Song of the Year
Need you Now
The cross over country group cleaned up with County music record of the year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, you name it. Lady Antebellum raked in 5 Grammies.
Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” was named Album of the Year.
All that’s needed is a governor’s signature and Virginia will have yet another unfunded mandate. Starting in 2014, all elementary and middle schools must provide 150 minutes of PE per week for students. Half-day kindergarten students would be exempt. This change would be most significant in elementary schools where only 10% of schools meet the state standard. Recess would not be allowed to substitute for PE.
Not everyone likes the new law. The VEA opposes the bill. Several school systems oppose it also. According to the Washington Post:
But some school district officials oppose the looming requirement – to be implemented in 2014 – saying it could extend the school day, lead to cuts in arts and music classes, or increase costs because additional teachers would be needed.
“Schools can’t be expected to solve all of society’s problems,” said Fairfax Superintendent Jack D. Dale, who lobbied against the legislation.
Naturally, educators are concerned about PE cutting in to instructional time for academics. One of the biggest problems is where to hold PE classes during inclement weather. Many elementary schools simply lack facilities to have phyical activities going on inside the building. Most schools do not have gyms and often use the cafeteria when lunch isn’t being served. That’s going to be a problem.
From Politico:
“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and her husband, actor William H. Macy, marked the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Washington on Thursday with a song.
Huffman, who emceed the NARAL Pro-Choice luncheon in the vast Omni Shoreham Hotel ballroom, invited her husband to join her on stage. He obliged, ukulele in hand, and the two sung ditty about abortion rights.
“Some like government big, some want it small, and some people dream of no government at all. I’m simply asking you utopian rubes, keep politics out of my fallopian tubes,” went one verse.
Reminder, the issue is simply who choses, you or the government? Many of us find it amazing that those who advocate less government, smaller government, still want government in the business of reproduction decisions.
Who makes the most deeply personal decisions for us? Certainly not congressmen or women that don’t even know us.
Huffman and Macy entertain about a subject many of us take very seriously.
