Saturday, February 25, 2006

Links to interesting postings - 25 Feb 06

EducationNews.org linked to what appears to be a stupid enforcment of zero tolerance. We have had some very cold weather recently here in California. In Riverside a couple high school students went and loaded up their pickup with snow. They drove to school. They had snowball fight. Sounds pretty fun to me. Principal Mike Neece supsended the two students. The principal said: "Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus ..."

Kimberley Swygert at Number 2 Pencil found an article about how some schools are showing Disney movies like Lion King and Mulan. Mulan was used in an AP history class. My daughters have been watching Disney movies for years. Maybe at eleven my oldest is ready for an AP history course.

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