Twenty-five percent of the American workforce was unemployed. Soup lines prevailed throughout the nation. Veterans of World War I, the war to end all wars, marched on Washington, D. C. demanding the pensions they were promised by the government. They were badly mistreated by the likes Douglas MacArthur. Millionaires were bankrupted by the market collapse. Grown men who were previously employed in good positions were selling apples on street corners or begging for a few cents as they held out their tin cups, awaiting the generosity of anyone with a penny to spare.
I was in a store some years ago when I happened upon a mom with two young children in tow. They were being totally grumpy and whiny as only young kids can be, begging just to be let alone to roam the store by themselves. The mother’s young son finally blurted out, “Why can’t we?” to which his mother, in exasperation, shot back, “Because I’m bigger than you are!” End of discussion! Mom’s rules will be followed!
When Bridget Lowe was asked to research curricula that could better serve the students at Soboba Tribal Preschool, she was happy to find one that coincided well with the new “Smart Boards” that had been installed in each of the classrooms.
SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm. Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so, the company said in an online update Tuesday night.
As some of the last statewide mask mandates in the U.S. near an end, decisions about whether students and teachers should continue to wear masks in school are shifting to local leaders, who are caught in the middle of one of the most combustible issues of the pandemic.