Category: back to school

Maine’s Transgender Curriculum As Seen Through the Eyes of a Child and Her Family

Even from middle school, Lucy found that society didn’t accept her gender. Lucy is a heterosexual girl. Her peers and teachers at Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 22 pressured her to be transgender or lesbian, she said. “Straight people like me, I think they get a lot of anxiety, and they can’t find a voice…


Moms for Liberty Shares Tips for Fighting Transgender Curriculum

For Pflugerville Independent School District in Texas, it wasn’t enough to just ask children for preferred gender pronouns. The school also asked if teachers should hide preferred pronouns from parents. “If I ever have contact with your parent/guardians, may I use your preferred name and pronouns from above? (If not YES, please clarify in the…


Back to School, Ready or Not!

It’s been a few years since I’ve endured back-to-school shopping, all-school fundraisers and parent-teacher conferences. Still, the end of summer brings a sweet sense of excitement over September’s promise of a clean slate. I can only assume that having spent so many years in school myself and then doing it all over again with my…


6 Kitchen Organizing Tricks to Simplify Back-to-School

As the school year approaches, you probably turn your attention to purchasing required supplies, buying new clothes and creating a smooth morning routine. However, to truly streamline your back-to-school season, don’t forget to focus on the most trafficked area of the house: the kitchen. After all, it’s the setting for speedy breakfasts, packed lunches, after-school…


Back to School 2022

Commentary As parents prepare to send their children back to school, many will have made decisions about their child’s education that will not only put them on a different trajectory, but also impact the public education system, which is being used in too many districts to indoctrinate more than educate. Stories about drag queens in kindergarten, forcing…


Protecting the Magic of Childhood

A couple of years ago, some friends and I were discussing the lottery. “When people ask me if I ever buy tickets, I tell them I already won the lottery,” one man said. “I was born in the middle of the 20th century in the United States of America.” Roughly 70 years after that mid-20th century childhood…


$500 Before and After School Care Vouchers for NSW Primary School Students

Australian parents and carers of primary school students who use before and after school care (BASC) services in the state of New South Wales (NSW) will be able to redeem a $500 voucher that will cover the gap fees. Premier Dominic Perrottet said BASC services were incredibly important as families returned to work and students…


South Australian Teachers’ Strike on First Day of School Term a Possibility

The majority of South Australian teachers who are members of the Australian Education Union (AEU) have voted to strike on the first day of the school term due to COVID-19 health and safety concerns. School and preschool teacher members were balloted, with almost two-thirds supporting industrial action via a full day stoppage on Wednesday, Feb.2,…


South Australia Opts for ‘Hybrid’ Model With Back-to-School Plan

South Australia’s schools will embrace a “hybrid” model with some students coming back to the classroom and others learning online for at least two weeks, SA Premier announced. In the wake of a spike in Omicron cases, schools will open their doors on schedule on Jan. 31 to “all essential children, essential workers, and also…


‘Schools Should Be the Last to Close and the First to Open’: Australian Expert

Australia’s former deputy chief medical officer Nick Coatsworth said no state should delay the return to school to wait for higher vaccination rates of children aged 5 to 11. “Every government and medical expert in this country needs to follow the lead of the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund, which both…