A former student at a Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts is suing the school, saying officials didn’t do enough to help her move out of the dorm room she shared with a roommate she found to be overly sexual.
The former Stonehill College student, Lindsay Blankmeyer says she was driven into a suicidal depression because housing officials didn’t give her reasonable alternatives for getting out of her living situation.
She alleges in the suit that her roommate had sex with her boyfriend while Blankmeyer tried to sleep just feet away.
She says she eventually moved into a hotel room, then withdrew from school when her depression worsened.
The suit seeks $150,000.
I guess she never heard about the sock on the doorknob.
A 8th grader’s incendiary essay comparing today’s education system to slavery is causing a firestorm of controversy in her upstate New York community.
13 year-old Jada Williams,writing an essay on Frederick Douglass for a contest, made the very astute analysis that packing 30-40 students into a crowded classroom, and having mostly white teachers give them packets and pamphlets to complete that they don’t fully comprehend, impedes the learning process; and that this produces results similar to those hoped for by a slave master that forbids his slaves from learning how to read at all.
Jada’s point is that nothing has really changed since the days of Frederick Douglass; “the same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man.”
By the end of 8th grade a student has received nine years of education. NINE YEARS
When I was in school they didn’t start teaching us to read until 2nd grade. Now they start teaching them in preschool. So who is to blame if a child reaches the 8th grade and still can’t read?
Williams wrote that overcrowded, poorly managed classrooms prevent real learning from happening and thus produces the same results as Mr. Auld’s outright ban. She wrote that her white teachers—the vast majority of Rochester students are black and Hispanic, but very few teachers are people of color—are in a “position of power to dictate what I can, cannot, and will learn, only desiring that I may get bored because of the inconsistency and the mismanagement of the classroom.”
Instead of truly teaching, most teachers simply “pass out pamphlets and packets” and then expect students to complete them independently, Williams wrote. But this approach fails, she concluded, because “most of my peers cannot read and or comprehend the material that has been provided.” As a result, she continued, not much has changed since the time of Douglass, “just different people, different era” and “the same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man.” Williams called for her fellow students to “start making these white teachers accountable for instructing you” and challenged teachers to do their jobs. “What merit is there,” she asked, if teachers have knowledge and are “not willing to share because of the color of my skin?”
Yeah, that’s right. All those white teachers spent years earning teaching credentials so they could get jobs preventing black kids from learning.
Here’s my question – Where are the parents? How does any parent let their children pass through years of school without obtaining even basic literacy skills?
A controversial system of mobile euthanasia units that will travel around the country to respond to the wishes of sick people who wish to end their lives has been launched in the Netherlands.
The scheme, which started on Thursday , will send teams of specially trained doctors and nurses to the homes of people whose own doctors have refused to carry out patients’ requests to end their lives.
The launch of the so-called Levenseinde, or “Life End”, house-call units – whose services are being offered to Dutch citizens free of charge – coincides with the opening of a clinic of the same name in The Hague, which will take patients with incurable illnesses as well as others who do not want to die at home.
The scheme is an initiative by the Dutch Association for a Voluntary End to Life (NVVE), a 130,000-member euthanasia organisation that is the biggest of its kind in the world.
