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Op/Ed: British Columbia Parents to press to expand Mandarin-based classes
Barry Artiste Op/Ed Like I had previously mentioned in my last column on this issue in what I feel is a "Let's Drive French out of our Canadian Lexicon". I have no problem with kids learning the Mandarin language, but the kids better have a good understanding and fluency of... BC Schools: Mandarin & English, "BC's Official Language" ? "Or Did we just ...
Barry Artiste Op/EdRegardless that Canada's Official Languages are English and French, Media reports of frustrated parents who are tired of long lineups trying to enroll their kids into French immersion in schools,... FIRE IS A TOOL, NOT A TOY ...
There isn’t anyone alive today who remembers the “Great Chicago Fire” of 1871, and probably no one who remembers the Collinwood, OH, school fire of 1908! But, they are the reasons why fire-fighters observe the...McCain's new campaign slogan: "Lies, lies, lies, yeeeah!"
Any American who had any notion that a McCain presidency would be any different than the Bush years should put those doubts aside. With the Bush hatchet men fully in control of his campaign (and tutoring Palin) it should come as not surprise that they're ramping up the lies.... Louisiana Voters: Veto or be Recalled
"Got non-reponsive representatives? Take a lesson from Louisiana voters. The Louisiana State Legislature passed a bill giving themselves a better than 100 percent pay raise. Gov. Bobby Jindal, despite campaign... Arab-Muslim becomes kibbutz member
I am not surprised that a kibbutz accepted a Muslim-Arab as one of his members. Many kibbutzim are located in regions where they live in good neighbourhood with Arab communities. In my own kibbutz we made life long... TheScroogeReport: Voting Out Alex
OPINION " A Port St. Lucie, Florida kindergarten teacher Wendy Portillo left us dumbfounded this week, leaving us to ask “why?” If it wasn’t for consistency’s sake This Week’s Top Scrooge would be crowned... Hong Kong Shuts Schools in Flu Outbreak
Over half a million primary and kindergarten students in Hong Kong will be starting their Easter holidays early this year due to a flu outbreak. This is being seen as more of a preventative measure than anything...Kindergarten and robots: Nyack has matched the two with good results
Kindergartner Akenti Wheeler has learned all about balance, levers and fulcrums by building a seesaw in her robotics class at Valley Cottage Elementary School. Classmate Emil Radoncic can explain the theory... Noose Lesson Gone Bad at Grambling?
The hangman’s noose is a hated symbol of Old South
lynchings and figured prominently in the case against six black teens
in Jena. They were charged in the beating of a white schoolmate in the
culmination of... Vandals Hit Jones Dairy Elementary
" May 7, 2007 North Carolina - Wake County fire officials are investigating a night of vandalism that led to a fire in a northern Wake school. Early Sunday morning, Rolesville Rural Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at Jones Dairy Elementary School. Firefighters found...Thanksgiving Tradition Revisited
"The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back. Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up...We don't need no education...
" “Manu is old enough to not pee in his pants but not old enough to even understand the concept of school and education” On Saturday my neighbor Pradeep came to me in the morning at about 9 with some pakoras. He...
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