Irked Teacher Posts Message to Parents: Teaching Manners Begins ‘at Home,’ and It Goes Viral
BY LOUISE BEVAN A child learns so much about life and social conduct from their family before entering the school system. One school adopted this sentiment and turned it into a poster for parents and guardians with a firm, heartfelt message: take more responsibility for your children’s behavior, because education begins at home. Paulo Gandra, a retired guitar and […]
Homeschooling Interest Doubles
Rebecca Kocsis has seen California’s parental interest in home schooling double – right in front of her own eyes. “Parents are waking up,” said Kocsis, the general manager for Christian Home Educators Association of California. “Their voices are not being heard and they’re looking for other options.” At a CHEA homeschool conference in Pasadena this […]
Parents In Southern California Demand School Board Declare District a Sanctuary Community For Parental Rights
By Michelle Mears, “If there is risk to vaccines, then there must a choice.” Hundreds of residents in a Southern California community swarmed a school board meeting Thursday night to speak out about the loss of parental rights in schools. Anxious parents, many with children in tow, students, pastors and doctors demanded the Murrieta Unified School […]
Conejo Valley Unified School District School Board vs. Parents
by Janet Stephenson The California Department of Education (CDE), in 2018, set forth guidelines on how to work with communities when facing implementation of new laws on sexual education. In their publication, HIV/AIDS Prevention Instruction Guidelines – Comprehensive Sexual Health & HIV/AIDS Instruction, it states, “Almost all religious faiths have specific teachings about […]
Smart Driving Program | Thousand Oaks Police Department
The Thousand Oaks Police Department will be hosting a program to educate newly licensed and future licensed drivers on October 16th at the Thousand Oaks Police Station Community Room. The “Start Smart” Driving Program is a cooperative effort between the California Highway Patrol, Thousand Oaks Police Department, teenage drivers, and their parents. Nationwide, 43 percent […]
Over 1,000 youth, parents, and teachers attended Ventura County Public Work Agency’s Public Works Day
Over 60 years ago, John F. Kennedy started National Public Works Day to educate the public on the departments that run the water, sewer, building, watershed, transportation, recycling and refuse industries in the U.S. today. In what is becoming a favorite educational experience- more than 1,000 Ventura County school children, teachers, parents and guests were […]
Conejo Valley USD School Board Bullying
By Tony Dolz Let parents parent. Let school board members serve, not bully. Faced with school policies that they do not like, parents choose the best school for their children. Parents have already pulled 22% of students out of district public schools and put them in private schools, home-schooled or fled the district. Do […]
Do You Know What Your Grandchildren Believe?
By Ginny Bryce | Camarillo This title caught my eye – “College Students Are Being Taught to Hate America and it Could Destroy the Country,” – By Daniel Davis, WJ The Western Journal, December 20, 2018. (Daniel Davis is the commentary editor of The Daily Signal, the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation covering […]
Crying Honduran Child Who Became The Face of Border Family Separation Was Never Separated From Family
Julia Nista | General Assignment Reporter She has become the poster child for family separation at the border — and the subsequent moral outrage against the Trump administration — but the crying Honduran child held up as a heartbreaking example of family separation at the border was, in fact, never separated from the parent with […]
‘We Do Not Separate Babies from Adults’: DHS Denies Allegation It ‘Ripped’ Breastfeeding Baby From Mother
Will Racke | Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter Department of Homeland Security officials on Friday flatly denied a widely reported allegation that border authorities forcibly separated a breastfeeding baby from her mother while she was awaiting prosecution for entering the country illegally. “We do not separate babies from adults,” a DHS official told reporters […]
