by Sarah Green | Jan 22, 2016 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A coordinated wave of bomb threats put nine North Jersey school districts on lock-down this week. And happily, they were a hoax. But they pointed out a big problem for schools in the middle of an emergency like that – the hoard of parents flocking to the rescue. Even...
by Sarah Green | Jan 19, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Refugees out of Syria are the largest news story worldwide as we enter 2016. A lot of questionable facts are tossed around about this demographic, but the statistics are in, and easy to find. And the truth of the matter is that more than half of these asylum-seekers...
by Sarah Green | Jan 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Babysitting cats and doing students’ laundry are not the usual duties of a teacher, but very little is usual in the city of Garland, Texas right now. The day after Christmas, nine tornadoes whipped across North Texas. One plowed right through the city,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues
South Dakota has the third largest concentration of Native Americans of any state, more than 9% of the total population. Mostly Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota, they are the majority in several of the state’s 66 counties. South Dakota has seven large Native American...
by Sarah Green | Jan 11, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
People have been fighting against the teaching of evolution for years, most notably since the Scopes Monkey trial of 1925. Since then, there have been a number of legal challenges to teaching science in classrooms, especially since the advent of “Intelligent Design”...
