Category: Higher Ground
Ex-NPR reporter owns up to ‘colluding’
Newsflash: Covering Congress is like participating in the theater of the absurd. So why wait until you’re no longer covering D.C. to give your us honest opinion of the job? More here.
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Kenneth made his tuition, thanks to everyone who donated.
If you read this
You will cry, but in a good way.
Crazy
If I were her mother, I would be very, very proud to have raised her.
A Florida high school student made a stand against bullying and is now in the hot seat with school officials. For months, 18-year-old Stormy Rich witnessed a girl with special needs being bullied by her peers on the way to school. “They would be mean to her, tell her she couldn’t sit on certain spots on the bus…just because she doesn’t understand doesn’t mean that should be happening to her,” Rich told WOFL-TV.
Rich says she reported the incidents to the bus driver and school officials. When they didn’t take action, she stepped in and confronted the bullies; but instead of being praised for her efforts, Rich ended up being labeled as a bully, and her bus-riding privileges were revoked. A spokesperson for the school district said, “Two wrongs don’t make a right” and that the girl with special needs never complained about being bullied.
Stormy’s mother, Brenda, told The Daily Commercial, “My daughter was punished incorrectly. Stormy was standing up for a child with emotionally challenged disabilities that should not have been bullied. The district’s policy clearly states that anybody in good faith files a report on bullying will not face any repercussions and she is.“
TITLE NINE, BITCHEZ!!!!!
Solar kiosk
I don’t know about you, but I need to read some good news. This cheered me up, to remember that so many creative people are trying to do good things.
Congratulations
To Gabby Douglas, 16. Sounds like a nice kid!
Quote of the day
Stephanie Davies, who was in the Aurora movie theater and whose friend was shot:
“It’s sad for me to know that people go through so much in their life,” said Young, “that they would want to hurt, to massacre people. I feel so sorry for him, I feel so sorry.”
I would love to meet that young woman’s parents, because they did a wonderful job of raising a compassionate human being.
Something good
Out of something bad. We can all use a little inspiration today.