Subject: Elementary Education

• The Other Prophylactic

  April 25, 2007

• Shawnee Mission Impossible

  Why are so many parents taking their kids out of the Shawnee Mission School District?

  September 14, 2000

• Not Micky D's week

  November 13, 2008

• Two teen scribes and their writing mom make up a novel family

  The United States' Office of Stability raids an outlaw concert. The guns and chaos fail to silence a defiant singer passionately crooning Bright Eyes' "I Must Belong Somewhere." The concert is a violation of the America's ban on emotion, an attempt to end violent crime. A bullet silences what fear cannot, leading the heroine to fight against the government's suppression of what makes us human. This alternate world is from 16-year-old Nathan Goldman. Goldman, a Shawnee Mission East High Schoo

  December 11, 2008

• Taste Test ads getting on people's nerves

  If you've followed the NFL playoffs this year, you've seen the Domino's ads comparing its oven toasted sandwiches to Subway's and the fact that people prefer Domino's sandwiches two to one over Subway. Instead of just stating this fact, Domino's tries to cleverly show it and ends up making almost no sense. Here's the ad:At 10 seconds, the world's smartest man, Rick Rossner, comes on the screen and says, "Let's say my IQ represents the number of people who prefer Domino's but that an average-fift

  January 14, 2009

• The Twilight District, Episode 11

  March 28, 2002

• Salmonella scare at local schools

  Flickr: WhizchickenonbaumLast night, parents with children in Shawnee Mission high schools received a scary phone call. Principals left a recorded message saying their schools had received a possibly salmonella-tainted product from one of its suppliers, US Food Services.As soon as the schools received word, they threw away all of their Wells' Blue Bunny Nutty Sunday ice cream cones, which had never been distributed as part of normal lunches but were only served in the cafeteria's lunch a la cart

  February 24, 2009

• New Kids On The Block

  November 6, 2008

• The Ghosts of St. Elizabeth: For Kansas City's Catholic sex-abuse victims, this was a parish of pain.

  October 9, 2008

• Save Earth and Money

  September 4, 2008

• Buy This School

  Here’s some sales help for one of the city’s biggest slumlords: the school district

  August 14, 2008

• Angry parents say the Lee’s Summit School District leaves its autistic students behind

  July 10, 2008

• They Do It Their Way

  March 13, 2008

• Miss Nelson Has a Field Day

  February 28, 2008

• A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion

  February 21, 2008

• Lost Race

  Hispanics seek the school district's attention.

  November 22, 2001

• Good Graffiti

  July 26, 2007

• Amateur Griots

  May 31, 2007

• The Power of Half a Brain

  To live relatively normal lives, these children must give up something most of us can't imagine.

  March 1, 2007

• Life’s a Snap

  The Van Benthusen family’s unschooling experiment turns out one extraordinary kid.

  April 13, 2006

• In God She Trusts

  Public school kids recently got the Word on teen sex.

  March 2, 2006

• F-Troop

  February 16, 2006

• All the Right Moves

  A ballroom-dance competition brings out the best of kids -- and New York.

  June 16, 2005

• Buzzkill!

  As auditors try to figure out how Jackson County spends its anti-drug money, perhaps an investigator should ask a kid..

  September 2, 2004

• Young Blood

  Mattie Rhodes is down with the kids.

  March 18, 2004

• You Got Schooled

  Kansas lawmakers get the smack-down from a judge fed up with the state's places of learning.

  February 19, 2004

• Brad Paisley

  Saturday, January 10, at the Ameristar Hotel and Casino.

  January 8, 2004

• Principal Skinner

  Why does school-board member Elma Warrick want Principal Audrey Bullard's hide?

  October 16, 2003

• Kick It

  Adults relive kickball memories.

  July 3, 2003

• The Dames

  Saturday, May 31, at the Hurricane.

  May 29, 2003

• War of Words

  Marcus Leach hasn't let school get in the way of his education, but Missouri bureaucrats are teaching him a thing or two about power.

  May 1, 2003

• La Familia

  Neglected by the Kansas City School District, Latino students graduate from a home of their own.

