Download or read book PASSING the TRASH written by Louisa Miller and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "PASSING the TRASH" is the true story of a typical American community torn apart by a sex scandal involving their school Superintendent, underage girls, and teachers he supervised. A brave School Board member smelled a rat, hired a private investigator, and uncovered the Superintendent's early crime. The 30-year chronicle is brought to life through the voices of the victims, community members, and the lying seducer."PASSING the TRASH" chronicles a teacher's sexual abuse of his student - and the school administrators' failure to report his crime early on and banish him from education.This is also a tale of sexual exploitation of subordinates in the school workplace by the same man who became a powerful and charismatic school Superintendent. The scandal of his relationship with teachers he supervised eventually circled back to his original crime from thirty years earlier - and landed him in jail.In both cases, the school environments were sexualized, authority figures lost respect, and children were harmed.There are multiple victims in this story: First, the individuals (whether child or adult) who were seduced and sexually used by a narcissistic con artist. Then, the entire community beyond those involved in the sexual misconduct: the victims' families, the seducer's family, the school districts where he was employed, and the communities who fell for his deception.This is a case study in how a predator operates. It is a documentary history of abuse, seduction, deception, corruption - and gullibility.The story is told in the voices of the parties involved: school system emails, Facebook posts, statements at School Board meetings, proclamations, official school district documents, Michigan State Police reports, and court proceedings.This story shows how a handful of brave people can expose a powerful predator and bring him to justice after years of deception. It is a warning to others and a call for action by school administrators and lawmakers. Includes resources for educators, suggestions for further reading, and hundreds of endnotes. The book is endorsed by Professor Charol Shakeshaft, PhD and Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD.
Download or read book Passing the Trash written by Charles J. Hobson, Ph.D. and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research indicates that nearly 10% of today's K-12 students--a stunning total of 4.5 million boys and girls--have been victimes of sexual abuse/harassment by educators in the seemingly safe and sheltered environment of their local schools. Writing from the perspective of a concerned parent and grandparent, while equally drawing upon his academic experience, expert witness work in discrmination cases, and ongoing research on sexual harassment in education, Dr. Charles J. Hobson has given parents, educational professionals, child advocates, and law enforcement personnel an indispensable and timely resource in the form of his new book, Passing the Trash: A Parent's Guide to Combat Sexual Abuse/Harassment of Their Children in School. This informative guidebook seeks to educate parents and the broader commonity of grandparents, relativee, and caregivers, alerting them to the horrible reality of the pandemic of sexual abuse/harassment present in America's schools. Citing actual cases and distilling findings of authoritative studies into easy-to-understand summaries, Dr. Hobson offers a comprehensive assessment of the nefariuos ways in which child sexual abuse and harassment have been allowed to flourish in the school environment, while also detailing the various dynamics and influential forces that have allowed this problem to continue unabated for decades. Passing the Trash delivers much more that data and statistical trends however. Dr. Hobson provides practical tools and proven methods for comating school-based sexual abuse/harassment. Included are aggressive strategies for confronting school officials and teachers, detailed information on protocols for filing and documenting complaints with government agencies and law enforcement officials, and specific advice about how to educate and protect one's children from sexual predators at school. A 2010 report to Congress entitled, "K-12 Education: Selected Cases of Public and Private Schools That Hired or Retained Individuals with Histories of Sexual Misconduct," cited the most outrageous and pervasive problem in this area was a phenomenon know as "passing the trash." This is a common, decades long practice whereby school systems encourage child sexual offenders to voluntarily resign in exchange for a positive letter of reference, no legally required reporting to police, and no disciplinary action. In such secret deals, child victims are not even acknowledged and certainly not given the counseling support they need to recover. In the wake of recent, ongoing sexual abuse scandals involving Penn State and the Catholic Church, there has never benn agreater need for parental vigilance and protective action. Passing the Trash will equip readers with the knowledge and tools needed to insure that they can take charge of their children's safety at school and shield them from educator sexual predators. It will also help create the public awareness and understanding necessary to bring this insidious problem under control. The bottom line is, if you are interested in protecting your daughter or son from sexual abuse/harassment at school, then this book is required reading for you and other like-minded parents and grandparents.
Download or read book Trash Fish written by Greg Keeler and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trash Fish is the story of a boy who gives himself over to his obsession with fish as an escape from the trials of growing up. Time and again, as his life unfolds to reveal his failings and foibles to those around him, he returns to the fish, which cast him a lifeline of their own. Laugh–out–loud funny yet sardonically raw to the bone, Keeler tells a whole whirlpool of a story—the women, the Peace Corps, the teaching jobs, the marriage and children, and, of course, the rod and reel. Eventually, however, his serene fishing life becomes contaminated with real–world influences: a polite society of angling purists insists that he choose between flies and bait, while his alter ego (and nemesis) begins to use fishing as an excuse to cheat on his wife. Ultimately, Keeler's fisherman must acknowledge that he can't escape down the river bend, and that in order to experience true love, he must accept the complexities within himself and within the people on land around him.
