I guess you can say that I grew up in one of those typical working class homes. Both parents worked and my father worked overtime as much as possible to earn a little extra cash to provide a few niceties we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford. I grew up with a fairly simple [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Gilbert Martinez, Presidential Primaries
Imagine if you had a 15 year old child that was an honor roll student, and your child was denied the right to go to class because their shirt was considered to be improper. That same shirt, might be worn by someone else, and they are not considered to be in violation of school “dress-code [...]
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Filed under: Civil Liberties/Civil Rights, Education
A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school in Ontario, CA, because her parents are lesbians and practicing an “immoral” life style…
“Your family does not meet the policies of admission,” Supt. Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, Shay’s biological mother. The policy, he added, states that at least one parent cannot engage in practices [...]
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Filed under: In The News
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ –
The grassroots rebellion against the controversial No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has spread in some form to 47 of the 50 states and is likely to flare up in particular in such states as Minnesota, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia during the 2005-2006 school year, according to [...]
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Filed under: In The News
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ –
The grassroots rebellion against the controversial No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has spread in some form to 47 of the 50 states and is likely to flare up in particular in such states as Minnesota, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia during the 2005-2006 school year, according to [...]
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Filed under: In The News
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