Thursday, August 25, 2011
School Counseling Podcast: "Somewhere I read that the Greatness of America is the Right to Protest for Right!"
"... for (in a democracy) it is not enough to allow descent rather, we must demand it." Robert Kennedy speaking at the University of California, Berkley, 1966.
"An Error is not a Mistake until we refuse to Correct it!" Can your school board trustees comprehend that statement?
John F Kennedy
Robert Kennedy in South Africa
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in support of striking AFSCME
sanitation workers at Mason Temple, Memphis, 4/3/68
"Negroes are almost entirely a working people. There are pitifully few Negro millionaires, and few Negro employers. Our needs are identical with labor's needs — decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children and respect in the community. That is why Negroes support labor's demands and fight laws which curb labor. That is why the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth."
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
San Bernardino launches sweep for no-
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- They call it "Operation Student Recovery."
Volunteers from the San Bernardino City Unified School District went door to door Wednesday morning trying to find out why some 300 students missed the first week of school.
Three weeks ago, the school year started with several no-shows.
"Sometimes we find that there are some family situations that are making it difficult to go to school, and we'll brainstorm with the families to figure out some alternative possibilities," said Dr. Kennon Mitchell, assistant superintendent of student services.
Forty teams with the district hit the streets and went door-to-door armed with packets of information on alternative education programs.
A few years ago, Geovani Galeano learned the hard way just how easy it was to fall behind.
"You have friends that like to push the issue, like, 'Come on, let's go. Let's go. It's just one day,'" Galeano said. "One day accumulates, and by the time you know it, you don't know what anybody is learning in school no more."
School officials helped him enroll in a continuation program. He went on to earn his high school diploma in 2006.
There is also child care support for student-parents, which was the case for one student who had not yet returned to school.
"We find that sometimes kids don't know all the options available to them and all the alternative pathways to graduation," Mitchell said.
By the end of the day, volunteers visited more than 300 homes in an effort to get kids back in the classroom.