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My school is insane. They give us apparent $1200 laptops for the year & then want us to pay $600 dollars to keep them? First, this is a public school, 80% of us are not wealthy enough to pull that money out our asshole. Second, the battery life is so shit & it's a brand new laptop? When I logged on it was at 69% & I've been on it for 10-20 minutes literally not doing anything & it's already down to 60? Imagine how it'll be when we are actually doing stuff on it... Don't even get me started on the storage... It's not worth the money & we could literally get better for cheaper. The only good thing about this laptop is that it flips into a tablet & comes with a pen, THAT BY THE WAY, DOESN'T WORK WITHOUT BEING CHARGED EVERY 5 MINUTES. What was the point in these laptops dude 😭 They're literally a waste of the school's money.

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Continuing my review and summarization of Project 2025, Chapter 11 covers the Department of Education.

1) Eliminate the Dept of Education and restore educational powers to students and families

2) “Every parent should have the option to direct his or her child’s share of education funding through an education savings account (ESA), funded overwhelmingly by state and local taxpayers, which would empower parents to choose a set of education options that meet their child's unique needs and “provide families roughly 90 percent of what the state would have spent on that child in public school to be used instead on education options such as private school tuition, online courses, and tutoring.”

3) Rebalance education by “bolstering the workforce skills of Americans who have no interest in pursuing a four-year academic degree.”

4) Get rid of DEI mandates and reject critical race theory

5) Rescind student loan relief and loan forgiveness, privatize all lending programs to “allow for market prices and signals to influence educational borrowing,” and terminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. NB: Public Service loan forgiveness allowed me to attend medical school in exchange for serving in a medically underserved area in a year-for-year program. It does the same for other healthcare workers who serve in prisons, on Indian reservations, federal agency, the US military, or a nonprofit organization.

6) Devolve the agency as a stand-alone Cabinet-level department.

7) Lessen federal regulations on charter schools

8) Define “sex” under Title IX to mean only “biological sex recognized at birth, establish “sex” as a “fixed biological fact”; and strengthen protections for faith-based educational institutions, programs, and activities.”

10) Provide school meals only to children of need, and “do not use free meals to support radical ideology”

11) Rescuing the National Education Associates (NEA) federal charter because it advocated school closings during the pandemic and promote “radical racial and gender ideologies in schools that parents oppose

12) Do not allow schools to assist a child with a social or medical gender transition without parental consent or to withhold information from parents about a child’s social transition

13) No public education employee or contractor shall use a name or a pronoun to address a student other than the name listed on a student’s birth certificate, without the written permission of a student’s parents or guardians. NB: Does this mean they can’t call Kathleen “Kathy” or Joseph “Joe”?

14) Protect faith-based institutions by prohibiting accreditation agencies from undermining religious beliefs or requiring policies that conflict with the religious mission

15) Stop “area studies” programs which tend to run counter to American interests.

16) Allocate at least 40 percent of funding to international business programs that teach about free markets and economics and require institutions, faculty, and fellowship recipients to certify that they intend to further the stated statutory goals of serving American interests.

17) Eliminate the “List of Shame” of faith-based colleges that have applied for exemption from the Civil Rights Act. NB: The fact that they are applying for exemption rather suggests they are white supremacist, pseudo-Christians.

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Worried About Our Children's Education

Georgia schools are still lagging behind but Kemp and the Legislature aren't working to improve their ratings. Why is that? Where is the taxpayer money going?

Photo by Max Fischer on Pexels.com I know it will take time for our school systems to rebound from the COVID19 pandemic DISASTER (and it was exactly that, especially in terms of education.) We started at the back of the pack and, doggone, it got worse. What’s the truth? It’s hard to tell from what our own Superintendent of Education and Brian Kemp tell us and that’s a fact. They have a vested…

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Had an incredible evening celebrating 20 years of @summit_ps and founder Diane Tavenner. I had the opportunity, for nearly 2 hours, to soak up knowledge and perspective from one of my educator heroes Jed Wallace formerly of @calcharters California Charter Schools Association. The event was held at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at @stanford #publicschools #schoolchoice #charterschools (at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIfln2LKGE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Bihar government is taking effective steps in reducing the burden on students. They have introduced a “no-bag day” policy where students don’t need to carry books but instead devote the day to practical and experiential learning. The objective of such a policy is to engage students in various activities, which can positively impact their learning.

