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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006I just received an unsolicited email from “Craig” at Myspace. Craig’s profile describes him this way: About me: GREG AND I ( CRAIG ) HAVE BEEN LOVERS FOR YEARS . BUT WE LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE SPICE IN OUR LIFES… AND A YOUNG BOTTOM BOY WOULD FIT THE NEED FOR US … Who I’d [...]
Protect Urban Families from Online Porn & Predators
Monday, August 14th, 2006Safe Families protects children from pornography, predators, and other dangers online by providing free internet filtering software and training materials to parents, pastors, and non-profits. Free resources include: + SafeFamilies Filtering Software + Online Safety and Media Sobriety Manual (50 pgs) + Online Safety for Parents Webcast Training + Media Sobriety for Pastors and Church [...]
Dean Jonathan
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006More on our local Adopt-A-School experiment. Jonathan, in 2003, with a PS 34 student After offering teaching positions to both Jonathan and Dorothy, the principal at PS 34 asked Jonathan to also become the 7th and 8th grade dean. As dean, he will be responsible both for math interventions with underperforming students and disciplinary issues [...]
Study: Raunchy Lyrics Prompt Teens To Have Sex
Monday, August 7th, 2006No surprises here: Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music. Among heavy listeners, 51 percent started having sex within [...]
Six Degress of Reality Show separation
Monday, July 31st, 2006Not even. More like one degree. Last winter, my college friend was a contestant on Project Runway (Andrae Gonzalo). This summer, the son of Generation Xcel’s judo teacher is a Contender (Nick Acevedo). And in the upcoming season of Yo Momma, one of my former youth group kids (Jonathan Maldonado) makes us, hmm, we’ll see. [...]
Why should I care so much … and other Christ-like Musings on MySpace
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006Ed. note: Jeremy’s latest article, published in Tri-State Voice (Aug. 2006) “Are you listening to me? Really listening?†– Jesus (Matt. 11:15, The Message) Radioactive B! @H, Suckan*t Sl*t, Boyish Sex Machine, NaughtyXXXAsh – porn stars or teens on MySpace? “Why should I care so much for everyone else when no one gives a s!*# [...]
Fewer than 4 in 10 NYC high school students graduate
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006“Education Week, which published the study, determined that only Detroit, with a 21.7% graduation rate, and Baltimore, with 38.5%, had a smaller percentage of kids earning diplomas in 2003 – the most recent national data available.” Article.See also, NPR’s report; Urban Institute.
Commencement
Monday, June 19th, 2006I gave my first commencement address on Saturday at Flushing Christian School (8th grade), a graduation of sorts for me as well as the students. Nineteen years ago, I was a self-conscious 8th grader giving the saluditory speach at my own junior high school graduation (self conscious mainly because of the make-up hiding bruising from [...]
All things work together
Friday, June 16th, 2006Last December, the NFL family was rocked with the news that the Colts’ classy head coach Tony Dungy’s son James had committed suicide. (I blogged about it here and here.) In the months since then, Coach Dungy has coped with the tragedy with his usual grace and dignity. ESPN chronicles his story in a moving [...]
Live blogging from UYWI
Saturday, May 20th, 2006“Have You Seen Your Kids’ MySpace?” DESCRIPTION: Radioactive B!+@H, Suckanut Slut, Boyish Sex Machine, NaughtyXXXAsh – porn stars or teens on MySpace? “Why should I care so much for everyone else when no one gives a s!*# about me?” “y do guys … say that they like u but make u feel like s!*#?” “I [...]
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