Download or read book Raising the Bar on Service Excellence written by Kristin Baird and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising the Bar on Service Excellence concentrates on five crucial leadership actions that will shift your organization from good to great. Once again, Baird pushes the reader out of the theory mode and into action. Each chapter features case examples and concludes with specific leadership action steps that will bring the organization closer to living the mission, vision, values and brand promise.
Download or read book Passing the Trash by the Michigan Board of Education written by William Crandall and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case discusses the crisis that was generated by the Michigan Board of Education's decision to cover up the sexual assaults of minors committed by one of their teachers. Instead the teacher was allowed to resign quietly and was eventually rehired by another school where he was free to strike again, causing further emotional trauma and financial damage.
Download or read book One Kid s Trash written by Jamie Sumner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Roll with It and Tune It Out comes a funny, moving, and “not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about a boy who uses his unusual talent for decoding people’s trash to try to fit in at his new school. Hugo is not happy about being dragged halfway across the state of Colorado just because his dad had a midlife crisis and decided to become a ski instructor. It’d be different if Hugo weren’t so tiny, if girls didn’t think he was adorable like a puppy in a purse and guys didn’t call him “leprechaun” and rub his head for luck. But here he is, the tiny new kid on his first day of middle school. When his fellow students discover his remarkable talent for garbology, the science of studying trash to tell you anything you could ever want to know about a person, Hugo becomes the cool kid for the first time in his life. But what happens when it all goes to his head?
Download or read book Interstate Transportation of Solid Waste written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trash written by Kenneth W. Harrow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how African films have depicted the globalized world
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!
Download or read book Facing America s Trash written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picking Up written by Robin Nagle and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's largest city generates garbage in torrents—11,000 tons from households each day on average. But New Yorkers don't give it much attention. They leave their trash on the curb or drop it in a litter basket, and promptly forget about it. And why not? On a schedule so regular you could almost set your watch by it, someone always comes to take it away. But who, exactly, is that someone? And why is he—or she—so unknown? In Picking Up, the anthropologist Robin Nagle introduces us to the men and women of New York City's Department of Sanitation and makes clear why this small army of uniformed workers is the most important labor force on the streets. Seeking to understand every aspect of the Department's mission, Nagle accompanied crews on their routes, questioned supervisors and commissioners, and listened to story after story about blizzards, hazardous wastes, and the insults of everyday New Yorkers. But the more time she spent with the DSNY, the more Nagle realized that observing wasn't quite enough—so she joined the force herself. Driving the hulking trucks, she obtained an insider's perspective on the complex kinships, arcane rules, and obscure lingo unique to the realm of sanitation workers. Nagle chronicles New York City's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, and traces the city's waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as it's ever been. Throughout, Nagle reveals the many unexpected ways in which sanitation workers stand between our seemingly well-ordered lives and the sea of refuse that would otherwise overwhelm us. In the process, she changes the way we understand cities—and ourselves within them.
Download or read book Erase the Waste and Turn Trash Into Cash written by Jason S. McIntosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2021 NAGC Curriculum Award Americans throw away 254 million tons of trash every year, and students are naturally curious about where it all goes. Erase the Waste and Turn Trash Into Cash, a 30-lesson interdisciplinary science unit: Is designed to teach high-ability third and fourth graders how to think like real-world environmental engineers. Requires students to reduce, reuse, recycle, and reimagine trash in new and innovative ways. Was designed using the research-based Integrated Curriculum Model. Features challenging problem-based learning tasks and engaging resources. Includes detailed teacher instructions and suggestions for differentiation. In this unit, students study the concept of innovation and learn to manage and dispose of waste in creative and environmentally friendly ways, all while building an understanding of sustainability, recycling, environmental science, and the green economy. Suggestions and guidance are included on how teachers can adjust the rigor of learning tasks based on students' interests and needs. Grades 3-4
Download or read book Sexual Exploitation in Schools written by Robert J. Shoop and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shoop identifies the early warning signs of sexual abuse in schools, demonstrating the critical need to implement strategies so students are protected while also learning how to protect themselves.
Download or read book Physical Health Education Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's magazine for physical and health educators.
Download or read book Waste written by Catherine Coleman Flowers and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MacArthur grant–winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “genius,” grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers’s life’s work—a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers calls this America’s dirty secret. In this “powerful and moving book” (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards—not only those of poor minorities.