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NOSTALGIA UK Morrison's Academy (1994) Apart from the eight of us stationed in Glasgow, the rest of our cohort had been sent to what the British call "public schools"—essentially boarding schools for the elite. One group ended up in a small town called Crieff, over 2 hours away from Glasgow by train & buses, including a good friend, Sani, from my secondary school back home "Jenan". The school was so posh it practically oozed privilege.

I believe it was late spring when Fudin and I decided to pay them a visit, I believed following invitation from Sani. For reasons I can’t quite remember, the others in our Glasgow group weren’t interested in tagging along, despite my half-hearted attempts to persuade them. In hindsight, I think they had a sense of what we were walking into—and they weren’t wrong.

The train ride to Crieff was scenic, but nothing could have prepared me for the school itself. Morrison’s Academy was the epitome of a postcard-perfect boarding school—the kind of place where you’d expect to see impeccably dressed boys and girls speaking flawless, clipped English. The campus was pristine, the buildings grand, and the atmosphere screamed "old money." Even our friends, who I had last seen as regular, scrappy teenagers, had transformed into perfectly polished versions of themselves.

In stark contrast, there I was, rocking my odd-looking jeans, slightly battered white sneakers, and a hat perched over my shoulder-length hair. I must’ve looked like a character who’d wandered off the set of some grungy indie film. Even Fudin, who usually exuded "neat and tidy" with his impeccable grooming, looked ever so slightly out of place compared to our mates in their crisp uniforms.

The boys and girls lived in strict dormitories, and their days were rigidly structured. From meals to sports to study hours, everything ran on a tightly controlled schedule. Watching their well-choreographed routines, I couldn’t help but feel a little smug knowing we in Glasgow had far more freedom—we were free to explore, make mistakes, and simply live.

The visit was an eye-opener—a glimpse into a world so different from our own, where appearances mattered and every detail seemed carefully curated. It was a world I was glad to step into for a day, but equally glad to leave behind as we boarded the train back to Glasgow, ready to return to our scrappy, unpolished little bubble.

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My life in a nutshell. Family mini-vacation loaded…

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A Leading Light in Education: Doon Public School

Doon Public School has a long history of offering Paschim Vihar pupils a top-notch education. Since its founding, the school — which aimed to promote both academic achievement and individual development — has developed into one of Paschim Vihar’s top public schools.

The goal of this public school in Paschim Vihar is to foster an environment that is supportive of each student’s intellectual, emotional, and social growth.

i. Put Ethics and Values First

ii. Mission and Vision

iii. Outstanding Extracurricular Program

iv. Contemporary Facilities

v. Character Development

vi. Participation in the Community

Put Ethics and Values First:

Doon Public School places a great importance on morals and ethics. The school aspires for its students to possess a strong sense of social duty, morality, and self-respect. Through a range of initiatives and experiences, students learn the importance of morality and social responsibility.

Part of the reason Doon Public School is regarded as one of Paschim Vihar’s top public schools is its emphasis on morality and values.

Mission and Vision:

The goal of Doon Public School’s founding was to provide a setting that encourages social responsibility, personal development, and academic performance. The goal of the school is to produce well-rounded people who are equipped to handle the difficulties of the contemporary world. Doon Public School stands out from other public schools in Paschim Vihar because of its dedication to a comprehensive approach to education.

Outstanding Extracurricular Program at Doon Public School:

Extracurricular activities at Doon Public School are essential to students’ overall growth. Numerous extracurricular activities are available at the school, such as clubs, sports, music, and the arts. Through these activities, children can learn new skills, find their passions, and form enduring connections. One of the main factors making Doon Public School one of the best public schools in Paschim Vihar is the emphasis placed on extracurricular achievement.

Contemporary Facilities:

Doon Public School has state-of-the-art amenities that improve the educational experience. The school has top-notch computer and scientific labs, well-stocked libraries, top-notch sports facilities, and well-equipped classrooms.

