Being autistic doesn’t mean you’re just living in a vacuum and you’re shut from your environment unable to feel anything. On the contrary, environment for people with autism is real, evident and they really have an abundance of emotions, sometimes even too much to deal with. One child with autism, […]
A teacher from Florida, Diane Tirado, was fired from Westgate K-8 School located in port. St. Lucie because she gave her students zero grades when they didn’t turn in assignments. Tirado was an 8th grade teacher of history and she once gave her students a period of two weeks to […]
Despite the compelling data that homework takes away family time and has no advantages for students, children are still given piles of tasks to complete outside of school. And despite data that small kindnesses can bring a positivity in a community, too many children are being bullied or bullying someone […]
As seen on Scary Mommy, a school from Baltimore has removed the apparently outdated and useless tradition known as detention. Instead of it, the Robert W. Coleman School has a meditation program designed for its students. Without doubt, other schools should definitely follow their example because truth being told; detention […]