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Arizona gun rights groups advocate that teachers should be armed in classrooms. Training should be available for teachers to be able to use guns to protect children. These gun rights groups claim that the opposition to the idea is ignorant about guns in general.

This new bill highly reduces some of the old classic books that could be used in reading classes. It also suggest that teachers private lives can be observed for anything that is considered a violation of new federal standards.

As many people know there has been talk about arming teachers in schools just in case of emergency. Many people think this is a bad idea and could cause more damage than not having them

Great! I feel as if dress code policy for teachers is too lax. I know some girls who wear flip flops to class! Being professional goes a long way, especially when influencing the nation's youth.

This article doesn't believe arming teachers or principles should be allowed.Guns should be in the hands of those in the position of protecting people. Teachers do not receive training on weapons and this isn't in there job description.

This article is talking about The National Education Association's funding. The NEA represents half of the union members working for the local governments, more than any other union. The NEA represents all teachers in grades K-12 public schools. The NEA involves itself in many affairs and spends the most money in the political campaigns out of any major megacorporation or industrial association.

Your Safety and Security or Your Civil Liberties - Which is More Important? By Lisa Prososki, an independent education consultant and former middle school and high school Social Studies, English, Reading, and Technology teacher Subjects: Government, civics, social studies Lesson Objectives Students will: Understand the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and the controversies that led the ACLU to take legal action against the legislation.

Back in the 60's religion was something that was part of the teachers lesson plans along with bible reading. In todays world it is the exact opposite, teachers are being told not to discuss religion in their class rooms.

A kindergarten teacher posts a negative comment about two students in her class after having to break up a fight between the two. Many are outraged at her comments and want her to be fired for posting them online.

This is actually kind of funny, but it does show how easy it is for companies to spy on people. This company goes over board tracking this stolen computer. 

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.

When religion and school is linked, we have many opinions regarding that issue. If religion is taught at school and teachers have a better understanding of the many different religions and important concepts of religion, then we can get a better understanding and have a better relationships with others that have a different religion.

This is support from a teacher at an academic center for the DREAM Act, as numerous of her students fall into the category of Dreamers. It shows statistics that would increase jobs and revenue for America.

This article is based on school choice. To choose a school for your child based on your living location. How empowering the parent to choice would be more beneficial.

It is very important in the present day for children to get a good education and the child should not have to suffer a poor education because of where they live. If the parents can not afford to live in a neighborhood with the top performance schools they should still be able to send their child to a good school and even if it means the child has to take the bus or car pool.

Although many people live in districts that have the funding for an excellent staff that is required to create a good learning environment, there are some parents that do not have that luxury. Being at a good school is what ultimately gets students out of the 'poverty cycle' or not. If a student does live in a bad neighborhood and has the possibility of attending a better neighborhood even if it is a bus ride or drive away it should be up to them ultimately if they want to make that change and commute for the better learning environment.

This article explains how the balancing of personal freedoms works into the government and the workplace of citizens today. A big example this article touches on is how online activity can be monitored. What is really private today?

Technology is advancing faster and faster every minute and privacy is something known of the past now in my opinion. One of my teachers told the class that everything you learn about computers during your freshman and sophomore years of college will most likely be outdated by your junior year - just to help realize how fast technology is actually growing. Anything online can affect you now-a-days it seems. On the news the other day, there was a story about Facebook Friends and your credit. People are actually being denied car loans or things of that sort because of the friends they have on Facebook because if their friends seem unreliable and have bad scores, then the company will assume you do too. It's getting ridiculous to be honest.

These days employers monitor and know everything you are doing. Knowing this, I feel like if you are acting in a way that is respectable both at work and in your personal life, you will have nothing to worry about. I do not see this issue of lack of privacy changing, I see it increasing as time goes on.

Thomas Sawyer, a retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., was left humiliated at the airport, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Sawyer recently survived from bladder cancer and was required to wear special devices called urostomy bag. The bag was picked up by the scanner machines where he was forced to take his pants off.

They're the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America's official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn't name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn't correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights.

Grades: Lower Elementary (K-2), focused for grade 2Time Required: 7-10 class periodsSubjects: Visual ArtsPrerequisites: none This unit for children in primary grades focuses on feelings depicted or expressed in works of art. Children make personal connections with works of art that express themes of caring and study how artists use art principles such as space, line, shape, and color to express mood and meaning.

A swim coach required one of her students to take a pregnancy test. The swim coach did not want the student to harm the unborn child by being on the swim team but the student denied she was pregnant.

A teacher at a Pennsylvania school violated a young students rights by demanding her to take a pregnancy test. This ended up going to court and just shows that schools need to buckle down on there privacy laws for students.

We are living in a digital age where students, myself included, can post, tweet, and update their status about every thought that goes through their heads. Some of those thoughts posted online has landed some kids in hot water. The severities of th incidents vary anywhere from venting about a hall monitor being mean or how a profile that was made as a joke that cost a teacher his job.