What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
President Barack Obama wants schools to have more mental health professionals and resource officers in order to better prevent violence. He also wants to provide training to teachers to recognize when young people need help and know how to refer those students to the right mental health services.
hmmmm
“If I have to keep my students inside / One more time, for recess, I’m gonna lose my mind”
Source: Watch This Teacher’s Elaborate Adele Parody About Snow Days | TIME
heh
Workers at a Detroit school say a cycle of neglect is having a devastating effect on the children’s future and they are fed up.
Detroit teachers: Fix ‘hazardous’ school – CNN.com
Fix this!
When a 12-year-old Idaho girl told a school lunch worker she was hungry but didn’t have any money, the woman gave her a free meal. She was later fired.
School lunch lady feeds hungry kid, gets fired
Sigh…
Controversy about fresco — which depicts slaves in a tobacco field and Native Americans threatening white settlers — emerges as schools nationwide debate racial history.
U. of Kentucky shrouds a 1934 mural that depicts African American slaves – The Washington Post
Sigh… The student make valid points.
Covering up the facts of our history o avoid making people uncomfortable makes me uncomfortable. If our country’s mistakes are better known and understood, we can better avoid repeating them.
A proposal to rezone students from the predominantly white P.S. 8 to the mostly black P.S. 307 has drawn intense opposition from families at both.
Race and Class Collide in a Plan for Two Brooklyn Schools – The New York Times
hmmmm
educational inequity, what a great way to divide and conquer.
Brooklyn Public School Battle: Progressives Are Opposing Integration | National Review Online
The disruptive behavior thing is just weird. Wouldn’t educational content, resources, & teaching staff be more pressing concerns?
: Ahmed Mohamed Is Now Being Accused Of Not Building The Clock
Full grown adults are so threatened by a boy just out of puberty that they are using their time discrediting an extra credit school project? What a fucking bunch of losers. Their own lives must be absolutely pathetic.
A claim that someone’s words are “offensive” is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feeling of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong. It is a demand that the speaker apologize or be punished by some authority for committing an offense.
The recent collegiate trend of uncovering allegedly racist, sexist, classist, or otherwise discriminatory microaggressions doesn’t incidentally teach students to focus on small or accidental slights. Its purpose is to get students to focus on them and then relabel the people who have made such remarks as aggressors.
How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic
hmmmmm.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost 12,000 students are asking the federal government to discharge their college loan debt, asserting that their school either closed or lied to them about job prospects, according to government data released Thursday.
Students ask Education Department to discharge college debt – Yahoo News
Sigh….
Teen Girl Expelled, Charged With a Felony After Science Experiment Goes Awry – Yahoo! News
WTF?
Society is so rigid, so stupid. It’s just fucked.
… and so are the kids who will inherit it.
Texas board adopts right-wing curriculum – Texas – Salon.com
Seriously, let’s give Texas back to Mexico.
UC Berkeley Student Senate Fails to Override Veto of Israel Divestment Measure
So… this is really news?
Earth to Far Left:
No one pulls support from the Israeli government even if they are keeping an entire people as prisoners of war in a fenced off area without a steady supply of food, energy, water, medical supplies, or education for their children.
It’s just not done.
Checkpoints and a caste system based on ethnicity? Nothing to see here, move along!
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