My brother came over last night with his family, and my 3-yo niece had a scratch on her face. Apparently this is the 3rd time she's been scratched or hurt by the same little girl at her pre-school. The pre-school teachers won't even tell my brother the name of the other girl, but my niece has reported it. The pre-school apparently won't or can't do anything to stop the fighting, so my brother took his daughter out of pre-school.
It's okay at the moment because his in-laws are staying with them for a while and they're providing full-time child-care, but I'm just astonished that the pre-school isn't doing anything about the other girl. Is that normal?
ION, we finally got some summer weather here: it stayed warm after sunset last night for once! And it was warm enough this morning I didn't need a jacket. How pleasant!
Hey, today is National Vanilla Milkshake Day!
That's pretty ... wow.
Yeah, well... that sucks.
The Supreme Court is more conservative than it's been in, what, 50 years?
Or maybe it'd be more accurate to say the Supreme Court is very pro-corporate?
That's pretty ... wow.
Aims, it looks like the determination was made on a fairly narrow finding that the procedural requirements were not met. That part of the decision was unanimous. So we can't really blame just Scalia and Alito on that--even Sotomayor and Ginsburg concurred on that element (if not on the other parts of the decision).
I can see why the Supremes would be leery about granting certification to such an enormous and ill-defined class of plaintiffs, even if all their claims were later found to be justified (and I'm sure most of them were).
Consuela, in my experience with preschools, if a child is a behavior problem to the extent of hurting other kids, the parents are contacted and generally it's explained that if the child can't understand the rules or control herself with certain expectations, *that* child would be removed.
And in most public schools now, there's simply a no-tolerance policy when it comes to hitting or hurting other kids.
So yeah, really strange that his daughter is coming home injured and they're not doing anything about it.
Hey everyone!! Guess who's home?!
I am once again in possession of a basically unlimited internet plan and so will therefore be a permanent fixture here until I ship back out again!!
Welcome back, zuisa. How are your sealegs?
Josh Blackman has some analysis of the Wal-Mart opinions up already if you're interested in the legalease: [link]
Welcome back, zuisa. Is it good to be land-based again?
Or maybe it'd be more accurate to say the Supreme Court is very pro-corporate?
I truly do understand the 'vast' and 'ill-defined' arguments, but sending the entire case back to square one (more time, more money, breaking the spirits of the participants, etc) seems a huge blow in favor of the 'WeSaySo Corporation.'
