Montclair University in New Jersey is tacking on an extra $420 a year, so that they con have an extra eye on students which further removes some of their privacy. But it’s supposed to make them safe and they can check their E-mail! WOW!
Sphere: Related ContentWith a grant from the Earth Day Foundation, faculty at Rancho Elementary are teaching kids how to save the earth from global warming. Through plays and skits they teach the kids conservation efforts, but it’s short on the critical thinking skills needed to discern fact from hype.
Sphere: Related ContentA New Jersey second-grader’s drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun has earned him a one-day school suspension. Seven-year-old Kyle Walker’s mom told an The Press newspaper of Atlantic City that her son was suspended for violating the district’s zero-tolerance policy on guns. She said her son told her he’d drawn a water pistol.
Sphere: Related ContentDan Pilla, Sr. up in St. Paul, Minnesota sent a package to me this past Monday. When I came in to the studio (in a rush), as I usually do, a package containing several of his Freedom Calendars along with his other fine publications.
Needless to say, I was ecstatic that Dan would think of sending those for whatever reason he deemed necessary.
The Freedom Calendar is CHOCK-FULL of important educational facts about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights . Not only that, but it has TONS of important dates listed regarding the history of our great nation.
Go buy one today and order a second one for a friend or family member.
Sphere: Related ContentAn elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will. Only two parents objected, while most of the parents just went along with the ruling.
Tag has been one of the most fun and simple games to play on the playground. This is what happens when you have “zero tolerance” policies in schools. Eventually, there is zero tolerance for anything. Let’s hope we never come to the point when there is zero tolerance for educating our children.
Sphere: Related ContentFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with “the language of living in a ghetto” and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.
Sphere: Related ContentIn the last seven years, rural Jackson County, Oregon has rebuilt or renovated its 15 public libraries. Next month, all 15 libraries will close, leaving the county without a single public library, after voters rejected a funding initiative.
Sphere: Related ContentAn Evansville, IN teacher is fired for his innovative approaches in an inner city school. Well it worked and now that kids are motivated to learn so they gave him the pink slip. He has quite the local following from students and parents but it would be nice to get the world out there from more than just local news.
Sphere: Related ContentFirst graders spend a good six hours a day doing school work — what they do after school should not include homework. That’s the decision made last October by the principal of Oak Knoll Elementary.
Sphere: Related ContentThe number of white students in Texas government schools, which are disproportionately funded by white Americans, is down 6%, while a flood of illegal colonists, who don’t pay taxes, from Mexico has raised the number of Hispanic students by 47%.
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