An educational administrator’s professional behavior must conform to an ethical code. The code must be idealistic and at the same time practical, so that it can apply reasonably to all educational administrators. The administrator acknowledges that the schools belong to the public they serve for the purpose of providing educational opportunities to all. However, the… Read more »
An 8th-grade project turns into new rules Catcalls will get your parents called. So will dirty notes and lewd staring. Groping, or one too many crude comments, means in-school suspension. These are the new rules of sexual harassment for students at Avondale Middle School, as developed by Maria Kopicki’s eighth-grade class. Come fall, what started… Read more »
(Note. Minor editing changes are included ) Advantages — This policy will reduce and eliminate a lot of teasing and touching presently existing in schools. School officials and teaching staff will be responsible for carrying out this policy. Disadvantages- Students may not always be trustworthy when reporting sexual harassment and may get innocent students in… Read more »
WASHINGTON — Teenagers who do not get along well with their fathers are more likely to smoke, drink and use drugs than youngsters in average two-parent families, according to a national study released Monday. Further, the study found, even teenagers from one-parent families, typically headed by mothers, are less at risk from tobacco, alcohol and… Read more »
CHICAGO – High school students who watch lots of television and music videos are more likely to start drinking than other youngsters, researchers say. The Stanford University study of 1,533 ninth-graders also showed that youngsters who rented movies were less likely to start drinking, while playing video and computer games had no effect. Watching TV… Read more »
The word responsibility is as pervasive a word as one can find. There isn’t a magazine, newspaper or TV program that doesn’t include the word – from fiscal responsibility to legal responsibility – from personal responsibility to social responsibility. It’s either parents’ responsibility or a child’s responsibility, your responsibility or my responsibility. People take full… Read more »
What kind of human being do we want to emerge from our efforts at moral education? What are the characteristics of the morally mature person? A moment’s reflection tells us that moral maturity is more than just knowing what is right. The world is full of people who know what is right but set moral… Read more »
The L.A. TIMES reports on a program designed to help students control their anger and in the process become better students (Pyle, 7/20). Called “Chill Out,” the program is in operation at Nimitz Middle School. Clinical psychologist Floyd McGregor developed the anger-management program five years ago when he did an internship at the school. “Kids… Read more »
Sunny Hills HS Cheating Incident! A group of about 20 Sunny Hill High (Fullerton, Calif.) honor-roll students were reprimanded for cheating, when they insist all they did was work in a group (Anderson, L.A. TIMES, 4/11). The paper observes that the incident, which left 13 of the students disbarred from the National Honor Society, “falls… Read more »
A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to… Read more »
