The Carnival of Homeschooling is up....

"Carnival" by Barron Holland

The host is Jacque at Walking Therein.  There are a lot of good tips at this week's carnival - so go check it out!

Hey, and don't forget to turn your speakers on!

School discipline based on "hue".

Source:  Right on the Left Coast: Views from a Conservative Teacher

Back in the "civil rights era" of the 50's and 60's, the goal was a colorblind society--a society whose laws did not treat people differently because of their race. Laws--ignored today but still on the books--state that people will be treated without regard to their race, or without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.

So imagine my surprise when I received this link via email today:

The board is calling for a two-tiered form of student discipline. One for Black and Hispanic students; one for everyone else.

With the goal of creating a "restorative school culture and climate" that conveys a "sense of belonging to all students," the board is insisting that its schools reduce its suspensions and/or expulsions of minority students to the point that the data reflect "no ethnic/racial disparities"...

Offenses by students will be judged, and penalties meted out, depending on the student's hue.

I've written about this kind of thing before (here's just one example), and I always come to the same conclusion: Promoting Thurgood Marshall's and Dr. King's dreams of a truly colorblind society--not one that ignores race, but one that doesn't allow race to separate people before the law--would alleviate both kinds of racism (identified in the first paragraph above). Here's a post I wrote about race and education, quoting Marshall as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964--do you agree with Marshall, or with the race-baiters of today?

(Read the post in it's entirety HERE.)

Word Problem - Children and the Apples, by Christopher Carter

Here's a word problem to get your brain cells going:

Once upon a time, there was a family of children. The oldest of these children was in charge of making sure that each of the other children did what they were supposed to do. There were 10 different children. Each of them had to pick a certain amount of apples every day.

Charlie had to pick 50

Jane had to pick 40

Carly had to pick 35

John had to pick 30

Ashley had to pick 25

Christopher had to pick 20

Aaron had to pick 15

Alyssa had to pick 10

James had to pick 5

Between all the children, they had to have a grand total of 630 apples.


How many apples did Cameryn (the oldest) have to pick?

Click here to go to the page with the answer! 

But don't forget to try to solve it yourself first!