For principals, student sexting a speeding ‘freight train,’ full of peril by Benjamin Herold, Education Week For Jane Griffin, the principal at Louisiana’s Winnfield High, the moment came when one of her students found a staff member’s smartphone laying on a desk, picked it up, and took a picture of his own genitals. For Shafta […]
“Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.” – William Blake “It’s been a pretty hectic for you, hasn’t it Fran?” My Mom hands me a cup of coffee and sits beside me at the kitchen island. “How is Annie?” “She’s going to be released tomorrow. She’ll go into […]
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” – Zora Neale Hurston She just disappeared. She and William were gone. On the third day of her disappearance, Frank filed a missing person’s report. Dean, myself, Dusty’s mother, Dusty’s father and his wife, Sylvia, and Frank were standing in a loose circle at the […]
Here’s how to help your allergic child deal with food bullying By Suzanne Allard Levingston Here are experts’ recommendations for schools, students and parents on dealing with food allergy bullying. Talk to your child. If you have a child with a food allergy, you should start a conversation in a nonthreatening way, said Scott Sicherer […]
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” – William Blake The weather shifted from a balmy to a rainy morning. Mom and I had gone to the Home Depot and gotten Early Girl and Sweet One Hundred tomato plants, along with pansies and verbena to put with them in the prepared soil. […]