Remembering, Honoring Our Friend and Peacemaker, Tom Schneider
The Greater Lansing community lost a good friend on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Activist, peacemaker, and community organizer Tom Schneider, age 69, died unexpectedly. The loss leaves the peace community in mourning. Tom was a steadfast presence in peace actions in mid-Michigan and served as current board member and Treasurer of the Peace Education Center [...]
Tom Schneider: Reflections
Peace Education Center board members reflect on knowing Tom Schneider and his peace work in the community: For me, he was really one those remarkably unassuming people in PEC whose commitment to principles was matched by incredible sensitivity to the issues and clear-sighted intelligence. Because of this, his opinion on an issue carried a lot [...]
THOMAS RICHERT PATRICK RYAN SCHNEIDER
THOMAS RICHERT PATRICK RYAN SCHNEIDER obituary Bath Township, Michigan (USA) Tom passed away unexpectedly. Values of service and simple living, love of culture, people and family, guided his life. He believed in the simple essence of the Catholic faith. Born in Providence Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, December 6, 1942, the eldest son of Richert Schneider [...]
PEC, Youth Outreach Program offer training outreach
On May 12, 2010, from 7-9 p.m. the PEC and the PEC Youth Outreach Program will have a training session for outreach volunteers. The session will be at the Peace Education Center offices at 855 Grove St in East Lansing. Click here to read more about the event.
Opt Out Time– Information for High School Students
Thursday evening, September 17, 2009 at the Lansing School District Board of Education Meeting, members of the Greater Lansing Peace Education Center will be reminding parents, students and teachers of the importance of handing in Opt Out Forms to avoid having student’s personal information given to military recruiters.
Background: In September of each year The Peace Education Center alerts high school students that their personal information will be given to military recruiters by their high school unless they hand in an Opt Out form to the records office early in the school year. The Lansing School District deadline for handing in OptOut forms is October 6, 2009.
Section 9528 of the No Child Left Behind Act requires high schools to give the NAME, ADDRESS & PHONE NUMBER of students to military recruiters unless the student or their parent specifically “opt out” of their list. If a student wishes to opt out of the list, he/she must tell the school each year to take their name off the list given to military recruiters.
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