Neetu Chandak Child abuse increases the day after when report cards are given on Fridays, a study in Florida released Monday suggested. “Release of report cards on Monday through Thursday was not associated with increased incidence rates of child physical abuse the same day or the day after the release; however, nearly a 4-fold increase in…
Nick Givas Julie Gunlock of The Independent Women’s Forum celebrated the reversal of former first lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules on “Fox & Friends” Monday, saying children will get more nourishment from the new menus. “These reforms that went through in 2010 pushed by Michelle Obama, were well-intentioned, but in reality kids were not…
Neetu Chandak A California professor assigned an essay prompt worth 30 percent of students’ grades that featured a hypothetical scenario with “Donald Rump” and “Students for Offensive Speech.” “Students for Offensive Speech” invites reality TV star “Donald Rump” to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the assignment, Campus Reform reported Wednesday. Students have to pretend…
DCNF Video Team A high school student got called an “asshole” by his teacher for refusing to take off his “Make America Great Again” hat in class, according to a video posted on YouTube. The teacher allegedly evacuated the entire class after the student expressed his unwillingness to take the hat off in defense of free speech….
Neetu Chandak A New Jersey university is not bringing Chick-fil-A to its campus over the fast food chain’s “corporate values,” even though the restaurant was the students’ top pick. Rider University surveyed students in the spring and asked which restaurants they wanted the school to bring to campus, Campus Reform reported Tuesday. Chick-fil-A was the top pick. The school…
Grace Carr A Kentucky high school suspended two students for reportedly dressing as the 1999 Columbine shooters who were responsible for one the worst mass shootings in the U.S. Adair County High School suspended two girls who allegedly dressed as the Columbine shooters for Halloween, ABC News affiliate WHAS11 reported Thursday. The two girls wore clothes resembling…
In Wind Sprints: Shorter Essays, Joseph Epstein, one of America’s great essayists, includes a piece “How I Learned to Love the Draft” in which he offered his reasons for the restoration of compulsory military service. After reading Epstein’s reasons for bringing back the draft—the exposure of young people to contemporaries from all backgrounds, a…
Neetu Chandak A North Carolina high school principal was replaced after she asked a student to take off his Trump jersey at a patriotic-themed football game. Cindy Gordon, the former principal at Harnett Central High School, asked Matthew Collins, 18, to remove the jersey because it was political, according to WRAL Friday. The front of the jersey…
Neetu Chandak A Minnesota teacher resigned after posting a tweet on Saturday asking who would “take one for the team” and kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Pictures of the tweet coming from the name @lookitsSammm are circulating across social media. The unnamed teacher resigned voluntarily from Intermediate School District 917 in Rosemount, Minnesota, according to a press…
Neetu Chandak A Mississippi high school’s band performed a depiction of a scene from the movie “John Q” in which characters are held at gunpoint for its halftime show. The performance occurred days after two police officers were shot and killed. The school’s band director was placed on leave. A high school band in Mississippi…