These materials give pupils the means to achieve both personally and academically. The school is regarded as one of Paschim Vihar’s best public schools in part because of its dedication to upholding top-notch facilities.

Character Development: Paschim Vihar Public School

Doon Public School thinks that moral development is just as important as intellectual instruction. The school seeks to inculcate in its pupils virtues like accountability, empathy, honesty, and respect. Students get an understanding of the value of social responsibility and moral behavior through a variety of programs and activities.

Doon Public School is regarded as one of the best public schools in Paschim Vihar in part because of its emphasis on character development.

Participation in the Community:

Doon Public School is dedicated to having a beneficial influence on the neighborhood. The school plans a number of social responsibility, environmental, and community service projects. Through these exercises, children learn the value of contributing to society and cultivate a feeling of civic responsibility. One more factor that makes Doon Public School one of the public schools in Paschim Vihar is its dedication to community involvement.

Contact Information:

For further details about Doon Public School, interested parties can visit the school’s website (https://www.doonpublicschool.in/), call 011 4231 6891, or email info@doonpublicschool.in. The school is committed to providing all necessary information to help parents make an informed decision about their child’s education.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Doon Public School stands out as one of the best public schools in Paschim Vihar due to its comprehensive approach to education, state-of-the-art facilities, innovative teaching methods, and strong emphasis on character development.

The school’s commitment to nurturing well-rounded individuals who excel academically and socially makes it the premier choice for parents seeking the best education for their children. If you are looking for a school that offers a balanced and enriching educational experience, Doon Public School is the ideal choice.

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Working for the children

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Susan Miller Dorsey already had nearly two decades of teaching experience under her belt when she began teaching Latin at the only high school in Los Angeles, California in 1896. Thirty-three years later, when she retired as superintendent of the Los Angeles school district, she had overseen the doubling of the student population of the fastest-growing school district in the world during the 1920s. At the time of her death in 1946, Dorsey had been the only living person to have a school in Los Angeles named after her.

Historian Rich MacAlpine captured Dorsey’s life in a nutshell for a March 2009 article in Yates Past, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Yates County History Center, that was reproduced in MacAlpine’s 2014 book Yates County Chronicles, so I won’t duplicate his efforts in this article. Just briefly, I will mention Susan Miller was born to James and Hannah Miller, of County House Road in Jerusalem, on February 16, 1857. She seems to have attended Jerusalem School District No. 17 in her childhood, and then she graduated from Penn Yan Academy at the age of 16 in 1873. After four years at Vassar College, she graduated in 1877 and embarked on a 20-year period of teaching in higher education as well as a career in social work. Marrying Patrick Dorsey – a fellow Yates County native – in 1881, Susan moved with her husband to California, where he was called as a pastor, shortly afterward.

From 1896 to 1902, Dorsey taught at Los Angeles High School and also served as the head of the school’s classical department. Her tenure with the Los Angeles school district follows a time in which her husband, taking their son, Paul, with him, decided to travel for better health and apparently abandon his wife in the process. However, Dorsey never described herself as divorced but did list herself as widowed upon Patrick’s death in 1927.

From 1902 to 1913, Dorsey presided as vice principal of the school, and then in 1913 she was selected assistant superintendent of the school district – the first woman to hold the position. She broke the glass ceiling yet again in 1920 when she was chosen to be the superintendent of the school district, despite her misgivings over the position and apparent desire not to hold it. While she is described as the first woman in the United States to be the superintendent of a metropolitan school system, a contemporary newspaper article lists her as the only woman in the country to hold such a position and notes this is a distinction for a former resident that Yates County should be proud of.

During her time at the helm of the Los Angeles school district, Dorsey accomplished several educational initiatives. According to newspaper accounts of her career, she established a visual education division, a classical center, an Americanization department, and three types of schools for practical and vocational preparation. She also enlarged the health and physical training sections and the elementary school library. She was an early advocate of the importance of kindergarten, and in her free time she volunteered in the city’s social welfare programs. This included working with the Chinese community and tending to those with tuberculosis as well as being a temperance advocate.

