Brent Finnegan -- January 29th, 2007
Del. Matt Lohr’s HB1727 was reported to have died in a tie in the education committee on the 17th.
Those of you following this bill (which was initially aimed at the Gay-Straight Alliance at HHS) know that it’s alive again, and has passed the committee. Confused? Read this.
You can track this bill and read more about it on Richmond Sunlight. Bryan J. Scrafford had a good post about this last week.
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. with Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Matt Lohr, Harrisonburg Mayor [...]
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide. NCGA helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately [...]
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month. Out of the 45 new applicants that the program received, 21 communities received awards. Harrisonburg was given a bronze‐level Bicycle Friendly Community designation. [...]
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80% of our adult smallmouth bass died and no one knows why.
Growth is rampant, and decidely random.
SOLs are destroying creatively and learning for teachers and students.
Tuition costs are skyrocketing.
Our stream water is unhealthy to recreate in.
[the list goes on]
And the primary effort of our delegate is to push a bill that ask parental permission for students to join a particular type of school club? Nevermind the discriminatory nature of the bill for just a second, and consider the fact so many other issues exist that really do need our leadership’s attention.
Note: “creatively” should read “creativity”
My primary objection to this bill is exactly that: it’s unnecessary.
Kai, bless you for your comment on the SOL’s. I’m a writing major at BC and am actually currently in a class called “Teaching Writing.” There are 3 textbooks for the class, all by different authors who teach in different environments — elementary, high and college — yet all say the EXACT same thing. Pressure to meet standards makes the process of teaching writing arduous and impractical. There is no room to foster creativity in an SOL classroom and people learn to hate writing because it’s taught as a methodical formula that’s just not right for everyone. That’s sad because writing is something everyone has to do, no matter what job they may take one day.
Sorry, that was off topic, but it was a great comment and it’s a problem I don’t think enough people realize.
Also, thank the heavens above for the kind and wonderful souls who become teachers and are subsequently forced to deal with CRAP like this bill. Teachers should make about 5 times what they do.