By Leslie Postal From Orlando Sentinel Orlando–Dagmar Kilp was doing a math review with her fifth-grade class preparing them for annual state exams. She was trying to make it engaging for students with an “amazing math race,” but she was also feeling worn down. “It was one of those days I was thinking maybe I…
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US Schools Facing Mass Exodus of Teachers Who Won’t Return This Fall
With the end of the academic year in sight, an overwhelming number of educators are planning to close the book on their teaching careers. Much of this stems from post-pandemic classroom behavioral challenges with students and ongoing staff shortages that create excessive workloads for teachers. Many educators who have 25 years or more under their…
Catholic Teachers in Two Australian Regions to Strike Over Pay and Conditions
Some 18,000 teachers and support staff from 540 Catholic diocesan schools in New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) are preparing to strike for 24-hours over pay and conditions. The Independent Education Union says its members will stop work on Friday to march at 10 rallies throughout NSW and the ACT. It’s…
Biden Says Kids Belong to Their Teachers
May 8, 2022
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Commentary Schools are becoming indoctrination factories, trying to turn children against their country and their own parents’ values. It’s what the teachers unions intend. Amazingly, that’s just fine with President Joe Biden, who told a gathering of teachers and union bigwigs on April 27 that the kids are “yours when they’re in the classroom.” That…
More Secret Gender Transition Closets Discovered in Public Schools
They started in colleges, but trans closets—rooms stocked with transgender clothes and accessories for students to change into after arriving to school and back out of before going home—are being discovered in public schools with some indication they are being kept a secret from parents. In a recent TikTok video, a California teacher implies that…
NEA Pays Lavish Salaries to Headquarters Officials, but Spends Only 5.4 Percent of Its Revenue Representing Teachers
America’s largest labor union is the National Education Association (NEA), organized in 1906 with a congressional charter “to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States.” One hundred and sixteen years later, the average individual U.S. teacher salary is $60,909, just below the median…
Alienating Parents Is Always a Bad Idea
Commentary There’s an old proverb that says you should never bite the hand that feeds you. It’s a pithy way of saying that it’s never wise to attack your benefactors. This proverb originates with 18th-century political thinker Edmund Burke. Burke was cautious about change, and he often warned his readers about the dangers of unintended…
Every Child Needs a Mrs. Patton: Teacher Helps Boy With Brain-Based Delays Excel Academically
Every child needs a Mrs. Patton in life. That’s what Tracy Ross, mother and novelist from Cincinnati, Ohio, thinks. Her son, Kamran, 17, was born with brain-based developmental delays. However, he had a Mrs. Patton—a loving, nurturing, and giving teacher—and it altered the course of Kamran’s life. Under the selfless care of Mrs. Patton, Kamran…
South Australian MP Questions Vaccine Mandate Backflip for Teachers and Transport Workers
South Australia (SA) Liberal member of parliament (MP) Tony Pasin has welcomed the decision to scrap vaccine mandates for public sector employees in education and transport but is questioning what has changed to cause the State Co-ordinator to alter his position. In a statement released on Wednesday, Pasin said he raised concerns in federal parliament…
Utah School Curriculum Transparency Bill Paused Amid ‘Coordinated Misinformation Campaign’
January 31, 2022
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A Utah lawmaker has put on hold a proposed bill that would require public schools in his state to post all learning materials online for parents to review, saying that his legislative effort was targeted by a “coordinated misinformation campaign.” The bill in question, HB 234, would require that all learning materials and syllabi for…
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