Tagged: important

  1. One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

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    “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

    Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

    She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.

    “My ponytail,” she cried.

    “Can I see?” I asked.

    She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.

    “How’s that?” I asked.

    She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.

    ‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’

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  2. If you’re an American, it seems to me like this upcoming bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is something you should really, really pay attention to. And because Canada likes to follow whatever the States does, I’m thinking I should pay attention too. SOPA, also known as the Protect IP Act, or the Internet Blacklist Legislation is starting to be discussed by the US government today. Basically, what the bill does, is give permission for companies who feel their copyright has somehow been infringed upon to file a complaint against a website and that website will effectively shut down. It’s censorship, is what it is. And it has the potential to affect sites ranging from Amazon and eBay to Tumblr and Twitter. You can read the Act here. You can look at a super informative infographic about how the bill will work here. You can take action through americancensorship.org here. (Where they are currently promoting American Censorship Day, today.) You can take action through the Electronic Frontier Foundation here. You can find and contact your member of Congress here. You can find and contact your Senator here. Google it to learn more about it. Search “SOPA” on Tumblr. Do some research. I think you’ll find it’s an important issue and you’ll need to take some sort of action. Spread the word.

    If you’re an American, it seems to me like this upcoming bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is something you should really, really pay attention to. And because Canada likes to follow whatever the States does, I’m thinking I should pay attention too.

    SOPA, also known as the Protect IP Act, or the Internet Blacklist Legislation is starting to be discussed by the US government today. Basically, what the bill does, is give permission for companies who feel their copyright has somehow been infringed upon to file a complaint against a website and that website will effectively shut down. It’s censorship, is what it is. And it has the potential to affect sites ranging from Amazon and eBay to Tumblr and Twitter.

    • You can read the Act here.
    • You can look at a super informative infographic about how the bill will work here.
    • You can take action through americancensorship.org here. (Where they are currently promoting American Censorship Day, today.)
    • You can take action through the Electronic Frontier Foundation here.
    • You can find and contact your member of Congress here.
    • You can find and contact your Senator here.

    Google it to learn more about it. Search “SOPA” on Tumblr. Do some research. I think you’ll find it’s an important issue and you’ll need to take some sort of action.

    Spread the word.