A student offers a firsthand perspective on the difference between bullying and teasing. Another reader, meanwhile, talks medicare and healthcare reform.
Posts Tagged: education
Parent Says Soquel School Has Bullying Problem
In most ways, he’s what you could call a normal kid. Quentin Barnes enjoys sports like swimming and playing basketball, and has what his mother Denice Barnes calls a “goofy sense of humor.” When the fourth grader grows up, Quentin wants to be part-time professional baseball player and an entomologist. His enthusiasm for biology is already impressive for a nine-year-old.
Santa Cruz Young Writers to Host Benefit Event
An arm of the nonprofit Santa Cruz Writes, the Young Writers Program brings trained volunteers into classrooms to help kids with their writing through one-on-one attention. Each classroom’s writing project is on a topic of the individual teacher’s choosing.
Local Measure Endorsements
Our elections may be more important than ever. Local governments’ lists of responsibilities have grown, and cash flow is dwindling. Here are ‘Santa Cruz Weekly’s’ picks for measures around the county.
Fundraiser Lends Hand to Student Bike Programs
Bobby D. Richardson has been working on bikes for 33 years, but he didn’t start teaching people about them until September. Now the former bike mechanic instructs students at Scotts Valley High School in how to work on bikes, thanks to joint funding from the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and Project Bike Trip, a nonprofit that’s gearing up for a bike-a-thon fundraiser on behalf of students next month.
Letters to the Editor, Mar. 14-20
Here’s what public schools, desalination, and Madonna all have in common: they can all elicit pretty strong opinions from Santa Cruz Weekly readers.
Montessori Charter Advocates Drop Controversial Video
Nobody’s born with political acumen. It develops, often painfully, from the experience-driven discovery that something you just did pissed off a lot of people. Which might resonate with the organizers of a group called the Maria Montessori Charter School Families. They’ve learned firsthand, at their own pace (in a very Montessori way, you might say), a hard lesson about selling their concept for a charter elementary school to public school officials. Namely: First beware of insulting them.
