Underwater Basket Weaving 101
As a kid in high school, thinking of college, I remember joking about some of the great classes I’d like to take. Of course most kids come up with wild classes they’d like to see offered in college. After all, that’s what kids are supposed to do right?
Even as a parent,...
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What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
For all the talk about how kids are lost and don’t know what to do these days, there are always others who do rise to the top.
Have you noticed how we seldom hear about the good kids? Of course many media outlets simply don’t...
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School is back in session!
Of course that means kids all over the nation are sad, while parents everywhere are singing “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” (Do you remember that commercial? One of the classic back to school commercials from a few years back.)
With students returning to school, New York State released...
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The Rochester, New York school district has long ranked very low when it comes to graduation rates and test scores in the nation. When the new School Superintendent arrived in town about a year ago, Jean-Claude Brizard vowed to see both test scores, and the graduation rate, go up. True to his word, test...
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A story out of Lockport, New York broke earlier this week involving a hazing incident on a bus. Apparently after a Varsity baseball game, a few Varsity players took a couple JV players to the back of the bus and started slapping them around in some sort of distorted passage of rights onto the...
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A task force in one Rochester, New York area School District says it’s time to crack down on student behavior. As a result, the Greece School District plans to introduce a new dress code, new policies on cell phones and more. In a recent report the task force recommends the changes because under the...
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I just don’t get it. I don’t think this means I’m getting old, it just means I sometimes wonder if kids have lost the ability to think clearly. I understand they’re kids and they’re not supposed to totally get it. But when it comes to style, who in the world said pants falling off...
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Whoever came up with this idea needs to be fired from whatever position they may hold in the school district.
CNN is reporting that a Georgia School District is testing a pilot program to get kids to study. No, it’s not the reward of a good education which of course empowers one to move forward...
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It’s another sad and tragic story, that didn’t need to happen.
On September 29 three teens and one recent high school graduate all lost their lives in a terrible accident near Canisteo, New York. The wrecked car containing their bodies wasn’t found until late Monday afternoon, nearly three days after the tragic accident. The four...
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I played a round of golf yesterday with my brother and his wife who were in town visiting for a couple days. I use to play a lot of golf, but these days my golf rounds come few and far between. As a matter of fact, yesterday was just the second time I’d been...
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