Last week, we wrote a piece about the Jefferson County, Colorado school district and the teacher sick-ins/student walkouts taking place there over what they see as censorship and revisionist history. To recap, the conservative school board thought that the new AP curriculum developed by the College Board – a private company that produces the AP tests, the […]
There’s a lot of things going on this country that bother us, as you’ve probably noticed by now. The defunding and dumbing down of the educational system by our conservative brethren has to be near the top of the list of things that get us going on a rant, though. We did a piece on this […]
Critics warn the case threatens reproductive rights nationwide by advancing the anti-choice concept of “fetal personhood” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 6-27-2019 In a case that has outraged and alarmed reproductive rights advocates nationwide, Marshae Jones—a 27-year-old black woman from Alabama—was charged with manslaughter Wednesday for experiencing a miscarriage last December […]
We of Occupy World Writes share a lot of common goals and views. As is normal with any group of people though, each of us have subjects that fire us up more than others. One of the subjects that’s guaranteed to fire me up is the dumbing down and gutting of the public school system […]