All posts tagged "schools"
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Lindsay Cross | October 11, 2012
Stop Blaming The Schools: Parental Involvement Is More Important For A Child’s Education
You know how parents are spending thousands upon thousands of dollars to ensure that their children have...
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Eve Vawter | October 3, 2012
Telling A Teacher About Kids Sexually Abusing Each Other Isn’t ‘Tattling”
It's one thing to have your kids take a wrong turn on the Google machine at home and...
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Lindsay Cross | October 2, 2012
Grade Expectations: The Pull Of Private Schools Is The Community
Public schools are begging for parents to be more involved. They're trying to do everything they can to...
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Lindsay Cross | October 2, 2012
School Beauty Pageants: Teaching Kids That Even In Education, It’s Your Appearance That Matters
Because obviously, the school doesn't need it's brightest and hardest-working to be the spokesperson. That's what pretty people...
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Lindsay Cross | June 15, 2012
Top Marks: Sacramento Lays Off Its ‘Teacher Of The Year’
Just in case you wanted another example of how broken the American education system is, here ya go....
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Lindsay Cross | April 18, 2012
There Is Absolutely No Excuse For Handcuffing A Kindergartner
What do you do with a 6-year-old child who is throwing a temper tantrum and has become a...
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Lindsay Cross | August 9, 2011
What Does The Economic Decline Have To Do With Your Kid’s Education?
Charles Blow in the New York Times has a sobering list of facts from "The State of...
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Lindsay Cross | June 13, 2011
The Other Side of Parent-Teacher Conferences
At Mommyish, we pride ourselves on presenting multiple viewpoints and parenting techniques. As Mollie has stated before,...
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Mollie Hemingway | May 31, 2011
Parents Divided Over Iowa Principal’s ‘Birthday Whammies’
It wasn't until I read a story about an Iowa principal getting in trouble for "spanking" birthday boys...