Archive for the 'Education' Category

Dallas Schools To Become Totally Useless

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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, [...]

Students Protest Deportation of Pot Smoking Illegal Alien

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

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 [...]

Father Assaults 17 Year Old for Having Sex with 15 Year Old Daughter

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

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. [...]

Schroeder: Conservatives Too Stupid to Write Books

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

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 [...]

Reason Number 4,356,257 to Find Out about your Child’s Teachers

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

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 [...]

Oh. My. God. Part II

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

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 [...]

Dear Babs: It’s Called a “Spell Checker”

Monday, March 6th, 2006

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 [...]

Hillary Hates Vouchers

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

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 [...]

Oh. My. God.

Friday, January 6th, 2006

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 [...]

America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

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, [...]

Lawyers to Target Soft Drink Companies

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

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 [...]

Democrats Want to Indoctrinate Your Children

Monday, December 5th, 2005

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 [...]

Redefining Abstinence

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

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 [...]

Mom Makes Daughter Stand on Street Corner, Educators Have No Clue

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

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. [...]

“Freshmen” Banned at High School

Monday, October 31st, 2005

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 [...]