Category: Education

Obama Admin’s racist, sexist Common Core anything but higher standards

Posted on by Joe Wurzelbacher

Are we to believe that the same Obama Administration that gave us a stimulus that hasn’t after five years of Obamanomics and an Obamacare that cares not for people satisfied with their doctors and health care insurance plans; should now even more completely take over state and local education of our children? We think not, […]

 

NY Teachers Union Chief: Common Core is Child Abuse

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

To the applause of those in the room, a New York teachers union president slammed the state’s Common Core policy as “child abuse.” Beth Dimino, President of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association, appeared to speak at a Common Core forum held on November12 at the Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, New York. […]

 

Pay Attention to Who Is Teaching Your Kids

Posted on by Dave Blount

If this story doesn’t get the point across, nothing will: A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher charged with blindfolding students and [feeding] them cookies laced with his semen has agreed to plead no contest to all charges, an attorney for some of the victims said Thursday. According to the plea deal, Mark Berndt will […]

 

Caitlyn Jackson, RIP

Posted on by Dave Blount

A day never goes by without the supposedly therapeutic totalitarian Nurse Ratched nanny statism of educrats reaching a new extreme of self-parody. This one will be hard to top: Several parents and students were upset Monday when Lakeview Middle School barred students from wearing T-shirts honoring a classmate who died Saturday after a long battle […]

 

Partner University of Jewish Brandeis University Features Naziesque Rallies

Posted on by Dave Blount

At the root of political correctness is self-hatred. The ruling class deliberately exploits it to turn us against ourselves, making us more malleable. If you hate yourself enough, you won’t defend yourself from anything. For example, Brandeis University is traditionally a Jewish school, named after the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis. Yet campus […]

 

Do We Have a Chance to Remake the GOP as a Conservative Party?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There are a few facts about the current political climate that are 100 percent beyond question. One is that the GOP establishment hates Tea Partiers and conservatives far more than they hate Democrats. Secondly, if there is amnesty for illegals, the GOP will become a permanent minority party. So, if amnesty arrives perhaps we have […]

 

Common Core: New Education Program Teaches Kids That ‘Commands’ of Government ‘Must Be Obeyed’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Liberals and misguided establishment Republicans (like Florida’s Jeb Bush) are pushing a new education program called Common Core, a policy that will do no less than spit out good little government automatons. But it isn’t just this new scheme of education. It’s been happening for years and all over. Commons Core just accelerates it. We […]

 

Mother of Grade Schooler Banned from Kid’s School Over Concealed Carry License

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is how the liberals destroy our rights, folks. A mother in Georgia has now been told she isn’t allowed to go to her own child’s taxpayer funded grade school because she has a concealed carry permit. Parent Tanya Mount says that she was a volunteer at her disabled daughter’s school, McBean Elementary in Hepzibah, […]

 

Humanities Classes Falling Out of Favor is Higher Education’s Own Fault

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In The New York Times Tamar Lewin laments the slow death of the humanities in our system of higher learning. She notes that the humanities are going by the wayside with fewer students signing up for such courses every year. But Lewin gets the reason completely wrong. She blames the recession but in fact it […]

 

Unions oppose bipartisan effort to keep criminals out of public schools

Posted on by Victor Skinner

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal lawmakers want to prevent schools from employing convicted sex offenders, kidnappers, murderers, pornographers, spouse beaters and rapists. It’s such an obviously good idea that Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House agree on it, and passed legislation by a simple voice vote to make it the law. But there’s one group […]

 

Second-Graders Taught Collectivist Propaganda Under Common Core

Posted on by Dave Blount

As Abraham Lincoln wisely observed, “The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.” Given that our government now is vastly to the left of anything the Founding Fathers would have regarded as consistent with the libertarian principles the country was founded on, imagine the sort of Marxist regime the next […]

 

Chicago Teachers Union: ‘This City Belongs to Black People’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is pretty much run by communists and racebaiters. This month we get yet another example of that with a CTU organizer claiming that the city “belongs” to African Americans and not white people. This sort of hate is typical of the CTU. As seen in the video above, CTU President […]

 

Unions Furious Because L.A. Schools Are Getting Aggressive About Firing Bad Teachers

Posted on by Victor Skinner

LOS ANGELES — The United Teachers Los Angeles union is attempting to force the Los Angeles school district to re-evaluate dozens of teacher dismissals because union leaders don’t think they’re fair. “… (T)his system leads to many innocent educators being swooped up in the dragnet,” UTLA President Warren Fletcher said, according to the LA School […]

 

Special Needs Student Suspended Indefinitely for Drawing Cartoon Bomb

Posted on by Dave Blount

The zero tolerance insanity inflicted by the liberal totalitarians who administrate government schools never ends: A South Carolina mother says her son was suspended for drawing a picture of a cartoon bomb at home and bringing it to school. Amy Parham told FoxCarolina.com her 13-year-old son, Rhett, was suspended from Hillcrest Middle School [in Simpsonville] […]

 

High School Drama Teacher Pushes Play With Incest and Bestiality, Gets Suspended

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Here is a story that shows why we don’t let children decide what they want to do for themselves. In Arizona, a high school teacher thought it would be a great idea for his kids to put on a play that features incest and bestiality. He got suspended for this leftist idea, but the silly […]

