Diane Ravitch’s Blog is a must read for those vested in public education…and if you are reading my posts you are very vested!! Diane writes about all aspects of our broken public education system at the state and federal level. Yes, she is amazingly able to keep up with the educational happenings in every state […]
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In response to “Panel calls for community action against legislation“: Folks- Do not be lulled into believing the expansion of the Education Achievement Authority (EAA) and non-elected dictatorial control, along with the expansion of a free-for-all of Brick & Mortar and online schools is dead simply because the MI lame-duck legislature has quaked its last
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In response to the video “We Are Better Than This“: We can be better than this. We must be better than this. Gun control will not solve crime but it will create a safer environment and drive a necessary national conversation on making it easier to obtain psychiatric services than an a gun.
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When a child has a heart attack a hospital bed, doctors and treatment are a given. When a child is in a psychiatric crisis and in need of in-patient psychiatric services, better luck next-time, “you are not suicidal enough.” We will not evolve as a nation until we research and treat psychiatric illnesses like any
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While I sincerely appreciate Part 2 of Susan’s Resko’s blog about Adam Lanza, it does not go nearly far enough, and does not even touch upon the failure of our public education system to educate children with the early onset of psychiatric illness. She is correct that we need to stop blaming parents and medications. What
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