Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

School

  • Why Can’t I Get My Kid To the Bus On Time?

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    2 min read

    I get up early. I shower. I wake her up. We eat breakfast. We do this every single day. So why do we fail at this one task: actually getting to the bus stop on time? It shouldn’t be that hard, really. And yet it really is the hardest part of the day. Every morning.…

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  • Please protect my kid!

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    5 min read

    Like many parents of Kindergartners, we walked our daughter to school for her very first day. Unlike most of the parents around us, we were scared of the thousands of little interactions: the other students, the teachers, the staff. Anyone of them could kill her. And when we left her there, we weren’t confident that…

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  • School Encourages Homophobic Humiliation as Student Punishment

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    1 min read

    This is absolutely disgusting. School Encourages Homophobic Humiliation as Student Punishment. As the article’s author writes: And how will the principal protect his students from bullying each other now that he’s just condoned it? This is the crux of education, after all, that we learn by example. And the example the principle has just set…

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  • Is a Dead 1st Grader Enough Incentive To Change?

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    4 min read

    My wife didn’t say anything.  I walked into the living room and saw on my phone that she had tweeted this: [tweet https://twitter.com/#!/DownsRose/status/155839622402945025] What? I said.  She looked at me and said That is my worst nightmare. She read parts of the news story. She was 7. They had an action plan. She authorized Benadryl, but…

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