Category: Education

AFL-CIO Joins Communists, La Raza, ACLU, Other Unions in Voter Registration Drive

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Looks like the AFL-CIO is no longer even trying to hide the fact that it no longer sports a traditionally American political outlook. The labor union has announced that it is joining a voter registration drive called One Nation Working Together. This coalition is filled with some of the most extremely leftist groups in America […]

 

That Stimulating Stimulus Paid for Homemade Porno?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well if this isn’t a fitting addition to the story of the stimulus what is? The University of Notre Dame in Indiana recently fired an electrical engineering professor over allegations that the prof used $190,000 in federal grant money and matching university funds to buy cameras and other equipment to make homemade porno. Like a […]

 

Missouri Grade School: Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ Song is ‘Insensitive’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Fox News Radio’s Todd Sterns reported that a Missouri elementary school tried to ban the singing of “Happy Birthday To You” in order to be “sensitive” about those students that might find singing in public to be “offensive.” In a letter sent home to parents, school Principal Jodi Davidson explained that the ban on the […]

 

Video: How Teachers Unions Abuse Non-Union Teacher Paychecks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

From the Independent Teachers for Colorado blog… Check out this new Independent Teachers video about what happens when a non-union school employee who is forced to opt out of paying union fees every year misses the deadline because of family medical emergencies: Due to family medical hardships, non-union Pueblo school employee Becky Robertson missed an […]

 

Calif. Teachers Unions Endangering Kid’s Lives

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Reason Magazine explores the appalling situation in California where teachers unions were able to strongarm the legislature to deny teacher training for the use of Diastat, an anti-seizure drug meant to keep kids afflicted with epileptic conditions from dying in school. The drug has been approved by the federal government to […]

 

The Tax Left-Wing Professors Act

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

James Lileks of the Minneapolis Star Tribune recently had a brilliant idea. Let’s tax tenured professors at a higher rate than everyone else. And how could they complain? After all, these left-wing, communist sympathizers are always saying everyone should pay more taxes. How could they complain about being called to “pay their fair share”? Lileks […]

 

As Fellows Lose Jobs Union Fights For Stiffer Drug Benefits: Free Viagra

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Unions have for years been figuring out new ways to screw employers and in Madison, Wisconsin a teacher’s union is looking for yet another way to slam it to the taxpayers by insisting that they get a free Viagra drug benefit. In this bad economy, with states going bankrupt right and left, with teachers being […]

 

Mass. School Kids Now ‘Allowed’ To Say the Pledge of Allegiance

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What sort of nation have we become when it takes monumental efforts by a kid to get a school administration to “allow” them all to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? Nonetheless, that is the nation that liberals have turned these great United States into as after two months of wrangling Arlington, Massachusetts High School student […]

 

Even The Left Getting Tired of Teachers Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

An interesting article appeared in the Chicago Tribune lamenting the fact that teachers unions are standing in the way of good education for our kids by constantly and in knee-jerk fashion opposing school reform efforts all across the country. Penned by the Tribune’s Leonard Pitts, no arch righty he, the piece scolds teachers unions and […]

 

National Education Association Orders Members to Read Communist Guide Book

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The National Education Association (NEA) is the premier teachers union group in the country. As such it is instructive to learn the sort of reading material that the biggest of all teachers unions tells its own members to study so that they can more adequately represent teachers in America today. A look at the NEA […]

 

Final Report: RightOnLine 2010

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pictured from the left: Robert Bluey [Heritage Foundation], Guy Benson [Chicago Radio Host], Ed Morrissey [HotAir.com], and Warner Todd Huston [PubliusForum.com] I just flew in from Las Vegas where I attended Americans For Prosperity’s RightOnLine 2010 conference. As always, it was an uplifting experience, educational, and a whole lot of fun. I caught up with […]

 

Educrats Demand That Student Renounce Christianity, Endorse Depravity

Posted on by Dave Blount

It isn’t an accident that nearly everyone in the education establishment subscribes to the same degenerate ideology. Those who don’t are faced with a stark choice — convert to moonbattery or be crushed by the system: A lawsuit against [taxpayer-supported] Augusta State University in Georgia alleges school officials essentially gave a graduate student in counseling […]

 

Bureaucrats Deem Rocks Too Dangerous for Geology Class

Posted on by Dave Blount

According to the Nanny State, the rocks in liberal bureaucrats’ heads aren’t the only ones that pose a threat to children: Michael Warring, president of American Educational Products in Fort Collins, Colo., had his shipment all ready: A school’s worth of small bags, each one filled with an igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Then the […]

 

