‘Tortured’ and shackled pupils freed from Nigerian Islamic school – BBC News
Jeezus….
Category: Schools,
‘She’s awesome’: Female football kicker surprises teams, helps her own succeed
“My kicker kicks like a girl,” her coach, Robert Mahoney, tweeted after the victory. “And I can’t be more proud of it.”
‘She’s awesome’: Female football kicker surprises teams, helps her own succeed
Trump’s Department of Justice Could Allow Women to Be Forced to Wear Skirts
Although the case centers on transgender rights, Trump’s lawyers took a position that would diminish the rights of [all] women and girls…. — by allowing employers to force all employees to dress and behave in accordance with archaic gender norms and punish them if they do not.
…If the Trump administration has its way, schools and employers can soon force women and girls to wear stereotypically “feminine” clothing like skirts and dresses.
Trump’s Department of Justice Could Allow Women to Be Forced to Wear Skirts | Teen Vogue
aggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Confederate flag: Georgia high school teacher tells class a Confederate flag means “you intend to marry your sister”
God bless that teacher. It’s a little intense but they definitely got their point across.
This teen wasn’t allowed into her homecoming dance because she was wearing a jumpsuit
Despite her best efforts, she hadn’t found the perfect dress. But, no worries, she thought. She already had a jumpsuit in her closet, and she could easily dress it up for the dance.
Or so she thought. When the 17-year-old arrived at the Tampa Bay Homeschool homecoming dance on September 27, the event planner stopped her. She wasn’t allowed in.
The reason? She wasn’t wearing a dress.
This teen wasn’t allowed into her homecoming dance because she was wearing a jumpsuit – CNN
Since there is no school distric t involved they can’t be sued to oblivion to make a point the tax-payers would never allow them to forget. In lieu of that the event planner should be sued and charged pressed for discrimination in a criminal court. People who treat young women like this should PAY DEARLY.
School officials have yet to take action after New Jersey teacher’s Facebook post on Mexican ‘culture’ about missing 5-year-old
Jennifer Hewitt Bishop, a Vineland School District teacher, said in the comment, “They’re Mexican, it’s their culture. They don’t supervise their children like we do,” according to NJ.com.
hmmm
Irate mom calls for teacher’s ouster after he cuts student’s hair as punishment – New York Daily News
A New Hampshire mother is calling for the removal of a teacher who she said grabbed her daughter and chopped a chunk of hair when she wouldn’t stop playing with it.
sigh…
A police officer is fired after arresting two 6-year-old children
State Attorney Aramis Ayala said Monday that her office would not prosecute the misdemeanor battery charges against either child.
“I refuse to knowingly play any role in the school-to-prison pipeline at any age,” she said. “These very young children ought to be protected, nurtured and disciplined in a manner that does not rely on the criminal justice system to do it.”
The Orlando Police Department oversees the school resource officer who made the arrest, and they say the situation was not handled properly.
“On behalf of myself and the Orlando Police Department, I apologize to the children involved and their families,” Rolon said.
A school resource officer is fired after arresting two 6-year-old children – CNN
It sounds very much as if the reasons given for not pursuing charges are that procedure was not followed, and not that it was wrong to arrest a six year old child for having a temper tantrum in the first place. [Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!]
Well, at least the shitty officer was fired.
Anchorage School District finds ‘pattern’ of bias in judge who disqualified teen swimmer
On Wednesday, the district’s superintendent said after investigating the incident, it found a “pattern” of bias by the official who made the ruling and is calling for her dismissal. The swimmer’s family is asking for an apology from the association that governs the state’s high school sports.
“No others on the Dimond team were addressed who were wearing the exact same uniform. The discrimination is really with the body type.”
Anchorage School District finds ‘pattern’ of bias in judge who disqualified teen swimmer
hmmmm
Teen Swimmer Disqualified Because Her School-Issued Swimsuit Broke Modesty Rule
The young girl, a 17-year-old state championship swimmer at Dimond High School in Anchorage, was wearing the school-issued swimsuit that every other girl on the team was wearing and yet she was the only one disqualified.
…The disqualification quickly stirred controversy in the Anchorage community, with some pointing to the fact that the swimmer is nonwhite and “curvier” than most others on the team.
…The teen at the center of the controversy has two other sisters who are on the swim team. All three have reportedly experienced similar body-shaming in Anchorage’s swimming community. Langford wrote that parents of other swimmers on the team have been heard saying that “for the sake of their sons” the mother of the three swimmers should “cover up her daughters.”
Teen Swimmer Disqualified Because Her School-Issued Swimsuit Broke Modesty Rule | HuffPost
sigh…
Black Governors in Connecticut
[Black residents] had their own, parallel governments in Connecticut for almost 100 years, beginning around the mid-18th century.
…The tradition began about 1750, when white Colonists believed it was a pragmatic way to handle the slaves and keep them in line. In later years, they also wanted to train African Americans to govern themselves and handle disputes.
Initially, the first black governors were either leaders of their African tribes or the slaves of wealthy officials. They were chosen in bona fide elections.
…Some black governors were chosen for having a master who was governor.
…Some of the black governors descended from African nobility.
…Some of the governors were elected by black people from throughout the state, and some were elected for their town or area.
…Eventually, the race for the black governor’s job became elaborate, with an election held a week after the white election in the spring. Qualifications to vote for blacks included owning a pig and a sty. Black women were banned from voting, as white women were from the white men’s elections.
