Never Surrender Your Facebook Password--Unless You Want a Job
Some stories make us as ourselves, "What country are we living in?*" This is one of them.
Some government agencies, employers, and colleges have demanded to know applicants' Facebook account passwords. The ACLU stepped in and helped get that stopped. But now instead some are asking and even demanding to have access to the supposedly private friends' only posts. If they can do that with Facebook, your formerly private email could be next.
Even if you aren't required to reveal the information, if you're trying to get a job or get on a team, will you want to take the chance of refusing?
Currently, employers in most of the United States aren't supposed to discriminate on the basis of sex, race, age (with some major exceptions). But apparently those rights don't apply to something as fundamental as private communication with your friends and family.
Learn more in The Redtape Chronicles article HERE.
*Most, but not all, of us currently reside in the United States of America.
In Texas they said a woman couldn't breastfeed at Target even though the law said they could. So women protested Wednesday by having "nurse-ins" at 250 of Target stores.
It may be hard to believe. But a recent survey reported that regular Fox News viewers actually know less about current events than those who don't watch news at all.
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Many parents today are worried about guns at school, dropping test scores, and teenage pregnancy. But 12-year-old Kenneth Fails was put on in-school suspension for several weeks and through two grades for a different offense: long hair. In the Itasca Independent School District in Texas, the rules of the schools are clear: girls can have long hair, boys can't. But the question, now that we're well into the 21st century, is why?
Much of the world just celebrated St. Patrick's Day, which in America means a tradition of wearing green and of pinching those who don't. It can be a lot of fun.
We live in a time when "children" are in the news for committing horrible crimes: arson, rape, murder. Now we have to add to the list of horrors: not scheduling an appointment with your hair dresser.
Senator Al Franken (D-MN). introduced The Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA) in the U. S. Senate. If approved, the bill would require schools that receive federal funding to not discriminate against students on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Like it or not, but often the more political power you have, the less likely you are to let people know what you're really after. You may even de-emphasize who you really are.
And, according to their own responses, the largely affluent members think the current system gives too much help to the poor. And the primarily white members are more likely than most Americans, even than most Republicans, to think too much focus has been spent on the problems of blacks. In fact they are more than twice as likely as the average American to think the current administration favors blacks over whites.
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Constance McMillen wanted to go to her high school prom with her girlfriend. She wanted to wear a tuxedo. The Itawamba County Agricultural High School faced a dilemma. Their policy said no same-sex couples, and no cross dressing.
If you remember 1990s American television, you likely remember Miyam Bialik as Blossom. Blossom was the teen who hung around with Six and had a clueless brother named Joey. Now Bialik is becoming known for alternative or holistic parenting.
The California legislature is scrambling to fix the snafu that is forcing two Southern California elementary schools to stay open an extra 34 days. Susie Lange, California Department of Education's deputy superintendent of fiscal services, said "To the average person, it sounds like crazy bureaucracy that we count the number of minutes," 
Students at two elementary schools in San Bernardino, California, exceeded the number of required minutes to be in school. So they're off on summer vacation, right? Wrong. Instead, they have 34 more days of school. Instead of getting out on in the middle of June, they're supposed to stay until the end of July.
13-year-old Alfie Patten, who got front-page recognition as the father of his 15-year-old girlfriend's baby, is not the father.
The father of a United Kingdom boy who impregnated a girl when he was age 12 plans to have a talk with his son about sex. 
Shackling teens for 12 hours a day; physically and sexually abusing teen girls and teen boys; stripping teenage girls naked and forcing them to eat their own vomit: These are correction methods that have been investigated by various agencies, including the U. S. Department of Justice. Now the Columbia Training School of Columbia, Mississippi, which has been the site of much of this controversy, is being shut down.
Once again, Texas has the highest teen birth rate of any state in the United States. Interestingly, Texas has a policy of denying contraceptives without parental consent and strongly promotes abstinence-only sex education in public schools.
In 1892, Horner Plessy, a "colored" shoemaker, was locked up in jail for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. With a series of failed appeals, the Plessy v. Ferguson case of 1896 established that the principle "separate but equal" was legally valid in the United States of America.
