your older elementary school kid comes home one day and tells you that they, along with about a dozen others of their gender, were singled out for "underwear inspection" due to several incidents of poop being found on the gym floor. your kid says when he/she protested, they were told to do it because all of those selected for the strip search had ( Read more... )

Should teachers have a dress code?
Should it be the same as the student dress code or different?

Show your work.

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News article: http://fox2now.com/2013/04/02/tenennessee-girl-sent-home-24-times-for-smelling-bad/In short, a second-grader has been sent home from school dozens of times because she smells so bad that it's disruptive to the rest of her class. Her mother claims she bathes daily and has been cleared medically. Child services has apparently been ( Read more... )

A teacher in Montreal showed the video 1 Man 1 Icepick to a class of 10th Graders. If you haven't heard of it, it shows the real life murder, dismemberment, mutilation, and necrophilia of the lover of a man suspected to be Luka Magnotta.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158741/Teacher-shows-class-video-Canadian-cannibal-Luka-Magnotta- ( Read more... )

you have a high-school aged daughter in a business and communications class. a video assignment "to create a persuasive promo or advertisement" is given and she chooses to create an anti-bullying message.

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If your teenage child was being bullied (physically as well as verbally) at school and the school officials were not doing enough to intervene, would you send them to school with some kind of defensive weapon like mace or a stun gun? If you don't think that's appropriate, what should the punishment be?

inspiration

Say that you live in a city with five main schooling options. Homeschooling is illegal. Your options are something like ( Read more... )

In the homeschooling post, a common theme (and common to most homeschooling discussions) is socialization. Kids need it, it's easier to get in a public school ( Read more... )

you have a pre-K child. she comes home from school one day with the lunch you packed for her entirely uneaten. when you question her, the answer you get is that a state agent was at the school, inspecting all kids' lunchboxes or bags, and this state agent told your child her lunch was "not healthy enough by USDA guidelines" and she was forbidden ( Read more... )