Tag: school

Parents Against Stupid Stuff

Commentary Adults deciding where to settle and raise their families once considered tax rates, job opportunities, and housing prices. Now they also have to ask themselves whether they want their children in schools that push gender fluidity, teach masturbation, and provide tampons in the boys’ room for females transitioning to become males. Several states have…


COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Students Delayed by Los Angeles School Board

The Los Angeles school board delayed the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students for a second time in 2022. The school board had first announced that it would enforce a vaccine mandate for all Los Angeles students starting in January 2022 but later delayed enforcement until the start of the 2022–2023 school year….


Biden Says Kids Belong to Their Teachers

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…


From Pandemic Playgroups to a Thriving Microschool: How One ‘Edupreneur’ Met Rising Parent Demand for Schooling Alternatives

Ada Salie heard a lot of complaints. Parents were upset about what was happening in their children’s schools last fall, and were reluctant to send their children back. Many of the parents she heard from had pulled their children out of a district school for homeschooling during the 2020/2021 academic year—something that millions of parents…


High School Teacher Struck With Hammer in Winnipeg Classroom

A Winnipeg school division says a teacher is recovering at home after being hit with a hammer. The Pembina Trails School Division said Wednesday the teacher was struck while in class a day earlier at Shaftesbury High School and immediately called for help. A student who the division says brought a hammer to school was…


How Helping Kids Build a Strong Sense of Community Can Improve Their Confidence and Learning

Have you heard the term “branding yourself?” It’s a new term being used by young entrepreneurs and being exploited by young millennials. The new trend is to brand yourself. Give yourself a logo, pictures of yourself that portray yourself a specific way, a motto, and most importantly, a website that uses specific colors and all…


Gunman Takes Own Life After Wounding 4 Near Elite Washington Preparatory School, Police Say

WASHINGTON—A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper’s nest in an apartment building near an elite prep school in the nation’s capital on Friday, wounding four people, before taking his own life as police closed in, officials said. Police said the suspect, Raymond Spencer, 23, of suburban Fairfax, Virginia, was initially identified from…


Report Highlights Cost of Pandemic School Closures, Limited Effectiveness of Lockdowns

A working paper that examined how U.S. states responded to the COVID-19 pandemic found that states with strict lockdowns and other COVID-19 policies did little to prevent COVID-19 deaths, but those economic restrictions and school closures proved costly in other ways. “School closures may ultimately prove to be the most costly policy decision of the…


The Webb Institute: A One-of-a-Kind Marine Engineering School Inspiring Students to Strive for Excellence

Every fall semester, on the North Shore of Long Island, freshmen attending Webb Institute climb into imperfect, home-grown vessels and set out on a course with hopes of winning the race without sinking. The onlookers, mostly upperclassmen, watch the voyages taking place in the harbor, immersed in their own memorable initiation as new undergraduate students…


VIDEO: This ‘Band-Aid Lesson’ Is the Easiest Way to Teach Kids About Fairness

Nobody needs a Band-Aid on the elbow to remedy a bump on the head, a concept that even third graders easily understand. Aimee Scott, a 22-year-old third-grade teacher from Utah, uses a simple Band-Aid example to teach her students the often-misconstrued concept of fairness. She cheerfully explains the method in her viral TikTok video. “On…