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Katreena Hite Katreena Hite, a native of Gwinn, has been named one of three Northern Michigan University Social Work Department 2020-21 outstanding graduating graduate students. She will earn a Master of Social Work degree Saturday. Her concentration is in public policy and administration. Hite earned her bachelor’s degree in social work from NMU in 2007. Following a few years in Kansas City, she returned to Marquette County to serve the community as a social worker and change agent. She pla...

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:32 UTC © Getty images Faced with complaints from parents about the indoctrination of children, an official in Rockwood School District, Missouri, instructed teachers to create two sets of curriculum: a false one to share with parents, and then the real set of curriculum, focused on topics like activism and privilege, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire. Natalie Fallert, EdD, 6-12 Literacy Speech Coordinator, wrote to all middle and high school principals that p...

  Faced with complaints from parents about the indoctrination of children, an official in Rockwood School District, Missouri, instructed teachers to create two sets of curriculum: a false one to share with parents, and then the real set of curriculum, focused on topics like activism and privilege, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire. Natalie Fallert, EdD, 6-12 Literacy Speech Coordinator, wrote to all middle and high school principals that parents had repeatedly complained that “w...

SELF CARE  RESOURCES A gentle reminder for us all: Caring for ourselves is also an act of caring for our school community to reaffirm our own resiliency and commitment to stay “in the work.” When we keep this intention, we demonstrate our own strategies for self-care and model for others the manner in which we can show grace when confronting our problems or asking for help. Add social-emotional links here STAFF GUIDANCE ON PUBLIC PROTEST While ongoing public protests are likely during tim...

Dave Roback/The Republican via AP The movement to cancel Dr. Seuss didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Two years before Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would pull five of the classic children’s author’s books, a study examined the racial makeup of characters in Theodore Seuss Geisel’s books, and found a lack of diversity. Perhaps more chillingly, a leftist education group found fault with the Dr. Seuss story “The Sneetches,” a story that  explicitly condemns racism. Back in 2019, the S...

Kinda. It’s at least true where pronoun affirmation is concerned, as corporations and educational institutions move to let everyone know their chosen signifiers are respected. For an example, look no further than Georgetown University. As indicated by a Thursday email obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, the college’s top-rated law school is raising the bar where transgender support is concerned. Per the Beacon, the Student Bar Association asked students to make clear their preferred pro...

A few days after my daughter started kindergarten, I learned about Unity Day. It sounded innocent enough. It turned out it was much more than students wearing orange on the same day as if they were part of the Bolshevik Revolution.

(AP Photo/Steven Senne) Journalists try to mock the Seuss outrage as they are unable to stop condemning conservatives on the issue. While the Dr. Seuss controversy is beginning to wear down one aspect of this needs to be exposed. I covered earlier how there are many members in the press who are rather casual about the concept of silencing an author and removing his books. Now in a fashion of covering for this departure from the normal adherence of encouraging free expression, journalists are en...

Pretend Youre a Slave Assignment Shows That Some Teachers Still Dont Get History SheKnows 3/4/2021 © Photo by Lum3n from Pexels We are going to say this one more time for the people in the back (of progress): School assignments asking students to pretend to be slaves or slave owners are not OK. This is offensive. Got it? The reason we have to go over this yet again is that, just this week, an assignment asked eighth-graders at Purvis Middle School in Mississippi to “pretend like you are a...

Georgetown Law School’s Student Bar Association asked students to designate their preferred pronouns on Zoom, LinkedIn, and in their email signatures Thursday morning.