Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s controversial schools chieftain who put the Ten Commandments in classrooms, has issued another edict to public schools: Kids have to watch a video infused with politics and religion. In the video, Walters (photo, left) attacks teachers unions, claims religion is under [...]
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November 14th, 2024 - 11:33 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Schools & Colleges
This isn’t how to get sympathy for Palestinians
What’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza, and the West Bank, is a tragedy. Yes, Palestinian militants have a long history of terrorism, and the Oct. 7 terror attacks incited the violent Israeli response. But the only “crime” of the Palestinian children being killed and maimed is un[...]
November 8th, 2024 - 6:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
How 12 college students just ruined their lives
They lured a gay man to a rooming house by going on Tindr and pretending to solicit sex; when he arrived they grabbed him, forced him into a chair, then punched, kicked, and spit on him. They threw him to the floor every time he tried to leave. Twelve students are charged with “first degree [&[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges
The tides of political change
Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]
Gov. Daniel J. Evans (1925-2024)
Daniel J. Evans was an old-fashioned Republican, who personified the ideal of what a politician should be. Born in 1925, he had a glowing resume. Descended from a politically prominent family that migrated to the Washington Territory before the Civil War, he grew up in Seattle, was an Eagle Scout, [...]
September 19th, 2024 - 3:52 pm § in Schools & Colleges
How to write a college admission essay
I don’t know why this Vox article (read it here) is even necessary, given that colleges are scrambling to recruit students amid enrollment declines, a situation that will only worsen in coming years (see article here). But for what it’s worth, it explains what college admissions officers[...]
September 19th, 2024 - 11:32 am § in Schools & Colleges
Seattle’s tone-deaf school board
Seattle Public Schools, faced with a budget crisis, are weighing closing schools including the district’s only K-8 deaf program. Supposedly the public has an opportunity to respond to such proposals. But at a school board meeting on September 18, 2024, that was heavily attended by deaf familie[...]
September 11th, 2024 - 2:56 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Ma’am, your son is a monster
The parents of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, who killed 4 people and wounded 7 others, aren’t pillars of the community; but at least his mother, Marcee Gray, tried to warn the school about her son, and now she’s apologizing for what he did. “To the parents and families of those aff[...]
Republicans can’t spell
I find a lot of typos in news stories, too, now that the media’s business model has been upended and they can’t afford copyeditors anymore; but this is different, these are spelling errors, not typos. But let’s face it, it’s not only Republicans, but literacy in general that&[...]
Back to school (video)
This “student” probably was looking for something edible. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]