Posts tagged with kids

Your City and School Are Asked to Join The Million Father March

1 comment, 19/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Do The Knowledge, Edu-tainment, Giving Back, News

Black Star Project, a Chicago-based organization that launched the Million Father March, which encourages fathers to escort their children to school on the first day of class, now wants fathers to make an additional commitment to their children's education. "We are asking fathers and other si... Read more...

White Supremacist Principal Running Bronx School with Majority Black and Latino Students

0 comments, 19/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in mac, News

Andrew Theodorakis/News - Frank Borzellieri, who tried to ban "anti-American" books and fire an openly-gay teacher as a Queens school board member, is the new principal of a Bronx Catholic school. A firebrand educator with ties to a white supremacist group is running a Bronx Catholic school w... Read more...

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NY Mayor Bloomberg: “Black Parents Fail their Kids”

1 comment, 17/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Politics As Usual

With his usual glowing self-assurance, multi-term mayor Michael Bloomberg continually proclaims that his administration will be judged by his performance as our Education Mayor. But here is the people's judgment in a recent Quinnipiac poll reported by Michael Goodwin (New York Post, June 1): "By... Read more...

Aldermen Want 8:30 p.m. Curfew For Chicago Kids Under age of 12

4 comments, 03/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, Politics As Usual, program, Protest/Activism

Chicago kids under the age of 12 would have to be in the house by 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends, under a curfew crackdown proposed by three South Side aldermen Wednesday to rein in "unsupervised" children. Public Safety Committee Chairman Michelle Harris (8th) joined Aldermen Toni ... Read more...

Obesity Alone Is No Reason To Remove Kids From Their Homes

4 comments, 01/08/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health, News, World News

You don't need to be a doctor or scientist to see that Americans are getting fatter and fatter. We are the United States of obesity. Twelve states now have obesity rates above 30 percent, a just-released report from Trust for America's Health shows. Even the state with the highest percentage of peo... Read more...

“The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else’s Dream”

1 comment, 20/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Movies

By: Marc Cenedella The 4th of July is a good time to reflect on these words from a great American: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the a... Read more...

South Koreans Balk at Saturdays Without School

0 comments, 20/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News, World News

By Sangim Han and Rose Kim Chung Eunjung, a mother of two sons in Seoul, says South Korea's plan to give children extra playtime by ending Saturday classes means only one thing: more private tutoring. On June 14, President Lee Myung Bak's government announced it would recomm... Read more...

Google Braces For Illegal Drug Ad Fine

0 comments, 18/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in mac, News, Video, World News

Internet search operator Google is bracing for a fine that could top $500 million, after a federal probe of illegal online pharmacy ads placed on the website over the past three years. Law enforcement sources told CNN that federal prosecutors in Rhode Island, along with undercover agents ... Read more...

Video Games x Kids: How Young Is Too Young?

0 comments, 15/07/2011, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Health, iphone, program, TV, Video, Video Games

I was visiting my nephews, again. Within seconds of seeing me fiddle with my iPhone, my older nephew, Jack, who is 8, asked me, again, if my iPhone had any videogames on it. "Uh, no, sorry Jack," was my reply, letting a white lie skip through my teeth. I knew his mother and father might b... Read more...