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*The schools of America are becoming real battlegrounds and school districts are fighting hard to keep students safe. But parents and students have to be a a part of the solution to maintaining that security. But, in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, the efforts on behalf of students and parents are low as a riot-like brawl broke out [...]
*While people in Chicago are worried about boycotting teachers, a school district in Arkansas has banned students from bringing peanut butter products to school. That means no sandwiches, no candy bars, no cookies no nothing if it contains that versatile go-to snack food. Take nuts out of the equation and that rule is hard enough [...]
*Bullying has taken on a life of its own in the schools in America. Some of it so bad that it has resulted in the deaths of a lot of children and young people. But a recent death has rocked the community with the age of the victim and cause of death. According to USA [...]
*The history of the U.S. has racist residuals that haunt today’s society. Black face is one of those racist practices that dates back to the turn of the 20th century when whites would put black make-up on their face to debase and negatively stereotype the image of African Americans. But these facts may not be [...]
*There are so many of us that feel we have it so bad. But there is still plenty of hard luck to go around. Some folks tell stories that are so unbelievably arduous and/or tragic, we forget all about our story and think of how we can help those we hear about. Some of us [...]
*If you are a youngster reading this, make sure you do well in school or else you could face this embarrassment. A Florida father, who was sick and tired of his child getting bad grades and not listening to him, went to extreme measures. He made the boy stand on a sidewalk with signs asking [...]
The zoning laws that are in place aim to keep children in their rightful school seats where no one can take them away. But in scenarios where students end up in the wrong zone either from a parent knowingly using the wrong address or from someone living with another to get their child in their [...]
*After striking fear in the hearts of parents by closing the private educational institute, Eddie Long’s New Birth Missionary Baptist Church announced that it reopened the congregation’s school. New Birth’s announcement in late December that the school would close after 18 years sent hundreds of students scrambling to find a new school, reports the Atlanta Constitution [...]
*An elementary school in Norcross called themselves doing double duty by killing two birds with one stone in mathematics. They were going to teach history as well as math all jumbled up together. And what they came up with was something like this, ““If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get [...]
*Delaware’s WJKS-FM has released a statement denying that it kicked Tyrese out for complaining about the proximity of a liquor store to a nearby school. The account from WJKS general manager Tony Q is in stark contrast to the claims Tyrese tweeted to his 2 million followers, saying: “I just got kicked out of a [...]
When a co-worker said she didn’t want her third-grader to walk the quarter-mile to school and back and she planned to change her work schedule just to be available to drop him off and pick him up, I thought something must be wrong with the child: mentally or physically disabled, maybe. As a first-grader I [...]
*It was the kind of cold sweat that would prompt the James Brown estate to consider suing for copyright infringement. I woke up wringing wet, having dreamed that I wasn’t really an adult, but still a teenager attending grade school. Talk about scary. Because from my first crying day of kindergarten to the euphoric final [...]
*Ever since I had that bad experience with a stalker some fifteen years ago I’ve learned to pay less attention to the obvious, because oftentimes it’s what is not stated that is most important. Take for example the recently revised study that concluded (among other findings) African and Latino students fared better in the job [...]
*Manhattan College claims to be a Catholic institution, and the Archdiocese of New York lists the school as a Catholic college. Nevertheless, all this has not impressed the National Labor Relations Board, which recently ruled that the college could not prevent adjunct faculty from unionizing because, as G. Jeffrey MacDonald of Religion News Service reports, [...]
*As we previously reported, Oprah’s school is back under the microscope after the death of a newborn baby born to a student at the South African Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy. According to reports, a pregnant 17-year-old girl was taken to the hospital on Wednesday last week for excessive bleeding. The body of her baby and [...]
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