Category: Education

Despite Misconception, We Conservatives DO Want Some Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Leftists love to purposefully misconstrue what sort of government conservatives want. Certainly whenever some new big government boondoggle erupts in the typical corruption and waste that is government, conservatives rail against the misappropriation of powers that such boondoggles invariably mean. But when government isn’t doing something they want it to do and conservatives kvetch with […]

 

2-Inch-Tall Army Soldiers Gets School Kid Reprimanded

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A policy of no tolerance for weapons got an 8-year-old boy in trouble at his Rhode Island grade school this week. The boy brought in nearly a dozen M-14 Army rifles to his Tiogue School in Coventry, R.I. grade school and was chastised by the principal for the outrage. How did he get all those […]

 

Anti-War Teachers Disrupt Recognition of Military-Minded Students

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week two Massachusetts High School teachers took it upon themselves to protest against the U.S. Military as students that had announced plans to join our armed forces were receiving recognition from their school. Incensed students and parents called for the teachers to be fired. History teacher Marybeth Verani and English teacher Adeline Koscher raised […]

 

New York Teachers Union Has Branch in Florida?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The outrage of union activities never ceases to amaze. From the Education Week blog we find that the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the teachers union of New York, spends almost $200,000 a year of its member’s dues money on an office in Boca Raton, Florida! As Ed Week drolly says, “That’s not peanuts for […]

 

Teachers Union Extorts Parents for Campaign Cash

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The indispensable Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner recently caught another union outrage. This time it’s the teachers union in New Jersey trying to extort cash from parents directly, as opposed to merely extorting cash from parents through their taxes. Hemingway alerts us to a New Jersey parent that was aghast that the NJ teachers […]

 

College Feminists Protest Fashion Spread as “Aryan”

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Your college dollars at work, parents! At Ohio University, the cuckoo pants is in full swing. Ohio University has a student-run magazine called Backdrop Magazine. They decided to have a little fashion spread in their Spring issue. No big whoop, right? Wrong: Enter OU hyperfeminist Bethany Francis.:  Francis is a theater production major, and apparently, […]

 

New Film, ‘The Lottery’: Unions Destroying American Education

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new documentary film is debuting this week entitled, “The Lottery.” The film highlights the ever failing public education system we have in America today and how our children’s future is being seriously harmed by greedy, uncaring teachers unions. As the trailer says, these unions are protecting failure in our schools… From the website:

 

Teacher of the Year Is Child Molester

Posted on by Dave Blount

According to the town’s slogan, Everybody’s Somebody in Snellville, Georgia. But Keenon Aampay Hall is not somebody you’d want teaching your kids: The Teacher of the Year at Shiloh High School has resigned after admitting to having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student, according to records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Keenon Aampay Hall, […]

 

New Jersey Teachers Threw Away Decades of Goodwill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The New Jersey Star-Ledger has a wonderful little editorial excoriating New Jersey’s teachers for having destroyed their own reputation with the public because of their petulant behavior towards Governor Chris Christie’s attempts to balance New Jersey’s over spent budget. Take a gander at this… Once the patient darlings who nurtured our kids, teachers now look […]

 

Of AZ Law Football Player Tells Media: ‘I’m a Football Player It Doesn’t Matter What I Think’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As “Dirty Harry” Callahan said, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Well it looks like Jets Quarterback Mark Sanchez knows his and his limitations are that he’s a football player, not a politician. Like the lemmings they are, the left-wing Old Media asked this football player what he thought about the Arizona anti-illegal immigration […]

 

Enemies to Our Country in the Classroom

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

These “frail racist white people” better beware of La Raza “forefront of the revolution,” at least so says Mexican racist and hatemonger Ron Gochez. Ordinarily we would all just roll our eyes at yet another half-wit, violence pusher that wants to destroy the USA and everything it stands for. But Mr. Gochez is not just […]

 

2005 Kid’s Bush/Hitler Art Gets Award, 2010 Kid’s Obama/Commie Art Gets Censored

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is, as we all know, the year 2010 and the era of Obama has fairly begun. Accordingly the commissars of good art taste in our schools have spoken: no kid’s artwork that makes The Obammessiah out to be a commie will be allowed. Interestingly there was another time, another year when things were different. […]

 

Unhinged Illinois School Cancels Basketball Trip To Arizona

Posted on by William Teach

Unshockingly, the parents are madder then hell Parents in Illinois are outraged over a move by a local high school to scrap its girls basketball team’s trip to Arizona over the Grand Canyon State’s new immigration law, FOXNews.com reported Wednesday. The Highland Park High School varsity basketball team has been selling cookies for months to […]

 

Banning Ethnic Studies In The Classroom? It’s About Time.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Nothing could: :  be a bigger waste of time than “ethnic studies” classes — well, other than maybe basketweaving and women’s studies classes. In fact, those classes can be very harmful because they promote grievance mongering, victimhood, radicalism, and racial separatism. So, kudos to Jan Brewer in Arizona for putting her foot down, Arizona GOP Gov. […]

 

Do These Teachers Ever Get Fired?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Prepare yourselves, : folks, because you are about to see an EXTREMELY offensive image. It was so out of bounds that a 13 year old child was told to stop drawing it immediately, The battle over the American flag has reached a middle school art class in California’s Santa Rita School District where a student was […]

 

Calif. School Bans American Flag Clothing For Non-Existent Mexican Holiday?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

California schools really do hate America. In California apparently you are a bad little boy if you wear to school clothing adorned with the good ol’ Red, White and Blue. You get thrown out, in fact. At least that is what happened to several patriotic American boys that attend Comunidad Educativa Vivo Roble in California… […]

 

Seth MacFarlane: Historical Illiterate (Hollywood Lies About Arizona Law)

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane proves once again that while the denizens of Hollywood might be good at acting, or singing, or TV and movie making, they most certainly have no clue about history or contemporary politics. They are utterly illiterate about the world around them because of the insular bubble in which they live. […]

 

Does Obama Want to Destroy America? Yes, But…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rush Limbaugh and a few other radio hosts have made it a center piece of the attack against President Obama, the Tea Partiers have often put such sentiment on their protest signs, and the conservative chattering classes have been abuzz with the question: does Barack Obama want to destroy the United States? The only real […]

 

AFSCME Official’s Threats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees chief Henry Bayer addressed a rally of Illinois unions members on April 21. During his harangue this man revealed the exact sort of logical disconnect in which union thugs everywhere wallow. Bayer noted that 10% of the workforce in Illinois is out of work. OK, then what […]

 

Wednesday Stupid: John Kerry On AGW And The State Of Higher Education

Posted on by William Teach

When you really, really, really need someone to write something incredibly stupid, John Kerry is available We begin not just by curbing man-made carbon emissions that are contributing to climate change at an alarming rate but by also establishing incentives for private investment in clean energy technology industries. Over the next 10 years, those investments […]