Category: school

Kindergarteners Use Sign Language to Sing Happy Birthday to Deaf Janitor

A wonderful moment of love and gratitude!


NYC Offers $100 Incentive to Kids Aged 5 to 11 for Getting COVID-19 Vaccine

New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine incentives, including a $100 prepaid debit card, are now available to children aged 5 to 11, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. “Good news! Kids are eligible for the $100 vaccine incentive. So we really want kids to take advantage, families take advantage of that,” de Blasio said at a…


Indiana Educator Warns Parents: ‘When We Tell You CRT Isn’t Taught In Our Schools, We’re Lying.’

An Indianapolis-based public school educator and education journalist has gone viral on social media after he pushed back on the narrative that critical race theory (CRT) isn’t being taught in schools, warning concerned parents to not be deceived and to “keep looking” for its presence. “When we tell you that our schools aren’t teaching critical…


19-Year-Old Wins NJ School Board Seat Following ‘Awful’ COVID-19 Shutdowns

A 19-year-old who recently graduated high school defeated an incumbent candidate for a school board in New Jersey on Tuesday, telling local media that he believes he won because of the school board’s COVID-19-related school lockdowns. Nicholas Seppy, a 2020 graduate from Egg Harbor Township High School, defeated incumbent school board member Terre Alabarda by 17…


MP’s Bill Aims to Protect Schools from Pandemic Closures in England

British MPs must have a vote in Parliament to approve any future school closures following the “disaster” of Covid-19 lockdowns, a senior Tory has said. Halfon is introducing a Bill aiming to redefine schools as ‘essential infrastructure’ to protect millions of pupils from future shutdowns. Robert Halfon, chairman of the Commons Education Committee, said closures…


What Should Children Learn?

If you’ve ever taken a look at the typical course of study today’s school students are required to complete, you might assume that the collection of subjects, the order in which they’re taught, and the resources used to teach them are the result of great study and research by the best educational experts in the…


Standards | School’s Out with Sam Sorbo

We learned to set our standards from the school. That is to say, we never really learned to set them at all. I would say that a system that relies almost entirely on testing to assess proficiency or competency is faulty. They’ve enhanced some things at school with fancy new gadgets. But by and large,…


Glenn Youngkin Vows to Ban Critical Race Theory ‘On Day One’ If Elected Governor of Virginia

Virginia’s gubernatorial race continues to heat up over the influence of critical race theory (CRT) in K-12 education, with Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin vowing to ban the Marxist ideology “on day one” if elected, and his Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe insisting that it has never been taught in public schools. With only two days to…


Speaker Removed From Florida School Board Meeting After Reading Sex Scene From School Library Book

The Orange County School Board in Florida removed a speaker from a board meeting after the man read a sexually explicit passage from a book that was available in local school libraries. In a video recorded on Oct. 26 by a member of the Orange County chapter of pro-parental rights group Moms for Liberty, a…


Proud Mom Takes Identical Pictures of Her Daughter on First Day of School for Over 10 Years

A proud mother has taken an identical picture of her daughter returning to school every year for the last 10 years. Dagny Barnett, 53, has pictures of her daughter Chloë, 14, striking the same pose outside their home near Redhill, Surrey, England, since she started attending nursery a decade ago. This year, as Chloë started her GCSEs…