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Wednesday, November 09, 2022
Military recruits receive full-tuition scholarships to ROTC schools at New York Jets game: ‘Truly grateful’
Four students are surprised with U.S. Army Minuteman scholarships at New York Jets game
Army Reserve CSM Andrew Lombardo shares Minuteman scholarship details with Fox News Digital as recipients Sad'e Webb and Faustina Afrim react to the big surprise.
Some of the newest members of America’s military are receiving a great shot at success.
Young warriors ready to get to work for our nation include four soldiers-in-training — and the four had no idea they'd be receiving a big thanks for their commitment.
At the New York Jets' annual Salute to Service football game at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Nov. 6, 2022, the recruits were presented with major college scholarships to schools of their choice.
The U.S. Army Minuteman Scholarship covers full tuition and fees between two and four years, or $10,000 per year toward room and board, at any college or university served by an Army ROTC program.
Scholarship recipients will also be granted an annual book allowance of $1,200 and a monthly stipend of $420 during their college attendance.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, U.S. Army Reserve Command Sgt. Major Andrew Lombardo explained that the Minuteman scholarships for the Reserve Officers Training Corp are given to citizen service members.
These soldiers work both in their community and part time, in either the Army National Guard or Army Reserve.
Scholarship recipients are guaranteed placement in the Army Reserve after graduating.
"It’s an awesome opportunity to recognize the talents of the people of America," he said.
"To be able to pay for their university experience and, at the end of it, they commission as an officer — so they get to pursue dual pursuits — I think that’s pretty cool."
"You never think something like this would happen to you."
"Overall, the experience was very overwhelming — and I am truly grateful for this," she said.
"You never think something like this would happen to you, especially at [age] 17," she said.
Along with running track, Webb is a member of the National Honor Society and Student Council at her high school.
Webb received a total of $225,000 to attend St. John’s University in Queens, New York. There, she hopes to build a future for herself in the military and make an impact.
The recruit shared her relief at not having to worry about paying off student loans or bearing an enormous financial burden. Instead, she can focus on academics.
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Most British schools facing ‘unavoidable’ redundancies due to funding crisis, poll finds
Most schools will be forced to make redundancies next year due to a funding crisis, according to a huge poll of leaders.
Headteachers have been raising the alarm over what they say is a widening gap between school budgets and spiralling costs due to rising energy bills, soaring inflation and unfunded pay rises.
In its largest poll of 11,000 school leaders in England, the education union NAHT survey revealed that most schools said they would have to make cut jobs next year.
Two-thirds said teaching assistant numbers or hours would have to be cut, while half said the same for teachers.
Vic Goddard, a secondary school headteacher in Essex, told The Independent: “Redundancies are definitely unavoidable with no change in funding. Already done it twice. Not sure what I’ve got left to restructure.”
Pepe Di’Iasio, who runs a secondary school in Rotherham, said schools were “between a rock and a hard place” at the moment with funding pressures.
“Headteachers are having to look at every possibility given the current funding situation,” he told The Independent. The headteacher said redundancies had to be considered but stressed they were a “last resort”.
Paul Whiteman, the NAHT general secretary, said schools were being hit by a “perfect storm of costs” with energy bills, the price of resources going up and an unfunded pay rise for staff.
“With no fat left to cut following a decade of austerity, many thousands of schools are now looking at falling into deficit unless they make swingeing cuts. Education is truly in a perilous state,” he said.
His union’s poll also found 43 per cent of schools – with responses mainly from primary schools – were predicting having to cut back on admin or non-classroom staff numbers or hours next year.
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Australia: Cultural training for teachers branded a ‘form of racism’
Aboriginal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has branded “cultural training” for teachers a form of racism.
In Senate estimates hearings on Thursday, the Coalition senator criticised an “Indigenous cultural competency report’’ produced by the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership, warning that it assumed Aboriginal students could not learn like other children.
“I’m surprised by the extensive work that’s been done around cultural competency and cultural safety,’’ she said. “I can’t see it as being of great educational benefit to students, and it seems to make life kind of difficult for teachers at the same time.
“I’d like to see AITSL use its resources to give teachers pedagogical competency rather than fixate on this separatist idea of cultural competency, which seems to imply that Indigenous students don’t learn the same as non-Indigenous peers.
“To me that sounds a bit like, well, racism.”
Senator Price, a former deputy mayor of Alice Springs, said she was struck by the report’s statement that the “legacy of colonisation’’ undermined the rights of Indigenous students to a fair and just education, and that “Australian education systems were never designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’’. “Can you please elaborate specifically on how colonisation is undermining Indigenous students’ education?’’ she asked AITSL executives.
The AITSL representatives took the question on notice.
Senator Price was referring to an AITSL report on Indigenous cultural competency, released in June as part of its Building a Culturally Responsive Australian Teaching Workforce project.
The report recommends teachers connect with Aboriginal families in their communities, rather than expecting them to meet at school, and includes a suggestion that Indigenous children be tested in their home languages, rather than English.
“For many, education is the means through which dreams and aspirations are realised,’’ the report states. “For others, though, education is something to be endured for little or no gain.
“The legacy of colonisation has undermined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ access to their cultures, identities, histories and languages.
“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have not had access to a complete, relevant, and responsive education.’’
The report recommends that teachers and principals be made more “self-aware’’ of their attitudes and assumptions towards Indigenous students, and be given “self-reflection tools to support them to increase their awareness of the assumptions underlying their personal identity in culture’’.
“The cultural responsiveness of the teacher is ultimately a function of their world view and implicit biases,’’ it states.
The report cites an anonymous submission calling for Indigenous students to be tested in their first language. And it calls on teachers to work with families “beyond the school gate’’ instead of expecting them to meet “on school grounds’’.
“Building relationships is a necessary part of being an active member in any community and, crucially, a lack of relationships and trust will often lead to students not attending school and becoming disengaged from education,’’ it states.
“Teachers need to engage with students and their families beyond the school gate to understand their world and what they bring with them to school instead of the expectation to meet on school grounds.’’
Indigenous teenagers are four times more likely to drop out of high school before finishing Year 10, census data shows.
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