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A teachers’ union just endorsed Hillary Clinton. Is that good? | Education on Blog#42
One of the teachers’ unions just endorsed Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. Continue reading A teachers’ union just endorsed Hillary Clinton. Is that good? | Education on Blog#42
California Parents Complain: SexEd Textbook ‘Equivalent To Pornography’ | ThinkProgress
BY TARA CULP-RESSLER POSTED ON
A California school district has agreed to temporarily shelve a ninth grade sex education textbook after parents complained it included material that’s inappropriate for teenagers, including information about masturbation, orgasms, and erotic touch. The parents asking for the removal of Your Health Today have compared the book to porn.
Faces of Neoliberalism: The War on Teachers | PartII
WASHINGTON — Every day throughout the summer of 2006, seemingly without end, things just kept getting worse for Washington Republicans. Iraq was spiraling out of control, President George W. Bush was at the depth of his unpopularity. Congressional Republicans were mired in scandal. One was even caught sending dirty instant messages to young boys.
What followed was the Democratic wave of 2006, which handed Congress to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, followed by a second wave ridden by Barack Obama into the White House. Pundits talked about the end of the Republican Party, or at best, a permanent rump status.
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(Updated) Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into Public School
I originally curated this post in 2014. Continue reading (Updated) Koch High: How The Koch Brothers Are Buying Their Way Into Public School
Seclusion and Physical Restraint Legal in most US Public Schools
by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, June 19, 2014, 5 a.m.
Sometimes, Carson later told his mother, workers would run the fan to make him stop yelling. A thick metal door with lockswhich they threw, clank-clank-clank separated the autistic boy from the rest of the decrepit building in Chesapeake, Virginia, just south of Norfolk.
But such limits don’t apply to public schools.
Definitions and Terms
- Restraints are any holds in which a student’s ability to move their head, torso, arms or legs are limited.
- “Mechanical” restraints use something like straps, handcuffs or bungee cords to do the restraining.
- “Seclusion” refers to situations in which a student is confined against their will in a room they are prevented from leaving — often with a locked door. This is different from a “time out” in which a student is separated from others to allow him or her a chance to calm down. Link
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