A week ago (sadly, my most recent blog post) I blogged about a school district monitoring their students by remotely turning on the webcams of their school-issued laptops. This story has really ballooned. On one site I have been following a thread about it and many links have been posted. Here are a few- click […]
Besides being a song from a show I was in once, this is a question we ask ourselves over and over again as the government or some other entity does some eyebrow-raising stunt. It seems a lot of such stunts have occurred in the recent decades, and this one isn’t going to make you feel
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No, Sci-Fi channel (or should I say SyFy?) didn’t renew Stan Lee’s reality show for a third season. But apparently 106 5th and 6th grade students in Berwick, Maine wanted to be superheroes. Or at least dress up as them. After a university in the UK set a Guinness record of the most people in
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This is a sort of a non-alcoholic version asked of someone when he or she says something crazy. A less rude way I suppose than asking, “What drugs have you been taking?” or, “Are you drunk??” In this story the answer is it wasn’t Koolaid at all, but a case of mistaken identity- wind-shield washer
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An interesting story hit the Christian school news recently about one girls high school team that beat another in basketball 100-0. No, that’s not a typo. There has been much drama about it since Christians are of course supposed to reflect Christ and show Christ-like behavior at all times. The principal of the winning school
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Most elementary classrooms share a common theme. Besides behavior boards, displayed classwork, televisions, etc. there are those boards that show who has what jobs for the week. I have seen job boards with only a few jobs listed and most students on deck for another week and I have seen job boards where every student
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I have read some pretty scary stories of how politcally correct and bureaucratic the UK has become. A recent story had some Muslims completely outraged at an advertisement for the police because it had a dog in it, which is considered unclean to them. The proper response would have been something to the effect of
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First school news post in a while. 🙂 Apparently a top-rated school district was trying to share the good news in a press conference. I stress trying as most people watching could only focus on the ironically misspelled sign in the background. Spellchecker, anyone? 😀 Click the picture for the story. Derek
My life is so uninteresting I am seriously considering a hiatus right now. I am a bit depressed that there is such little interest in my blog. True, I don’t exactly advertise it outside of a link in my signature at a site I don’t post much at, but I would have thought some would
Hey, watch out- will ya? Get that house outa’ the middle of the road! Er- house? In the road? It must be Mount Prospect’s Central School. Today was the day they moved the 1896 schoolhouse to its new location by the Mount Prospect Historical Society. This building was saved recently when funds were raised to
