Wednesday, March 31, 2021

The new Peace Journalist magazine is here
The April 2021 Peace Journalist magazine has been published. This edition features stories from around the world--Brazil, Yemen, Uganda, India and Pakistan, and elsewhere. 

The magazine can be found on Issuu at https://issuu.com/peacejournalism/docs/peace_journalist_april_2021_web .

A downloadable .pdf copy of the magazine can be found at
https://www.park.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Peace-Journalist-April-2021-web.pdf .

The next magazine will be published in October. It will be our 20th Peace Journalist magazine! See  page two of the magazine for submission details.  Enjoy!



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Friday, March 26, 2021

CIF Denial of Sports Eligibility: Which Denials Are Appealable?

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995

CIF, the California Interscholastic Federation, which governs all high school sports in California, is often mystical, and its rules are completely confusing. When a student is denied the right to play sports for some reason, the immediate instinct is to file an appeal to CIF higher ups. But only limited issues are appealable with CIF per CIF Bylaws.

What IS Appealable to CIF?

Here are the matters that may be appealable to CIF:

  1. Conflict with a coach
  2. Following a coach
  3. Pre-enrollment contact
  4. Club coach at new school
  5. Relocated coach
  6. Athletically motivated
  7. Age requirement
  8. Charge of semester of attendance
  9. Passing 20 semester credits
  10. Former coach

What is Not Appealable to CIF?

Here are the matters that may not be appealable to CIF:

  1. Sit out period
    • Per CIF bylaws: "Q: My son was denied the Sit Out Period. May we appeal this ruling? A: No."
  2. Hardship, all bases
    • Court ordered transfers
    • Children of divorced parents
    • Individual student safety incidents
    • Discontinued program
    • Foster and homeless children
    • Military service
    • Married status
    • Board of education ruling.
    • Per CIF bylaws: "All eligibility determinations made [under this hardship section] are final as all of these hardship circumstances are factual in nature and can be documents."

Unclear Appeal Rights to CIF?

There are also areas where it is not clear in CIF bylaws whether a matter may be appealable, such as:

  1. Discipline transfer
  2. Mistake in documents submitted to CIF
  3. Scholastic eligibility
  4. Bad faith
  5. Student starts living with one parent (after initial residential eligibility was established with two parents) but there is no court order or formal custody agreement formalizing this
  6. Other areas not defined in CIF policy

Importance of Ensuring Schools Understand Transfer Bases

This confusing situation emphasizes the strong need for parents to ENSURE that they assist the new school in understanding the reason for the transfer and provide any formal documents supporting the transfer. They also need to assist the new school to submit the transfer paperwork to CIF and ensure it is carefully done. The seemingly simple transfer form needs to have all evidence to support the bases for the transfer e.g. being based on hardship, as there won't be a CIF appeal if the paperwork fails to be provided.

Parents also need to ensure the prior school is aware of any reason a student may be transferring that may meet CIF "hardship" or other categories, so that school can also report the situation correctly when contacted by CIF.

Most parents are completely unaware of the impact a terrible filing will have on the student, until it is too late. Parents need to be fully aware of these issues prior to enrolling in the new school so they can handle this with the student's new coach or athletic director properly.


Best,

 

Michelle Ball

Education Law Attorney 

 

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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Markets fail to provide farmers with higher income

 

Inflatable suicide dolls hung on trees outside the French Parliament by farmers.
Pic courtesy -- TRT World

It’s difficult to imagine. At a time when free markets are generally believed to provide farmers with a higher price thereby enhancing farm incomes, the farm gate price for wheat in Canada happens to be much lower in 2017 than what it was 150 years back in 1867. This is not only true for Canada. Even in the US, as per media reports, farmers say the price they receive for wheat is much lower than what was prevalent at the time the four year American Civil War ended in 1865. 

So what happened to markets? After all, wheat is a staple food and its demand, considering the population boom the world has witnessed in the past 150 years, has grown exponentially over the centuries. According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), wheat production forecast is pegged at 780 million tonnes in 2020-21, an increase of 7.5 million tonnes this year. Given the food insecurity the world is faced with, FAO considers the cereal production estimates (including that for wheat) to be positive.    

