0001|                          HOUSE MEMORIAL 17
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                            RITA G. GETTY
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0009|     
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     DECLARING THE FIRST MONDAY AFTER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SCHOOL
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0012|     VACATION AS "SCHOOL IS COOL DAY".
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0013|     
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0014|          WHEREAS, in New Mexico in grades one through six, public
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0015|     school children spend nine hundred ninety hours per year at
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0016|     school, and in grades seven through twelve, they spend one
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0017|     thousand eighty hours per year in school; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, one of the biggest insults in public schools in
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0019|     the United States is to call a child a "school boy" or a
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0020|     "school girl"; and
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0021|          WHEREAS, education makes up the largest portion of the
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0022|     state's budget, and education needs are the number one priority
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0023|     for both political parties; and
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0024|          WHEREAS, the legislature has worked to increase the
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0025|     state's education budget in the hopes of reducing the growing
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0001|     dropout rate; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, not only is a change in funding needed in our
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0003|     schools, but also a change in attitude; and
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0004|          WHEREAS, parents of school children need to be reminded
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0005|     not to brag about how poorly they did in school; and
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0006|          WHEREAS, in addition to looking at ways to reduce class
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0007|     size and building more schools to accommodate the fact that New
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0008|     Mexico's school enrollment has grown by fifty thousand children
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0009|     in the past ten years, we have to address ways to celebrate the
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0010|     exchange of knowledge and the passing on of information that
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0011|     fill the days of our school children and teachers; and
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0012|          WHEREAS, investing in New Mexico's future also means
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0013|     investing in the well-being of our school children, which
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0014|     includes assuring them the attention and good energy they
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0015|     deserve; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, school children know how to have a good time
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0017|     outside of school and it's high time they took their good
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0018|     spirits with them behind school walls; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, no matter how we spend our days, it's always a
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0020|     good idea to spend time in healthy exchange, laughter and
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0021|     frolic;
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0022|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0023|     REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the first
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0024|     Monday after the Christmas holiday school vacation be declared
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0025|     "school is cool day"; and
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0001|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that buttons, bumper stickers and
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0002|     signs be created to commemorate "school is cool day"; and
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0003|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0004|     transmitted to the superintendent of public instruction and the
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0005|     superintendents of each school district in New Mexico.
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0007|                            State of New Mexico
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0008|                      House of Representatives
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0009|   
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0010|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0011|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0012|   
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0014|                                                  March 14, 1997
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0017|   Mr. Speaker:
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0018|   
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0019|        Your EDUCATION COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0020|   
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0021|                      HOUSE MEMORIAL 17
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0022|                               
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0023|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0024|   recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0025|   
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0001|        1.   On page 1, line 11, strike "FIRST", and insert in lieu
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0002|   thereof "SECOND".
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0003|   
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0004|        2.   On page 2, line 23, strike "first", and insert in lieu
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0005|   thereof "second".
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0006|   
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0007|        3.   On page 3, line 2, after "signs", insert "may".
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0009|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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0015|                                                               Samuel F. Vigil, Chairman
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0018|   Adopted <u>                    </u>     Not Adopted <u>                    
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0020|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0022|                        Date <u>            </u>
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0024|   The roll call vote was<u> 11 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0025|   Yes:      11
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0001|             Excused:  Nicely, Vigil
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0002|             Absent:   None
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