Your public school officials’ thought processes on display: Angry parents called for an apology after a Georgia elementary school set a math assignment that used questions about slavery and beatings, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Parents of third grade students at Beaver Ridge Elementary School, Norcross, were outraged after their children brought home a math worksheet [...]
Consider for a moment the importance of standards of measure. In trade, in construction, in manufacturing, in virtually all aspects of life, things get measured. Doors and windows in houses are supposed to conform to standard sizes (a door is 80 inches tall here in the US), produce is sold at the market by the [...]
Back in February I put up a post on a case being pressed in Philadelphia where students were being spied upon by the local school district who used a surveillance program installed – without notice – on the laptops issued to all HS students in the district. The school district was able to remotely activate [...]
With a headline like, “Parents Sue Catholic School for Denying Admission to Their Unvaccinated Son” you just have to click that link and read what’s up. Interestingly, the headline pretty well sums up the story: A New York couple is suing a Catholic high school for refusing to grant a religious exemption that would allow [...]
Over at Watts Up With That? a new, soon-to-be-published paper is being discussed that provides analysis of the models used by climate “scientists” such as Dr. Mann and the rest of those guys at places like the East Anglia CRU. The paper doesn’t approach this issue from the question of whether or not the proxy [...]
Last week I caught a story that told us about a New Jersey school system that has decided that “D’s are simply not useful in society” and will therefore ban that letter grade from their middle and high schools. Students will now get either an “A”, a “B”, or a “C” or they will simply [...]
Confronted with a non-union employee who had begun efforts to form a union in his workplace, the United Federation of Teachers responded by firing the employee: Jim Callaghan, a veteran writer for the teachers union, told The Post he was booted from his $100,000-a-year job just two months after he informed UFT President Michael Mulgrew [...]
With all this noise I’ve heard about how teachers’ unions are just looking out for the betterment of our public education system and how they’ve being so badly maligned in the press, what’s this all about? The article title: “Despite Budget Cuts, Layoff Fears, Milwaukee Teachers Fight for Taypayer-Funded Viagra.” With the district in a [...]
I’ve not mentioned anything about the Texas Board of Education’s curriculum conference this past week largely because it’s been getting plenty of coverage. One of the things about blogging, however, is that you tend to get your news from a variety of sources including those without political axes to grind. I tend to forget that [...]
Via The Volokh Conspiracy: The ban at the Fort Collins and Pueblo campuses, had been scheduled to take effect on August 1. The prospective ban had been imposed last winter, by a unanimous vote of the Governing Board, and against the express vote of the Student Senate. Congratulations to Rocky Mountain Gun Owners for bringing [...]
