Mike Tully on June 2nd, 2009

With age comes wisdom. Usually. But by the time they’re 14, most kids have already forgotten more about technology than most of us who are over 40 will ever know. It would be faster for me to write a letter on a typewriter, find an envelope and stamp and drive it to the post office [...]

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Mike Tully on June 2nd, 2009

Ryan Halligan was an ordinary teen who enjoyed swimming, camping, skateboarding, biking, snowboarding, playing computer games and instant messaging. The Vermont eighth grader had been instant messaging a popular girl in his class during the summer of 2003. When the school year started up again, Ryan approached her in person, where she berated him and [...]

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Mike Tully on June 2nd, 2009

More children and teenagers today are embracing social media, which entails such sites as Facebook, Twitter and various programs that allow users to instant message each other through the computer. While the new technology has done wonders in terms of communication, it has turned into a new issue that fathers should be aware of in [...]

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For story time, kindergarten teacher Veneranda Sanchez positioned her chair in the doorframe of her classroom with her students seated on the carpet, fanned out in a wide pie shape in front of her. Although her shoulder and back tilt into the narrow hallway, Sanchez discovered it was the best configuration to read to students [...]

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Mike Tully on June 2nd, 2009

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Wisconsin school district may continue to hold its graduation ceremonies in a church because the location doesn’t necessarily make it a religious event. U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert ruled in a lawsuit brought by Americans United for Separation of Church and State against a district [...]

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Mike Tully on June 2nd, 2009

By DAN NEPHIN – 7 hours ago PITTSBURGH (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest prep schools on Tuesday disputed a lawsuit brought by a former basketball coach who claims he was forced to quit after complaining that the school told him he was recruiting too many blacks. Anthony Cheatham sued The Kiski School, an [...]

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