Cellphones in School

Recently I read an article about a high school in Michigan that suspended several students for either receiving or transmitting a sexually revealing photo of a fourteen year old female student. The young lady had taken pictures of her genital area and sent it to some friends who shared it with other friends and down the line the pictures went. Now I am not even going to talk about issue of how sick it is for a girl to even take pictures like this. I would like to applaud the school district for taking such a stand against this type of behavior. The battle against cell phones in schools is one I have to fight every day. Schools need to set strict standards on their use and have the message be clear to the entire student population. It requires the schools faculty and administration to be consistent in the enforcement of the policy. Students need to know the abuse of the cell phone technology is not going to be tolerated. Last year in my school we had a group of students cause two other non suspecting students to fight in order to video record the encounter with their cell phones and broadcast it to others. Incidents like this happen way too much, you can find thing like this on You Tube all day long.

So I would encourage all of us that are stakeholders in education and young people all over our country to continue supporting and encouraging our local school districts positive policies when we see them. While there will be times when you disagree with your district on certain issues, we owe it to them to praise them when they create positive policy.

Posted by Justin Foster

God of This City! God of our Schools!

God is the God of our Cities! God is also the God of our Schools! Listen to this song and dream about what God can do in our public schools. Many people think that prayer was taken out of public schools in the 1960's, prayer is alive and well in our public schools today. Christians are serving as teachers, paraeducators, principals, custodians, volunteers, secretaries, Superintendents, and many othe positions to serve the young people of this great nation.

I hope that you will join me in praying for our public schools and in legally living out your faith in our schools. God calls us to be salt and light; light in a dark world. Christian Educators Association International is equipped to help you to live out your faith in our schools and to encourage you to be the salt and light in your classroom.

God Bless you for what you do! Whether your a mom, dad, educator, or student, God wants to encourage you to live with hope and purpose.

Blessings,

Bill

Take time today to view this powerful video with your child and talk about the importance of standing for the right for life with all babies. Thank goodness that Elliott's parents decided on Life. Even though Elliott only lived 99 days, it was an eternity to his parents.

God Bless you and your child as you watch this video together. Get a box of tissues:)