Teachers Unions Spent $100 Per Teacher on Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Education Next undertook for the first time an effort to find out how much of their members dues money that teachers unions spent on political action. The results are very interesting. The analysis discovered that, “national teachers unions and their state affiliates spent more than $100 per teacher in five states, with Oregon at the […]

 

For All Teachers’ Whining, Almost Half of Chicago Area Teachers Make $100K a Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the Obama economy tumbles farther and farther down into depression, as states begin to face the reality of a budget crunch that can only be solved by layoffs of public employees, and as teachers find they are open to those layoffs, we commonly hear teachers claim that they are perennially underpaid and don’t deserve […]

 

Progress: Schools Teaching Your 10-Year-Old Child About Anal Sex

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Originally posted at NewsReal: Funny, but I always thought that schools should focus on teaching our children subjects like reading, writing and math. Not so, evidently! That’s for fuddy-duddy, old school philistines. Nowadays, with that thing called Progress and hopeandchange â„¢, our children are being taught about things like oral and anal sex and ‘fisting’. […]

 

U of Ill. Instructor Fired Over His Catholic Beliefs

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A University of Illinois instructor of the school’s Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought course was fired at the end of last semester because he had the temerity to send a student an email that explained the Catholic doctrine against homosexuality. In the email, professor Ken Howell of Champaign wrote, “Natural Moral Law says […]

 

Obama: “Yes We Did” USA: “Did What?”

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : :  Throughout many articles, America continually sees that the Obama administration and his cronies live in a bubble where they are the greatest leaders of this nation and not the ones that are continually selling its future like the stock market.:  Recently, Obama Advisor David Axelrod stated that America would be going “backwards” if they […]

 

Another Sign of Unions Losing Allies

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Again the New York Times reports on the confusion, anger, and loss of influence being experienced by shocked unions, this time teachers unions. Like the psychotic that lashes out at everyone around them when things are going wrong, at a New Orleans teachers union convention there is a lot of harsh words for former friends […]

 

Dear, Former Victims of Socialism/Communism, America Needs OUR Help!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(A friend of mine, Leon Weinstein who is a US citizen that emigrated from the USSR in 1974, wrote this because he is alarmed that the U.S. is headed to the hell he ran from so long ago. This is important stuff, folks. Leon KNOWS what he’s talking about as he lived through Russian Communism. […]

 

In Florida Schools, Bibles Banned… On Religious Freedom Day

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A group called Liberty Counsel is suing Florida’s Collier County Schools for banning Bibles from being distributed on its campuses even after allowing the practice for years. The organization World Changers has been distributing Bibles to students during off-school hours on the day closest to national Religious Freedom Day — held on January 16 — […]

 

Dems Include Union Bailout in War Funding Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is no other aspect of Washington D.C. that upsets voters more than government spending surreptitiously added on to spending bills and this week Congress indulged its inner drunken sailor once again by adding a $10 billion bailout for teachers unions in the bill that is supposed to fund the war effort. The teacher union […]

 

Worst Teachers Rewarded by Unions, New Teachers Abandoned

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the Chicago Tribune published an editorial detailing the biggest reason why unions as they have operated in the U.S. for decades are an illegitimate venture. The Trib published a plea to new Chicago teachers union chief Karen Lewis not to protect the bad teachers under her charge and to help the younger teachers […]

 

Wisc. Dem. Unaware that Arizona Borders with Mexico (Plus YouTube Pulls Video)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

(William Teach talked of this one earlier today, but the video he posted has been pulled. So, I am posting my little take on it adding a new source for the video…) Wisconsin Democrat Peggy West says that we shouldn’t accept Arizona’s anti-illegal immigrant law because Arizona isn’t a border state. If it were, West […]

 

Talk about Biting the Hand that Fed You: Obama’s Attack on America’s Students

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : :  Whether we like to actually admit it, the youth of our nation voted en masse for President Barack Obama.:  Exit polls indicate he won as much as 66% of voters under 30 years old.:  Enchanted by the word “change” entering into the prospective definition of their future, Obama calmed this worried, young sector of […]

 

Sex Ed Keeps Pushing the Envelope

Posted on by Dave Blount

You can’t say our government-run schools aren’t teaching kids anything. They just aren’t teaching what we would want them to teach: Parents are outraged after young teenagers were instructed on graphic sexual acts during a Planned Parenthood sex education class at the local high school in Shenandoah, Iowa. “It was horribly inappropriate,” Colleen Dostal told […]

 

Free Condoms in Public Elementary School

Posted on by Dave Blount

These days public schools don’t pay much attention to the tired old topics of yesteryear — reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. Now the emphasis is on learning fun stuff, like sexual intercourse and disregarding the wishes of parents: A New England school district has approved a measure that will provide free condoms to elementary school students […]