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The article goes over many of the issues that parents, teachers, and children are having with common core. Parents are noticing children having an increased stressed level which they attribute to common core. In the authors opinion, teachers are required to follow a script, for fear of job loss. Some programs have also been cut from school like PE and Music.

No six year old or any child should be stressed out about school until at least high school. The core is defiantly not a good thing to have for any education.

the fact that schools have to cut programs just to support this "teaching style/ criteria" is insane. Music and gym and various other activities are ways for kids to get out of the cultural norm of academia and express themselves. I cant even imagine what my school would of been like without those things.

Growth and decline of illegal immigration over the past years. Here shown are some statistics on things like, percentage of k-12 students whose parents are illegal immigrants, what percentage of immigrants are Mexican, and how the population levels differ with each passing year. This article also gives charts to help better understand the curve of illegal immigration in the U.S.

"The general rule of thumb regarding college studying is, and has been for a long time, that for each class, students should spend approximately 2-3 of study time for each hour that they spend in class.  Many students carry a course load of 15 credits, or approximately 15 hours of class time each week.  Doing some simple math indicates that your student should be spending roughly 30 hours of study time and 15 hours in class.  This 45 hours is the equivalent of a full time job - the reason that your student is called a full time student.  For many students, this number is a surprise. "

Here we hear about why sex education should be in all schools. It speaks about parents in denial of their children having sex, how early children are starting to be sexually active, to the concequenses of not being educated.

The school system needs to be more proactive as well as the parents

This website goes into specifics on two healthy individuals and how soon you can go from sex to conception. Within 30 minutes, in case you were wondering...

A valley couple has their foster rights revoked due to not having their own children fully vaccinated. Some parents choose not to vaccinate because of health implications, some religious freedoms.

Now kids can not even see Charlie Brown for a field trip because it is a form of religion. Even with parents permission a school is being criticized for this outting.

Senator proposes a bill to cut parent's assistance if kids skip class or perform poorly in school.

Parents are not getting their children immunized from fear of autism. They are overlooking the serious affects of not vaccinating. Illnesses and diseases can transpire which can kill them and harm the rest of society.

Parents used an embryo selection process to have a healthy baby that would potentially be a donor match to cure its siblings of a genetic disease. In most cases like this, the children that were created as a "savior sibling" become part of the family, but what happens to those that serve their purpose and aren't needed after that? Embryos that don't meet the donor criteria are discarded. So what happens to the children that donate and cure their siblings, can they be discarded as well (put up for adoption)?

This is a Yahoo news story of Jamie Grumet defending her picture on the Time magazine cover. (the one mentioned in the class discussion) the video on this article is no longer available, but the article is still good. Dr Sears appeared on the Today show with Grumet and gives his professional opinion about breastfeeding.

when does punishing your child go to far? This is an article about a parent humiliating and shamming her son publicly. The first one by Jessica Samakow talks about a young man who was failing and the mother puts him out in public announcing his GPA and asking if he needs education. That is just down right embarrassing. Then when you though the mother could not go any further she did. She made her son stand on the street again but this time with his grades posted. There is punishing and then there is just abuse and humiliation that no person deserves.

This article breaks down why drugs should not be legalized. One of the main issues being that they are illegal and harmful and that's why they are illegal already. The government is looking out for you and some people should learn when to say "no". This gives 10 nicely detailed facts on why it should not be legalized and it is very informative.

I teach an online Banned Books class at GCC - ENH295. Good stuff.

That sounds really interesting. I'll have to look into it. Never knew the school had that class.

Parents are fighting back against school districts saying that they have taken dress codes too far and it is now interfering with their childs freedom of speech and expression. Schools are sending kids back home for wearing something as simple as a breast cancer band.

Anti-tobacco forces are opening a new front in the war against smoking by banning it in private places such as homes and cars when children are present. Starting Jan. 1, Texas will restrict smoking in foster parents' homes at all times and in cars when children are present, says Darrell Azar of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Fourth Amendment is questioned in Supreme Court decision after a student was strip searched at school without parent notification. 14 year old Safford girl was searched for drugs.

This site provides a pros and cons list to spanking. Also provides alternative methods to discipline and long term affects.

Facts about discipline and what is tolerated by law. Interesting information about how some states wanted to actually make spanking illegal.

There is some very interesting statistics from children with gay adopted parents on this site. The information speaks highly for those in favor of gay adoption. Good resource for research on this topic