Tom Sullivan, Come Back to Reality!
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SR
Posted June 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I have always been a fan of Tom Sullivan on KFBK as a local talk show host. Well today he went over the line.
Tom called for the elimination of school buses due to high gas prices. He also went on to say that it's the parents responsibility to be better parents and make sacrifices for their children. What type of sacrifices would we make Tom? Change jobs and go in later? Then tell your kids that they can't have the normal lifestyle that they have become accustomed to because their mom or d...
Schools feel the pinch in Schwarzenegger’s budget, or do they?
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SR
Posted May 26th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
As Laurel Rosenhall writes in the Sacramento Bee, "Schools still come up short in Schwarzenegger's latest budget".
Elk Grove teachers won't have the guidance of experienced teaching coaches next fall. A gleaming new school in Natomas will sit empty. And in Sacramento, middle schools will have fewer music classes and high school teachers will have less time to run special programs like athletics and honors academics.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's May budget proposal gives more money to schools...
Kids Walk Out Of School In Protest
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SR
Posted March 31st, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Students Friday protested all of the immigration policies being discussed by walking out of school. Over 3,000 students in Las Vegas, left school in protest.
"At this point it's peaceful," Jones said from a county emergency operations center activated to monitor the rallies scattered around the city. "Our concern is strictly public safety and to allow them to assemble peacefully."
"It's an organized protest in that they all knew about it, but it's disorganized in that they don't all have one ...
Dress Codes At School Or Just Common Sense?
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SR
Posted March 30th, 2006 at 10:31 am
I have never been a big fan of schools imposing mandatory dress codes or uniforms. I feel that our children should be able to be individuals and have the freedom to express their own opinions as they get older, to a point.
I think that we as parents must play a role in teaching our children what is acceptable and what is not. There is not a day that goes by that you or I will not see a person wearing a t-shirt that is two or three times too big. Then there's the pants. Hanging down around t...
