Source: Truthout
22 November 2009
This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos and the six Jesuit priests with whom she worked at the Central American University in San Salvador. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by srsean1968
Source: LRC
November 20, 2009
Shortly before 8:00 Tuesday morning, a concerned parent visited the elementary school at West-Mont Christian Academy in North Coventry, Pennsylvania. After checking in at the desk, the teacher was escorted to the lobby to wait for his child’s kindergarten teacher. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by srsean1968
see aslo: 16 Year Old Boy With Autism Shot 5 Times by Officer at School.
source: Raw Story
Political observers like The Atlantic‘s Andrew Sullivan have argued that one of the most dangerous elements of the Bush administration’s torture policies was the risk that a “torture mentality” would take hold in American society.
Those who seek evidence for that theory need look no further than Great Falls, Montana, where two teacher’s aides have been charged with using water torture on a middle school student.
Julie Ann Parrish and Kristina Marie Kallies face one count each of felony abuse after allegations that they forced a 13-year-old autistic boy’s head under water after he fell asleep in class. They also stand accused of “forcing him to sit in his soiled pants for hours and making him eat his own vomit when he got sick,” reports KTLA in Los Angeles.
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Posted by Brian
Today I went to a Santa Rosa City School Board meeting. The topic of discussion was the introduction of corporate advertising and sponsorship in the Santa Rosa’s City School district. They voted yes to move forward with this proposal. The idea is to implement commercially provided material and curriculum into program courses. This money will not be used to keep peoples jobs and it will not be used to help pre-existing programs. This is a tool for a corporation to pay to put their own spin into our public school curriculum and as well as advertise through the naming of buildings; school teams, educational programs, and signs that will be posted around campuses. Read the CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP AND FACILITY NAMING RIGHTS POLICY HERE.
I have been an educator in Sonoma County for 6 years and I am horrified how the board ruled today. Amazingly I was the only member of the public to speak out in opposition to this proposal. Is this what public education has come to? Already children are inundated with advertisements wherever they go and now we have it in our schools! I hope that our future generations have the strength to resist corporate control as they get older but I find that hard to believe when these corporations are the one’s implementing lessons in our schools. What can we do to stop this vicious cycle?
I thought I had gotten what I said on tape but sadly it did not record for some reason, so I will transcribe my comment to the board and hopefully get a hold of a video to post later. It’s a good thing I typed what I was going to say before hand!
“These are hard times.
Troubling economic woes have had a major impact on our system as a whole.
The school system is not immune from these woes; indeed, they are often on the front lines.
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Posted by Brian
