District reader John B offers this response to the August 17 Press-Telegram story “Districts Tackle Enrollment Drop”:
I’m reading that almost every local school district, including LBUSD, has been experiencing ‘early grade’ enrollment decreases and anticipates more such drops. But I didn’t see anything in the story about *why* this is happening.
No explanation was offered in [...]

Officials say no-tipping policy protects students
A state judge Thursday hit Seattle-based Starbucks with a $100 million fine after she found the coffee giant illegally forced California baristas to share tips with their managers. There’ll be no such squabble at the Starbucks on the Long Beach State campus—where tipping is banned. School officials who run the [...]

YES!
Susan Jacoby has written a book on anti-intellectualism in America (a subject that we have touched on before). Her assessment: (1) we are woefully, blithely ignorant of the most basic facts of history, geography, science, whatnot. (2) Not only do we find our ignorance funny (good stuff for late-night television), we are smug [...]