New Wake County School Board pisses on citizens, parents, process
One doesn't have to do much digging to be reminded of how uninformed and ideological the far right can be when it comes to the public education. This week's remarkable events in Wake County (in which a newly elected group' [...]
It was just a matter of time. The massive test prep industry has reached into child care centers and playgrounds as parents in New York are now enrolling their three-and-four-year olds in boot camp tutoring sessions to help them do better on the tests used to decide [...]
I am a teacher. I had no choice; both parents, two siblings and their spouses were in education in some capacity. If a gene exists for teaching, it runs rampant in my family. Of course that gene usually goes with the "struggling middle class" and the "you ain't never going'" [...]
Please, somebody tell me what the kids did wrong here:
Officials at Reidsville Middle School suspended two students last week after their parents brought them fast food for lunch, violating a policy that prohibits outside food.
On Thursday, Charles Finney brought his daughter food from McDonald’s for lunch. That night, Brittney, [...]
Two Reidsville, NC, middle-school students were suspended because their parents gave them fast-food hamburgers to take to school for lunch. Charles Finney, one of the parents, was rightly indignant:
Finney said the principal told him the school policy does not allow outside food because it competes with child nutrition standards.
“They [...]
