Here are three stories for you to end our. Clips on an up-note for the week St Vincent-St Mary High School senior Anne Rea gave the valedictory. Speech at the Akron school’s graduation ceremony this week. She was upbeat, positive, and forward-looking despite losing her family home to a devastating fire less than 24 hours earlier. (Akron Beacon Journal, 5/22/24)Perhaps the polar opposite, at least rhetorically, to the discipline proponents is the “it’s all about relationships” crowd. Are relationships important?
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Than $3,300 to settle all outstanding lunch, library Venezuela Phone Number List and student fees at Saville. Elementary in tiny Mad River Local Schools. (Dayton Daily News, 5/22/24) Remember back in March when the first of Intel’s “super load” equipment deliveries hit the road from southern Ohio headed for Columbus? The video of Portsmouth West Elementary students lined up and cheering as the giant truck rolled by their school that day reached Intel execs and they promised to host a STEM Day for those kiddos to show them what the work was all about.
Well, that day came earlier this week
And it sounds like everyone had a nerdy blast CW Leads Awesome! (ABC 6 News, Columbus, 5/22/24) Did you know you can have every edition of Gadfly Bites sent directly to your Inbox? Subscribe by clicking here. POLICY PRIORITY: SCHOOL FUNDING TOPICS: GOVERNANCE Jeff Murray is a lifelong resident of central Ohio. He previously worked at School Choice Ohio and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Has two degrees from the Ohio State University and lives in the Clintonville neighborhood with his wife and twin daughters. Is proud every day to support the Fordham mission to help make excellent education options… View Full BioSimilarly, people don’t like the fact that our corridors are silent. They imagine that children normally skip through the corridors chatting about Aristotle. But I can tell you that, in the inner city, that is not what’s happening. Normally they’re pummeling each other, sending each other to hospital, screaming, shoving, and bullying. If children are safe in the corridor, they are much happier.
