Subject: Elementary Education

• Confused Voters, Stupid Congressmen

  How far do you have to go in trying to stomp on the huddled masses yearning to breathe free before even Congressman James Sensenbrenner, the man whose draconian immigration bill sparked all those protests, calls bullshit? As far as trying to gut part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And unfortunately, three OC congressmen have decided to go that far. The Los Angeles Times reports that Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) is leading an effort to drop the provision in the 1965 act requiring some jurisdi

  May 6, 2006

• Smart Kids, Not So Smart Adults, and DNA for Dinner

  The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, "School-age children from Spanish-speaking households in San Diego County and throughout California are gaining English fluency at record rates". While this is excellent news, the news for adults is a little dimmer. Meanwhile, English fluency among adult Spanish speakers dropped from 50 percent in 1990 and 2000 to 48 percent in 2005. The census reports a more precipitous decline for those 65 and older.

  August 15, 2006

• Color It Orange

  March 12, 2009

• Mexican Kids Hating Mexican Kids, And Why It's Okay

  La Opinión had a fascinating front-page piece yesterday about kiddies at Creek View Elementary School in Ontario regaling each other with a rhyme that translates as, "I don't want to go to Mexico ever again, again, again/Mexico stinks, stinks, stinks/There's a fat policeman at the door, door, door." Parents and school officials are flipping out, and La Opinión even interviews some psychologist who warns that "the danger" of such a chant toward a student's self-esteem "can be profound." Even cr

  April 22, 2008

• Hugh Hewitt Worst Person in the World!

  To tell you the truth, I haven't regularly watched Keith Olbermann since his days as a sportscaster on KTLA-TV Channel 5 and KCBS-TV Channel 2--and even as an elementary school wab, I found him annoying. I hear his MSNBC show The Countdown is pretty entertaining--but again, I find him irritating so don't bother to watch. Still, I give the man my respects. Yesterday, he named Orange County's premier loudmouth, Hugh Hewitt, the Worst Person in the World. Click below to watch the hilarity!

  May 22, 2008

• How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

  January 14, 1999

• All Your Favorite Bands

  February 4, 1999

• The Original King of All Media

  June 20, 2002

• Get Your Cans Over to SCR and OCPAC

  South Coast Repertory and Orange County Performing Arts Center are doing something bold this month. They are collecting from audiences at each venue's shows non-perishable food that will be donated to the Orange County Food Bank, whose services are needed more than ever. Nice, you're saying, but what's so bold about that? Every elementary school's fourth grade class does the same thing, right? Well, what is bold about the Arts Can Food Drive is, and let me repeat, they are encouraging audience m

  March 20, 2009

• Sorry, Kids

  October 9, 2008

• California Coastal

  September 25, 2008

• In San Juan Capistrano's Schools, White Kids Are Painted Into One Corner, Latino Kids Into Another

  September 4, 2008

• Quick Draw

  June 12, 2008

• D-What?

  January 10, 2008

• Mud Flaps

  January 10, 2008

• Childish Things

  Newport Beach’s Mark Dutcher is just a big kid

  November 8, 2007

• Alices Got a Brand New Bag

  August 21, 2003

• Letters

  'WHO or WHAT raised you?'

  May 31, 2007

• Trendzilla

  Birkenstocks: Not just for hippies anymore
  

  May 24, 2007

• Whats Illegal?

  Video of elementary schoolkids chanting on May Day becomes YouTube hit as immigration-debate propaganda

  May 24, 2007

• Not Fade Away

  The Rise and Fall and Rise (Again) of OCs Anton Newcombe

  December 21, 2006

• 'You Can't Call 911 When You're Dead'

  County officials tell a mother they can help her troubled kidbut only after he kills her

  November 23, 2006

• 'Devo Mixed With Seventh Grade'

  Single Cell debunks black holes

  November 23, 2006

• Embrace the Mexican

  October 6, 2005

• !ASK A MEXICAN!

  May 12, 2005

• We Answer Register Letters Because They Wont

  May 12, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 13, 2005

• My Day In The Life

  September 30, 2004

• Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

  September 2, 2004

• Another Great Band Bites It

  April 15, 2004

• Sweet and Loh Down

  March 11, 2004

• Americas Sweetheart

  February 12, 2004

• Schools Out Forever

  January 1, 2004

• Sex and Dancing Lesbos

  February 13, 2003

• We Love to See You Smile From a Tree

  March 22, 2001

• No Recess for You!

  December 7, 2000

• Do You Know Wayne Wedin?

  November 30, 2000

• High Camp

  May 11, 2000

• Thank Yew, Richuhd Blade!

  May 11, 2000

• The Road Warriors!

  January 27, 2000

• Third Grader's Book Details Mom's Battle With Cancer

  The authorCan you remember anything you were doing at age 7 that did not involve potty jokes, running after the ice cream truck or putting a finger where it did not belong? Taylor Rice, a Lake Forest 8-year-old, can look way back to last year when she wrote what's claimed to be the first children's book of its kind. My Cancer Mommy, which is now available for purchase, presents a kid's perspective on a mother's battle with the disease, from diagnosis to recovery. Taylor was seven months old

  April 22, 2009

• Squeeze Put on Orange High School's Pulp Magazine

  The issue in question.AN OPEN LETTER TO LYNN LAI, EDITOR OF ORANGE HIGH SCHOOL'S STUDENT MAGAZINE PULP:Dear Lynn:I read with interest reporter Doug "Teacher's Pet" Irving's piece in the Orange County Register about your principal, SK Johnson, confiscating your magazine over a cover image he believed looked too much like a gang tattoo and content inside he found questionable.It appears from the story that you and your Pulpers are receiving the support of the Student Press Law Center, whose chief

  June 30, 2009

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid Author Signing

  October 22, 2009

• 3 OC Schools Escape No Child Left Behind Sanctions, CTA Crows

  Just another day of learning at Kinoshita Elementary School.​California Teachers Association (CTA) is taking credit for three elementary schools in Orange County improving enough academically to escape vulnerability to sanctions or forced conversion to charter schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Melrose Elementary School in Placentia, Martin Elementary School in Santa Ana and Kinoshita Elementary School in San Juan Capistrano are among eight California schools where significant

  October 22, 2009