by Supporting Education | Feb 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Close to a million Rohingya refugees live in massive refugee camps in Bangladesh, waiting for the day when they can someday return home to Myanmar, which denied them citizenship, basic rights, and protection when religious zealots began a genocide upon them. Nearly...
by Supporting Education | Jan 10, 2020 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
In 2019, 87 people in Western Washington, mostly in Kent and Issaquah were infected in two measles outbreaks. Measles, a highly infectious airborne virus, is a disease that was almost gone from the developed world, but still directly responsible for tens of thousands...
by Supporting Education | Dec 9, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
It feels like there’s always some crisis going on with teachers these days. Every news cycle, teachers are striking for better pay, more support, more staff. Their complaints are valid; many primary school teachers are paid so little they qualify for government...
by Supporting Education | Nov 25, 2019 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
Taking young children to the museum can be a trying experience. Short legs and short attention spans aren’t necessarily suited to how we traditionally think of museums—as massive somber spaces with wonderful things to see, but no running or playing allowed. But the...
by Supporting Education | Nov 11, 2019 | News, Student Issues
“Every issue that they have discussed the past 12 years, and every policy they’ve made, it’s either indirectly or directly affected me,” said Mike Kahoe, a senior at Revere High School in Bath Township, Ohio. “So who better to critique and improve upon that policy...