The new hotness in public educatioin is blaming parents and punishing them when their children fail. The basic idea is to allow teachers to fine $500 per day or jail bad parents when their children are absent, misbehaving or failing in school.
Now Teachers Want to Send Bad Parents to Jail
Posted in Parent Abuse by smarty 274 days ago (http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com)
Ohio Mom Jailed for Sending Her Kids to a Better School
Posted in Parent Abuse by momoffive 391 days ago (http://newsfeed.time.com)
Williams-Bolar, 40, and her two children live in housing projects in Akron, Ohio. For two years, she sent them to school in the Copley-Fairlawn district, where her father lived, because it was a safer environment -- the high crime rate in her area drove her decision. She was caught and now is being punished severely for it! So my question is: what is the message that we are sending our kids here?
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Schools: Don't Take Your Kids to Work on Take You Kid to Work Day
Posted in Parent Abuse by smarty 670 days ago (http://www.google.com)Faced with budget shortfalls and a funding system that docks school budgets for student absences, many school administrators recommended yesterday that instead of participating in National Take Your Son or Daughter to Work Day, parents keep their kids in school. Instead of discussing what absences do to the budget, most administrators were blaming favorite boogeymen:
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Detroit: Where Missing a Parent Teacher Conferece Will Send You to Jail if Prosecutor Has Her Way
Posted in Parent Abuse by smarty 597 days ago (http://blogs.babble.com)
Local prosecutor Kim Worthy is proving that there is a reason beyond the collapse of the American automotive intustry that Detroit is becoming a deserted urban wasteland. Wort
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Mass. School Makes Condoms Accessible to First Graders Even if Parents Say No
Posted in Parent Abuse by smarty 604 days ago (http://content.usatoday.com)
We can't make this stuff up. Provincetown, Massachusetts schools have further clarified their condom policy to address concerns that even a first grader could get a condom. The new policy even goes further with language that allows any student to get condoms from faculty members especially if parents have said no to the school giving the students condoms:
Why Indiana Will Not Get $250 Million in Education Grants (or why your taxes are going up)
Posted in Parent Abuse by smarty 659 days ago (http://www.edweek.org)According to Indiana Superintendent of Public Education Tony Bennett, here is why Indiana will not be getting a $250 Million Race to :the Top education Grant from the Federal Government. Indiana schools are an estimated $279 million short, causing many school districts to ask voters to accept tax increases. According to Superintendent Bennett:
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