My Fox NY – by LIZ DAHLEM

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz Jr. introduced a bill that would require parents of elementary school children to attend a minimum of four parent support classes. If parents don’t go, 6th graders won’t move onto 7th grade.

Leslie Venokur, the co-founder of Big City Moms, called the idea “crazy” and “insane.” She said that what is most concerning that the education commissioner and Board of Regents would develop the parenting guidelines. She said the Regents should “stick to what they’re good at which is teaching kids and staying away from the parents.”   Continue reading “NY lawmaker: Parents should take parenting classes”

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The bitterly cold winter the country is experiencing now took government climatologists completely by surprise, but was predicted with dead-center accuracy by the Old Farmer’s Almanac, a 200 year-plus publication.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center worked feverishly, plugging all available data into supercomputers to predict temperatures would be “above normal from November through January across much of the lower 48 states,” according to Bloomberg Businessweek.   Continue reading “Farmer’s Almanac nails winter freeze; government climate scientists way off”

Before It’s News – by Deborah Dupre

Want to know why children are doing poorly at school? It’s those working moms, according to Mississippi’s Republican governor, who has ignited a heated debate with his claims, including it isn’t a mother’s place to teach a child to read.

Yes, decline of education standards is linked to women in the workplace and women teaching children to read, according to Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, driving his points into homes while interviewed on TV.   Continue reading “Rep. Gov. Sexist Comments On TV Outrages Women”