Patty Smith loves teaching literature at Appomattox Regional Governor's School in Petersburg. But in her 38 years of teaching, she never thought she'd get this kind of honor.
Twenty years ago, the story that a bunch of teenaged French pupils had protested they were “shocked” by their teacher showing them a 1603 painting of five nude women would have caused hilarity across the country, not fear. “What are they complaining about?” would have been the universal guffaw. But the teachers at the Jacques Cartier secondary school in Issou, west of Paris, have known otherwise for years. The scenario that unfolded in a French literature classroom last week has happened many, m
EU ministers have urged member states to do more to screen migrants and expel those regarded as a security risk, amid rising concerns over militant attacks. Interior and justice ministers were meeting days after a teacher in France and two Swedish nationals in Brussels were murdered by suspected Islamists. In France, President Emmanuel Macron has attended the funeral of the teacher fatally stabbed at a school last week.
The younger generation is always seen as the future by any nation. But let us not forget: young people are not only our future. They are also our present. The older generation created a successful state - the Republic of Belarus. They have kept it together and multiplied its heritage. The mission of the young is to preserve all this and give the country a new impetus.
At East Fallowfield Elementary School in the Coatesville Area School District, Principal Melissa Willis was excited. “Seeing all of our students coming off of our buses this morning with smiles on their faces made all of the hard work of the summer worth every minute."