During my 1980s college years, our student group urged the university to divest from any South African interests. Many campuses nationwide saw students protesting that country’s legalized system of racial oppression, apartheid.
To the editor:Increasing student achievement should be the most important focus of schools. Since serving as a board member, I, along with some fellow board members, have demonstrated the changes needed by requiring the annual Building Needs Assessment, which is required by state law, to be completed by the Board of Education with teachers and administrators.
The school year has wrapped up for my two children and summer break has officially arrived. The weeks leading up to those last days of school for my elementary-aged son and daughter were filled with tests, final projects, field trips, locker clean outs, a field day, a sixth-grade promotion and celebrations.I imagine that after all of those busy days, as they waved to the children riding off in their school buses for the summer, my kids’ teachers collectively collapsed into their chairs exhausted.
My eighth grader recently graduated from middle school, and I’m not sure how I feel about it.You raise a child, care for them for years as they can barely speak or take care of themselves, and then they go and grow up. Our son now looms over my husband.
I recently had the opportunity to play my violin outdoors at the Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead in Overland Park. Our Weavers’ Guild and Fiber Guild… Login to continue reading Login…
By the end of May, schools around the nation will have ended their academic year with graduations. Last week, I was fortunate enough to witness… Login to continue reading Login…
I want to thank the Leavenworth Times for the opportunity to be a part of their opinion page. I have used my first three columns… Login to continue reading Login…
The topic for this installment of managing problem dog behaviors is the greeting of guests coming into your house or apartment.Remember, these are management ideas.… Login to continue reading Login…
My grandfather didn’t like talking about the soldiers he fought with in the early 1950s, and he certainly never talked about those who died while… Login to continue reading Login…
It all seemed so easy back in January.Delivering property tax relief and reform for Kansan homeowners was atop every Kansas legislator’s list as if Moses… Login to continue reading Login…