Category: Education

Excellence Sacrificed to Diversity at Brooklyn School

Posted on by Dave Blount

Egalitarian educrats understand that you cannot have a smooth-looking lawn unless every blade of grass is the same height. Some blades cannot be made to grow very tall, but all blades can be cut short. Therefore, to achieve the sacred objective of equality, all blades must be prevented from growing above the minimum achievable height. […]

 

America’s Top Colleges Have Done Away With Teaching U.S. History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new report from Fox News on the trend among liberal arts colleges to drop any requirement that students take U.S. history classes to earn a degree is to me a mixed bag. Sure it is outrageous that our schools are telling students that U.S. history isn’t important, yet, it’s probably good kids aren’t learning […]

 

Reporter Confronts Union Chief Supporting a Child Molesting Teacher

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters recently traveled to Michigan to find out why the teachers union there is fighting so hard to force the taxpayers to give a big cash payment to a teacher convicted of molesting a child. Watters confronted Steven Cook, the head of the Michigan Education Association–the teachers union there–over why the […]

 

The Death of the Humanities

Posted on by Dave Blount

One of the most crucial duties of universities is to preserve and pass on our cultural heritage, for we can only reach new heights if we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Unfortunately, this conflicts with liberal ideology, which dictates that anything that does not support political correctness as it is […]

 

Feds recommend reform group created by terrorist Bill Ayers

Posted on by Eagnews

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Describing it as: a “highly regarded organization”, Obama’s Education Department recommends the Bill Ayers-founded Small Schools Workshop for use in creating “learning environments: that are supportive of perseverance”. The Small Schools Workshop is currently led by Mike Klonsky, a fellow 60′s radical of Bill Ayers, who once vowed to the communist government of China […]

 

Teacher Reportedly Takes First Grader’s Christmas Gift and Destroys Affixed Religous Story

Posted on by Duane Lester

Key quote? “Jesus is not allowed in school.” A first-grade teacher in California told a student that “Jesus is not allowed in school” before removing a religious story the child affixed to candy canes in celebration of Christmas last month, a non-profit legal firm claims. The incident reportedly unfolded on Dec. 13, when 6-year-old Isaiah […]

 

Government Food

Posted on by Dave Blount

If this is what Big Government does to food, imagine what kind of medical care we will have before it has finished implementing ObamaCare. Kids who attend public schools are actually expected to eat this stuff: Barfaroni. Pre-Vomited Lunch. Gross and Unknown. Slop. But the important thing is that someone else’s parents are forced to […]

 

Workers Dismantle Over 70 Unions in Wisconsin

Posted on by Joe Wurzelbacher

[Madison, Wisc…]: Workers rejected over 70 of 408 school district unions during annual recertification elections: that ended on Thursday, according to a preliminary analysis of the results. The elections went from November 29th until noon on December 19th and involved 408 collective bargaining units around the state associated with school districts. Workers cast their votes using a […]

 

Shocker: Common Core Aligned Text Says Global Warming Will Kill Us All

Posted on by Duane Lester

Who would have thought that a centrally planned government school system of standards would resort to propaganda and scare tactics to promote a green ideology? I mean, besides us: Fifth grade students at Fremont Elementary School in Colorado were assigned a reading passage that describes global warming as a dangerous, man-made phenomenon that will destroy […]

 

Media Ignoring That Colorado School Shooter Was Stopped by Armed Security Guard

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that the latest left-winger who decided to shoot up a local school was stopped in 80 seconds by an armed security guard? Few do because the media refuses to focus on this fact. Arapaho High School shooter Karl Pierson was loaded up for a long shooting spree when he entered his high […]

 

OUTRAGEOUS: School Bans Kid’s Christmas Poster Because it ‘Might be Religious’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It’s a sales job, not a religious message! It could be, it might be, it… isn’t religious, but the fearful authorities at a Minnesota school thought that a skeleton carton on a kid’s Christmas poster was “religious” and should be taken down. The poster featured the cartoon character Jack Skellington from the Tim Burton movie […]

 

What Is It With Socialists and Violence Anyway?

Posted on by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Karl Pierson (via Karl Pierson’s facebook profile) The young gunman responsible for the shooting on Friday at Arapahoe High School in Colorado is described in a variety of ways by his classmates: Socialist, Communist… See a trend? Sadly, my daughter came to us today and said that students don’t hold political […]

 

Michigan Teachers Union Fights For Child Molester

Posted on by Matt Vespa

A teachers union is fighting for a disgraced Michigan teacher’s severance package after it was discovered he: had a sexual relationship with an underage boy. The disgraced teacher, Neal Erickson, had been a math and computer-education teacher at Rose City Middle School before he was convicted of having sex with the victim on multiple occasions. The […]

 

Union-Loving School Official Says School Vouchers Would ‘Train Terrorists’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

WECT TV6-WECT.com:News, weather One of the biggest solutions reformers have to fix our failing schools is to give parents vouchers that can be used to send kids to the parent’s choice of schools. But one union-backing school superintendent in North Carolina is so against any solutions outside those offered by unions that she is going […]

 

High School Sex Ed Indoctrination Reaching Dangerous Levels

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

I was astonished recently when one of my stepdaughters arrived home from public high school in Washington state with a red ribbon painted on her cheek. Sex education in the schools — which conservatives have tried to limit to abstinence-only — has now gone well beyond simple education. Today’s students are being coerced into promoting […]

 

University Apologizes for Racist ‘Black Santa’ Display

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

If Santa were black would you be afraid to let him come down your chimney? Or would he only visit “the hood”? These are some of the questions asked in a racist Christmas display at Indiana University. Needless to say, the university has apologized for the debacle. The controversial display featured a banner headline that […]

 

Three white college students file racial discrimination complaint against professor over lesson on structural racism

Posted on by Michael Dorstewitz

A Minnesota college has reprimanded a faculty member for creating a “hostile learning environment” by targeting “students based on their race and gender.” The faculty member is black; the complaining students are white. When three white male students in: Shannon Gibney’s mass communication class at: Minneapolis Community and Technical College: complained because she discussed structural racism in every […]

 

Diversity Means Many Options

Posted on by Dave Blount

This is evidently not a joke, but an actual screenshot from an application to Bellevue College in suburban Seattle: Via MyNorthwest.com: Instead of the standard “Male” and “Female” boxes that one checks on applications, there was the question: What is your ‘gender identity’? And seven different options: Feminine, Masculine, Androgynous, Gender Neutral, Transgender, Other and […]

 

Teachers in a Kansas district take a stand against union, vote to decertify

Posted on by Eagnews

VERMILLION, Kans. — Teachers in a Kansas school district made a bold statement last Friday when they voted to decertify their union. The teachers from Vermillion Unified School District 380 voted by a margin of 27-9-1 to end collective bargaining representation by the Kansas National Education Association, reports: CJonline.com. The Vermillion teachers joined their de-certified peers […]

 

Education Students Say Prof’s Grammar And Spelling Corrections A Sign Of Racial Hostility

Posted on by Eagnews

LOS ANGELES — A group of 25 University of California at Los Angeles students — who are studying to be future teachers, school leaders and university professors — recently staged a sit-in to protest one professor’s acts of “micro-aggression” against minority students, which include correcting grammar, spelling and documentation mistakes on writing assignments. The protest […]

 

British School Threatens to Label Students ‘Racists’ Unless They Attend Islam Field Trip

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

British citizens are up in arms at a British primary school that has threatened to label kids as “racists” for years on their public school record if they refuse to attend a field trip meant to push Islam on kids. This is a sick example of multiculturalism by force, apparently. Lynn Small, headmistress at Littleton […]