I learned of upcoming educational conferences and speakers. I also learned of new educational laws and policies. One “Twit” that caught my attention was from Educational News. I pulled up the whole article and it entails that kids with lice can now go to school. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines this week saying that kids with lice should be allowed to stay in school. They said head lice are not a health hazard; lice are not responsible for the spread of any disease. In addition, the common treatments for killing the bugs are no longer as effective because the pests have developed resistance to them. “Oh boy, what are we to do now”.
I understand their point of view on letting kids stay in school. Apparently by the time kids are diagnosed with head lice and given the no touch no share lice rules it’s too late, the critters have made camp weeks ago. So, what’s the point on staying home from school? Does it make sense to keep kids from school for weeks despite the fact that these annoying buggers have been living on their heads for weeks and most importantly now that the kids are made aware of the lice rules.
But I also understand school policy, even though lice are not a health hazard it is an infestation hazard and a social hazard that will interfere with the education of the students. It’s difficult to get rid of those critters can you imagine if kids were allowed to stay in school. The school will never get rid of them. On top of that kids are known to say mean things and socially segregate kids who are different. “She has cooties in her hair”.
I also learned on Twitter that school districts that do not change in how they provide services for English-language learners will get a visit from the Justice Department. Apparently since the Obama administration beefed up enforcement of civil rights of students in schools especially ELL the Justice Department has become more active. Does this imply they weren’t active or more active beforehand? Sad, how people begin to do what they’re supposed to do when someone rocks their boat. I think Obama should rock more boats in the Educational field, wake some people up.
On Google Reader I read many interesting blogs and articles from first day of school icebreakers, saving money on setting up your classroom, being prepared for an interview for a teaching job, to adapting national learning standards. Once again I was intrigued on an interesting blog, which I then clicked on the link and read the full article and found other articles similiar to that topic. It relates to my research project, Cyber Bullying. The article was about a 6th grader receiving taunting and explicit sexual threats from another 6th grader via text messaging. One of the blogs substantiated my view on how aware we are on this growing problem. I quote the blog, “I’m concerned that we are not as alert to this form of bullying and perhaps don’t stress enough the dangers to our students and/or what victims should do.” I am going to follow this story/blogs to see what else people have to say about this growing issue.
I understand their point of view on letting kids stay in school. Apparently by the time kids are diagnosed with head lice and given the no touch no share lice rules it’s too late, the critters have made camp weeks ago. So, what’s the point on staying home from school? Does it make sense to keep kids from school for weeks despite the fact that these annoying buggers have been living on their heads for weeks and most importantly now that the kids are made aware of the lice rules.
But I also understand school policy, even though lice are not a health hazard it is an infestation hazard and a social hazard that will interfere with the education of the students. It’s difficult to get rid of those critters can you imagine if kids were allowed to stay in school. The school will never get rid of them. On top of that kids are known to say mean things and socially segregate kids who are different. “She has cooties in her hair”.
I also learned on Twitter that school districts that do not change in how they provide services for English-language learners will get a visit from the Justice Department. Apparently since the Obama administration beefed up enforcement of civil rights of students in schools especially ELL the Justice Department has become more active. Does this imply they weren’t active or more active beforehand? Sad, how people begin to do what they’re supposed to do when someone rocks their boat. I think Obama should rock more boats in the Educational field, wake some people up.
On Google Reader I read many interesting blogs and articles from first day of school icebreakers, saving money on setting up your classroom, being prepared for an interview for a teaching job, to adapting national learning standards. Once again I was intrigued on an interesting blog, which I then clicked on the link and read the full article and found other articles similiar to that topic. It relates to my research project, Cyber Bullying. The article was about a 6th grader receiving taunting and explicit sexual threats from another 6th grader via text messaging. One of the blogs substantiated my view on how aware we are on this growing problem. I quote the blog, “I’m concerned that we are not as alert to this form of bullying and perhaps don’t stress enough the dangers to our students and/or what victims should do.” I am going to follow this story/blogs to see what else people have to say about this growing issue.
