Marsha Sutton

When Canyon Crest Academy social science teacher Zachary Brown asked his students for ideas for a project focused on the environment, producing a comic book was the last thing he thought they’d suggest.

Besides the specific education topics discussed in the two previous columns, Comic-Con also offered other sessions of educational value.

Popular panels at Comic-Con in recent years have focused more and more on LGBTQ issues, and this year was no exception.

Some of the most overlooked and under-appreciated panels at this year’s Comic-Con were sponsored by CBLDF – the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

The Opinion section and the online edition of the June 15 San Diego Union-Tribune featured readers’ suggestions for improving public education.

Wearing their “March For Our Lives” T-shirts, former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Sofie Whitney and Brendan Duff were featured at an event held at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla on June 2.

Many ballot statements for local tax measures presented to voters last November were illegal, according to a letter signed by a coalition of 22 individuals statewide.

One of the factors that school districts and their consultants use to encourage voter support for General Obligation bonds is to emphasize that school districts must create an Independent Citizens Oversight Committee.

In addition to live-action role-playing strategies for academic learning, discussed in last week’s column, other panels at San Diego’s 2018 Comic-Con presented fascinating information about using comics and graphic novels to teach students core curriculum lessons.

Comic-Con’s mission statement begins: “Comic-Con International San Diego is a nonprofit educational corporation …” Although pop culture is integral to its overall mission, Comic-Con’s educational component looms large, beyond the film and television stars and glitz and cosplay.

Either the Del Mar Union School District badly misjudged the attitude of the community, forgot to advise the city of Del Mar, or pushed too suddenly for a newly revised Facilities Master Plan and a General Obligation bond.