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schools

  1. Tony

    Most parents raise, spend money for schools

    http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/25/parents.school.supplies.ap/index.html ...full article More money is spent on "education" than ever before, but schools seem to be getting sh**tier and sh**tier. What's the problem? (and no, I don't buy the contention that schools are suffering because...
  2. M

    They Don't Muck Around in Western Australia

    Perth school defends caging of child Consent or not, is locking someone in a cage outdoors a method of behavour improvement that should be encouraged? Do the illegal imprisonment laws not work in WA for some reason?
  3. S

    So, how stupid do you have to be to teach in government schools?

    I'm sorry, but I don't care what your political affiliation is, or what you think of the government schools, this is just downright offensive: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0104/23teacher.html# So, apparently, a candidate teacher who is too smart, too intellectual, would "serve...
  4. P

    How bad are schools?

    Someone I know claims public schools are little more than cesspools--kids constantly misbehave, watch soap operas on classroom TV, etc etc. He has a tendency to leap to conclusions based on little or no evidence (he thought the Amer Assoc of Pediatricians was trying to promote sexual activity...
  5. M

    Getting Bibles into the schools

    Maybe this should also be under the religious forum. California's school-Bible ballot initiative A group is trying to get a state constitutional amendment to declare the KJV Bible a 'textbook'. Their arguments are that its creation was a major achievement of the English Renaissance, and has...
  6. M

    Getting Bibles into the schools

    Maybe this should also be under the religious forum. California's school-Bible ballot initiative A group is trying to get a state constitutional amendment to declare the KJV Bible a 'textbook'. Their arguments are that its creation was a major achievement of the English Renaissance, and has...
  7. J

    Transcendental Meditation to be used in schools?

    http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/6759394.htm "EDUCATION: Parents push quiet time in schools BY JOSH VERGES Pioneer Press Public schools across the Twin Cities struggle with low test scores and discipline problems. The solution, a local parent group says, might be as simple as a...
  8. S

    My LTE about schools

    I just had this Letter to the Editor published in a local weekly paper, News@Norman. One of the things I like about this paper is that they'll publish long LTEs: It seems like you can hardly go to a County Commissioners meeting without having to sit through several representatives of the...
  9. J

    Ten Commandment Tablets Removed From Schools

    On Monday But they were gone by Monday evening By the way, the tablets weighed 800 lbs each. Who picks up the tab for hauling those off?
  10. Checkmite

    Secretary of Education advocating Christianity in the schools?

    Ed. Chief Defends Pro-Christian Remarks

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