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Louisiana clamps down on electronic communication between teachers and students
According to a post on the NJPSA website a new law in Louisiana requires school districts to develop policies to monitor all electronic communication between teachers and students using non-school issued electronic devices. These policies have to be in place by November 15th. Parents also have the option of requiring that no communication takes place between their child and a teacher using personal electronic devices.
I imagine some terrible events must have occurred in Louisiana for the state legislature to take such action. I wonder if the problem was wide spread or if it was a few bad apples that caused the problems.
Further on in the article it states:
Similar policies exist in many school districts across the country, and at least one other state has considered such legislation in recent years. But critics question the measures, saying they will likely restrict appropriate communication between teachers and students and discourage the use of new technologies.
I do think there should be policies regarding student-teacher communication. Currently I use my school email account and school computer to send text messages to student's cell phones. The reason I do not use my own cell phone is I do not want students to have my cell phone number.
I know of a teacher who chaperoned an overnight class trip and was responsible for a group of about 15 students. He took each student's cell phone number and created a distribution list so that he could send out one text message and reach the whole group at once. During the day they were at a large zoo and the students were allowed to roam unsupervised with at least one other student. He told them he would periodically send out a text message and require them to meet at a certain location in a specified amount of time. If the students did not show up at the required time they had to spend the rest of the day under the direct supervision of the teacher. I thought this was a brilliant use of a cell phone. If one of my own children went on that trip I would have wanted them to be in this teacher's group. Not only could the teacher contact the students, but the students could contact the teacher if they ran into any trouble. Will the Louisiana law stifle this type of creative use of personal electronic devices?
I would like to see local school boards and school districts decide how to handle this problem instead of it being mandated from the state legislature.
Tropical Storm IDA Public Advisory
At 9 AM CST...1500 UTC...all hurricane warnings and watches along the Gulf Coast have been discontinued. A tropical storm warning is now in effect from Grand Isle Louisiana eastward to the Aucilla River Florida... including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.
A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 24 hours.
Read more via nhc.noaa.gov
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Louisiana ag secretary announces six Louisiana parishes disaster areas | Agweek
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared eight Mississippi counties and six Louisiana parishes disaster areas due to flooding earlier this year.
Read more via agweek.com
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Former Louisiana Governor Dave Treen dead at 81 | WWL - AM870 | FM105.3
Former Louisiana Gov. Dave Treen, the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction when he was elected in 1979 has died at age 81.
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Louisiana State Parks' “Statewide Trails Day” 11/7/2009
Celebrate 75 years of camping, history, hiking, birding and enjoy our great state.
On Saturday, November 7, 2009 all visitors get Free Entrance to enjoy Louisiana State Park sites on foot. Special commemorative hiking badges will be available to the first number of visitors to each site.
More information on trails at Louisiana's State Parks and Historic Sites
Contact each park for specific information about their trails
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State Sales Tax Exemption Extends to Modular-built Homes
A partial sales and use tax exclusion is available for modular homes and other "factory-built" homes purchased or used in Louisiana. Previously, the exclusion applied only to purchases of dwellings categorized as "manufactured homes," known widely as mobile homes; the sales tax exemption became effective July 1, 2009.
Read more via doa.louisiana.gov
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Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship in Music - Fellowship Recipients
2009/2010
FY 2010 Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant Recipients
| Program | Category | Applicant/Sub-Applicant | City | Grant |
| Fellowship | Dance | Leonard Augustus Jr. | Baton Rouge | $5,000 |
| Fellowship | Folklife | Sammie Williams | New Orleans | $5,000 |
| Fellowship | Literature | Jacob Blevins | Lake Charles | $5,000 |
| Fellowship | Media | Kevin H. Jones | New Orleans | $5,000 |
| Fellowship | Music | Dennette Derby-McDermott | Natchitoches | $5,000 |
| Fellowship | Theatre | Jeff Becker | New Orleans | $5,000 |
| Fellowship | Visual Arts | Lee Deigaard | New Orleans | $5,000 |
Read more via crt.state.la.us
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Group sponsors event to restore Avery Island wetlands | 2theadvocate.com
America’s Wetland Conservation Corps is holding a marsh planting session from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday to help restore Avery Island wetlands.
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Judge Keith Bardwell, I salute you for refusing to marry an interracial couple and...
for having a brain that loves black people while being terrified of mixed race babies:
Judge Keith Bardwell, an elected justice of the peace for Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward in Louisiana is refusing to issue a marriage license and preside over the wedding of Beth Humphrey, 30, and her boyfriend, Terence McKay, 32, both of Hammond, Louisiana. Terence McKay is black and Beth Humphrey is white.
In an interview with the town paper Hammond's Daily Star, Bardwell said he was "concerned for the children who might be born of the relationship and that, in his experience, most interracial marriages don't last."
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
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I wonder if he has anyone in his life to tell him how f**king stupid he is. Maybe his relatives and friends just smile and excuse his behavior because 'you know, that's just the way he is'? And a big up to Humphrey and McKay for not telling this retrograde to go to hell. I'm sure they would have felt better to unload on this idiot judge but the onus to be gracious and kind is clearly on those of us who value humanity more than any -ism.
