Category: Education

Why are Suicides so High in the Wealthiest Country in the World?

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Although the U.S. is the wealthiest country in the world, our suicide rate is the: 39th highest: in the world. Last year, 35,000 adults in the U.S. committed suicide. A: new report: by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 100 adults planned to commit suicide in the past year, a total of 2.2 million […]

 

Rick Perry Set To Announce His Cut, Balance, And Grow Plan

Posted on by William Teach

Better late than never. Skipping the preamble and heading to the meat (Wall Street Journal) On Tuesday I will announce my “Cut, Balance and Grow” plan to scrap the current tax code, lower and simplify tax rates, cut spending and balance the federal budget, reform entitlements, and grow jobs and economic opportunity. The plan starts […]

 

Lisa Fithian: Teaching Radicalism to Chicago Teachers Union

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Violent, union thug comes to Chicago to fake teacher “arrests” When people ask me, “What do you do?” I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible. — Lisa Fithian The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) trained under radical street organizer, and leader of the anti-capitalist #occupy movement, Lisa Fithian, to […]

 

Labor Unions Support Wisconsin Agitators

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Until now many of the often-illegal antics perpetuated by several individual Wisconsin-based protesters appeared to be random acts committed by disillusioned agitators. But the MacIver News Service has learned that these acts have been highly orchestrated and perpetuated by an organization whose members are told to deny their involvement in the group. A group, we’ve […]

 

Why Isn’t Obama’s Teacher Lie National News?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During the latest campaign appearance disguised as a presidential press conference, President Obama uttered one straight out lie that stands out above the rest of them. To help sell his “jobs bill,” Obama claimed to have met a Boston-based teacher named Robert Baroz and intimated that Baroz had no job despite his excellent teaching credentials. […]

 

Obama’s Texas School Visit: Hi Kids, Let’s Read a Story About Me!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Can anyone be this arrogant? President Obama visited with some school children in Texas on Wednesday and read a nice little story book to the kiddies. Guess who the star of the book was? You guessed it, himself. Obama was visiting an early education program Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas and chose to read a […]

 

High School Teacher Forbids Saying “Bless You”

Posted on by Dave Blount

Putting the government in charge of education means putting people like this Northern California nutcase in charge of teaching your kids: Steve Cuckovich [has] banned saying “bless you” in his high school health class in Vacaville. He even knocked 25 points from one student’s grade for saying the phrase in class. Cuckoovich provides this explanation: […]

 

Child Brainwashers Focus on Colors

Posted on by Dave Blount

Liberals have long sought to control our thoughts by restricting our vocabulary, so that even utterly innocuous terms are declared racist and struck from the Newspeak dictionary. Running low on words to regulate, in British schools they are now going after colors: Teachers should censor the toy box to replace witches’ black hats with pink […]

 

Increase Diversity Bake Sale Enrages Racist Moonbats

Posted on by Dave Blount

Nothing could be more racist than pointing out that liberals are racist. That’s why moonbats’ heads are exploding over the Berkeley College Republicans “Increase Diversity Bake Sale,” which offers a pricing structure that reflects race-based admission preferences: The bake sale is in protest of SB 185, which, if signed by Brown, would allow California public […]

 

Ga. Middle School: Muslim Polygamy Is Normal, Burkas Good For Women

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston A middle school in Smyrna, Georgia included in an assignment material that essentially shows 7th grade children that Islamic polygamy is a perfectly legitimate concept and that there is nothing wrong with the strict dress codes used to oppress Muslim women the world over. The material was presented to the 7th […]

 

Lib Activist Physically Assaults GOP Lawmaker in Wisconsin, Media Silent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A known liberal activist that has for months been stalking several Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin, verbally abusing them, has finally crossed the line into a physical attack. So… where is the Old Media to chronicle this assault? Sadly, no where to be seen. On Sept. 14 left-wing activist Miles Kirstan entered The Inn at 22 […]

 

The Obama Administration Fights To Keep Incompetent Teachers In The Classroom In The Name Of Civil Rights

