Telling Tales out of School

with Nick Martin

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• You have to check them all out

  I get these calls and emails fairly regularly, alleging really bizarre things going on in schools, things that boggle the mind, but which all have to be checked out — if you read the wires, some truly weird things in schools every once in a while actually turn out to be true, especially in the States.

  View Full Post 06/23/2010 4:15 PM 0

• Demographics at the top

  Two of Manitoba’s seven public postsecondary institutions are now headed by aboriginal women.

  View Full Post 06/18/2010 12:54 PM 0

• The super writes a super column

  I received one of those stereotypical anonymous plain white envelopes this week, no return address, hand-delivered to the Freeps office, unsigned.

  View Full Post 06/9/2010 4:14 PM 0

• Right wing lobbyists won’t be heard in school

  There’s quite a dispute going on between Pat Isaak, president of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society, and Colin Craig, prairie director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

  View Full Post 06/7/2010 2:34 PM 0

• Off to convocation

  I’ll be off for the next week.

  View Full Post 05/31/2010 4:02 PM 0

• The high price of kids’ fun

  I was driving down to St. John’s-Ravenscourt School last night to referee a game, and thinking I’d never seen so many cars parked along Oakenwald.

  View Full Post 05/28/2010 4:31 PM 0

• Did no one celebrate?

  Manitoba Day came and went this month without a whole lot of attention on the day’s being marked in schools.

  View Full Post 05/27/2010 4:18 PM 0

• Will McGifford make the call?

  The pressure is on Advanced Education Minister Diane McGifford — will she allow U of M its massive tuition increases?

  View Full Post 05/11/2010 4:56 PM 0

• I won’t be late with this blog

  Education Minister Nancy Allan is proving to be a great interview.

  View Full Post 05/6/2010 4:37 PM 0

• We’ve lost a great teacher

  Phil Reece seemed to be there every time kids were proudly displaying their heritage projects.

  View Full Post 05/4/2010 1:13 PM 0

• A wasted gem

  What an appalling waste of an historical gem!

  View Full Post 05/3/2010 4:02 PM 0

• More scoop on the poop

  More breaking news on Dog Poop Park...

  View Full Post 04/29/2010 4:28 PM 0

• Silence starts to spread

  I blogged a couple of days ago about the Day of Silence across the United States, a day in which hundreds of thousands of students from more than 8,000 K-12 and postsecondary schools take a vow of silence to protest homophobia.

  View Full Post 04/22/2010 4:38 PM 0

• Silence can be incredibly loud

  Friday is the national Day of Silence across the United States, a day in which hundreds of thousands of students from more than 8,000 K-12 and post-secondary schools will take a vow of silence to protest homophobia.

  View Full Post 04/15/2010 1:42 PM 0

• No end in sight

  It will be eight weeks on Wednesday since the now-notorious lewd lap dance with simulated oral sex took place at a school spirit event in the Churchill High gym.

  View Full Post 04/12/2010 5:56 AM 0

• Awaiting field of dreams

  It’s been a while since we brought you word that Gordon Bell High School would finally get its athletic field/green space on the site of the old car dealership on Portage Avenue.

  View Full Post 04/8/2010 4:36 PM 0

• TIG and the non-freeze freeze

  It’s less than three weeks since school boards submitted their mill rates, so you’ll never know when we might hear about another catch in the tax incentive grants.

  View Full Post 04/1/2010 9:51 AM 0

• Ross and I miff trustees

  The Manitoba School Boards Association is unhappy with me, which is hardly news, or anything new.

  View Full Post 03/26/2010 4:31 PM 0

• No word from the union

  This just in......River East Transcona School Division has clarified its earlier budget information. In the portion of the division which has teacher-librarians, they will be replaced by library technicians only in the high schools. Those teacher-librarians will be transferred to the classroom in September. Meanwhile, middle years and elementary schools which have teacher-librarians now, will continue to do so.

  View Full Post 03/23/2010 1:20 AM 0

• Becoming a one-sport child

  I’m glad I’m not a parent having to decide whether to move my son or daughter to Glenlawn Collegiate next fall so they can train daily year-round with the Manitoba Soccer Association’s regional training centre.

  View Full Post 03/11/2010 2:08 PM 0