A proposed Texas law would fine parents who waste a teacher’s time miss a scheduled parent-teacher conference: AUSTIN, Texas — Parents beware: Miss a meeting with your child’s teacher and it could cost you a $500 fine and a criminal record.A Republican state lawmaker from Baytown has filed a bill that would charge parents of public school students with a misdemeanor and fine them for playing (more…)
Former substitute teacher Julie Amero has been tried and convicted of allowing seventh graders to view pornographic material in her Connecticut classroom. Amero faces up to 40 years in the slammer.Proclaiming her innocence, Amero says that it was the popups: (via Huffington Post) On October 19, 2004, Julie Amero arrived at Kelly Middle School to teach a 7th grade language arts class. Mr. (more…)
Q from Kuwaitism takes us on a flash back in time to when advertisements in Kuwait were creative and attractive. This time I?ll post an ad for Kuwait Airways that I liked a lot, when they first started their route to Paris back in 1965.Yet we are pulled back from the good old days […] (more…)
Zhaihua discusses about the differences between Chinglish and Japlish (zh). He argues that Chinglish is speaking to foreigners hoping that they can understand, but Japlish is speaking to Japanese but taking English term for their own use. (more…)