Now before you wonder how this could be possible, given the fact that economic curriculum in colleges and universities teaches us that markets provide the rightful price, take a look at an analysis by the US National Farmer Unions (NFU) which explains how the continuously declining peanut prices since 1965 had pushed three out of four peanut farmers out of business in America, and that too at a time when peanut consumption was on the rise. Defying the supply demand logic, the peanut prices slumped from $1 per pound in 1965 to less than $0.25 per pound in 2020, a drop of more than 75 per cent. And if you are still thinking it probably happened because of surplus production, a Washington Post report tells us how just three companies, controlling the entire peanut market, had actually fixed the purchase price. After a lawsuit filed by 12,000 peanut growers, these companies finally agreed to pay $103 million in compensation for deliberately keeping the prices low.   

Peanut is no exception. This kind of match fixing has been going on for decades. Whether in America, Europe or India, what the farmers need to understand is that the match is already fixed. It is not without any reason that market prices, when adjusted for inflation, have remained frozen or have been on a decline over the years. 

Coming back to the issue of wheat prices, a Canadian author, critic and writer, Darrin Qualman, has in an insightful series of blog posts explained how the prices have been on a steep decline since 1867. Adjusted for inflation, the price of wheat per bushel (27 kgs) was close to $30 in 1867. Like on a ski slope, the average price had continuously been on the downward slide ever since. With global emphasis shifting to agricultural exports in the mid-1980s, the prices began to slump further. In 2017, the wheat price collapsed to a little over $ 5 per bushel. The price a Canadian wheat farmer sold his wheat for in 2017 was less by $25 per bushel than what his great grandfather sold it for 150 years back. 

No wonder, while small farmers abandoned agriculture in large numbers, the average size of a Canadian farm has grown to 3,000 acres with the big farms several times larger. While the number of farmers declined drastically, the economic argument in support of market reforms claiming that farm incomes go up when the number of farmers recedes too has turned out to be untrue. America has lost more than 5 million farms in the in less than 100 years, and Australia has lost 25 per cent of its farms between 1980 and 2002. Economists will say this is a healthy development, and will make farming profitable. But surprisingly, the speed at which farmers across the globe have got out of agriculture hasn’t increased farm incomes but on the contrary it has only worsened the agrarian crisis.   

This is the same flawed argument that Niti Aayog too is promoting, saying that farm incomes will double when the number of people on the farm comes down. If this be true, I don’t understand why in Canada, for instance, the farm debt should be exceeding $102 billion, more than double than what it was in 2000. In US, where hardly 1.5 per cent of the population remains in agriculture, farm debt has multiplied to a staggering $ 425 billion in 2020. In France, with only 7 per cent workforce employed in agriculture, more than 44 per cent farmers carry a debt burden of Euro 400,000 and 25 per cent farmers earn less than Euro 350 per month, less than the poverty line. 

While farmers have been denied the rightful price, the consumer prices have been on the rise. In another blog, Darrin Qualman explains that while the price of a bushel of wheat in Canada and US has remained static since 1975, the retail price of loaves of bread produced from each bushel in the US had increased by $ 50 on an average, from $25 in 1975 to a little over $75 in 2015. The same holds true for other food products as well. How can efficiency be only measured in terms of reducing farm gate prices whereas the food processing and retail giants continue to increase prices, walking away with a larger share of the end consumer price? If the markets were efficient, why the food processing and retail giants continue to thrive in inefficiency? 

There is nothing sacrosanct about markets. To believe that markets provide farmers with a higher price is an outdated economic thinking (and education). Markets have historically failed to prop up farm incomes anywhere in the world, a fact that economists failed to acknowledge. Demanding no trading to be allowed below the MSP, protesting farmers are actually seeking a historic correction in economic policy and thinking. This holds the future for a reverberating agriculture, and a new economic design that provides for Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. #

Markets have failed to prop up farm incomes. The Tribune. Mar 19, 2021 https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/markets-have-failed-to-prop-up-farm-incomes-227289?fbclid=IwAR0IiGibi8oR20ULhS4y6KWFNsV99V2-H2t7uxnesiQefqKuMFOce7eOuZc

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

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