NEWLAND — Star educators from each school gathered at the Avery Community Center on Thursday, March 30, to enjoy a nice breakfast together, have their hard work recognized and learn
If there’s one principle that should be a fixed star in America’s schools, it’s that educators should be expected to do all they can to help each student develop their gifts and fulfill their potential. This should serve as education’s version of medicine’s Hippocratic Oath.
Regrettably, California has decided to push educators to violate that oath.
In a well-meaning but hugely misguided effort to promote equity, the state’s Instructional Quality Commission earlier this year adopted a new Mathematics Framework that urges schools to do away with accelerated math programs in order to promote “heterogeneous grouping” of students.
In addition to loving lots of colors, both Loughry and Breetz are serious bibliophiles.
“Sometimes people who get married need more space for children,” Loughry said, “but we didn t have children but we both are voracious readers.”
A built-in bookcase wall on the main level is chock full of books, but it’s a small amount compared to the rest of the couple’s collection, which is housed downstairs in the finished basement. They estimate they have 2,000 to 3,000 books between the two of them and that’s after Loughry got rid of a bunch just last year.
“My mother and my sister are both librarians,” Breetz said, “and librarians really believe in culling. So, we have culled a lot.”