May 9, 2023
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is widely used in public schools and is now infiltrating private schools, including Christian schools. This article will examine the suitability of SEL in any school, and especially in Christian schools. But first we need to understand what SEL is. It is defined, at least in theory, in a recent article in Education [Read More]
January 4, 2019
Update: The settlement agreements described below ended in 2021 and lasted for three school years: 2018 – 2019, 2019 – 2020, and 2020 – 2021. A final report was issued by the Department of Human Rights in May of 2022. Suspensions and Expulsions Report. However, school districts continue to create and report discipline outcomes based on race. Race-based [Read More]
February 28, 2018
Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School policies paved the way for February 14th massacre Similar programs in place in Minnesota
By Donna Azarian
While Americans wrack their brains to understand the high school massacre in Parklands, Florida on February 14th, alarming new information points to a dangerous school discipline policy that set the stage for this tragedy.
That same policy, instituted [Read More]
July 2017
The date for adopting the “Toolkit” was rescheduled after the public, belatedly informed that such a document was pending inundated the MDE with emails and phone calls. And after legislators publicly registered their opposition, Legislator’s Letter to Commissioner (PDF), the MDE posted this message on their website:
Thank you to everyone who submitted comments and suggestions to [Read More]
November 30, 2015
MO district defies federal transgender mandate: Keeps boys out of girls’ bathrooms
MARIONVILLE, Mo. – Across the nation, hundreds of school districts have been bowing to pressure from the Obama administration to allow transgender students to use the restroom or shower facility of their choice, regardless of their biological gender.
The administration has threatened to take away millions of dollars [Read More]