Added new article by John Taylor Gatto, called "The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?" Click here to read it. I personally think it's one of the best articles I've ever read about public schooling.
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The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Attorney Larry Walters: Some rational comments on sexting
by Amy Hasinoff: Some excellent quotations from attorney Larry Walters in this in-depth interview: When Sex and Cell Phones Collide: Inside the Prosecution of a Teen Sexting Case, touching on a number of key points absent in most mainstream media coverage of sexting: 1. Sexting is normal for teens. It’s not a trend, a plague, […]
Alhambra HS Locked Down After Student w/a Weapon is Arrested
A junior at Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra was arrested today, and two handguns and drug paraphernalia were seized, thanks in part to a dog trained to sniff out trouble. A private security firm was doing a sweep of the nearly 2,500-student campus in the 500 block of East Hellman Avenue, when a dog […]
List of online schools updated
I updated the list of online schools in the US. New states added (these were not listed at all before): Alaska Delaware Maryland New Jersey New York North Dakota Virginia West Virginia New online schools added to these states: Arizona California Hawaii Illinois Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nevada North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon Pennysylvania South Carolina […]
Teacher fired for reporting child abuse, sues school
A former assistant principal at Goodlow School says he was fired for reporting suspected child abuse. Kenneth Taylor says that while he was assistant principal of the school, a coordinator/teacher in the Reading First program told him that she observed a special education teacher "kick the legs out from under a second grade student who […]
Help Youth Rights win $1 million, vote on Facebook
As NYRA was among the top 100 charities in last month's Facebook contest, we also get to compete for even more money, beginning on January 15th, with NYRA standing a chance to win $1 million. You can cast your vote in the same manner as in Round 1, by following this link, and voting for […]
Daytime Curfews in Salem
Youth under 18 years of age seen off campus during school hours may be stopped and questioned by police officers. (SALEM) - Salem police would like to remind parents that Salem has a daytime curfew for kids under the age of 18. The Salem-Keizer School District is working with law enforcement and the Juvenile Department […]
Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches
In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found. The U.S. Department […]
Five-year-old special education girl left on icy bus as driver and matron sat in diner
A 5-year-old special education pupil was left alone on a bus for an hour in freezing temperatures in Brooklyn Monday while the bus driver and matron went for breakfast, officials said. The plight of kindergartner Iman Mirza, a student at Public School 255 in Homecrest, drew the attention of driver Phillip Vallone's wife, who alerted […]
Tell the Senate: Pass Juvenile Justice Reform Now!
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, S. 678, has been introduced and was approved by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 12-7 on December 17th, 2009. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), was first enacted in 1974 and provides federal funding to states that comply with […]
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