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There are several ways to get them to see the light without ruling with an iron fist; here are eight that’ll have them sitting on a pew Sunday mornings.
:http://www.christiancollegesanduniversities.com/blog/2010/8-ways-to-ensure-your-kids-go-to-church/There are several ways to get them to see the light without ruling with an iron fist;... more
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The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages: a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J.
Punish him, insisted the parents.
“I said, ‘This occurred out of school, on a weekend,’ ” recalled the principal, Tony Orsini. “We can’t discipline him.”
Had they contacted the boy’s family, he asked.
Too awkward, they replied. The fathers coach sports together.
What about the police, Mr. Orsini asked.
A criminal investigation would be protracted, the parents had decided, its outcome uncertain. They wanted immediate action.
More and more parents expect the school systems to be responsible for things that happen even outside the school. There have been lawsuits filed because a school failed to protect a child from cyberbulling even though the bullying happened when the child was not in school. Should our schools have the authority to punish a child for something just because the child goes to that school?The girl’s parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text... more
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Ok kids are getting sexual active pretty earl know a days, but should schools really be giving condoms to elementary school kids starting for 1st grade and up .. is this action justified or just a case of a society on panic mode ??
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http://www.waneenterprises.com/videos/livewire/51Ok kids are getting sexual active pretty earl know a days, but should schools really... more
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Tens of thousands of black-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews staged mass demonstrations on Thursday to protest a Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls' school.
Protesters snarled traffic in Jerusalem and another large religious enclave, crowded onto balconies in city squares, and waved posters decrying the court's decision and proclaiming the supremacy of religious law.
There were a few small scuffles, and a police officer emerged from one of them holding his eye, apparently slightly injured.
It was one of the largest protests in Jerusalem's history, and a stark reminder of the ultra-Orthodox minority's refusal to accept the authority of the state.
Also, the throngs of devout Jews showed to which extent the ultra-Orthodox live by their own rules, some of them archaic, while wielding disproportionate power in the modern state of Israel.
Parents of European, or Ashkenazi, descent at a girls' school in the West Bank settlement of Emanuel don't want their daughters to study with schoolgirls of Mideast and North African descent, known as Sephardim.
The Ashkenazi parents insist they aren't racist, but want to keep the classrooms segregated, as they have been for years, arguing that the families of the Sephardi girls aren't religious enough.
Israel's Supreme Court rejected that argument, and ruled that the 43 sets of parents who have defied the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school were to be jailed on Thursday for two weeks.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said about 100,000 people converged in downtown Jerusalem in support of the Ashkenazi parents. An additional 20,000 demonstrated in the central city of Bnei Brak. He said 10,000 police were deployed.
Most of the demonstrators were men wearing the long beards and heavy black clothing typical among ultra-Orthodox Jews. "The Supreme Court is fascist," said one poster.
Esther Bark, 50, who has seven daughters, said the issue is keeping the girls away from the temptations of the modern world. "To suddenly put them in an open-minded place is not good for them," she said.
COMMENT AT CIVICANIMAL.COMTens of thousands of black-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews staged mass demonstrations on... more
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Children should be banned from using computers in schools until they are nine-years-old because the early use of technology is destroying their attention spans, a leading expert said yesterday.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/7823259/Ban-computers-from-schools-until-children-reach-age-9-says-expert.htmlChildren should be banned from using computers in schools until they are... more
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Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, have begun to dismantle the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment. They are creating a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and shutting out all those they define as the enemy. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/397-christian-fascismTens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as... more
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Smith, 39, was arrested in 2008 and is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy, who was a friend of her son. Prosecutors said Smith had sex with the boy at least four times. Yesterday she pleaded guilty to four counts of statutory rape.
After many delays Smith pleaded guilty after a competency hearing in Rankin County where a doctor testified she's been faking a mental illness. The judge sentenced Smith to 20 years with 13 suspended. After she serves seven years, she faces five years of supervised probation.
Smith must register as a sex offender and can have no contact with the victim or the victim's family. She still faces additional charges in Hinds County.
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The Observer stated this weekend, Gove is turning Labours' academy plans 'upside down' after critics say socially exclusive schools are heading for academy status.
Previously, academy statuses were targeted at schools in deprived areas with low results so the schools could be turned around and improved.
With academies and freedom from local authorises now open to all schools, the Observer says schools with "40% fewer poor pupils than the national average." are fast tracked for the new status.
"The freeing-up of state schools makes it even more important that strong checks and balances and incentives are in place so that school intakes reflect the social mix of the communities they serve – and that any education reforms benefit all children, not just the most privileged," he said."-Observer quoting Dr Lee Elliot Major from Sutton Trust.The Observer stated this weekend, Gove is turning Labours' academy plans... more
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This isn’t a dig at religious schools or institutions, but a list about the strictest and most absurd student policies in the country.
