Bookworm on Dec 14 2007 | Filed under: Education
They are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find cowardly, clueless school administrators, aren’t they?
Children at the Oakdale School here in southeastern Connecticut returned this fall to learn that their traditional recess had gone the way of the peanut butter sandwich and the Gumby lunchbox.
No longer could they let off their youthful energy — [...]
Bookworm on Dec 12 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
I received this email from a friend, who thought that you all might have some useful input about a recent policy change at her daughter’s elementary school:
Apparently a boy got hit in the head playing football at recess and hurt himself, though I don’t know in what way or how badly.
The school’s response has been [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education
I was perusing the “site plan” for my kids’ school, a document that spells out what the school’s goals are regarding education and the means by which they put those goals into effect. After deciphering the usual cant and education babble, I learned that our school wants to teach our kids to read, write, [...]
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