by Beth Holmes | Jun 20, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Sexist dress codes for children are unconstitutional, says the U.S. 4th Circuit Court about a North Carolina school wanting to force little girls to wear skirts. The Charter Day School in Leland, North Carolina was founded in 2000 with a curriculum out of 1900,...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Other
The Defense Department is in the preschool business, with a curriculum called Early Learning Matters. There are an estimated 1.7 million children of active duty members currently in the United States. These children are three times more likely to move or have their...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 6, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Armed teachers may soon be the norm in Ohio, if a bill passes removing the requirement that teachers have extensive firearms training if they wish to carry weapons at school. The current law in Ohio does allow teachers to go armed, but they must have more than 700...
by Beth Holmes | May 30, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Another school shooting makes the 23rd mass shooting with casualties in the United States this May, an average of almost one a day. A teenager with a gun went from class to class through Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, shooting children and staff....
by Beth Holmes | May 23, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A chokehold caught on camera at a Texas school has put a national spotlight on the worst way to handle bullying. In a video that went viral Tuesday, Shaan Pritmani, a student at Coppell Middle School North is sitting at a cafeteria table when another boy standing...
by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Lincoln College, a small Illinois HBC founded the year its namesake was assassinated, will close this week, following a period of financial struggle capped by a ruinous cyberattack in 2021. 2019 was a record year for Lincoln College, with their highest ever enrollment...
by Beth Holmes | May 9, 2022 | News, Student Issues
A prosthetic arm controlled by your mind, invented by a teenager and made on an entry-level 3D printer. Benjamin Choi was in third grade when he watched a documentary about the then-cutting edge techniques scientists were beginning to use for bionic prostheses,...
by Beth Holmes | May 2, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Personal finance education should be a high school graduation requirement, says an educational survey. In March, the National Endowment for Financial Education conducted a survey of over a thousand adults, looking into what they felt school could have done better to...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 25, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Student borrowers are getting help, as the U.S. Department of Education cancels federally-held debt for 40,000 and offers help for over 3.5 million more. “Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s certainly felt that way for borrowers locked...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The University of Southern California has filed a lawsuit against two YouTubers who have been disrupting classes to film “prank” videos. Ernest Kanevsky and Yuguo Bai film non-consensual public pranks for posting on Youtube, with only around 100k subscribers. That...
