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  1. SummerMadness

    Publix supermarket in South Carolina censors high school graduate's cake

    Publix supermarket in South Carolina censors high school graduate's cake
  2. SummerMadness

    Graduation Season: The anti-intellectualism in America

    Graduation Season: The anti-intellectualism in America
  3. Rion

    Federal Office of Civil Rights investigates Yale

    The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Yale for discrimination against men, in response to a complaint filed in February alleging that the University has violated Title IX with seven single-gender programs and scholarships that exclusively benefit...
  4. SummerMadness

    Black graduate student falls asleep in dorm. The police were called.

    #YaleWhileBlack: White woman calls police on Black grad student for napping in dorm I guess we should add sleeping to the list of unapproved activities.
  5. SummerMadness

    Cold Application for Employment

    Looking back at your job history, have you ever obtained a job via cold application? By that I mean applying to a job with no recommendations from others or referrals from someone (i.e., knowing someone that works at a place of business). When I consider employment, I now realize how important...
  6. SummerMadness

    Discipline Disparities for Black and Disabled Students 'Transcend Poverty' in US Schools, Study Show

    Discipline Disparities for Black and Disabled Students 'Transcend Poverty' in US Schools, Study Show
  7. SummerMadness

    'We're not leaving!' Oklahoma teachers in second day of protests

    'We're not leaving!' Oklahoma teachers in second day of protests
  8. gfauser

    A Drop in the Ocean

    “I used to get scolded [by my] school teacher,” reflects Ashima, pictured above. “Sometime my teacher used to ask me to stand outside the class as punishment because I didn’t bring needed things like paper, books, pencil—whatever is needed in the class. I used to stand. I used to be punished...
  9. SummerMadness

    Education Department Sees a Major Uptick in Complaints of Racial Harassment in Schools

    Education Department Sees a Major Uptick in Complaints of Racial Harassment in Schools
  10. SummerMadness

    Racist Bullying? Religious School In Texas Argues Courts Can't Intervene.

    Racist Bullying? Religious School In Texas Argues Courts Can't Intervene. I guess a one-day suspension is better than having to write a letter for rape.
  11. SummerMadness

    Court rules Gardendale can't form school system, finds racial motives; city to appeal

    Court rules Gardendale can't form school system, finds racial motives; city to appeal
  12. SummerMadness

    Calls for action after FHN 'blackface' incident

    Calls for action after FHN 'blackface' incident
  13. SummerMadness

    American Students Lack Knowledge on the Topic of American Slavery

    What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery I can already see it: the irony of the people that believe topics like American slavery should be ignored and "left in the past," while simultaneously complaining about the "erasure" of history when it comes to removing Confederate monuments.
  14. SummerMadness

    School Shooting in Kentucky Was Nation’s 11th of Year. It Was Jan. 23.

    School Shooting in Kentucky Was Nation’s 11th of Year. It Was Jan. 23.]
  15. SummerMadness

    Hoover High School teacher placed on leave for using racial slur in classroom

    Hoover High School teacher placed on leave for using racial slur in classroom I think the funny part about this story is the dispute over whether there was profanity in the song, as if it would suddenly make it okay to shout racial slurs at the students.
  16. SummerMadness

    Ohio Teacher Put on Leave After Lynching Remark to Black Student

    Ohio Teacher Put on Leave After Lynching Remark to Black Student I look at stories like this and say, "Really?" Then I remember, I'm not surprised by such behavior.
  17. SummerMadness

    Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven't confronted

    Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven't confronted
  18. EmotionlessTruth

    Truth without Emotion

    Greetings, I'm don't mind revealing my name - in general - but for now, just call me Emotionaless Truth, or ET. I do feel a little like an Extra-Terrestrial because I just don't feel like I belong on this planet. Of course, this is where God put me with all of you. So, for now, just call me...
  19. Education

    Education

    Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to...
  20. morningstar2651

    New federal report says student loan borrowers are being denied their rights

    http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201706_cfpb_PSLF-midyear-report.pdf Excerpts below. The current federal programs described in our 2013 report were designed to protect borrowers from the long-term economic consequences of the rising student indebtedness shouldered by many who...