Amazon In March, Sarah Inama, a sixth grade teacher in Idaho, made national headlines when her school’s administration ordered her to take down motivational signs with messages like “Everyone Is Welcome Here” and “In this room, everyone is welcome, important, accepted, respected, encouraged, valued, equal.” Now, her signs have explicitly been cited in official guidance...
Win McNamee/Getty Images News/Getty Images This week, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education (ED), Agriculture (USDA), Justice (DoJ), and Labor (DoL) sent notice that the federal government will be curbing what they deem as “benefits” for “illegal aliens,” including public health programs that receive certain government grants, career and technical education programs, and...
Picture Alliance/Getty Images Lately, I’ve been having a weird sense of déjà vu. Because haven’t we already been through a small stuffed animal craze before and learned that they’re not, in fact, worth getting our panties in a twist over? Did we not learn our lesson from the rise and subsequent fall of Beanie Babies...
Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images The kids are all right… for the most part. And we know that in part thanks to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS… not exactly a catchy acronym, to be honest). This CDC initiative has monitored adolescent health behavior changes over time since 1991 through a series of surveys given to high...