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on Equal Protection for Sexual Minorities?
Given the statistical likelihood that some of the children in each classroom are gay, including gay adults in the normal and accepted group of role models seems quite reasonable. Why such a fuss, Beaverton School District?
posted 2 years, 7 months ago
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on How Much Media is Too Much?
I agree. The neighbor kids come to our house to play; they dress up the dog, bake, use musical instruments, get loud and messy, use up endless tape and string, pick flowers, invent costumes and games and have fun! Our son is 13; other kids range from 3 to 18 and somehow everybody plays together. They may or may not be allowed television, but have much more fun with hula hoops, jump ropes and basketballs.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on How Much Media is Too Much?
My parents kept a tv, but it was a b/w portable with a broken vertical hold (anybody remember what that is?) We had to get it out of the closet where it was kept on a shelf, plug it in and take turns holding the knob so the picture would stay steady. There were no rules regarding television use, but it was MUCH easier and more fun to simply read, which we often did in a tree. Remember climbing trees? Or we would bake cookies, ride bikes, play hide and seek, play doll school, restaurant or library, make obstacle courses, sew, jump rope, draw pictures, train the dog to do tricks...how about making technology available, but not too easy and flashy? Use an uncomfortable location, a slow dial-up, a small screen; make technology shared rather than individual so that people take turns, and enable imaginative, reality-based fun that pleases all the senses.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on How Much Media is Too Much?
Parents can add media literacy to screen time only if they are present; spending time with children is what they need, so perhaps young children should only watch if with the parents. I suspect the screen time is being used as a babysitter, but it isn't the same as an attentive adult.
posted 3 years, 1 month ago
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on Questioning the Census Boxes
Back in the early 90's I was compiling answers to a survey of seniors, most of whom appeared to be native americans. We eventually realized that they understood the term to mean not immigrants and were checking that box if they had been born here, whatever racial group they might have been!
posted 3 years, 2 months ago
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