On May 18, Cranston Public Schools World Language teacher Rebecca Hobin will be awarded the Rhode Island Foreign Language Association Novice Teacher of the Year Award. Hobin, who has been in the …
are caught between tradition and the law. the cranston school system announced it will no longer hold gender-specific events like father/daughter dances and mother/son bowling parties because they violate state law. all right. this sounds hard to believe. the move was prompted by a letter from the aclu on behalf of a single mom who said it wasn t fair to her daughter. i ve attended the father/daughter dances. my wife s done son/mother bowling. i ve been doing them since i was a child. i think my kids have the right to have the same with their moms and dads too. we really do our kids a disservice when we promote gender stereotypes. now, federal title 9 law actually includes an exemption that allows father/daughter dances and so forth. rhode island law does not. the school superintendent said she had no choice. so a rhode island specific law. i knew federal law was different. that is the topic of the facebook question this morning. we want to know. should schools allow gend