by Supporting Education | Nov 4, 2019 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Certain parts of the way we operate schools in America are embedded in tradition. Our parents did it one way, so they want to perpetuate that, even in the face of changing cultural needs or scientific proof that a change may be in order. Frog dissections. Football...
by Supporting Education | Mar 29, 2019 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Yale has joined the list of universities to revoke the admissions of students linked to the latest nationwide scandal, that of wealthy and connected families bribing their way into elite schools. Without identifying the student in this instance, Yale University...
by Sarah Green | Oct 11, 2018 | Parent Issues
Children get sick more often than adults. We all know it, and their schools know it. Current estimates say that school-age children catch eight viruses a year, and those are just the ones that make them noticeably ill. Currently the American Academy of Pediatrics...
by Sarah Green | Sep 5, 2018 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
This Oklahoma student is twelve years old, in the seventh grade, and transgender. Her family moved into the Achille Independent School District, in rural Byron County, when she was in fifth grade, and she has always attended schools there as a girl. “She’s been living...
by Sarah Green | Mar 21, 2018 | Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
When we decide to homeschool, it’s important to evaluate our own shortfalls as teachers. Everyone has an area of interest, and that’s wonderful, but it’s so very important not to let our children be left behind in topics we don’t like or...
