Technically, it’s under review. But the book was pulled from school library shelves months ago, which effectively prohibits students from reading it, unless they obtain a private copy here. (Read story here.) Florida is a retirement haven for rich (and not-so-rich) East Coasters. The stateR[...]
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Just bleed on the desk
Idaho schools won’t provide girls with free tampons, because GOP legislators voted against it, calling it “woke,” “liberal,” and “nanny state” (read story here). That’s despite Idaho’s child poverty rate of 14.4% (see story here), which is nearly[...]
March 23rd, 2023 - 12:14 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Michelangelo gets Florida charter school principal fired
“The principal of Florida’s Tallahassee Classical School is out of a job after parents complained that their sixth-grade children were shown Michelangelo’s 16th century ‘David’ sculpture, with one parent calling it ‘pornographic,'” Huffington Post reported on “[...]
Republican wants kids to go hungry
Whether it’s to force them into dirty, dangerous, low-paying jobs (presumably including elderly and disabled people, mothers with young children, and schoolkids, because that’s who government food assistance goes to), or racism (do you see any white faces in the photo of a food bank line[...]
Flags of our fathers
Jay Collins (photo, right) is an American hero. A career Army sergeant and Green Beret, he returned to duty after losing a leg in combat (see his bio here). Collins, a Republican, was elected to Florida’s state senate in the state’s 2022 “red wave.” The first-termer is among [...]
March 15th, 2023 - 5:11 pm § in America, Biden, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans, Russia, Schools & Colleges
Foreign policy …
… is the most important task a president does. It’s literally about war and peace. But this poses a conundrum, because presidential campaigns are waged and won or lost on domestic issues; politics is very much a “what will you do for me” affair. (The softer and more polite wa[...]
Should taxpayer funding be used to train children in Nazi ideology?
A GOP-backed bill in the Ohio legislature would allow just that. “House Bill 11 would provide up to $1.1 billion in state funding for homeschooled children and students at non-chartered private schools,” and the recipients could include a couple who may be paid state school money “[...]
Can we at least try to keep stupidity out of politics?
I wish I could give you hope, but it’s not looking good. For starters, the Arizona GOP has collapsed into bitter infighting, with finger-pointing aplenty. How they’re fighting, and what they’re saying about each other, is concerning. The only positive thing about it is they haven&#[...]
GOP legislator goes after 4th grader for rainbow drawing
The mother of a Kansas 4th-grader “was outraged when she opened up her representative’s February newsletter and found her daughter’s rainbow drawing published as an example of indoctrination in the school system,” the Kansas Reflector reported on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 (see story her[...]
What kind of president would DeSantis be?
— DeSantis defended slavery as “backbone of economy” and “fact of life” in 2011 book Read story here — DeSantis moves toward political control of university studies Here and here — Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]