Track Your Child Through Their Cell Phone

More and more teens find themselves unsupervised before and after school as both parents are forced to work outside of the home. Recognizing parents need for teen supervision Sprint developed “Family Locator” technology. For an extra $9.99 a month Sprint will track the location of up to four phones – you can usually use the service with your existing phones. The Family locator does not work like a “tracking service” that follows you wherever you go. Instead it allows parents to get a “snapshot” of the location of a family member. For example you can program the phone to send … Continue reading

Social Promotion

What is Social Promotion? Social promotion is the idea to allow students to continue to pass each grade level with their classmates, regardless if the individual fulfills their academic requirements and meets the standards and grades to be promoted onto the next grade level. The government has been trying to stop this practice for many years. The disadvantages of social promotion are to students learning; they never truly learn the concepts of the subject and are constantly struggling to keep up. Many times, the student may experience low self-esteem and never really catches up to their peer’s knowledge. Another study … Continue reading