North Carolina State

Guilford County, NC

HuffPost

Skills that kids practice at home can lead to success in the classroom.

What Teachers Wish Parents Would Do To Prepare Kids For The School Year

Louisiana State

103.3 The G.O.A.T.

Kids are back in the classrooms and some parents are heartbroken to see what their kids are having to learn to do on campus.

Parents of Students in Louisiana Schools Heartbroken After First Instructional Week

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 9, 2024-- Can the workforce of tomorrow effectively be educated by the school model of yesterday? If you ask teachers, parents and students, that’s a big no, according to surveys by One Poll 1 and Talker Research 2 on behalf of Learn4Life high schools in time for Personalized Learning Month in August. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240809133393/en/ Students, parents and teachers want a personalized learning approach for a high school education, according to recent surveys (Photo: Business Wire)

Parents, Teachers and Students Agree…Individualized Instruction is Best

Lafayette, IN

The US Sun

AN elementary school is switching to a four-day week, leaving some parents outraged as they scramble to find daycare options. Students will follow a Monday-Thursday schedule when they return for the 2024-2025 school year. Vinton Elementary School in Lafayette, Indiana, will be the first in the state to try out four-day school weeks, Indiana Public […]

First-of-its-kind 4-day school week sparks fury as parents are forced to pay for daycare & students endure longer days

Atlanta, GA

Editor's note: This article was originally published on October 2, 2022. It has since been updated. Abby Norman, a former teacher from Atlanta, Georgia, spent nine years "loving the students and the learning and despising the testing and the paper-pushing of the classroom." She then called it quits. In a tweet, Norman explained why she chose to quit the profession and now works as a bartender. "I quit my teaching job and now make more bartending for 15 fewer hours [every] week. Also, I get blamed for way less and get told thank you way more. No lesson plans or grading papers," she wrote. "Remember this when people ask about the teacher shortage."

Former teachers reveal what made them quit and it explains why there are teacher shortages

BuzzFeed

"Society doesn't value education because if it did, parents would do their part, schools would be funded equitably, and teachers wouldn't have to purchase their own supplies."

"Students And Parents Don't Care": 17 Longtime Teachers Reveal The "Last Straw" Moments That Made Them Fall Out Of Love With Their Profession

Fayette County, TN

The Boot

Who doesn't remember the most fun and exciting part of school growing up: the field trips. It didn't matter if you were going to see the inner workings of a sewage plant or a museum, you knew you were going to leave school property, and that was epic. But, one...

School District Cancels All Future Field Trips For Odd Reason, Parents Are Furious

Polk County, FL

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Fort Meade, FL

Uncovering Florida

The Polk County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest after conducting an investigation into a case of credit card fraud involving 28-year-old Burger King employee, Kellyn Miley. The incident was discussed in detail during this morning's briefing with Sheriff Grady Judd.

Burger King Employee Caught Using Customer's Credit Card for Food at Former Job

Orange County, NC

Fox News

Escaped murderer Ramon Jamarr Alston is 'extremely dangerous,' warns Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood, who grew up with his father. Manhunt underway.

North Carolina sheriff hunting 'Christmas Day Killer' knows him personally, warns he has 'nothing to lose'

New York Post

An Australian school community has been left outraged after a cherished crossing guard was banned from high-fiving student following a parent complaint about the innocent gesture.

Students of Mount Dandenong Primary School in Greater Melbourne will no longer receive high fives from their beloved crossing supervisor, John Goulden, during drop off and pick up after he was reprimanded by Yarra Ranges Council.

Goulden, who was recently crowned one of Victoria’s top crossing supervisors, has been warned by the council against “initiating unnecessary physical contact” with the children.



Cafeteria manager crashes into propane tanks at Florida elementary school, sparking evacuation

Outraged parents have rallied behind...

Beloved school crossing guard banned from high-fiving students after parent complaint

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A former Jacksonville police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Josue Garriga III, 34, faces a mandatory penalty of 10 years to life in federal prison and must register as a sex offender. A sentencing date has not been set.

Former cop pleads guilty to enticing 17-year-old girl

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Denver, CO

No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

Editor's note: This article was originally published on August 8, 2022. It has since been updated. There's a shortage of teachers across America, reflecting the low pay for teachers and inadequate investment in education. One teacher shared a video clip of her kindergarten class and how poorly it was furnished. The teacher, who goes by @progressivemama on TikTok, said the lack of investment in school was forcing teachers like her to spend their own money to help provide basic requirements in a classroom, such as books, shelves, and classroom staples, among other things. The video showed her panning the camera across the classroom, revealing empty shelves with no books and no proper chairs for kids to use. The video soon garnered more than 388,000 views and 35,600 likes.

Teacher’s video shows empty kindergarten classroom, says she is forced to spend money on supplies

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NewsNinja

The discussion on whether to choose homeschooling or conventional schooling has been a heated subject for many years. Each learning approach has its own pros and cons, and deciding which is right for someone usually hinges on their specific situation. Let's explore the reasons for and against homeschooling when it's pitted against traditional schooling.

Is Homeschooling Better Than Traditional Schooling? Here’s the debate!

Healthline

Yes, you can potty train an autistic child. Here are tips to help you when potty training an autistic child and ways to work with nonverbal and nonspeaking children.

Tips for Potty Training an Autistic Child

Scripps News

As summer vacation ends, many kids are getting ready to head back to school. But for some, the learning never really ended. That's because their parents are "unschooling" them. Here's what it means.

Parents share why they're 'unschooling' their kids and how it's different from homeschooling

Upworthy

Every young generation invents its own slang, much to the befuddlement of older folks who quickly tire of trying to keep up with constantly changing terminology. Remember Gen X's "bogus" or "gnarly" or "grody to the max"? How about millennials with "basic" and "extra" and "clapback"? Gen Z is still going strong with "giving" and "eating" and "mid," but even the older teens and young adults of Gen Z are beginning to feel their cool factor waning as Gen Alpha steps up to the plate.Gen Alpha, born between 2010 and 2024, has arrived with a whole new vocabulary that parents of school-aged kids are scrambling to adjust to. Does anyone beyond high school age know what "skibidi" means? How about "sigma" or "gyat" or "Ohio"? One group of people who have their fingers on the pulse of young folks' language is teachers. When you're immersed in tween and teen culture all day, you pick up some things, which is why Mr. Lindsay, a middle school teacher, shared a little Gen Alpha slang primer for the beginning of the school year.

Middle school teacher shares Gen Alpha slang parents should know as kids go back to school

South Carolina State

Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

It's early August and my kids are back at school—and I’m already wondering how I’m going to replicate the whiplash-inducing routine all year long. Our day starts at 5 a.m., with one child off to a before-school sports practice, and two others rising in the wee hours to catch the painfully early middle school bus. Then it’s time to get our elementary schooler up and off to his drop-off, and finally, I sprint over to the preschool with the 3-year-old.

Schools struggle to fill teacher vacancies

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