Education Roundup: "Socialist" Kindergartners? | Mother Jones

Education Roundup: "Socialist" Kindergartners? | Mother Jones

Education Roundup: "Socialist" Kindergartners?

— By Titania Kumeh

| Wed Apr. 20, 2011 9:00 AM PDT

Photoillustration by Nick Baumann. Sources:Jectre/Flickr, courosa/Flickr, stevendepolo/Flickr

• Ah, kindergarten, where you learn that sharing is "socialist" and cooperation is...also "socialist." Mother Jones reporter Tim Murphyexamines GOP presidential contender Tim Pawlenty's controversial education record, which includes selecting an education commissioner for Minnesota who...well, read the rest here.

• Speaking of kindergartners, one Texan tyke brought a gun to school. Maybe he thought it was a toy?

• In Los Angeles, it's illegal for people under the age of 18 to be on the streets while school is in session. To enforce this policy, Los Angeles Police Department has conducted sweeps around schools, detained students for 45 minutes, and given out $250 curfew tickets before letting them go to class. Guess who's getting cited, Huffington Postreports: "According to LA school police data, none of the more than 13,000 tickets they