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First up, the South Seattle Emerald reports on scholarships won by students at Rainier Beach High School and Mercer Island High School that are named in honor of President Obama's mother.

On May 20, the Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund held its 8^th annual awards ceremony at the Northwest African American Museum.

For the first time in its history, the Fund awarded a scholarship to a Rainier Beach High student.
Rainier Beach High graduating senior Emily Au, along with Mercer Island High graduating senior Christine Lee, received $5000 scholarships from the fund.

Tell your driving teens (and yourself) to put that phone down while driving.  Starting Sunday, a new law against cell phone use will see folks getting stopped and warned about the law (it goes into effect in January 2018). 

Interesting idea; get rid of algebra for some community college degrees.  From NPR:

Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree — particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads.

It is also the single most failed course in community colleges across the country. So if you're not a STEM major (science, technology, engineering, math), why even study algebra?

That's the argument Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor of the California community college system, made today in an interview with NPR's Robert Siegel.

Yet another well-known lead singer of a rock band has killed himself.  That would be Chester Bennington of Linkin Park and this follows the suicide of the lead singer of Soundgarten, Chris Cornell, earlier this year.  If you have never heard Linkin Park's "In the End", you might give it a listen.  It's a great song but if you are a depressed person, you may feel it deeply.

"One thing, I don't know why, it doesn't even matter how hard you try"

"I tried so hard and got so far but in the end,it doesn't even matter"

I urge you to talk to your tweens/teens about suicide.

Did you vote yet?  Get that done this weekend - it matters.  (And, do it in front of your kids.) 

Wondering about the school board elections?  Here are my picks for your consideration:
District IV - Eden Mack
District V - (no particular order) - Andre Helmstetter, Zachary DeWolf, Alec Cooper
District VII - Betty Patu

Also, I'm recommending a vote against King County's Prop 1.  I have to say this is a measure very akin to school levies and if you vote against them, well, you are against children having access to the arts.  I'm not but....

1) Another regressive tax? - These do hurt poor people.
2) Voter fatigue is going to set in at some point and I worry that other measure will fail that will have day-to-day real-life consequences.
3) 4Culture has $59M to spend on arts - where is that money?
4) vague language in the measure - I hate that

What's on your mind? 

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