Apiarius: The Bee Keeper: Auburn vs. Alabama Aftermath; Comply! Zero Tolerance; Bullying; Rape; That's Unpossible; Educamation; Think of the Children, CPS; Parenting, Kids These Days; Obamacare, Sabotage

Auburn vs. Alabama Aftermath

Comply!

Boy, 13, suspended for carrying Vera Bradley purse
Lakeview ban on memorial T-shirts backfires—"Jones said the situation was handled 'compassionately.' She said, for example, that students who were asked to turn their shirts inside-out were told to keep Caitlyn's name 'close to their heart.'" Utter bullshit.
African-American girl faces expulsion over "natural hair"
Tased Bastrop Student Has Head Injury—"A Cedar Creek High School student that was tased Wednesday by a resource officer during an altercation in a hallway is still in the hospital with a brain injury, according to the student's family's attorney." Noe Nino de Rivera was trying to stop a fight.
Coach Defends Students Arrested at Bus Stop—The charges were dropped.

Zero Tolerance

Pre-K suspensions common in Maryland schools—"Most of the students were suspended for physical attacks on teachers or students, though a handful were suspended for offenses such as sexual activity, possession of a firearm or other guns, inciting a public disturbance, and vandalism." WTF, are these charges for real?
Pocketknives, schools, and Georgia's 'zero tolerance' ban
Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance—"School districts around the country are rethinking their responses to minor offenses by students amid mounting evidence of the downside of get-tough policies." NYT

Bullying

Rape

That's Unpossible

Texas Board of Ed votes to drop algebra II mandate—"The Texas Board of Education gave preliminary approval Thursday to dropping algebra II as a requirement for high school graduation, over the objections of critics who say the state is watering down its academic standards."
NYC high schoolers can't earn '0' even if they skip class, miffed teachers say
U.S. students still only average on tests—"American high school students still post only average scores on a key skills test administered to kids in 65 countries across the industrialized world."

Educamation

Government books $41.3 billion in student loan profits
Many Young Americans Blame Colleges For Rising Student Debt
From Shop Class To Shipyard: Oregon's Plan For Industrial Interns—"Manufacturers in Oregon want to hire high school students. But they don't want the kinds of high school students that colleges are after — the kind who have amazing test scores and will spend hours perfecting essays. They want teenagers who want to paint, weld and work with their hands."

Think of the Children

CPS

6,000 Arizona child abuse reports not investigated—Maybe they just forgot.
Failure to protect: More children dying of abuse, neglect in Wash.
Child taken from womb by social services—"Essex social services have obtained a court order against a woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and for her child to be taken from her womb by caesarean section."
Family can sue in child removal case involving Mike's Hard Lemonade, judge rules—"An Ann Arbor family can proceed with a lawsuit against a judge who placed their 7-year-old son in foster care after his father mistakenly gave him Mike’s Hard Lemonade at a Detroit Tigers game...."
Prosecutors fear for evidence after DFCS pair reinstated in Georgia—"The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services has reinstated two workers arrested last year for falsifying documents at its Muscogee County office, prompting prosecutors to seek a court order Monday denying the pair access to any records related to their case."

Parenting

Kids These Days

Obamacare

More signed up for Obamacare in first two days of December than in all of October WaPo
Healthcare.gov working: Slate's health care guinea pig tries enrolling again
Cost of Health Care Law Is Seen as Decreasing—"Because of a slowing trend in health care spending, the government is expected to spend billions of dollars less than originally projected on the law, and future cost controls may save billions more." NYT
Sen. Sanders: Health Care for All
Could A Tech Giant Build A Better Health Exchange? Maybe Not—"Oregon has spent more than $40 million to build its own online health care exchange. It gave that money to a Silicon Valley titan, Oracle, but the result has been a disaster of missed deadlines, a nonworking website and a state forced to process thousands of insurance applications on paper."

Sabotage

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