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On Discriminatory School Vouchers, Democrats Divide the Party to Appear Unified!? | gadflyonthewallblog
The national Dems could have put pressure on the Governor to keep with the group. Instead they asked the majority of Democratic lawmakers to just hush until Donald Trump was defeated and Sen. Bob Casey was re-elected.
Stop Trying to Hide S-E-X From Students in School – They Already Know All About It From the Internet | gadflyonthewallblog
Schools can provide a safe place to discuss issues kids may be uncomfortable talking about with other adults. Books provide a safe way to mentally grapple with concepts and ideas of the adult world.
Top 4 Things McKeesport Area School Directors Need to do to Extinguish the District Dumpster Fire | gadflyonthewallblog
School directors reneged on a teachers contract. Their business manager ran for the hills. And at the last board meeting two school directors had their dirty laundry aired during public comments prompting one to call a White Oak Councilperson a homophobic slur
If You Don’t Want Teachers to be Saviors, Don’t Put Them on a Cross | gadflyonthewallblog
We also need to reform those systems into places that don’t require us to be saviors. We need an education system that actually provides enough to students that their teachers don’t need to jump on the pyre to keep them warm.
What Can Educators Learn from “Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom”? | gadflyonthewallblog
As classes dwindled down in June and the summer approached, I noticed some of my students who had finished their work bringing the game in on their portable Nintendo Switch consoles. Like me, they were enthralled by the level of choice the newly released game presents.
Efforts to Legalize Child Labor are the Next Logical Step After Corporate Education Reform | gadflyonthewallblog
We’ve been increasingly treating children less as individual humans who are ends in themselves and instead as cogs in the machine, widgets, things to be molded and manipulated for the good of the economy.
After School Satan Clubs Are Teaching Public School Districts an Important Lesson in Free Speech | gadflyonthewallblog
Public school districts apparently CAN ignore the Separation of Church and State - BUT - if a district is going to violate this tenant for one organization, it has to be willing to do so for all.
Disaster Capitalists Try Ending the Teacher Exodus by Erasing Experienced Educators | gadflyonthewallblog
Replacing experienced with new educators has been one of the highest priorities of corporate education reform. After all, it’s much harder to try to indoctrinate seasoned educators with propaganda that goes against everything they learned than to encourage those with no practical experience to just drink the Kool-Aid.
Stop Giving Away Our Tax Dollars to Private & Parochial Schools, Matt Gergely & James Brewster!!! | gadflyonthewallblog
Public schools in Pennsylvania just took the Commonwealth to the state Supreme Court and won because it wasn’t providing fair funding to students. And now my representatives are offering a novelty oversized check to religious schools and private sector academies!?
Forgotten Pre-Covid Report Reveals Standardized Testing Weaknesses in PA | gadflyonthewallblog
If we value parents and their autonomy to make decisions for their own children, we should at very least expand their ability to refuse the test for their children without having to give anyone a reason. Being parents is reason enough.
“We Support Our Police” Signs are Empty Gestures or Whitewashing Dysfunction | gadflyonthewallblog
Wouldn’t real support be sending a counselor to this person’s home long before it ever got to this situation? Wouldn’t support be disarming someone with a mental illness before he got violent? Wouldn’t it be responding immediately after he made the death threat and not only after he was ready to act on it?
Come Visit Your Wasted Tax Dollars at Commonwealth Charter Academy’s Waterfront Luxury Office Space | gadflyonthewallblog
CCA doesn’t sound like a school. It sounds like a tech company. And I guess it kind of is. The K-12 cyber network’s Homestead building isn’t designed for students – it’s designed for executives.
A Private Equity Firm, The Makers of the MAP Test, and an Ed Tech Publisher Join Forces | gadflyonthewallblog
We could just let teachers teach and then assess their students in whatever ways seem most accurate and fair. Or we could continue to rely on corporations to do it for us without any real proof that their products are better or even as good as what your local neighborhood educator could provide.
Congress May Raise Educators’ Minimum Salaries to Combat the Teacher Exodus | gadflyonthewallblog
A group of Congressional Democrats have introduced The American Teacher Act establishing a minimum salary of $60,000 for all public school teachers working in the U.S. – the first legislation of its kind.