What happens when you take a classroom full of children, add in a teacher, and then prevent that teacher from doing anything which has to do with teaching? You get the Dallas Independent School District:
Dallas public school students who flunk tests, blow off homework and miss assignment deadlines can make up the work without penalty, [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
You know, if you’re in the country illegally you should probably make sure your kid isn’t taking dope to school:
TUCSON, Ariz. — About a hundred students demonstrated outside a Tucson high school Tuesday, then marched five miles downtown to protest the arrest and removal to Mexico of a classmate and his family.
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School officials [...]
I have mixed feelings about this case:
WEARE – A father attacked his daughter’s boyfriend last week after learning the boy had sex with the underage girl, police said.
It was about 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, when the man stormed onto the grounds of John J. Stark High School and beat up the 17-year-old from Henniker. [...]
Former Democrat Congresswoman Pat Schroeder recently announced the results of an Associated Press-Ipsos poll:
“The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: ‘No, don’t raise my taxes, no new taxes,’” Pat Schroeder, president of the American Association of Publishers, said in a recent interview. “It’s pretty hard to [...]
The liberals in the education system are not waiting long to get started with the political indoctrination this year:
A Stuart Middle School teacher has been removed from the classroom after he burned two American flags in class during a lesson on freedom of speech, Jefferson County Public Schools officials said.
Dan Holden, who teaches seventh-grade social [...]
Okay, I can understand why a teenage boy would have sex with this teacher:
However, you’ll never, ever be able to explain to me why a teenage boy would sleep with this teacher:
According to The Smoking Gun this woman had sex with a 13 year old boy 28 times during the last week of March 2006.
Forget [...]
In her posting of February 28, 2006, Barbra Streisand once again put her lack of intelligence on display for all the world to see:
Barbra Streisand has launched a new spelling error-ridden dispatch on the Internet — a dispatch that mocks President Bush for being a “C student!”
In her February 28th, 2006 essay, Streisand flubs 11 [...]
Some people don’t want you to have a choice when it comes to your child’s education:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton slammed private-school voucher proposals yesterday, predicting that vouchers would eventually lead to the creation of taxpayer-financed white supremacist academies - or even a government-funded “School of the Jihad.”
Clinton, a longtime voucher foe who earned the backing [...]
The Smoking Gun reports that yet another teacher has been arrested for having sex with a student.
JANUARY 5–While some news outlets have concerned themselves with reporting on the first births of 2006, TSG prefers to focus on truly important occurrences of the new year. To that end, we’d like to introduce you to Kansan Nadine [...]
The oraganization called Young America’s Foundation has released it’s annual list of 12 of America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses: Here’s a sample:
6. Harvard University’s Marxist Concepts of Racism examines “the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality� (emphasis added). Although Karl Marx didn’t say much on race, [...]
In the latest attempt by lawyers to reap millions and millions of dollars in fees, lawyers for the Center for Science in the Public Interest are going to sue soft drink companies for selling their beverages in schools:
Elsa Peterson, a senior at Grover Cleveland and the student body president, said she knew she could bring [...]
I knew that some liberals were literally unhinged when it came to what they would do to see George Bush embarrassed, but now the left has lost it’s mind:
Why Mommy is a Democrat brings to life the core values of the Democratic party in ways that young children will easily understand and thoroughly enjoy. Using [...]
Yet another story which should scare the living daylights out of you if your children attend public school:
The county school system is re-thinking its definition of sexual abstinence after complaints from two parents that their children were receiving incorrect and even risky information in sex ed classes.
Karen Sees and Cindy Richards said the ‘‘contraception comparison [...]
When it comes to disciplining your children, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ideas:
Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter’s poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. [...]
A high school in Amherst, New Hampshire has banned the use of the term “freshmen” as possibly being misogynistic, oppressive or non-inclusive language:
Amherst Regional High School has banished the term “freshman”- a move the principal calls overdue, but some students say oozes political correctness.
Beginning this year, students in ninth grade are now referred to by [...]



















