The Democrat & Chronicle examines the aging of our educators in the Rochester, N.Y. / Monroe County region. The article also looks at the aging issue in higher education, though here I would expect the problem to be less since it is not uncommon for college professors to teach well into their seventies while nearly [...]

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As a loyal graduate [1973] of Arkport Central School, I am proud to discover that my alma mater has been recognized as one of the best high schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
Hornall Evening Tribune
“I was shocked,” said Arkport Superintendent William Locke. “(It was) a very unexpected gift to be recognized [...]

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I’ve seen this sort of routine done several times, without coming close to being in poor taste. Go, look at the video, and decide for yourself. I think the principal might like teenaged girls far more than he’d admit, thus the mote in his eye. They are wearing, in fact, not panties at all but [...]

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The Sunday edition of the Democrat & Chronicle has two stories on its front page that are, and are not, related.
No Time to Wait talks about the interim superintendent of the Rochester City School District and the challenges he faces. The paper printed a set of statistics as part of its headline which it pulled [...]

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Here’s a great quiz.
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 %
BTW, here’s how our elite performed.

Found this via the Corner

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what a gal’s gotta do. Here’s a real Iraqi hero, doing what’s right for her country.

DVIDS
By Sgt. Armando Monroig, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
BAQUBAH, Iraq - She carried a bag full of what she considered to be precious cargo – precious enough for her to risk her life delivering its contents.
She made several trips across [...]

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The State University system here in New York has a large number of institutions, two and four year. The campus police have undergone a lot of changes in the last few years, better training, a change making them “peace officers” and arming them. Among four year schools, SUNY-Geneseo was the only one to not allow [...]

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Read this first.
Democrat and Chronicle
When a 10-year-old Rochester boy accused teacher David Heil of sexually abusing him in 2000, the City School District referred the case to the state Education Department to determine whether Heil should keep his teaching license.
But school administrators decided they had no legal responsibility to file a report with Rochester police [...]

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Chuck, now teaching ROTC, has some sound advice for new college students:

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Democrat & Chronicle
According to the suit, Fisher commissioned the Cavanaugh statue from Perkins for $50,000 and also hired him for $40,000 to do the Douglass bust. Both were delivered in June 2003, according to the suit.
In an affidavit attached to the suit, Murphy states that he noticed a bust of Douglass that Perkins was working [...]

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