 

Illinois School Gives Kids a Death Panel Assignment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A central Illinois school recently gave students an assignment many are calling a “death panel” assignment. The fifteen year olds were told to decide what six of ten people would be allowed to get life-saving medical treatment. double click on image to see larger The school, St. Joseph Ogden High School in St. Joseph, IL, […]

 

Some parents upset about a school play in which students portray sexual acts with a goat

Posted on by Victor Skinner

CAREFREE, Ariz. — Some parents of students at Cactus Shadows High School are outraged over a play that has students acting out sexual encounters with a goat, and using vulgar sexual expressions. Other parents of students in teacher Andrew Cupo’s advanced drama class believe the concerns are overblown, and resent parents who questioned their children […]

 

Death Panel Assignment in IL High School

Posted on by Lennie Jarratt

Original Posted: : ChampionNews.net St. Joseph Ogden High School in St. Joseph, IL just east of Champaign, recently gave their 14/15 year olds the death panel assignment below. This was given in the: Introduction to Social Science: class. The stated purpose of the class is Introduction to Social Science (1/2 Credit) Students will be given an introduction to […]

 

Even Students at Liberal University of Colorado Boulder Acknowledge Obama Is Responsible for Shutdown

Posted on by Dave Blount

There is hope. Obama’s shutdown maneuver will only succeed if his media allies can blame it on his opponents; otherwise, the more senseless misery he deliberately inflicts, the more resistance will develop to the hopey changey fundamental transformation of America. An encouraging sign from the leftward edge of academia: Students at the University of Colorado […]

 

School Bans Balls, Tag, Cartwheels Lest Someone Gets Hurt

Posted on by Dave Blount

Under our rule by moonbats, the coercive wussification of America advances ever further: [O]fficials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington [NY] are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt someone on school grounds. … [D]uring recess, football […]

 

Lunch sales plunge as district food director deems Michelle O’s menu ‘unsuccessful’

Posted on by Rottdawg

CATAWISSA, Pa. — Michelle Obama’s school lunch overhaul is causing more heartburn for school employees, this time in Pennsylvania’s Southern Columbia Area School District. District leaders are trying to deal with a whopping 19 percent drop in lunch sales since “healthier” foods were introduced last year. Students have not been responding well to the menu […]

 

Common Core For All

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

“The schools [utilizing Common Core]… are organized in a highly centralized government-run system. They [Common Core courses] have the following characteristics in common: they are overwhelmingly secular in orientation; a common school is provided through at least grades seven or eight; little or no tuition charge is made; schools are mostly coeducational; the curricula are […]

 

Creepy Propaganda: High School Bands To Play Obamacare Songs

Posted on by John Hawkins

In the sort of creepy move you’d expect to see in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or Kim-Jung-Il’s North Korea, high school bands in Oregon are being used as propaganda organs for Obamacare. The: Northwest Watchdog reports: The Oregon: agency behind Obamacare-promoting,: taxpayer-funded ads that have garnered national attention for their: hipster: and: trippy: vibes defended the spots Wednesday. And next up? The agency […]

 

School Gives Children Three Month Suspensions For Playing With Toy Guns In Their Own Yard

Posted on by John Hawkins

I would hope that some conservative group would offer free legal help to this family while encouraging them to sue this school for enough money to put all their kids through college. It’s a shame it has to come to that, but it’s the only thing these arrogant liberals understand. During a hearing with a […]

 

School teaches kids to serve Obama with ‘I pledge’ video

Posted on by Michael Dorstewitz

After airing the pro-Obama “I Pledge” video at a: Wisconsin: middle school’s Peace One Day event, school district officials had to apologize to a group of angry parents and students. The: Hudson School District: admitted the video’s central message of serving the president could have been perceived as offensive to some people, according to: MyFox9.com. The video featured celebrities pledging […]

 

Extremist Professor: Trayvon Martin Case Proves it’s Legal to ‘Hunt Down & Kill’ Black Kids

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Another day, another extremist, anti-American “professor” caught lying to our kids and pushing a far left agenda, this time at the University of Maryland where a so-called professor is saying that the Trayvon Martin case somehow proves that it is now legal to hunt down and kill black kids in America today. UMD “Professor” and […]

 

Elgin Community College (ECC) paid Terrorist Bill Ayers with Taxpayer Money to speak

Posted on by Lennie Jarratt

Elgin Community College PR discussing bringing Bill Ayers to speak. He confirmed Ayers was paid $1200 of taxpayer money to speak. This was paid with taxpayer money. When asked about whether others have spoken with opposite viewpoints have ever spoken in this series, he could not give an example. When asked if he was willing […]

 

Bill Ayers: Common Core is a Disaster and Race to the Top is NCLB in Drag

Posted on by Lennie Jarratt

Bill Ayers spoke at Elgin Community College today. Below is a clip of Bill Ayers giving his thoughts on Common Core and Race to the Top. “Race to the Top in my view is No Child Left behind in Drag” Common Core – “it’s a disaster”