According to the Center for Public Education, school boards have one primary purpose
: “first and foremost school boards look out for students.” They do this, in part, by determining policies, selecting curriculum, and providing oversight and accountability for the schools in their districts. So the last thing you’d expect from a member of a school board is to publicly and openly encourage people — including students from Midland School District which he represents — to kill themselves. And yet, that’s what Clint McCance did.
Posts Tagged ‘glbt’
Suspended for a T-Shirt
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
The junior high and high school years are a time when kids are figuring out who they are and who they will become. It’s important that we support them in that endeavor and make sure they know they are loved and accepted no matter what path they choose for themselves. It’s also important that their school — teachers, administrators, and fellow students — take an active role in that support. That’s why it’s especially heinous when a school does something like what happened in the Fort Smith School District in Arkansas.
Student Teacher Fired For Hanging Out With Guys
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Teachers teach their students a lot more than just the three Rs of reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic. They teach kids to have confidence and to try new things. They get kids to strive for excellence and accept loss gracefully. Teachers teach kids how to interact with others, both by telling them directly and by setting an example. In short, teachers teach kids about the real world. Except, perhaps, in Beaverton, Oregon where the real world apparently must be cleaned up and sanitized before telling the precious little snowflakes about it.
High School Won’t Let Teen Be King
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
While high school is not supposed to be a popularity contest, it’s got to make a parent proud to have their child chosen, by the other students, to be homecoming king. Similarly, it would be absolutely devastating and infuriating to have the school step in and take that title away. That’s what happened to Oakleigh Reed, a senior at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, Michigan. The teen is happy about the support from the other students, but notes that “sometimes it’s nice to have something tangible.”
Mind you, Reed is no troublemaker that drew votes via threats of violence. Nor was he disqualified for having flunked out of school or being on suspension — the child is an honor student, even. And there was no evidence of misconduct in regards to the vote — “I knew I had a lot of votes,” Reed said, “because people were telling me in the hallway, ‘Hey, I voted for you, I voted for you.'” So why did the school take away Reed’s crown and title?
LGBT Parents Have Slideshows Too
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I was planning on writing an article on how I don’t actually like Blogging for LGBT Families Day because I don’t think LGBT families are really any different than any other families in the grand scheme of things (but I understand that we still need to keep explaining that to people and therefore fully support it) and maybe one about how I believe LGBT Parents are, on average, better than straight parents because, generally speaking, LGBT parents don’t have “oops” babies and thus don’t have their average dragged down by the likes of Britney Spears or Bristol Palin, but instead, I’m desperately loading nearly 4,000 photos onto my wife’s Macintosh so I can use iMovie to create a slideshow for my daughter’s kindergarten class.
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