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UC Davis has spent almost $200K trying to erase its shameful pepper spray incident from Internet history | DeadState

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New documents have revealed that the University of California, Davis paid out a lot of money to contractors to wipe away the embarrassing incident that involved students and an overzealous, yet casual cop with pepper spay. 

UC Davis has spent almost $200K trying to erase its shameful pepper spray incident from Internet history | DeadState

grrr

Gov. John Bel Edwards’ latest budget proposal includes deep cuts to TOPS, hospitals, higher ed 

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Thousands of college students could lose scholarships they get from Louisiana’s popular Taylor Opportunity Program for Students and state-funded health clinics could be shuttered, if lawmakers are unable to find another way to fill the looming $750 million budget shortfall.

…TOPS was created as an incentive for Louisiana high schoolers to stay in the state for college and as a pathway for students who otherwise would not be able to afford to stay in school after they finish the 12th grade.

…Other cutbacks the latest plan identifies: Higher education would take a $46.1 million hit, Corrections would be cut $34.1 million, the judicial branch would face a $15.9 million cut, and the legislative budget would be slashed $7.3 million.

Gov. John Bel Edwards’ latest budget proposal includes deep cuts to TOPS, hospitals, higher ed | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, Louisiana

hmmm

California Jewish School Celebrates 8th Grader’s Gender Transition with Ceremony

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[Tom] Sosnik’s Jewish ritualized coming out as transgender in front of classmates, teachers and family at the Tehiyah Day School in El Cerrito, California, is believed to be the first time that a Jewish day school has sanctioned and performed such a ceremony.

…The 40-minute ceremony …[which] included various blessings and readings from traditional Jewish sources about change and new beginnings, had the feel of a bar mitzvah crossed with a baby naming.

California Jewish school marks 8th grader’s gender transition | The Times of Israel

Awww, that’s so nice.

A school district encourages parents to opt their children out

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The New Salem/Wendell School Committee unanimously passed a strongly-worded resolution, supporting and encouraging parents to opt their children out of PARCC tests this spring.

The resolution, passed on March 10, not only encourages parents to opt their children out of the state standardized test, it also encourages teachers and staff members to let parents know they have the choice of opting out. With this goal in mind, the district is holding a community meeting on March 28 to give parents a forum at which they can learn more and ask questions.


A school district encourages parents to opt their children out

hmmmm

Someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ on Emory’s campus in chalk. Some students said they no longer feel safe. 

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After Emory University students awoke to messages written in chalk around campus in support of Trump, a group protested and met with the president to decry the “intimidation.”

Someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ on Emory’s campus in chalk. Some students said they no longer feel safe. – The Washington Post

I’m trying not to roll my eyes here. The students’ hearts are in the right place. They just need to take their heads out of their asses.

Suppressing dissent does not alleviate it.

Being confronted with something you disagree with shouldn’t affect whether or not you feel “safe.” It isn’t about entitlement, it is about what is right.

If something bothers you, don’t whine. Confront it!

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

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The Faculty Senate president at the University of Houston suggests that his colleagues “drop certain topics” from their curricula after a campus-carry law takes effect in Texas.

…”It’s a terrible state of affairs,” Mr. Snow, a professor of isotope geochemistry, said in an interview with The Chronicle. “It’s an invasion of gun culture into campus life. We are worried that we have to change the way we teach to accommodate this minority of potentially dangerous students.”

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Texas academics told to avoid ‘sensitive topics’ if gun law goes into effect 

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Slideshow for University of Houston faculty advises dropping certain topics from curriculum [because of] law that would allow concealed weapons on campus.

Texas academics told to avoid ‘sensitive topics’ if gun law goes into effect | US news | The Guardian

so the education of the whole is diminished in favor of the paranoias of the few and the privileged. How very Perry’s Texas of them.

Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists at Brown University

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“There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” said David.

Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists

An article more sympathetic to the students.

…Which I am. I just think they need to learn how to balance out work and passion to succeed in either. …And that isn’t a point of view that seems to pervade higher education right now. I think the students are missing out on some life skills and perspective which might enable them to accomplish more and that is shame.

I understand the need to want to follow your heart but there is nothing dishonorable in getting more mundane things done as well.

Students at Brown Failing Classes Due To The Stress of Activism 

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…And these are the Ivy League kids.

Brown Students Failing Classes Due To Activism, Details

<facepalm on the original title>

It is wonderful that they want to change the world. IT’s wonderful that they care but it seems like they are missing a does of perspective to balance out their passions. How do these student expect accomplish change and balance in the world around them if they can’t maintain balance in their own lives? It seems like keeping your own shit together would better enable you to have more energy to put into the cause. What’s the phrase, live to fight another day?

Obama Cuts Abstinence-Only Sex Education | Teen Vogue

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There is no evidence these programs ever worked.

It’s official: Obama has cut all abstinence-only education from the 2017 federal budget. In his proposed budget for 2017, Obama has eliminated a $10 million-a-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services that funds these programs. Over the past 25 years, Congress has spent over $1.5 billion on abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, despite there being no study in a professional peer-reviewed journal that has found this method effective. Again, there is no evidence that supports abstinence-only sex education.

Obama Cuts Abstinence-Only Sex Education | Teen Vogue

nice!