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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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06-09-2006, 09:33 PM
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Wishing I was at WDW!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Southwestern Florida, USA
Concierge Level: 7
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Re: School issues: Update 6/7
Of course you love her! Oh - I am so sorry you and your family are going through this. Many prayers and tons of pixie dust for you are on their way. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-16-2006, 08:35 AM
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#122
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maine
Posts: 5,893
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
A quick recap of the reason I started this post:
DD, 17, always a good student, had a rapid decline in her grades and attitude toward school her junior year. Her behavior was also getting worse.
She hit bottom when she failed all classes except one 3Q. Shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. She agreed to take meds, but refused help from us and school resources.
Did she recover enough to pass her classes and have enough credits to be a senior? I am happy to say that, yes, she did, but it was a very close call, in two classes she made it by just ONE POINT. She failed one quarter of US History, and she will have to repeat it next year, but she earned enough credits to be a senior.
Her year-end grades:
Chemistry: D-
Func/Stat/Trig: D-
Creative Writing: D
AP English III: C+
Spanish IV Honors: C+
US History Honors: B, C, F and B
We had a good talk last night. I told her how proud I was she is a senior. I told her that she has all summer to think about what she wants to do about her senior year in school (she has to completely change her schedule as she will not meet the prerequisites for most courses she selected). I told her I didn't want her to feel any pressure to go to college or not, but that by graduation next year her father and I want her to have a plan. At this time she is still determined to go to college, maybe her college application essay can be about surviving this trying year! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
So this week, she had her bedroom made over, she had a fun birthday dinner at Fuji, she finally got her braces off (on for 4 years), and she is a senior! Not too shabby!
Many thanks for all your kind words and support these past months!
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06-16-2006, 08:39 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ohio Football Hall Of Fame
Posts: 42,304
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
Congrats to your daughter and to you for making it through the year!!!!
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06-16-2006, 09:33 AM
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#124
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Davidsonville, MD
Posts: 6,563
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
Bravo Mom! Let her know she has a clean slate for next year and no looking back. It's summer, and she can start new for next year with better habits!
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06-16-2006, 10:08 AM
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#125
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 13,817
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
That's great! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/applause.gif[/img]
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06-16-2006, 10:11 AM
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#126
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Philadelphia suburbs, PA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 5,262
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] that next year goes much smoother.
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06-16-2006, 10:11 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Virginia
Posts: 3,498
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
YAY!!!
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06-16-2006, 02:20 PM
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#128
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 9,564
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
This year certainly was tough but you have all weathered it well. Glad to hear you've told DD that you expect a plan by the end of her senior year. Take care.
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06-16-2006, 02:43 PM
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#129
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,176
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
Woo Hoo! Many [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] for the upcoming year.
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06-16-2006, 05:10 PM
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#130
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 2,858
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
I'm so happy for all of you!! I really hope she can pull everything together for next year. You've certainly done everything I could ever think of to help her!
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06-17-2006, 11:34 AM
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#131
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
Congratualtions to you all. It's been a tough year for your whole family, and it's great that you are letting her start with a clean slate next school year. Maybe having to cut back on her schedule plans will be the wake-up call she needs.
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06-17-2006, 12:04 PM
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#132
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 136,854
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
I hope things are turning around for the better now! Continued pixies for an uneventful senior year [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-17-2006, 05:14 PM
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#133
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Wishing I was at WDW!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Southwestern Florida, USA
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
I hope this next school year is the best ever for her! Continued pixies for a very smooth transition into her senior year! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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06-17-2006, 06:08 PM
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#134
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
Glad to hear DD was successful and continued [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] for the whole family.
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06-17-2006, 06:43 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,402
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Re: School issues: Update 6/16 She\'s a senior!
Congrats to your DD! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] That her last year of HS will go well. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif[/img]
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