Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash Oklahoma Schools to Begin Charging a Fee to Students Who Don't Wear a Mask 'We have issued reuseable masks countless times to our students but now they have depleted our resources,' the school said. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal January 27, 2021
CDC / Unsplash 'The Year of School Choice': 8 States Introduce School Choice Legislation in January Alone 'Education funding is supposed to be meant for educating children, not for protecting a government monopoly. We should fund students instead of systems.' By Michael Austin, The Western Journal January 19, 2021
Maarten Brakkee / Unsplash Committee Recommends Renaming Abraham Lincoln High School: He Didn't Show 'Black Lives Mattered to Him' Lincoln freed the slaves and was literally killed for his efforts. According to the modern left, however, he just wasn't woke enough. By Erin Erhardt, The Western Journal December 20, 2020
Marco Antonio Victorino / Pexels Kids Forced To Eat Mashed Potatoes with Hands as COVID Hysteria Gets Utensils Banned in School In the United Kingdom, apparently eating mashed potatoes with your hands is more sanitary than doing it with utensils. By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal December 12, 2020
NBC News / YouTube screen shot Biden Complains About 'Tens of Millions' To Open NYC Schools, but Wants To Shell Out Trillions on Relief This comment from Joe Biden certainly undercut his message of going big on COVID-19 relief funding. By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal November 27, 2020
@FredTJoseph / Twitter screen shot Author of 'Anti-Racism' Book Mocks Parents of Schoolkids Who Might Be Forced To Read It Author and anti-racism activist Frederick Joseph mocked parents on Twitter, saying their children might be forced to read his book. By Michael Austin, The Western Journal November 26, 2020
Gage Skidmore / Flickr New York Times Op-Ed Claims 'Trump Was Right' About Schools and COVID Trump has stated repeatedly that the nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be worse than the disease itself. By Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal November 23, 2020
George Floyd Question on Chemistry Exam Lands Teacher in Hot Water A Virginia high school is investigating a chemistry teacher for referencing George Floyd on an exam question amid parental complaints. By Samantha Chang, The Western Journal November 23, 2020
NBC News / YouTube screen shot Cuomo Snaps at Reporter, Denies School Closures Just Before Receiving News He Was Wrong The governor snapped at a Wall Street Journal reporter who asked about New York City school closings - but moments later he got some news. By Cameron Arcand, The Western Journal November 20, 2020
C Caccavale Reynolds / Twitter screen shot NY School District Superintendent Deems Sweatshirt Supporting Fallen Cop 'Threatening' School staff were banned from wearing the sweatshirts or any other article of clothing displaying the thin blue line symbol. By Michael Austin, The Western Journal November 19, 2020
National Cancer Institute / Unsplash 'Woke' Leftists: School District Decides Asian Students Are Not Considered 'Students of Color' A now-removed document from a school district south of Seattle found lumped white and Asian students together in an 'equity report.' By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal November 18, 2020
Alliance Defending Freedom via @nypost / Twitter A 3rd-Grader's 'Jesus Loves Me' Mask Deemed 'Offensive, Disruptive or Distractive' by School District Can't these kids who must have cloth covering their face all day at least use it to spread a personally meaningful message? By Christine Favocci, The Western Journal November 8, 2020
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead / Flickr Seattle 8th-Grader Picks Trump as 'Hero,' Teacher Holds Him After Class for Lecture on 'Racist' Policy In a Washington school district, teacher Connor Seaman is being criticized for his treatment of a 13-year-old who said Trump was his hero. By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal October 29, 2020
Virginia State Parks / Flickr First Report Cards Go Out for Kids Learning Online, Show Worrying Trend of Failure and Truancy The report estimated that about 3 million of the 5.5 million students in Texas schools are not in their real-life classrooms. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal October 24, 2020
Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour / Flickr Federal Judge Lets Student Repaint Epic Trump Portrait After School District Covers It One of the hallmarks of American free speech is the right to voice political opinions - even unpopular political opinions. By Erin Erhardt, The Western Journal October 13, 2020
Francois Philipp / Flickr 'We Have Not Seen a Connection': Calif. Opens Some Schools, Finds No Link to Increased COVID Cases 'We’re looking at the information to see if there is a connection, and so far we have not found one,' a top health official said. By Jack Davis, The Western Journal October 12, 2020
Mollie Woodbury / Twitter screen shot High School Student Claims Her Trump Flag Got Her Kicked Out of Zoom Class A high school student in Maine was kicked out of a virtual learning class after she refused to take down a Trump flag in her bedroom. By Johnathan Jones, The Western Journal October 6, 2020
Kevin Case / Flickr Teachers Threaten de Blasio with Legal Action Over Schools Reopening Mulgrew is aiming to have at least some of the schools in neighborhoods with rising COVID-19 numbers return to remote learning only. By Bryan Chai October 5, 2020
Nick Bastian / Flickr Minn. Court Rules School District Must Let Trans Student Use Locker Room of Choice Minnesota Judge Peter Reyes wrote that a student who had 'socially transitioned' had the right to choose which locker room to use. By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal October 1, 2020
Karen Apricot / Flickr 'The New Yorker' Exposes Lurking Danger of Remote Learning, Highlights Need To Reopen Schools There absolutely are mental, health and developmental repercussions if schools don't reopen. That shouldn't even be up for debate. By Bryan Chai September 30, 2020
Ivanka Trump / Twitter Trump Has Beautiful Moment with Granddaughter After 'School Choice' Misunderstanding Sorry, Arabella, kids will still have to go to school, but if your grandfather's proposal is enacted, parents will have a choice where they go. By Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal September 23, 2020