Category: Education

Moonbat Math

Posted on by Dave Blount

Political correctness (a.k.a. liberalism, moonbattery) is a totalitarian ideology, requiring that absolutely everything be brought into compliance with it — even math: Rethinking Schools [is] an organization that’s been sneaking left-wing “social justice” lessons into America’s K-12 classrooms for nearly three decades. The group’s latest effort to indoctrinate the nation’s youth is a 286-page book […]

 

N. Carolina Lawmakers Scrapping Tenure, Introducing A Voucher Program

Posted on by Victor Skinner

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers recently passed a new state budget that includes education reforms that would improve teacher quality and expand school choice options for families. Republican leaders in the state House and Senate recently announced they’ve reached agreement on a $20.6 billion budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year that includes a $23.6 […]

 

Tennessee education leader under fire for new merit pay plan

Posted on by Ben Velderman

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — State Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman is under heavy fire from critics over a new teacher salary plan that bases raises on job performance. They’re also upset at Huffman for supporting charter school expansion and tougher tenure rules for teachers. The critics are using social media to try to pressure Gov. Bill Haslam […]

 

Chicago Teachers’ Union President: “Rich White People” To Blame For Chicago School Failure

Posted on by John Hawkins

Chicago’s public schools are extraordinarily bad. How bad? Well, 79% of their 8th graders aren’t grade-level proficient at English and 80% aren’t grade-level proficient at math. Naturally, the head of the teachers’ union in that city is saying that the buck stops with her for that terrible performance and…oh wait, actually she’s blaming “rich white […]

 

Miss Alabama 2013 Proves American Freedom is Dying

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Mary Margaret McCord, the dull witted “beauty queen” from Alabama, said during the 2013 Miss USA contest that she’d trade freedom and liberty for safety. This empty-headed twit proves that the liberals have won. We have lost our freedom if people care so little about it that they would trade liberty and freedom for government-sponsored […]

 

Suspicions Confirmed: Academia Shutting Out Conservative Professors

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Conservatives have long suspected there is discrimination against conservative professors in academia, and now there is evidence to prove it. Sociology professor Neil Gross, a self-described liberal, reveals the results of surveys showing this bias in his new book, Why Professors are Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care? :  Sociologist George Yancy asked professors if […]

 

A California School Has A Toy-Gun Buyback

Posted on by John Hawkins

Where do the taxpayers get a “buyback” for all the money we’ve apparently wasted training idiots like this guy to run our schools? A Hayward, Calif., elementary school principal is making an afternoon game of cops-and-robbers considerably more difficult: An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a […]

 

Campaign to Instill Hoplophobia Marches On

Posted on by Dave Blount

The liberal establishment will stop at nothing to embed hoplophobia in the minds of the next generation, so that our constitutional right to bear arms will not continue to be an obstacle to a glorious utopian future. The objective of the brainwashing is simple: imprint deeply in young minds that guns = punishment. The campaign […]

 

Marshall University Professor Suggests Using Military to Kill NRA Members/Conservatives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Charlestown Gazette recently published the editorial by a Marshall University professor who advocated using an “M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles” to kill NRA members, Republicans, Conservatives, and those who support the Second Amendment. In an anti-gun piece that could best be described as a foaming-at-the-mouth tirade, Professor […]

 

Congressmen Urge AG Holder to Grant Asylum to Homeschooling German Family

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A coalition of 27 Congressmen have joined together to sign a letter urging the Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder to rescind an order to deport a German family whose only crime was to homeschool their children. In 2008 German citizen Uwe Romeike, his wife, and five young children fled Germany and took […]

 

At least one Milwaukee mom won’t be sending her child to school on cross-dressing ‘Switch It Up Day’

Posted on by Ben Velderman and Steve Gunn

MILWAUKEE — Deidri Hernandez’s seven-year-old son won’t be in school today, after officials at Tippecanoe School for the Arts and Humanities confirmed they’re still holding “Switch It Up Day” — a time for students to come dressed as members of the opposite sex. Hernandez tells EAGnews the day was originally billed as “Gender Bender Day,” […]

