJ Big Missy playing the hits of the 1970’s and 1980’s, a silent auction of amazing items which includes our tutoring, and a “Best Dressed” competition.
All proceeds from the event will directly help the Animal Rescue League of Boston, a humane organization dedicated to rescuing and caring for animals that are injured, displaced, abandoned or abused. Your participation in the 2012 Fur Ball is greatly appreciated and crucial to helping sustain and grow the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s ability to provide outstanding rescue and care services to needy animals. On behalf of the animals and people aided by your generous auction bids for our tutoring services, we thank you for your support.
By Y3K
Y3K Tutor In Your Home will make Animal Rescue League of Boston blankets, toys and food pickups this week in Dover, Natick, Needham, Newton, Brookline, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston and Sudbury. Call or email to schedule a pickup! For those that are outside of these towns, we also have drop off locations in Needham and Newton.
By Y3K
COMING SOON: From Nov 1 – Jan 1 we will be collecting old towels, blankets, toys, bedding, and food for the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s Dedham shelter. This is our 7th annual collection drive. We will travel to your home even if you are not a client. For more information or to schedule a pick up, call 781-492-8700.
By Y3K
MA has raised MCAS 10th grade English & math passing score from 220 to 240 to graduate. This will hurt kids all over from Boston to Weston.
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