Tag: education

Longer day required as audit reveals required instructional hours minimum not met

Rehearsals started in January for the San Benito High School drama club show that opens tonight

One of my pet peeves is how people often call forth the condemnation of the Founding Fathers upon modern-day America, as if the men who founded our nation were demigods, filled with a divine moral soundness and evangelical wisdom formed by the deeply puritanical society of colonial times. The leaders who shaped our nation’s path would shrink in shock at our modern political idolatry. They would insist we take them out of the temple of worship and instead see them as human beings, as people with flaws and prejudices shaped by the culture of their time.

West-side school will be second Hollister campus with clothing mandate

Program offers assessment and therapy for low-incidence, special-needs students

Three high school students who were ordered to remove American flag clothing to avoid offending students celebrating their Mexican heritage on Cinco de Mayo in 2010 filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today, according to William J. Becker, with The Becker Law Firm. The students hope to reverse a trial judge’s ruling that their constitutional free speech and equal protection rights were not violated, he said.