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Creating Creative Children

Creating Creative Children

    It is necessary that teachers and parents guide their children to employ creativity en mass, and frequently. This involves making time in our daily lives to encourage this behavior. It requires more open-ended questions, allowing room for more than one "right" answer. It requires allowing our children more freedoms to pursue their interests, communicating with them often about their ideas and opinions, and genuinely considering these creative thoughts as a means of validation. For this, our children will be more empowered; readily willing to act creatively when problems arise, and more confident in themselves…

What to Do When Your Child Comes Out

What to Do When Your Child Comes Out

So, your child has just come out to you as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning.  Maybe you have always suspected that your child was LGBTQ, but it had never become a reality until they sat you down at your kitchen table and came out.   What do you do?  How do you embrace who they are in the right way? …

Public Schools vs. Charter Schools

Public Schools vs. Charter Schools

A sort of epic teaching battle for who can produce the best students. Charter schools have become the modern rival of public schools. The conversation has turned even uglier as Teachers Unions take charge and outright defame charter schools, with efforts to remove these entities from particular states all together. I think it’s time we call for some peace. …

Unfair Funding - Part 2

Unfair Funding - Part 2

In 2016, National Public Radio (NPR) released a report titled Why America's Schools Have A Money Problem. It generated a lot of talk among educators and well-concerned Americans alike. The report accompanied the following graph depicting the blatant problem with school funding across the nation: …

Unfair Funding - Part 3

Unfair Funding - Part 3

The problem is clearly staring us all in the eye, but lawmakers refuse to see education as an importance that requires equal protections and funding. In 1973, San Antonio Independent School District vs. Rodriguez made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The plaintiff, Demetrio P. Rodriguez, argued that any school funding system that depends on local property tax revenue is fundamentally unfair to poorer districts. Rodriguez’s sons attended an elementary school where the third floor had been condemned. It lacked books and many of the teachers weren’t certified. …

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