The Madison School District is proposing that adhesive bandages be cut from the budget.
If a student needs an adhesive bandage for cuts/scrapes, they will need to bring one from home (hopefully at the beginning of the school year and kept on-hand by their teacher). Additionally, teachers will be asked to turn-in any remaining bandages to their school's health office at the end of the year.
***It should be noted that this story is riddled with references to "Band-Aid(s)" which is, in fact, a brand name for adhesive bandages owned by Johnson & Johnson.
Oconomowoc High School student Nathan Alf accidentally caputred a photo of the Midwest Meteor by accident. Nathan was shooting photos of grass at night for a photography class as the meteor flew overhead and subsequently snapped a once in a lifetime photo.
[*note: We found the embeddable news piece on clipsyndicate. We're hopeful that @WISN12news makes their videos embeddable in the near future.]
[note from AsSeenInWI: We were shocked to see that this happens in modern America]]
Female members of St. John's Lutheran Church were not allowed to speak or vote during a six-hour meeting Sunday night in which the termination of the school's principal was being discussed.
The suspension of St. John's Lutheran School Principal John Hartwig was due to alleged wrongdoings include "promoting materials that questioned the church's teachings and engaged in conduct 'unbecoming a called worker.'"
According to those in attendance the vote was 76-74 in favor of firing Hartwig.
Yep, a teacher in my hometown or Oregon, WI is on "administrative leave" after allegedly making a threat involving the use of a weapon during a phone conversation while at work. Several teachers felt targeted by the threat. No other details are being made public.
Not the kind of hometown news I like to find out about....
The list of mascots includes the Redmen, Chiefs and Indians.
If the Legislature passes a bill allowing people to file complaints alleging the mascots promote discrimination or stereotyping, more than 30 Wisconsin schools may be changing their mascots. If it's signed into law, school districts that fail to stop using mascots found to promote discrimination would face monetary penalties.
“I mean, Facebook is — anybody can get on it. It isn’t that tough. … These kids have to understand that within social networking, that there is no real privacy out there. And no. 2 is that here they are — every one of these kids had signed a co-curricular code of conduct.”
Insert your own comment here about:
Kids shouldn't drink underage
Kids shouldn't put pictures of themselves doing illegal activities on Facebook / the internet
Kids should get 2nd chances, especially if they participate in school activities
Schools have no business monitoring what happens on Facebook, et al.
A Fond du Lac mother testified in front of a committee to have a book banned from the Theisen Middle School library because she said it is 'inappropriate'.
The book in question is titled 'One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies'. She is asking that six other books also be pulled from the library including the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series.
Student poets across Wisconsin are competing this week in Madison.
Contestents are being judged by artists from Madison's hip-hop, radio and writing community. The winners from each semifinal will go on to compete against other regional contest winners at the Wisconsin State Grand Slam on Feb. 26.
The state team will go on to compete at the national Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival this summer in Los Angeles.
The national festival brings together young poets and spoken-word artists aged 13 to 19 from across the country.
Student poets across Wisconsin are competing this week in Madison.
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