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A viral social media post over the weekend has shed light on a new trend taking place among international students living in Canada. International students that arrive in Canada on student visas are filming themselves going to food banks to get “free food” as a way to save money seemingly without any shame or remorse. …
The number of chronically absent schoolkids jumped by 6.5 million from before the pandemic to the 2021-22 year, says a study on how COVID lockdowns hurt classroom attendance. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, Stanford University research shows. Before the pandemic, …
WASHINGTON (TND) — Schools are taking on social media giants including Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, asserting that the platforms have caused their students harm – particularly regarding issues like cyberbullying and mental health issues linked to social media usage. Approximately 200 school districts have joined the lawsuit against the platforms’ parent companies so far, which has been …
A teacher in the Olympia School District was privately communicating with a 10-year-old student about her gender identity, and even invited the girl to her house and suggested she set up a private email account and delete messages, “…otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly.” Alesha Perkins, who has put a spotlight …
Schools allowing children to ‘identify as horses, dinosaurs and cats’ as pupils ‘communicate with animal noises’https://t.co/JuxYR0nqhi — GB News (@GBNEWS) June 20, 2023 Classes are being disrupted but teachers fear backlash over speaking out Schools are increasingly being caught between a rock and a hard place over pupils identifying as animals and inanimate objects. Pupils …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxQqd8_5FHE “70% of African American students are not reading at proficiency levels. It’s higher in math, it’s about 80%.” Siyamak sits down with Gloria Romero, former state Senator and first female majority leader of the state senate in California’s history.
On June 1st, Stuyvesant High School released its admissions data. Seven black students got into Stuyvesant out of 762 offers. Those pro “equity” and anti-meritocracy screamed racism. It’s a lie. After examining the data, three things become clear. First, those screaming racism are racist towards Asians – and Native Americans who fared worse than blacks …