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Sudbury, MA Y3K Tutor In Your Home 10th Annual Collection Drive

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Check your Sudbury Town Crier 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 Sudbury 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 or www.SudburyTutor.com.

Save A Dog – Sudbury MA

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Y3K Tutor In Your Home has donated to yet another great cause. Save A Dog of Sudbury, MA will be running their Annual Benefit Auction. Look for the Y3K Tutor In Your Home auction donation at the event. We hope you will bid on our Sudbury tutoring and test prep services along with other fine items to help these dogs in need.

Save A Dog’s mission is to help adoptable, friendly dogs find permanent homes in the New England area. Many of their dogs require above-the-ordinary medical attention before they can go home. Private donations and fundraisers are their only source of funding. Y3K Tutor In Your Home and Save A Dog would greatly appreciate your support at their up coming auction.

Y3K Tutor In Your Home’s 10th Annual Animal Rescue League of Boston Collection Drive

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COLLECTION DRIVE BEGINS TOMORROW: From November 1st through Jan 1st we will collect old towels, blankets, toys and office supplies for the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s Dedham shelter. The abandoned and abused animals awaiting adoption desperately need these items. YOU may be the difference between their agony and happiness!

For the 10th straight year Y3K Tutor In Your Home will be doing this annual collection drive. We will travel to your Brookline, Dover, Natick, Needham, Newton, Sudbury, Wayland, Wellesley, or Weston MA home even if you are not a client or do not need tutoring. Please tell all of your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. For more information or to schedule a pick up, call 781-492-8700 or checking back here at www.Y3KTutorInYourHome.com.

HOPE Sudbury Telethon & Auction

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Y3K Tutor In Your Home will be donating some of our Sudbury tutoring and test prep expertise to the Hope Sudbury Telethon & Auction. This year the Hope Sudbury Telethon & Auction will be airing on Sudbury TV (Comcast 8/Verizon 31) and also streamed live online. Instead of waiting for the Y3K Tutor In Your Home Sudbury tutoring and test prep donation to air live, feel free to check us out in the Hope Sudbury Auction Guide. Under the “Kid’s Stuff” section on page 38 you will find the Y3K Tutor In Your Home tutoring donation. Look for #750 and make sure you bid for our tutoring services on November 3rd.

The money raised from the Hope Sudbury Telethon & Auction will be used to fund their signature program, the Hope Fund. The Hope Fund supports Sudbury residents who are struggling financially. In fact in 2011 alone, 69 Sudbury families turned to the Hope Fund for support. Together Y3K Tutor In Your Home and your auction bids can help bring out the best in the Sudbury community while supporting others in need.

High School Drug Use in Massachusetts

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The responses from the 2011 Massachusetts Youth Health Survey and Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey of high school students had several surprising results.

40% reported drinking every month
30% use a drug
28% use marijuana
27% report being offered, sold, or given an illegal drug on school property in the previous 12 months
22% binge drink (5 or more drinks within 2 hrs)
6% reported non-medical use of a prescription drug
6% use marijuana during school
5% use inhalants
4% use alcohol during school

What do you think should be done? Please share your experiences and thoughts with us.

10th Annual Animal Rescue League of Boston Collection Drive

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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

Dissection Choice: Know the Law

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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.

Dissection Choice

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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.

Goodnow Library Foundation Silent Auction – Sudbury MA

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Y3K Tutor In Your Home proudly gives back to the good people of Sudbury, MA. For over 150+ years Sudbury has enjoyed the Goodnow Library as an important part of their community. Y3K Tutor In Your Home intends to make sure that it is around for the families of Sudbury for another 150+ years. That is why we will be donating our Sudbury tutoring and test prep services to the Goodnow Library Foundation’s silent auction being held in October.
We hope you will bid on our silent auction donation and together we can help the Goodnow Library can invest capital into the children’s area, technology, historic preservation, and community gathering spaces. Also through our auction donation and your bids, the library hopes to build an endowment to help sustain the library in the future.

Sudbury Tutor

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Since 2003, Y3K Tutor In Your Home has been the leader in Sudbury tutoring. We have made a difference in the lives of Sudbury students attending Haynes School, Loring School, Nixon School, Noyes School, Curtis Middle School, Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School, Willow Hill School, and Corwin-Russell School at Broccoli Hall.

Check out our new web page link serving the students of the Sudbury, MA area. www.SudburyTutor.com

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