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  • Schools tying up autistic kids

    This is something that you would hope wouldn't happen anymore, like lobotomies. This isn't that bad, of course, but the fact that it happens as often as it does is pretty alarming. According to an article in the New York Times, a large number of students with autism, ADHD and other diagnoses...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Brett Singer on 07-22-2008
  • Caught On Tape: Teacher Calls Kids Stupid

    It's been kind of a disturbing couple weeks in education news. What with teachers patting down students and coaches spiking drinks and schools suspending kids for hairstyles , it sort of makes you rethink the whole homeschool idea. And now in Houston, a pre-K teacher is under investigation for calling...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 03-03-2008
  • Teachers Play Bad Cop, Bad Cop

    In a demonstration of the fact that kids have about the same rights as your average "terror suspect," four teachers frisked an entire class of third graders when five dollars turned out to be missing from the classroom. When a substitute teacher discovered an envelope that had contained five...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by Kelly Mills on 02-29-2008
  • Freckleface Strawberry aka Julianne Moore

    What could be cuter than a red headed, freckle faced girl (and no I'm not biased because I am one, ha)? Julianne Moore has penned a, semi autobiographical book, called Freckleface Strawberry. Moore was in New York City to read her new children's book, at J. Crew on Thursday. She said that as...
    Posted to FameCrawler (Weblog) by Sassy Smith on 11-16-2007
  • Free BabyLegs

    For a free pair of BabyLegs with your order, use coupon code Celeb (capital C) at checkout in the shopping cart! I just got four pairs and one was free........I love them for my crawler--they protect his knees and my toddler is potty training and hates tights, so you can imagine the fun there. I don...
    Posted to Commercial Posts (Forum) by Cricket on 06-14-2007
  • Disney More than Frozen Body; Now with More Racism!

    Hope you didn't already book those travel plans to Disney World this summer! Because this video is an eye opener. The Media Education Foundation explores the darker side of the Disney Empire -- the all trusted, all innocent, all knowing media conglomeration. From highly sexualized female cartoon leads...
  • How Do We Treat Parents Who are Registered Sex Offenders?

    Some parents have a shady past. It might be as frivolous as a cocaine bust back in the swingin' Reagan 80s, or as sad as a 26-year string of convictions for driving drunk. But what if the parents' crime is a sex crime? That poses an interesting dilemma when it comes time for said parent to attend school...
    Posted to Strollerderby (Weblog) by thezeroboss on 12-13-2006
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