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 26, 2018 | News, Student Issues
In 2016, a testing of the water in Detroit schools showed elevated levels of lead and copper. This summer, a follow-up round of testing at 24 schools found critical levels of one, the other, or both in two out of three of those. Nikolai Vitti, the Superintendent of...
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 | Aug 1, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is the current president-elect of Mexico, having won 53 percent of the popular vote and the majorities in 31 out of Mexico’s 32 states. He ran on a platform of rooting out corruption “from top to bottom, like sweeping the stairs,” and...
by Sarah Green | Jul 26, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Federal law in the U.S. requires that all children on American soil receive a free public education. Emphasis on the “all.” The law makes no distinction between children regardless of their immigration status. Despite certain claims made by anti-immigration pundits,...
