Justin Jeffre: From 98 Degrees to education activist

By Pete Kotz on Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:05 am

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Justin Jeffre's gone from kiddie crooner to incomprehensible activist

Stunning news out of Cincinnati: Justin Jeffre, a former star of teeny-bop crooners 98 Degrees, is questioning the ethics of the Ohio Board of Regents. Jeffre’s outrage, akin to when Drew Lachey missed a harmony, is that the Regents are training teachers in illegal, underhanded methods. "According to Ohio law,” he writes in a recent press release, “it is unethical for teachers to prepare students in terms of the 'format' of the Ohio Graduation Test. But it looks like the Ohio Board of Regents has spent tens of thousands of dollars training high school teachers in just such techniques, which might bring those teachers unwittingly into conflict with the law." ...