Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

• Let Us Strive to Equip ALL of Our Children Wisely- Imbue them with Self-Love & Self-Respect

  Saturday, March 24th, 2012

  Seven Oaks Elementary goes after bullying by teaching manners, conflict resolution and social skills, trying to prevent it before it actually happens.

  This school holds two full days of social training at the start of each school year focusing on how to deal with conflicts and arguments so they don’t fester and spill into mean emails, texts, posts on Facebook or physical fights.

• In 2012 Americans NEED Health Care with a Public Option – Don’t Be Duped by Profit Motives

  Monday, March 19th, 2012

  In 1961, the Republican icon of today, Ronald Reagan denounced Medicare as being Socialized Medicine. Today it is the main health life-line for millions of senior Americans. People who worked all their adult lives; however, without access to Medicare today many would suffer greatly. Medicare, like a public health option today is NOT A HANDOUT. It is NOT government dictating your health coverage. Learn the facts. PLEASE.

• Mass Incarceration, Reproductive Health, Education, Health Outcomes: Regardless of the topic Disparities between Blacks, Hispanics and Whites Remain

  Sunday, March 18th, 2012

  “Black people are not dark-skinned white people; in fact, they are much more. They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against all odds, constantly making a way out of no way.” Mass incarceration is the new principal instrument of social policy directed at poorly educated black men.

• The Curious Case of Trayvon Martin – is a NY Times Op-Ed by Charles M. Blow

  Sunday, March 18th, 2012

  “This case has reignited a furor about vigilante justice, racial-profiling and equitable treatment under the law, and it has stirred the pot of racial strife.
  As the father of two black teenage boys, this case hits close to home. This is the fear that seizes me whenever my boys are out in the world”

• Parental Involvement, School Funding, the Impact of Poverty and Academic Success.

  Sunday, March 11th, 2012

  “A new, wide-ranging study from the Department of Education confirms what advocates for low income students have known for many years: states and school districts are failing to fund high poverty schools.” Furthermore, many school districts are not receptive to making parents equal partners in the education of their children. That NEEDS to change; the sooner the better it will be for a large number of poor and minority students around the country and specifically in CT.