Young South Canterbury entrepreneurs got to share their products with the community on Saturday. Students from four of the region’s 12 Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) businesses sold their products at the Timaru Artisan Farmers Market. YES aims to teach secondary school students a varied range of work and business skills,…
#parent | #kids | IYSSE election campaign at Humboldt University finds support among students | #students | #parents
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) ran three candidates in the student parliament election at Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) in June, campaigning among students for a socialist program. Due to irregularities in the recent postal vote, it is being repeated and the election result will not be…
#parent | #kids | School in Union Co. mandating masks after 8 positive COVID cases, nearly 100 students in quarantine – WSOC TV | #coronavirus | #kids. | #children | #schools
UNION COUNTY, N.C. — Union Academy Charter School is mandating masks for all students and staff for the next month after reporting eight positive COVID-19 cases, the school confirmed in a letter to parents. The school was one of the first in the area to return and had originally made…
#parent | #kids | #childsafety | CHILDLINE ADVICE: Helping to keep children safe when they’re using YouTube
Our Childline counsellors know how much the online world means to children, and how upsetting some aspects of it can be. Since its creation in 2005, YouTube has become the second most used social media platform after Facebook with over 500 hours of video uploaded every minute, and more than…
#parent | #kids | Former Mississippi high school teacher accused of enticing male student will not serve jail time – Magnolia State Live | #teacher | #children | #kids
A former Lafayette High School teacher will not serve jail time after being charged with a felony sex crime three years ago. According to court documents filed earlier this month, Molly Wray had her court case retired after Lafayette County Circuit Court judge Kent Smith granted a motion made by…
#parent | #kids | Back-to-school has some worried due to latest COVID surge | #coronavirus | #kids. | #children | #schools
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma continue to rise due in part to the spread of the more contagious delta variant, some parents and teachers are raising concerns about students returning to classrooms later this month. Tammy McCartney, who lives in Broken Arrow, told The Oklahoman she…
#parent | #kids | 21 of the most notorious criminals jailed in the UK in July | #students | #parents
A security guard who stabbed nine cats to death in Brighton and a teenager who sexually abused children at the nursery where he worked were just two of the notorious criminals locked up in the UK this month. A mum who killed her three-year-old daughter by ‘showing off’ in an…
#parent | #kids | Oregon school board politics have never been so polarized, partisan and hostile to racial equity | #Education
In mid-May, after a campaign fueled by unprecedented contributions from conservative Oregonians, voters in Albany elected three first-timers to the five-person school board. The new majority took office on July 1. Two weeks later, the three newly-elected men fired Superintendent Melissa Goff, a noted champion of racial equity, after two…
#parent | #kids | Calvert County Board Of Education Seeks Citizen Advisory Committee Members | thebaynet.com | TheBayNet.com | #Education
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. — The Calvert County Board of Education is accepting applications for the Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC). The CAC provides a means for taking an active role in public education. The committee reports directly to the Board of Education and serves in an advisory capacity. It conducts studies…
#parent | #kids | M. Night Shyamalan’s greatest fear is parenting | #parenting
This article discusses the plot of Old. In M. Night Shyamalan’s “beach that makes you old” movie, the aptly titled Old, the director returns to a familiar fear: What happens when a parent fails to protect their child? Since his 1999 breakout, The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan has populated his idiosyncratic…