It’s clear that a child cannot possibly learn, let alone be a good catholic, if their hair is too long. I wouldn’t know, actually, being neither a good student nor a good catholic and, currently, having pretty long hair. But it seems that the lesson St. Dominic’s Pre-School wants to teach 4-year-old Jack Szablewski is that proper grooming, according to their standards, is more important than, say, helping the sick.
Posts Tagged ‘school’
Long Hair and Pre-School
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Talking To Kids — Does It Work?
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
It seems that radio stations play the “talk to your kids about drugs” ads almost as much as they do music these days. Aside from the fact that they aren’t music, that’s not a bad thing. After all, I don’t think anyone would argue that parents shouldn’t talk to their kids about drugs or that doing so would lead to increased abuse. Mind you, it’s certainly not foolproof prevention, but it also certainly can’t hurt. So why is it that parents don’t feel the same way about sex?
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.
Walk To School Day
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Did you know that today is International Walk to School day (at least, here in the US)? I did. I was made painfully aware of it because my kids’ school makes a big deal out of it and my kids begged me to walk the three-and-a-half miles from our house to their school. Given that they’re only six and eight years old and that I’d have the two-year-old in tow as well, it wasn’t going to happen. There was no way I was going to leave the house an hour or more early just so I could listen to them whining about being tired for the last three miles of the trip. But, as it turns out, we did participate in Walk to School day.
Spelling Is A Safety Issue
Monday, October 4th, 2010
Proper spelling is important for several reasons — it avoids ambiguity of meaning, it presents a professional image, and prevents the reader from being distracted from the core message. According to one charter school, however, spelling correctly is also a safety issue. So much so that one student was given a ten-day suspension for misspelling the school’s name.
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?
Kansas City To Return To The One-Room Classroom
Monday, July 5th, 2010
So they’re not exactly reinstating the idea of the one-room classroom but the Kansas City, Missouri School District is eliminating grade levels. Instead of placing students in a specific grade according to their age, students will work on topics according to their abilities, beginning next fall. This is good in that kids who learn quickly are not sitting around waiting for the rest of the class to catch up and kids that need extra time to master a skill can do so.
Court Rules: A Promise Is A Promise
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Be careful what you promise your kids — you may have to follow through. When I was a young adult, my father told me that if I lost enough weight to fit into size 30 jeans, he would buy me a car. I got close, but never made it before he passed away. Someday, though, I will lose the weight and then I’ll visit my father’s grave and say “you owe me a car!” Of course, I realize that it would take a miracle to get him to pony up my new ride. For Dana Soderberg, on the other hand, all it took was a lawyer.
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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