Education Upgrades
Three Steps to End Our War on Drugs
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am surprised nobody has yet written an article at IdahoFallz.com about America’s decades-old War on Drugs. I read many comments where site users express their desire to read and discuss the Drug War. I personally waited […]
ISATs Increasing Drop-Out Rate?
Graduation is quickly approaching. For the seniors of 2008, this event signifies entry into the real world, freedom, and endless possibilities. For the administrators at School District 91, however, this is the first year of students whose graduation will be relying on their ISAT scores. My mother, a teacher in an elementary […]
California Court Criminalizes Homeschooling
If you homeschool your children or are even thinking about it read this story and weep. Without even citing the statutes or constitutional principal on which this opinion is supposedly based, Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a February 28th opinion for the California 2nd District Court of Appeals, “Parents do not have a constitutional […]
Should we reward people for doing what they should anyway?
I am conflicted over this Local News 8 report that our Idaho legislature is considering a bill to reward kids for staying drug free. Some lawmaker (anyone know who it was, and their party affiliation?) has put a bill up that would grant a $2,000 Idaho college scholarship for students who pledge to stay off […]
Support Your Local High School?
Perhaps your first question when you read the title of the article was ‘I don’t have any kids attending high school, so what on earth do they have that would interest me?’, or even ‘Why should I support the high school?’ It is a fact, after all, that most of the people who attend high […]
Idaho should be praised and modeled for low teen smoking rate
Our local KIDK News 3 affiliate recently carried an Associated Press story that Idaho was criticized by a Washington anti-smoking group because they do not think we spend enough money on teen anti-smoking efforts.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says Idaho spends too little of tobacco taxes and our 1998 tobacco settlement proceeds on discouraging […]
Relinquishing Parental Control
The Portland, Maine School Committee approved a plan that allows the health center of King Middle School to provide birth control pills and patches to students in the sixth grade. Parental consent or knowledge is not required. In fact, it is outlawed. Under Maine state law, once a parent has signed a waiver allowing a […]
Brainstorming Solutions to Idaho’s Prison Problem
Idaho is facing a major prison problem, and which appears it will reach a crisis point. I fear that Idaho’s prison population is now or will soon grow faster than our resident population does. This will lead to an inevitable disaster as a dwindling population of hard working Idaho residents are forced to pay higher […]
Send Idaho High School Students to Prison
I propose sending all Idaho high school students to the state penitentiary located south of Boise. I do not mean we should lock them up. I propose we send students there annually on a field trip so they can witness our harsh prison system. Perhaps this investment in time and money could help some of […]
Close Idaho Falls-Area High School Campuses
I think all Idaho Falls-area high schools should close their campuses for lunch. I believe closed campuses are best for our area because of time and distance required to reach eating establishments, unhealthy food is usually eaten when students leave campus,
Most local high schoolers only get 35 minutes for lunch, barely enough time to […]
Are RINOs Stampeding Over Idaho Community College Plans?
It appears Idaho is doomed to repeat our past mistakes. Our elected leaders will likely fail to make changes that will encourage more of our high school graduates to become college graduates.
First, there is a problem. Idaho’s rate of high school graduates going onto college and completing college is among the worst in America. This […]
Must Idaho High School Students Take ASVAB Test?
Pre-released on IdahoFallz MySpace page:
I recently read this story about a couple high school students in Georgia who frustrated military recruiters’ attempts to administer ASVAB tests under the guise of “career placement tests”.
Apparently the two students overheard teachers discussing that the tests would be given the after the weekend, that the students would be […]
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