 

Study Finds Multiculturalist Brainwashing Makes Kids More Hostile to Other Groups

Posted on by Dave Blount

No one familiar with the typical consequences of liberal social engineering will find this surprising: Children who are given anti-racism lessons in school are more likely to be intolerant outside the classroom, a major study found… According to the Dutch report, ethnic hostility could be caused by a “a one-sided offender-victim approach to racism.” That […]

 

Another Example of How Our Miseducation System is Failing Our Kids

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember how you were taught in school how to add a series of numbers? Remember how you were told to write each set of numbers on top of each other, to stack them so you could then add them together to get a total? Kids aren’t taught that any more. In fact, the system of […]

 

After Student is Suspended and Arrested for Wearing NRA “Protect Your Rights” Shirt,100 STUDENTS WEAR SHIRT TO SCHOOL!

Posted on by John Hawkins

When Jared Marcum was suspended from school and arrested for wearing a NRA “Protect Your Rights” t-shirt, it drew national attention. Afterwards, the liberal bullies at Logan County Schools who thought they could get away with picking on a 14 year old kid started to become a lot more reasonable. It didn’t hurt that a […]

 

Resident Admits Tsarnaev’s Hate For US is Typical in Cambridge

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What one resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts had to say about the atmosphere in that liberal area of the state was quite telling in revealing how essentially un-American leftism truly is. This resident practically admitted that the in that college town, everyone expresses the same basic hate for America that dead terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev so often […]

 

13-Year-Olds Ordered to Request Lesbian Kisses

Posted on by Dave Blount

If laws against corrupting the morals of minors were properly interpreted and enforced, think how many liberal educrats would be behind bars, leaving children safe from their depraved machinations. For example: A recent anti-bullying presentation at a middle school in New York that focused on homosexuality and gender identity has angered parents after their daughters […]

 

School Suspends Student and Then HAS HIM ARRESTED Over NRA “Protect Your Rights” T-Shirt

Posted on by John Hawkins

The Lefties may have lost the fight for gun control in D.C., but now they’re apparently taking the fight to targets that are more their speed: 8th graders. Eighth grader Jared Marcum wore a shirt that featured the NRA logo and a hunting rifle. The shirt didn’t violate school policy, which specifically bans clothing that […]

 

Father OUTRAGED After Finding This In His Son’s Backpack: “I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Jacksonville, Florida: Aaron Harvey’s son is in the 4th grade. Harvey was shocked to find the words, “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure written on an assignment that his son had brought home from school at Cedar Hills Elementary. When Harvey asked […]

 

Convicted Terrorist Kathy Boudin Teaches at Columbia University

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama friend and mentor Bill Ayers and his sociopathic bride aren’t the only Weather Underground terrorists to find comfortable homes in academia: Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin – who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard – now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at […]

 

Public Charter School Puts on Blasphemous Play

Posted on by Dave Blount

Educators have any number of ways to get their message across — from as simple as commanding students to write “Jesus” on a slip of paper and stamp on it, to as elaborate as this: Students from the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, or PVPA — which serves 400 pupils, grades 7-12, in […]

 

Common Core: What’s Hidden Behind the Language

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Conservatives are in an uproar over Common Core, an educational curriculum being forced upon the states by the Obama administration, which is scheduled to be mostly implemented this year in the 46 states that have adopted it. Common Core eliminates local control over K-12 curriculum in math and English, instead imposing a one-size-fits-all, top-down curriculum […]

 

So That’s Why They Call It Brown

Posted on by Dave Blount

Brown is an Ivy League university. The status entailed in attending it doesn’t come cheap. Undergraduate tuition plus room, board, and fees for 2012–2013 will set you back $55,016. Fortunately taxpayer-backed student loans and scholarships are available. Here is what Brown students have been learning during Sex Week 2013: Following an introductory seminar on “Fornication […]