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Shasta Elementary students and staff counted down to a unified “crunch” during lunchtime Thursday. The Crunch at Once event is just one way Klamath County School District demonstrates its commitment
Joshua Brown, 19, is one of only a handful of people nation known to have autism who hold public office.
Racial slur used in homework assignment rescinded, school district says MANTECA, California (KCRA) — A racial slur, spelled out in full, on an eighth grade homework assignment has a Manteca mom alarmed, upset and calling on the school district to do more to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Melissa Cheek’s son showed her the April 12 assignment in which his social studies teacher at Shasta Elementary used a racial slur, spelled out in the body of the assignment, twice – immediately giving her cause for concern. “It has been a word that has come up in school. One that we do...
MENTECA, Calif. (CNN) - A racial slur spelled out in full on an eighth-grade homework assignment. A California mom is outraged about it. She says more needs to be done to make sure that does not happen again. The district says the teacher was simply trying to spark critical thinking and conversation with the assignment. Back on April 12, Melissa Cheek's son got an assignment for his eighth-grade social studies class at Shasta Elementary in Manteca that she says gave her cause for concern. "I found it very alarming," she said. The teacher used a racial slur, spelled out in full, in the body of...
Parents said that they are frustrated as they see their kids struggling. They want to see teachers decide whether to have full in-person instruction in the final days of the school year. Vanessa Smith, one of the parents at the rally, says the AM/PM model has ruined her scheduling. "What I do typically is that I am just running kids around, running them around to school and picking them up,” Smith said. “Two hours is not a long time." Matt Tennis, a Chico Unified School Board member, also showed up at the rally being the one board member that supported the return to full in-person learnin...