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State lowers bar for teaching hires amid Covid-related shortage
At least one US state is struggling so much to find enough teachers to keep classrooms open that it will hire teenagers who were high-school students themselves less than a year ago as fill-in educators.
Jan 12, 2022 23:50
‘Mask and snack break’ at US school sparks outrage (VIDEO)
A US school district has come under fire after a Twitter video showed elementary school children sitting outside on concrete in freezing weather for what was later described as a “mask and snack break.”
Jan 12, 2022 20:04
Band students ordered to ‘fake play’ music amid Omicron
Band classes in a suburban Boston school system have gotten far quieter, as administrators are reportedly requiring students to silently finger their instruments without mouthpieces to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Jan 3, 2022 19:47
Schools tell families how to ‘decolonize Thanksgiving’
The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has provided families with the resources needed to “decolonize” Thanksgiving, including guidance on indigenous land acknowledgement.
Nov 26, 2021 09:43
Boy defends his right to say there are ‘only two genders’
Mother of a New Hampshire boy suspended by the school for claiming that there are “only two genders” is prepared to defend his rights to free speech and religious freedom in court.
Nov 19, 2021 12:46
Massachusetts governor deploys 250 National Guard troops to drive SCHOOL BUSES amid driver shortage
A shortage of school bus drivers in Massachusetts is so severe that Governor Charlie Baker has called on the state’s National Guard troops to help get children to class.
Sep 14, 2021 22:19
New Jersey’s Rutgers University bans unvaccinated student from ONLINE courses – reports
A US university student who chose to take classes remotely rather than be forced to get vaccinated against Covid-19 for on-campus learning has reportedly been barred from school despite doing his studies 70 miles (100km) away.
Sep 7, 2021 18:55
School curriculum in Canada disputes view of math as 'objective' discipline, argues it has been used to 'normalize racism'
Canada's Ontario province has injected anti-racist activism into its Grade 9 math curriculum, decrying the science as having been used to “normalize racism” and demanding that lessons “challenge systems of power and privilege.”
Jul 11, 2021 22:06
With every other argument against the 2nd Amendment failing, a professor has finally found the killer blow: yep, it's ‘RACIST’ Opinion
Like any good race-baiter, professor Carol Anderson knows the easiest way to demonize people or ideas in polarized America is to brand them as racist, so she’s unsheathed that trusty weapon to attack the Second Amendment.
Jun 3, 2021 21:25

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