Archive for the 'Education' Category
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 inequalityâ€? (emphasis added). Although Karl Marx didn’t say much on race, leftist [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
By: Nick | Category Education, Government, Health Stuff | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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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 [...]
By: Nick | Category Education, Political Correctness | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
After reading the NEA’s latest agenda, I had to think twice about putting this into the “Education” category. It reads more like a rundown of the Democrat Party Platform. As a matter of fact, you have to sift through 14 agenda items dealing with opposition to Wal-Mart, opposition to Social Security Reform, and other political [...]
By: Nick | Category Education, Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
Those liberal loonies in California are at it again: SAN YSIDRO – Today, San Ysidro Middle School will recognize 516 eighth-graders in a ceremony to promote them to high school, regardless of whether they passed middle school. More than a fourth of them did not. In today’s ceremony, 143 students who either flunked classes, didn’t [...]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2005
Chalk up another disgrace for this country’s educrats: Matthew Lund and Zach Richardson were college roommates. After college Richard joined the Marines and Lund started teaching. Richardson went to Iraq, Lund to Carson Middle School, there to teach a 6th grade language arts class. As a class assignment Lund gave his students the opportunity to [...]
By: Nick | Category Education | 16 Comments »
Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Embattled liberal professor Ward Churchill says that an Indian Tribe he claims to be an associate member of is lying when it says he is only an honorary member. In a statement on its Web site, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians said it gave Ward Churchill an “honorary associate membership” because he promised [...]
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Corey Clark vs. American Idol: Last night ABC’s Primetime Live ran an “investigative” peice on Fox’s American Idol. Basically, a former contestant (Clark) is now saying that one of the judges on the show (Paula Abdul) gave him lots of help with song choice and wardrobe while he was competing on the show, and that [...]
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
It seems that the attorney representing Ward Churchill is a big fan of his: A lawyer for the professor whose remarks about Sept. 11 victims touched off a firestorm wants officials to clarify how they intend to prove he is an American Indian, asking if they plan to use “the Nazi standard for racial purity.” [...]
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