Posted on by John Hawkins

Democrats incessantly tell everyone how much they care about education and then they turn right around and fight anything and everything that will actually improve education while inconveniencing their union allies. It almost defies belief, but in Arizona, the Obama administration is fighting to keep teachers with mediocre English skills in the classroom teaching students. […]

 

Mich. House Moves to Ban Union Dues Deducted from Teachers’ Paychecks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new measure has been introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives that would ban school districts from automatically deducting union dues from teachers’ paychecks and handing that money over to unions. The practice of having state governments deducting dues automatically from state employees is quite common in northern and western states that are in […]

 

Colorado School Places Saudi Arabian Flag Above U.S. Flag

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An elementary school in Fort Collins, Colorado came under fire last week for having placed in the school a smaller sized Saudi Arabian flag in a higher, more prominent position that the flag of the United States. Many locals called this a disrespectful display and even wondered if it was part of some effort at […]

 

Children Better Behaved Than Union Thugs in Wisconsin

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The MacIver Institute of Wisconsin has been doing stellar work on the situation between the unions and the rest of Wisconsin since Governor Scott Walker first entered the Governor’s mansion. The Institute has really shown the thuggery that is the unions again and again, revealing them for what they are. Well, MacIver has done it […]

 

Get Credit for Being a Pervert on Your College Application

Posted on by Dave Blount

Perverts with less than stellar grades no longer need to worry that they won’t receive special consideration when it comes to getting into college. Elmhurst College admissions applications now feature the following question: “Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community?” What business is it of educrats? […]

 

Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is in a contentious fight with the state of Arizona over its controversial Mexican-American Studies program. A state law went into effect in Arizona on January 1, 2011, banning the teaching of ethnic studies in K-12 schools. It was prompted by an investigation into TUSD’s ethnic studies curriculum by […]

 

Moonbat Math

Posted on by Dave Blount

Leave education to the sort of statist apparatchiks who infest all things governmental, and nothing taught in schools will be undistorted by corrosive left-wing ideology — not even math. Big Government quotes from The Guide for Integrating Issues of Social and Economic Justice into Mathematics Curriculum, by Jonathan Osler: [T]he systemic and structural oppression of […]

 

Unions Lose BIG In Wisconsin Recall Efforts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, the union thugs in Wisconsin will certainly try to act as if winning a mere two of the six recall elections of the Republican State Senators in the Cheese State was a big win… but it wasn’t. In fact, this recall nonsense shows that the union issues were a huge failure. After all, they […]

 

Michigan Public School Illegally Uses Robocall System Against GOP Governor

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

News has emerged that a Michigan public school illegally used its automatic phone calling system to call the homes of every student to urge parents to join the recall effort against Republican Governor Rick Snyder last month. To imagine that they can illegally use public school facilities for a partisan, left-wing political effort, this is […]

 

Why Does Sen. Durbin Think Illegal Aliens Can Become President?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

*Note- I know that John hit this yesterday, but I have a personal story with Sen. Turban to relate… Once again we see a Democrat in Congress that is completely out of touch with, or unknowledgeable about, our U.S. Constitution, the law of the land. This time it’s Senator Dick Durbin that is so contemptuous […]

 

Swedish Preschool Devoted to Producing Androgynous Children

Posted on by Dave Blount

Sweden has taken the lead as liberals race downward to new depths of depravity in their ham-fisted efforts to reengineer civilization in their own grotesque image. While New York is still swinging a sledgehammer at the last remnants of holy matrimony, Swedes have advanced to brainwashing children into being androgynous: At the “Egalia” preschool, staff […]

 

Green Brainwashing Now a High School Graduation Requirement in Maryland

Posted on by Dave Blount

So much for the imaginary wall between Church and State progressives revered until recently. Hyper-liberal Maryland, ranked as having the least personal freedom in the union, will no longer allow anyone to graduate from high school who hasn’t been deemed sufficiently indoctrinated in the cult of Envirofascism, as Curriculum Matters announced yesterday: Today’s vote by […]

 

The Atlantic Magazine’s Lies: Of Breitbarts, Kochs, and RightOnLine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with opinions stated as fact, misconstructions of facts, and outright lies. Sadly, along with the rest […]