After the vote by hand or by acclamation, the black governor came out often dressed with a military uniform and with a sword, riding a horse in a long parade that included his government. His master paid for the celebration.
…There were other black officials in New England — including five governors in Rhode Island and black kings in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. But, Connecticut had the most and longest run of black governors.
…In Connecticut, the black governor shared responsibility with a lieutenant governor, magistrates and justices of the peace and sheriffs who helped administer and enforce the law.
BLACK GOVERNORS IN CONNECTICUT? THERE WERE MANY, BUT THEY ARE … – Hartford Courant
hmmm
Hawaiian protesters started a school on Mauna Kea to teach local culture to the next generation
Presley Keʻalaanuhea Ah Mook Sang, a Hawaiian language instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said she first came up with the idea to start a community-led school or “teach-in” after witnessing the crowd swell in that first week from hundreds of protesters to thousands.
…The classes at the community-run Puuhonua o Puuhuluhulu University focus on topics including indigenous rights, history and a variety of other subjects taught through a Hawaiian perspective.
….The school quickly grew to a daily schedule of four one-hour blocks with five concurrent classes.
…”The morning is more indigenous peoples and native rights and towards afternoon is more Mauna-focused,” Ah Mook Sang said.
…Since 1968, the University of Hawaii has been leasing the land at the summit of Mauna Kea. The area is on “crown lands,” land that belonged to the Hawaiian kingdom before it was overthrown in 1893 and is now managed by the state with the intended purpose of benefiting Hawaiians. The crown lands are still debated, as many Hawaiian groups believe they were illegally stolen. The university has been accused several times over the years of mismanaging the land, including in the ‘90s when the Sierra Club filed a complaint about the trash from the observatories.
Puniwai said teaching at Puuhuluhulu is a way to show she doesn’t condone her employer’s actions and to show her support for the protest.
…As for Ah Mook Sang, she’s hoping to keep the spirit of Puuhuluhulu alive and maybe see it expand to the other islands, where there’s already interest in forming branches of the community-led school.
Hawaiian protesters started a school on Mauna Kea to teach local culture to the next generation
hmmmm
Philadelphia CEO’s offer to wipe out $22k in lunch debt rejected by district that threatened to send children to foster care over money owed
A Philadelphia businessman said the head of a Pennsylvania school board rejected his offers to wipe out lunch debt for all students in a district that warned parents behind on their lunch bills that it could land their children in foster care.
…“You can be sent to Dependency Court for neglecting your child’s right to food,” he wrote. “The result may be your child being taken from your home and placed in foster care.”
When Todd Carmichael, chief executive and co-founder of Philadelphia-based La Colombe Coffee, caught wind of the issue he offered to pay off every cent – but he was rejected by school board President Joseph Mazur earlier this week.
Whoa….
SNAP Benefits: 3 Million Could Lose Food Stamp Benefits
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in announcing the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register. His agency estimates the change would likely save $2.5 billion a year.
But proponents of the current system say it helps low-income families who work but have huge child care, housing and other expenses that leave them with insufficient money to buy food. States now have the flexibility to not cut off benefits as soon as a family’s gross income exceeds a certain level, but to more slowly phase out the food aid. The current program also automatically qualifies 265,000 schoolchildren for free lunches. Under the administration’s proposal, those children would have to apply separately to continue to get those meals.
SNAP Benefits: Trump Administration Wants To Change Who Qualifies : NPR
There is no amount of spin about saving money and so-called integrity that can change cold, stark facts. The facts are that Trump wants to pull the rug out from under people struggling to feed their families and put obstacles in the way of feeding hungry school children.
Food stamps, free school lunches targeted by Trump’s USDA
Food stamps, free school lunches targeted by Trump’s USDA | The Sacramento Bee
Trump hates children. Not all children. Not just brown children. All poor, working class, and middle class children.
Soulless monster.
Scranton-area late lunch bills, foster care: Philadelphia CEO denied
The president of a Pennsylvania school board whose district had warned parents behind on lunch bills that their children could end up in foster care has rejected a CEO’s offer to cover the cost, the businessman said Tuesday.
Todd Carmichael, chief executive and co-founder of Philadelphia-based La Colombe Coffee, said he offered to give Wyoming Valley West School District $22,000 to wipe out bills that generated the recent warning letter to parents.
Scranton-area late lunch bills, foster care: Philadelphia CEO denied
The Scranton School Board made clear that, for them. is not about the money, it’s about harassing parents and flexing power that is not theirs to wield.
Indigenous Ethnologist: Gladys Tantaquidgeon
It was during his fieldwork with the Mohegans in Connecticut that Speck met …Gladys Tantaquidgeon CCT’29, who was being groomed as the tribe’s next medicine woman and the keeper of its customs and culture. She was also to become the first Native American student in the Penn anthropology department.
…With her father and brother, she cofounded the Tantaquidgeon Museum to house many of the gifts she received during her fieldwork, including a Penobscot birchbark canoe, donated by Speck. Founded on her belief that “you can’t hate someone you know a lot about,” it is the oldest Native American-owned museum in the United States. It also was a critical piece in proving the Mohegan tribe’s continuity when, in 1978, Congress created a federal recognition process for designating sovereignty.
…Bruchac calls Tantaquidgeon a “groundbreaking ethnologist” and “an Indigenous visionary who blended anthropological research with traditional training and community activism to preserve Mohegan cultural patrimony.”
Indigenous Ethnologist – The Pennsylvania Gazette
very cool
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