Holly Banfield

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  Holly signed the petition | 13 days ago

  Tell Lawmakers to Support ENDA Now!
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  Holly signed the petition | 13 days ago

  Tell Mitt Romney: No, Corporations AREN'T People
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  Holly signed the petition | 13 days ago

  Tell Congress: Protect students from bullying
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  Holly signed the petition | 13 days ago

  Apple: Protect Workers Making iPhones in Chinese Factories
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  Holly commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Psst. Hey Students: Science Can Be Sexy

  Science was really the only subject I hated in high school and college for just the reasons you mentioned. I have never been a linear thinker and I struggled with trying to memorize formulas and cell structures in a vacuum while I was getting an excellent, engaging, multidimentional education in History, English, Math, etc. In fact, my progress in math stopped dead because science started to intrude on it. Now I work in a science-based college and through reading articles that come across my desk and being called on to attend a few classes, I have found out that this science stuff is actually kind of fun.

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  Holly commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  "Mono-sensing" and Understanding Speech

  I hear aah with my eyes open and ba with my eyes closed.

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  Holly commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  10-year-old Arrested

  I grew up as an autistic (undiagnosed then) child in Florida. My parents were both teachers. I can tell you 1000 tales of abuse and neglect. I had a desk thrown at me for not responding to my teacher (I have an auditory processing disorder and couldn't understand her.). Coporal punishment involving baseball bats was still legal in the 90's.Elementary school children were given alcohol by their teachers.Kids were arrested for throwing paper wads on the bus.  Schools refused to even offer any instruction for non-native speakers of English. And these were just the incidents that affected my family. I want to see more training by teachers and aids for disabled children. But it is part of a larger problem in Florida schools, of teachers inadequately trained to teach in any classroom and a system that relies on low standards and overly punitive methods.