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I’ve spent the last two years researching and writing a new book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach The New Survival Skills Our Children Need—and What We Can Do About It. I began with several questions: First, in the new global economy, where any job that can be turned into a routine is being either automated or “off-shored,” what skills will our students need to get—and keep—a good job. And what skills are needed for citizenship today? Are these education goals in conflict, I wondered.
With a clearer picture of the skills young people will need, I then set out to learn to what extent we are teaching and testing the skills that matter most. And because we already know that many of our nation’s urban schools are failing, I chose to observe classrooms in some of our most highly regarded suburban schools in order to understand whether our “best” was, in fact, good enough for our children’s future. What I discovered in this journey may come as a surprise to many.
One of my first interviews was with Clay Parker, the President of the Chemical Management Division of BOC Edwards—a company that, among other things, makes the machines and supplies the chemicals for the manufacture of microelectronics devices, including silicon semiconductors and flat panel displays. He’s an engineer by training and the head of a very technical business, so when I asked him about the skills he looks for when he hires young people into the company, I was taken aback by his answer.
“First and foremost, I look for someone who asks good questions,” Parker responded. “Our business is changing, and so the skills our engineers need change rapidly, as well. We can teach them the technical stuff. But for employees to solve problems or to learn new things, they have to know what questions to ask. And we can’t teach them how to ask good questions—how to think. The ability to ask the right questions is the single most important skill.”
“What other skills are you looking for?” I asked, expecting that he’d jump quickly to content expertise.
“I want people who can engage in good discussion—who can look me in the eye and have a give and take.”
“I don’t understand,” I confessed.
“All of our work is done in teams. You have to know how to work well with others. But you also have to know how to engage the customer—to find out what his needs are. If you can’t engage others, then you won’t learn what you need to know.”
I was initially skeptical of Parker’s answers—thinking perhaps that his views weren’t representative of business leaders in general. But after having completed nearly 100 interviews with leaders from Apple to Unilever to the U.S. Army and reviewed the research on the workplace skills most needed, I have come to understand that the world of work has changed profoundly. There are, I discovered, Seven Survival Skills that all of our students will need to master in order to get a good job in the new “flat” world of work. I also came to see how these are the same skills young people need in order to understand and discuss some of the most pressing issues we face as a democracy in the 21st century.
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Fresh on the heels of a new immigration law that has led to calls to boycott her state, Arizona's governor has signed a bill banning ethnic studies classes that "promote resentment" of other racial groups.
Gov. Jan Brewer approved the measure without public statement Tuesday, according to state legislative records. The new law forbids elementary or secondary schools to teach classes that are "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" and advocate "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people."
The bill was pushed by state school Superintendent Tom Horne, who has spent two years trying to get Tucson schools to drop a Mexican-American studies program he said teaches Latino students they are an oppressed minority. There was no immediate response from the Tucson Unified School District, the law's main target.
Brewer's signature comes less than a month after she approved a state law that requires immigrants to carry their registration documents at all times and allows police to question individuals' immigration status in the process of enforcing any other law or ordinance. Critics of the law say it will lead to racial profiling, while supporters say it involves no racial profiling and is needed to crack down on increasing crime involving illegal immigrants.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council overwhelmingly approved a boycott of Arizona-based businesses and governments unless the state repeals the new immigration law.
The city's legislative analyst reported that Los Angeles currently has $56 million in contracts with companies headquartered in Arizona.
Several other California cities, including San Francisco and Oakland, have already adopted resolutions requesting city departments to not sign any new contracts with Arizona companies.Fresh on the heels of a new immigration law that has led to calls to boycott her... more
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Eraelia Glisson, 35-year-old former youth softball coach who was arrested las novenber for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old biy have been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for having sex with a minor and possession of child pornography and drugs.Eraelia Glisson, 35-year-old former youth softball coach who was arrested las novenber... more
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Teachers and Schools in England plan to boycott the SATs exams this year, in a news story that will make anyone who went through the exams jealous because the same event didn't happen for them.
In the article, the BBC discovered in 113 councils around 15% of the schools are going to boycott the SATs. "Among the schools of which the BBC has details, nearly 1,900 (15%) say they will boycott the tests and about 5,650 say they will not (45%)."-BBC, who note the other 40% are currently unknown.
It's stated the boycott stems from teachers who don't want to teach children just for the SATS tests, because other subjects can be left behind. Once again these children don't know how lucky they are to have teachers like this (well, we could always create a new exam system to find out)Teachers and Schools in England plan to boycott the SATs exams this year, in a news... more
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Leslie Marie Troup, a 23 year old former teacher’s aide at Western Alamance High School in Elon, North Carolina, who was arrested in the summer of 2008 on over a dozen counts of sex and alcohol charges involving students has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of engaging in sexual activities with students.Under the plea deal with prosecutors, all remaining charges were dismissed.
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Troup received a suspended sentence of 13 to 16 months and was placed on supervised probation for three years. She will be required to register as a sex offender, however she will not be required to participate in a sex offender program.
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http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/66-leslie-troup-guiltyLeslie Marie Troup, a 23 year old former teacher’s aide at Western Alamance High... more
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