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Welcome to the Tennison's web site!
The pretty one is (Ouch!) Barbara, in the front (I was gonna say that!) We are the parents of Jay and Tyrel Tennison, and Christina Ritnour. Jay and Ty are graduates of Cottage Grove High School, here in Oregon. Jay is now 30 years old, living in Bremerton, Washington and working on a career with the State Employment Dept.. Tyrel is 27 and serving in the US Army after four years in the Marine Corp. Ty is currently stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington and living in Puyallup. Christina is working in the Medical field in Anchorage, Alaska and living outside of Willow, Alaska . During the 1990's, we were very active in the fight against Outcome Based Education (OBE) being pushed by the Liberal Left. We achieved some notoriety when we filed as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against our local school board and the Oregon Dept. of Education (Tennison vs. Paulis, et al.) That fight ended when the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Another high point of that period was when Jay's CIM (certificate of Initial Mastery) was entered into the Congressional Record during their debates. Jay's class was the first in the nation to be "awarded" (dubious honor) the CIM. Barbara was the Belle of Talk Radio in those days and was on every major National talk radio show. The two of us toured Oregon, California and Washington giving seminars and debating the state educational representatives. We still have several thousand documents, gathered from local, state and national sources. That was our 15 minutes of fame and now that the boys are out of it, I hope it's the last.
This page was last updated on 12/04/08. |