Her aim was to “solve vocational problems and train character,” she said, and she oversaw a school district whose area measured 965 square miles, with 400 schools and a $30 million budget ($544 million in today’s money) by the time she retired. In her near-decade as superintendent, the population of Los Angeles increased from 500,000 to 1.2 million while the student population increased from 135,000 to 350,000. School facilities tripled in size during that time as well.

In fact, having witnessed the present and foreseeing the future, Dorsey urged upon the importance of spacious grounds to allow room for future growth. “It is through her foresight and vision that school sites range from five to thirty acres, as she always has insisted that Los Angeles must look to future expansion and that the children of its citizens must build strong bodies on its school playfields,” one newspaper article stated.

Dorsey used her position to advocate for the modernization and advancement of education as the world modernized and advanced, noting in a speech “that young people be trained to become useful members of society should be the most important phase of education,” according to a newspaper article. The article captured the message of Dorsey’s speech this way: “The education that answered for the child of forty years ago when the world lived without telephones, automobiles, submarines, amplifiers, and the many electrical devices at command, will not fit the child to live in the world today.”

She also led a teacher-citizen committee that planned a convention to give parents the opportunity to hear from the greatest experts in child training in the country. “The movement to educate parents better to enable them in the upbringing of their children is state-wide,” one newspaper reported, stating an analysis of high school students “shows that some of the problems are lack of knowledge by parents, lack of supervision of the child’s leisure time, lack of acquaintance by parents with the companions of the child, lack of sympathetic cooperation with the child’s friends, lack of understanding, broken homes, and discordant homes.”

Under Dorsey’s leadership, the committee studied the need for recreational facilities such as playgrounds and indoor community centers as well as the need to diminish students’ heavy loads of homework and activities to allow them and their parents to address home and community problems. She was recognized for helping improve the health of schoolchildren, accomplishing beneficial reforms for the city’s public school system, and seeking to address such problems as the need to house the ever-increasing number of children moving into the district.

Dorsey received her third four-year contract in January 1928 with a salary of $12,000 ($218,000 in today’s money) and a stipulation that she could leave the school district before the end of her term. Indeed, she later announced her retirement effective in January 1929. With this announcement, she was hailed as “for the past ten years been considered the outstanding woman in the educational world on this side of the Atlantic” and “one of the most famous women in recent generations to claim Penn Yan and Yates county as her birthplace.”

The cornerstone for Susan Miller Dorsey High School was laid in December 1936, and the school opened the following September. Dorsey died on February 5, 1946 at age 88 – less than two weeks shy of her 89th birthday – at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been a patient for a short time following an illness. During one of her last public appearances on January 17, she spoke before the board of education in favor of character training for young people and joked that her greatest mistake was resigning, since she no longer could work as closely with the students, which was her chief interest in life.

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Designing for a Paradigm Shift| Brearley Architects+Urbanists

Public schools in Shanghai are conservative in their pedagogy and factory-like in their architecture. Brearley Architects+Urbanists (BAU) break through this conservative pedagogy of public schools by designing the new Chonggu Experimental School, providing the potential for a paradigm shift in formal expression. https://www.indiaartndesign.com/designing-for-a-paradigm-shift-brearley-architectsurbanists/

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Bal Bharati Public School: Best Public School In Delhi

Nestled in the bustling city of Delhi, Bal Bharati Public School best public school in delhi stands as a paragon of educational brilliance, consistently ranked among the top public schools in the region. This prestigious institution is celebrated not only for its academic prowess but also for its commitment to fostering all-around development in its students. With a legacy of excellence, Bal Bharati Public School is more than just an educational establishment; it's a nurturing ground for the leaders of tomorrow.

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In conclusion, Bal Bharati Public School best public school in delhi is not just one of the best public schools in Delhi but a nurturing ground for young minds. Its blend of academic excellence, holistic development, and inclusive ethos makes it an ideal choice for parents who seek a comprehensive and enriching education for their children. As an institution, Bal Bharati Public School continues to set benchmarks in education, preparing students not just for exams, but for life.