by Sarah Green | Jul 18, 2018 | News, Student Issues
It was most likely an unfortunate oversight, but it was a hurtful one all the same. When Cascade View Elementary School in Western Washington handed out their yearbooks at the end of the school year, 14 students were omitted. Not because they had missed photo day or...
by Sarah Green | Jun 20, 2018 | News, Student Issues
With the end of the school year looming in Westbrook School Department in Maine, Superintendent Peter Lancia was trying to settle the budget. There was a large red entry in the ledgers: nearly $17,000 of lunch debt. Lunch debt is common in school districts all over...
by Sarah Green | May 16, 2018 | News, Teacher Issues
Marc Schubert is an educational assistant at Delton Elementary School in inner-city Edmonton, Alberta, where he works with students from a variety of experiences. He’s also an avid player of Dungeons & Dragons, the popular dice-based tabletop fantasy role-playing...
by Sarah Green | May 2, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Fifty-seven percent of teenagers in the United States are concerned that a shooting will take place in their own school. Nearly half of those are “very worried” about the chance. According to these results from a survey by Pew Research Center, half of all high school...
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...
