While other students walked out of school to protest gun violence, Jacob Shoemaker sat in class alone. The Hilliard Davidson High senior was suspended for one day for refusing to follow instructions to join the other non-protesters at his Ohio school. Students who walked out were not suspended. Jacob Shoemaker holds his suspension notice. He was trying to stay neutral, Shoemaker told ABC6. “If you walked out you were with the protest, you were for gun control and anti-gun vio

Educators aren’t all liberals, according to Education Week’s new survey. But most oppose all forms of school choice. About half of educators surveyed say they “guard against bringing their personal views into the classroom, reports Alyson Klein. While 41 percent of respondents described themselves as Democrats and 30 percent as independents, only 27 percent were Republicans. Half the educators surveyed voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, 29 percent for Donald Trump and 13 perc

St. Louis teachers are turning their classrooms into “hubs of social justice,” reports Kristen Taketa for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A local group called Educators for Social Justice “supports and encourages teaching that challenges students to become involved in social change and to see history and current events from the eyes of the marginalized.” Teachers at an Oct. 1 event told Taketa they “avoid impressing their own views on students, while also bringing up points or e

“Every peaceful transition of power is a historic moment,” a fourth-grade teacher in Michigan told parents in an email. Brett Meteyer will let students watch the inauguration, but not Donald Trump’s inaugural speech. He fears “inflammatory and degrading comments about minorities, women, and the disabled” and “profanity.” As it turned out, the speech was G rated with a “we the people” theme. President Trump criticized an  “education system flush with cash but which leaves our