Burger King announced on their Twitter that they plan to hook up all the smart boys and girls with a free Whopper IF they can show off their brain skills.
Grant Suire, a 8th grade student at St. Michael's in Crowley, has placed first in the National Junior Beta Club's speech competition. His message involves starfish and service. And it's brilliant!
Zhorie'l Tapo, a first-grader at Plantation Elementary in Lafayette, is one of the grand prize winners for The Leader in Me Student Speech Contest. She, along with students in other age brackets, won a $500 Leadership Grant. Nearly 250 students participated in the nationwide contest.
It seems that Common Core is going to happen whether if we want it or not. The Calcasieu parish School board is launching a web site to help students with Common Core homework.
McNeese classes start next week and there will be hundreds of new freshmen joining the upperclassmen on the campus. So here are a few "blending-in" tips for those new students.
It seems that some in government think that the job of government is to control the people they govern. I understand laws that protect people; but don't understand laws that regulate our everyday lives. Worse than just passing the law is all the government spending it takes to enforce the law. Such a law is being proposed right here in Louisiana.
An new Missouri law, aimed at protecting children from sexual predators, has made it illegal for teachers and their past and present school-aged students to friend each other on Facebook.