Walker is a relatively well adjusted kid while his team mates are a collection of kids with problems: physical abuse, semi abandonment, racism, and the need for these kids to deal with it themselves. Crutcher’s
We kids had names for all the rocks up on Eagle Rock. “Sleeping Beauty Rock, Squeeze Rock”, “Death Rock”, “Butt Rock” etc. This hill was our other playground. It was in semi neutral territory between three distinct neighborhoods as defined by the “gangs” of kids in them. I su...
On a recent day, students read out loud about communities in a third-grade social studies class at Bushman Elementary in Dallas, Texas. But the nine- and ten-year-olds were also studying art. Visual arts instructor Ron Oliver works to combine the two subjects. RON OLIVER: "The kids that...
But the truth is, stories win. They always win. Kids know things in their bones. One of them is that they need water. Another is that they need sleep. And another is that they need stories. The purer the better. So when I say storytelling, I am not necessarily talking ab...
His life’s work has been the promotion of homosexuality, even in elementary schools, and he has demonstrated no qualifications to make students safer in our schools. Jennings is committed to the “safety” of only a narrow portion of American students, while expressing disdain for religion and...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
When finding the length of a curve using calculus, it's actually not possible to find the answer using ordinary integration (because the integral does not exist). But using a computer algebra system, we can easily find the answer for such problems and spend more time understanding the problem...
Would Columbine have happened if the elite kids had not harassed the “weird kids”? Perhaps, but I doubt it. I remember seeing the intense pain on the faces of the kids on the playground in elementary when they were being cruelly teased. More than a few of those kids became discipline ...
I teach biology and use humour a lot, my students get good grades and laugh a lot, I’d put this down to feel good factor and just enjoying the lesson, but when I use humorous stories e.g. to explain DNA transcription e.g. doing silly voices for a mRNA molcule coming out with a...
Ashley Hall, the marketing coordinator for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, said educational programs frequently occurred around the tree. One visitor told her a costumed man used to climb the tree and then scamper out to tell stories to kids. ...