school issues

A less contentious controversy, but still an important issue, how do we encourage healthy eating, without alienating people... https://au.news.yahoo.com/sa/a/34344998/food-police-shame-pre-schooler-for-snacking-on-piece-of-chocolate-cake/#page1

Student allowed to bring religious knife to class Interesting. A Pop Tart shaped like a gun will earn a suspension, but a blade is OK because religion.

This according to a flier distributed to fifth graders at a Nebraska elementary school. "Tell an adult only when a real injury or crime has occurred. Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?" the flier asks, because telling someone you're being bullied is just as bad as tattling on...

For a number of years I've subscribed to Randy Cassingham's "This is True", which features all sorts of asinine behavior people indulge in. Most of the time it's funny stuff. However, increasingly, he has featured stories of outrageous actions on the part of school administrators in the pursuit...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/kan-law-thrusts-iowa-insurer-into-gun-debate/2495815/ The law of unintended consequences once again.

Maddening. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/01/25/arizona-republicans-propose-bill-that-would-not-allow-atheists-to-graduate-high-school/ A group of Arizona politicians — all Republicans, of course — have proposed a law (House Bill 2467) requiring public high school students...

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130525/news/705259921/ Article pretty much speaks for itself. I saw mention of other comments from board members on blog or commentary sites, but nothing from an independent news source with citations, so I'll leave it as is. If Wildcat is reading - I know...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Americans have no right to freedom from religion It must be awfully damn hard to be a Christian in today's America. I salute the proud and courageous Texas governor for sticking to his principles and standing up for freedom OF religion. I'm curious though, since atheists...

Two separate bills have been introduced into the Arizona state legislature that would require students recite the pledge of allegiance daily and the other would require a oath to support the constitution in order to graduate from high school. I think this is an appalling turn of events. You do...

A comment on another thread has prompted me to ask a question that's been floating round the back of my mind for some time. I'm in the UK, and I see two very different models of high school. On the one hand, there's the classic American high school, as presented in all sorts of TV shows, with...

Second Year Science Graduation Requirement Elimination: Governor Stands Firm Jerry Brown urges budget cuts amid California's $16B shortfall At the same time Brown is pushing ahead with a high-speed rail boondoggle whose projected costs have ballooned: California Proposition 1A, High-Speed...

Linky. I read a comment about this that strikes me as correct: charter schools are about reforming labour, not education. And what makes this "Noble" chain different? As with most private schools, it seems like simple biased samples: Linky. As always, Democratic connections seem to underlay...

California governor signs bill requiring schools to teach gay history Okay, first I want to state that I'm not one of the loons described later in the article who think this is opening the doors to infect California students with the gay. I have no problem whatsoever with teaching kids about...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-13891033 Now , I'm opposed to religious schools of any sort, so it will surprise nobody that I think Lamont has simply stated the obvious truth. 'He said segregating children in Catholic and non-denominational schools contributed to the...

http://www.wnep.com/wnep-sny-parents-buranich-english-teacher-writes-racy-novels-20110426,0,4057307.story I'm sorry, is this where I am supposed to recoil in shock and horror? So far, it looks like the teacher hasn't been fired. I just hope the sexually suffocated parents don't get their way...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/22/tennessee-dont-say-gay-bill-advances_n_852616.html Oh no, we can't let kids even hear the word "gay" because it will convert them to be one of them gays!!! Gay is a contagion that is spread with language!!

Now that he's Mayor Emanuel, he is on a collision course with the Chicago Teacher's Union: The big issue with the CTU is Charter Shools. Charter schools are public schools, but operate independently of the school board and with each other. Most of the Charter schools teachers are not...

Linky. I've long called for mandatory school uniforms. He was shocked, shocked he tells ya! Won't someone please think of the persecuted straights who are bullied by school districts every day? (Yes, personally I find this very creepy. But they obviously aren't being straight (har har)...

When I was in school there were a number of kids who had flunked every class. They had flunked in grammar school and were put in highschool to get rid of them. Once in highschool they did nothing. They got into trouble and were unconcerned with being kicked out of school. Given the choice of...

I've noticed a big dividing line between the US and UK (Not sure about anywhere else) is school uniforms being prevalent in the state schools of the latter but not the former. I've been waiting for the day when Glenn Beck decries school uniforms as a symbol of the socialist menance, sapping...

From the Des Moines Register: Nurre denies being an atheist, and she denies that she advocated atheism. (There is apparently no hint that she ever advocated any doctrine offensive to the all-wise Catholic Church while actually on the job.) She also questions whether the remarks attributed to...

Didn't see this posted (please correct me if it has been): http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_columnist_mikethomas/2009/11/aclu-defends-antiislamic-tshirts-in-schools.html I'm not sure what to think about this. While I'm in no way religious and think kids should be able to wear whatever...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gx9BSiNT08U9pbZDfbxHOlYCW6ZgD95KB5300 The state of Texas recently introduced random drug testing for student athletes in order to combat the perceived problem of steroid use by high school students. The results: Hmm...4 cases out of 10,000...

An elementary school in Colorado has banned tagged. hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/ODD_TAG_BANNED?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=home.htm This ban and others like it seem asinine to me. So what if it causes conflict, then the children would learn how to handle conflict.

Words fail me.... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5020241.html It was sponsored by State Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball. Any relation to Tom Riddle of Harry Potter fame...?

The head of the appropriations committee in the Texas House has proposed HB-1287, which would require all 1,700 Texas high schools to offer two elective classes on the Bible as literature--with the sole textbook being the Holy Bible. You can hear a representative of the Texas Freedom Network...

http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17270600&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532215&rfi=6 See which book...Irony meeter tacking off the dial! Please...would someone mess with Texas?

A Caney Creek High School dad is fired up because the Conroe Independent School District uses the book "Fahrenheit 451" as classroom reading material. (bolding mine) I AGREE! I think every book that has "a bunch of very bad language in it" should be banned! Fugging Jeebus, I think these...

The childhood game of tag has been banned by a school in Washington state, as well as some other schools around the country. Link to video, can't find a text version... http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player05.html?022006/022006_springer_tag&FNL&Tag%20Ban&acc&Only%20on%20FOX&-1 A 3rd grade...

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