  January 23, 2003

• Mary Quite Contrary

  In the battle over school funding, moderate Johnson County Republicans say Mary Pilcher Cook is their worst teachers' pest.

  July 18, 2002

• Test Mess

  Arthur Benson flunks statistics while grading African-centered schools.

  July 4, 2002

• Post Graduate

  KCK's famed illiterate hoopster cleans up a school that failed him.

  April 11, 2002

• Taylor Made

  After Superintendent Benjamin Demps fell from the school board's favor, Bernard Taylor was eager to please.

  October 4, 2001

• Hard Knock

  Two liberal lawmakers endure insults from their friends.

  July 5, 2001

• The Scholars of Central High

  They're smart and full of potential, but they come from one of Missouri's worst-performing schools.

  June 21, 2001

• How Do You Spell 'Grief'?

  Iola's Scott Toland is the spelling champ of Kansas -- it's a dark and sinister world he's entered.

  June 14, 2001

• Buzzbox

  Albino Fly

  April 26, 2001

• Time and Again

  When she was a kid, Catherine Stark-Corn sued the school board.

  March 15, 2001

• Culture Shock

  Gina Valente might be able to import a taste of Italy -- but running a school is a whole different venture.

  February 22, 2001

• Royal House of Cards

  There is no joy among kids over Damon's departure.

  January 18, 2001

• Swimming with sharks

  Being a young African-American competitive swimmer or diver is like swimming in shark-infested waters. But three members of Central high school's swim team do it every day.

  February 17, 2000

• Graffiti Fest

  May 21, 2009

• Teen alleges that another student raped her at Fairview Alternative School

  More allegations of rape in the Kansas City, Missouri, School District . A 17-year-old girl alleges that a 14-year-old boy raped her in a bathroom Wednesday at Fairview Alternative School at 3850 Pittman Road, KMBZ reports. View Larger Map Police and the school district are investigating. KMBZ says the boy was taken into police custody, and KSHB Channel 41 reports that the case has been forwarded to Jackson County Family Court.It's the second claim of rape by a student this week. On Monday, a

  May 22, 2009

• 12-year-old boy claims girls tried to stick the end of an umbrella in his butt

  The mother of a 12-year-old boy alleges that her son was sexually assaulted on a school bus, and the driver didn't do anything to help her son. KSHB Channel 41 reports that a male student a Milton Moore Elementary School was riding the bus home from school when two female students held the boy down in a bus seat, pulled the boy's pants down and tried to stick the end of an umbrella in the boy's butt. Here's what the boy's mother, Lisa Drone, told KSHB:"(My son) said he was hollering and couldn't

  May 21, 2009

• Three Kansas City schools survive chopping block; others close

  Three Kansas City, Missouri, schools won't be closing their doors afterall. McCoy, Milton Moore and Ecole Longan French Magnet elementary schools were taken off the list of schools set to close. The KMBC Channel 9 says these schools will be closing and has the full plan. Eighth grade schools at ...CentralThatcherEastWestportElementary schools at ...BryantGracelandChickMeserveyFully close ...BlenheimPershingCook MontessoriGet ready to add them to the list of at least 30 buildings that the distric

  June 25, 2009

• Is your kid in a gang? Here are the signs

  ​It's probably no surprise to hear gang members are getting younger, but anti-gang education in elementary schools? Yes, it's like that now. "We used to think if we produce information and work in partnership with the district that we could get our message out there in the high school and it would be all right," said Major Jan Zimmerman, commander of KCPD's Narcotics and Vice Division. "But obviously we need to be in the middle schools. We need to be in the elementary schools." Last night, t

  August 12, 2009

• Ex-coach posed as girl on Facebook to get nude photos of boys

  ​A former Johnson County coach pleaded guilty today to one count of producing child pornography. Michael T. Cowley, a 38-year-old Shawnee man, admitted that he posed as a 19-year-old girl named "Ashley" on Facebook and traded a photo of a naked girl that he found on the Internet to young boys in exchange for nude photos of the boys. Oh, and he tried to convince them to engage "in sexual activities," too.Prosecutors say Cowley was an employee of the Olathe School District, teaching a computer c

  October 21, 2009