The Delaware DREAM act is back in the news now. It's controversial, and it is one of the few areas I disgree with my own university. Delaware State University needs a plan to help high-performing undocumented students like both UD and Del Tech have.
Bullying in Brandywine School District remains in the news, as the brutal video of a 7-year-old being beaten by an 11-year-old on a school bus goes viral. Unfortunately, the News Journal uses a misleading headline that suggests the school district has taken far more sweeping corrective action than has actually been the case.
There is a non-event, sort of protest (that only draws five people) at Lewis Elementary School in Red Clay.
The Wilmington City Council rediscovers due process. Sort of.
And in national news, President Obama and the Agriculture Department introduce legislation to tell farm parents what chores they may and may not assign to their own children. Seriously.
But in international news, the Prime Minister of Iceland is convicted of . . . not having enough meetings.
Strange, strange world.
Bullying in Brandywine School District remains in the news, as the brutal video of a 7-year-old being beaten by an 11-year-old on a school bus goes viral. Unfortunately, the News Journal uses a misleading headline that suggests the school district has taken far more sweeping corrective action than has actually been the case.
There is a non-event, sort of protest (that only draws five people) at Lewis Elementary School in Red Clay.
The Wilmington City Council rediscovers due process. Sort of.
And in national news, President Obama and the Agriculture Department introduce legislation to tell farm parents what chores they may and may not assign to their own children. Seriously.
But in international news, the Prime Minister of Iceland is convicted of . . . not having enough meetings.
Strange, strange world.
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The article title suggested to me that some sort of massive, sweeping safety changes had been made district-wide.
When you finally get to what change was made, way down on the continuing page, it's one aide on that specific bus.
Which is a proportional response, but not what the headline led to me to believe.
Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.
Yeah, can't have kids sweeping out a grain elevator or bin, or opening doors at a livestock auction! Heaven forbid!
"Although family farms were actually exempted from the proposed rules, many opponents cast them as an assault on family farms and rural traditions, saying the White House wanted to keep children from doing even small chores. In fact, the rules would only have affected minors who were formally employed and on farm payrolls, preventing them from operating heavy machinery, handling tobacco crops, working in grain silos or performing other jobs considered potentially dangerous."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/white-house-child-labor-agriculture_n_1458701.html