Category: Education

Teacher Union Chief: Big Boss, Big Hypocrite

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What was it that our apologizer in chief and his minions have told us? Wasn’t it that we all have to sacrifice because the U.S. is less than she used to be? Well American Federation of Teachers union chief, Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten, says phooey on that. Sacrifice if for the unwashed masses, not her. Weingarten […]

 

GOP Guvs Ready to Take on Greedy Public Employee Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This is a story that warms the anti-union cockles of my free-market heart. At the recent meeting of the Republican Governors Association in San Diego those governors gathered made a point to discuss angles of attack to take down the budget-busting, anti-democratic public employees unions. In attendance was the ever present former Speaker of the […]

 

Glenn Beck Is a Jew-Hater, Mark Levin Is an Anti-Intellectual and Other Stuff Some People Want You to Believe

Posted on by Robert Stacy McCain

Sammy Benoit at Yid With Lid calls our attention to Media Matters’ effort to paint Glenn Beck as an anti-Semite for criticizing George Soros. (They’ve even managed to get the ADL’s Abe Foxman to join up for their smear crusade.) Of course,: Jew-hating is a vicious thing, but Media Matters certainly didn’t hesitate to foment hatred […]

 

NJ Teachers Union Bragging They Can’t Be Fired

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Shock videographer James O’Keefe has released video of New Jersey teachers union members bragging that it is nearly impossible for them to be fired by the state. Daily Caller reports: In one video, Alissa Ploshnick, who is identified as a special educator at Passaic Public Schools, seems to verify the worst suspicions of education reformers. […]

 

Democrat Teacher Can’t Believe Kids Would Vote For Republican

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week I spied a short piece at Illinois Review about a post on My Suburban Life that detailed the story of a left-wing teacher that was shocked that a majority of her students in DuPage County, Illinois voted for Republican Representative Peter Roskam in the school’s mock election. Social studies teacher Lori Keough of […]

 

Crossroads School, a K Through 12 School Sponsoring Left-Wing Rally?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, a K-12 facility in Santa Monica, California, is tired of all the political insanity out there. To help ameliorate this state of affairs, the school has decided to use its campus assets, its school email system, and its teachers to sponsor a Jon Stewart-styled rally to “restore sanity” in […]

 

Two Examples Showing Liberals Don’t Know ANYTHING About U.S. History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This week we have two prominent examples proving that liberals are ignoramuses about the Constitution and U.S. history. One incident wholly misunderstood by the left was uttered by the redoubtable Sarah Palin and the other by Christine O’Donnell. First up Sarah. In Nevada Sarah Palin kicked off a new tour to spur conservatives and Republicans […]

 

Union Killing Local Libraries?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In this era of severe budget cuts, layoffs, and job loss, people in the real world are making due with less. Businesses are cutting back and people are hurting everywhere in this era of Obama. Local governments are also starting to find this economic climate challenging. But even as local budgets are taking hits, unions […]

 

Oops. Obama’s ‘Saved Job’ Was Just Lost

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, it was a thing to be celebrated when Obama’s payoff to the teachers unions back in August “saved” the job of Ohio school teacher Amanda VanNess. It was such a thing of wonder that the big guy flew the elementary school teacher all the way to D.C. for an Oval Office signing ceremony. (Pictured: […]

 

After Denial, Anti-American Faculty of UIC to Fight For Bill Ayers’s Emeritus Status

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The leaders of the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago are weighing whether they will wade into the fray and come to the aid of a terrorist. Last week the board of UIC denied domestic terrorist and close Obama confidant William Ayers the emeritus status he sought upon his retirement. The reason he […]

 

What the GOP Pledge Reflects and Why We Need To Stand By It

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : : : :  When the Pledge to America was first announced, it immediately met backlash from the other side of the aisle. President Obama began a tour dedicated specifically to breaking down the plan’s items one by one.:  While to many political strategists, this response may be seen as politics as usual, there are many holes in […]

 

Professor Bloodlust: Kill All Meat Eating Animals for THEIR Sake?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the warped moral thinking of the extreme left, all creatures are better off never having existed for their “suffering.” This is, for instance, how in-human leftists excuse abortion. If a child was never born, they contend, he will never suffer. Well, at least one professor has taken this extreme precept to its ultimate end. […]

 

Domestic Terrorist Denied University Accolade of Emeritus Status

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Leave it to University liberals to suddenly take strong stands just when it makes absolutely no difference at all. Domestic terrorist William Ayers, close personal friend to Barack Hussein Obama, has finally been denied something by a publicly funded university and at this late date it is a meaningless gesture. For decades and decades this […]

 

Sec. of Education Duncan Pledges to Turn Kids Into ‘Good Environmental Citizens’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obama’s Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, pledged to turn America’s school children into good enviro zombies at an appearance at a Virginia high school earlier in the month and he intends to use federal funds to do it. CNSNews reports: “Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our children to be […]

 

Illinois Professor Says Chanting ‘USA’ is Bellicose Propaganda

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, you ignorant Americans with your venal patriotic chants of “USA, USA” at sporting events. Your bellicosity isn’t patriotism, it’s propaganda and lowly militarism… so says David Green, University Administrator and member of the University of Illinois Institute of Government & Public Affairs. Green’s poisoned pen letter to American patriots was published by the Daily […]

 

Snap! Let’s Make US Children Into “Good Environmental Citizens”

Posted on by William Teach

Interestingly, liberals cry “foul”, gnash their teeth, whine, go force 8 moonbat, when people like Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg compare the Left, and the Obama admin, to old style progressives, calling them “nice fascists,” and expose the dictatorial style. Yet, again and again, we are given examples that pundits like Beck and Goldberg are, […]

 

Boys Now Have a Human Right to Use Girls Bathroom

Posted on by Dave Blount

The Maine Human Rights Commission deserves praise from moonbats for doing its part in the culture war: The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled Monday that Orono Middle School unlawfully discriminated against a sixth-grader during the 2008-2009 school year by not letting the male-to-female transgender student use the girls’ bathroom. This is the same student whose […]

 

Dick Durbin Expresses His Concern for Those Crushed by Big Government

Posted on by Dave Blount

What does the federal government’s ham-fisted expropriation of the entire student loan industry to help finance ObamaCare mean for students of private colleges? The No. 2 Democrat in the Senate Dick Durbin offers a clue. Pardon his language: [S]tudents at the Illinois Institute of Art — a player in the burgeoning for-profit education industry that […]

 

U.S. College Pushes Anti-American, Pro-Islam Book

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

We send our students to college to learn what they need to know to become good American citizens. From this knowledge we hope that they will realize useful, maybe even successful, lives. Perhaps they’ll even gain personal improvement through introspection from it all. At least that’s what we used to think. Apparently, these days we […]

 

Suspended for Teaching About Holocaust

Posted on by Dave Blount

It won’t be long before the Holocaust never happened. In France, teaching students about it can already get you suspended: A history teacher has been suspended in France for spending too much time teaching students about the Holocaust. Catherine Pederzoli, 58, a secondary school teacher who is Jewish, was accused of teaching the subject with […]

 

Miss. School: Only White Students can be Class Prez, Only Blacks Vice Prez

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In Mississippi, Nettleton Middle School is finally doing away with its policy of portioning school class officer positions by race. As the policy stood before this month, the student officer positions were set up so that if you wanted to run for eighth grade class president you had to be white while if you wanted […]