school Archives - Small Things Count https://smthingscount.com/tag/school/ Making a More Loving World/Free Books Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:30:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 A Bully-Pulpit Invitation https://smthingscount.com/2020/06/30/a-bully-pulpit-invitation/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:51:36 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=9387 Here’s a bully-pulpit for you.  There’s so much in the news about kids being bullied and the damage it does to them not just at

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]]> Sweet–and Fair–Fundraising https://smthingscount.com/2020/02/04/sweet-and-fair-fundraising/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:53:34 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8862 There’s a knock at the door.  It’s a youngster with chocolate bars.  You buy because you want to support the soccer team.  Warning: in your

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]]> For Our Kids–Arm Everyone https://smthingscount.com/2019/09/23/for-our-kids-arm-everyone/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:26:10 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8443 I’m all for having armed guards in every school.  In fact, they should be anywhere children gather.  That includes churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques; Scout

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]]> Kids who Hide in Plain Sight https://smthingscount.com/2019/09/06/kids-who-hide-in-plain-sight/ Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:02:35 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8416 Over four million KIDS are on the streets, unaccompanied by an adult, in the U.S. each year. At least a million kids either couch-surf at

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]]> Is Child Abuse a National Pastime? https://smthingscount.com/2019/07/12/is-child-abuse-a-national-pastime/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:37:50 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=8254 80% of the child abuse cases within the Boy Scouts of America between 1970 and 1991 went unreported. Churches (Catholic and Protestant and other faiths)

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]]> A Birthday and a Warning https://smthingscount.com/2019/03/12/a-birthday-and-a-warning/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:14:15 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7842 Thirty years ago today a British computer scientist submitted a proposal that formed the basis for today’s World Wide Web, making today the Web’s 3oth

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]]> Measles Outbreak! https://smthingscount.com/2018/08/20/measles-outbreak-2/ https://smthingscount.com/2018/08/20/measles-outbreak-2/#comments Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:23:48 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7221 It seems like a small number–107 kids in 21 states with measles–but the year is only a little more than half over. (There were 118

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]]> https://smthingscount.com/2018/08/20/measles-outbreak-2/feed/ 4 Family Giving Tree https://smthingscount.com/2018/07/27/family-giving-tree/ Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:25:39 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=7120 Do you have a Family Giving Tree in your area? If so, please support it with a box of crayons, a notebook or two, a

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]]> Let Others Tell You How to Live? https://smthingscount.com/2018/04/23/let-others-tell-you-how-to-live/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:01:52 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6840 Go ahead and let other people tell you what to do and run your life.  No?  Don’t want to?  A  whole bunch of people are

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]]> Heads Up–Be Aware! https://smthingscount.com/2018/02/16/heads-up-be-aware/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:15:10 +0000 https://smthingscount.com/?p=6677 Events of this week–and of many other previous weeks with similar events–make it imperative that all of us stay alert for signs of mental illness

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