Category: Public Education

Your Tax $$ at Work: the Columbia U. School of Climate Change Hysteria

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If you want your kid to grow into a prize ninny, Columbia University can make it happen.

In return for decades’ worth of student debt, your son or daughter can enroll in “climate change games” in which students compose tragic, fictitious voice mail messages from imaginary people about to be killed by imaginary Global Warming. (Source: “Columbia University to spend $5.7 million in taxpayer funds on climate change games,” by Katherine Timpf, May 26, 2014,  http://www.campusreform.org/ID=5641 )

This idiocy is funded by a $5.7 million grant from the National “Science” Foundation–money that real people had to work for.

Ah, what a festival of reason! A gala of clear and sober thinking! What a great way to earn a college degree! Made-up messages from people who are about to be drowned by an onrushing tsunami (“I love you, Mom–glug,glug!”), or broiled alive by the Warming, or choking for air because “I’m out of CO2 credits!” It’s Atlantis meets The Towering Inferno for a disaster movie fest.

Utterly shameless. But visit that Campus Reform site. You’ll find this left-wing drivel has completely taken over America’s whole university system.

This is how a great country winds up being governed by fools and bastards.

I’ll bet I could’ve aced that course, inventing voice mail messages like these:

“Oh! If only we’d passed Cap and Trade, this earthquake never would’ve happened!”

“This is what we get for allowing all that homophobia and Income Inequality!”

“We should have listened to the atheists!”

“Oh why, why, why did we wait so long to have a carbon tax! Al Gore was right!”

“Alas! they told us only communism could save us from Climate Change–and we wouldn’t listen! Is it really too late to collectivize?”

Shame, shame, shame…

But that’s exactly what these people at Columbia are incapable of feeling.

How Do Teachers Learn to be Kooks?

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Upon reading my May 17 blog post about the Oregon school calling the cops on a kid for playing “hangman,” someone asked me a very interesting question.

“No normal person calls the police because some kid is playing ‘hangman,'” she said. “I’ll bet they have to receive special training before they learn how to overreact like that. I really wonder who tells them, ‘This is what you do when you spot a child doing something normal.'”

Great point. At this site alone we have reported “teachers” going to pieces when they saw kids making silent prayer, playing cops and robbers, drawing a picture of their daddy in his soldier’s uniform, and so on. Who teaches the teachers to be such kooks?

I mean, I took teacher training courses back in the Seventies, and no one taught me to throw a tantrum and call the police if I heard a kid humming a little hymn she learned in Sunday school. Actually they didn’t teach us much of anything: New Jersey’s first $100,000-a-year teacher salary still lay some 20 years in the future. No one taught us when to tell a little kid, “It’s wrong to pray.”

The signs of culture rot are everywhere.

Oregon School, Cops, Crash Down on Boy for Playing ‘Hangman’

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If a couple of recently-released illegal alien jailbirds break into your home for rape and robbery, and you call the police, and the cops don’t get there in time to help you, it may be because they’re busy with something important–like busting a 13-year-old kid for playing “Hangman.”

For those who don’t know, “Hangman” is a guessing game. You try to guess a secret name or word, letter by letter, and every time you guess wrong, the other player draws another part of a stick-figure man being hanged. If the drawing is finished before you can guess the secret word by filling letters, you lose.

At Beaverton Junior High School, Oregon, school officials were shocked, shocked, when they caught a boy playing,as  children have played for over 100 years, “Hangman.” The budding domestic terrorist was promptly suspended, but that wasn’t enough: they also called the cops, who dropped whatever else they were doing and rushed over to the school to interrogate this menace to the social order ( http://toprightnews.com/?p=3119 ).

Would you believe it? The child’s father, ungrateful wretch that he must be, is suing the school district!

To all of you who still believe a public school staffed by ultra-left-wing morons is the best place to socialize your child–are you out of your cotton-pickin’ minds?

 

From Kindergarten to Kollege, in One Step

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As if we needed any further proof that “educators” have leaf-litter for brains, a New York school has canceled its annual kindergarten show because, say the bozos running the place, the kiddies have to keep working, uninterrupted, because they’re being prepared for “college and career.” In kindergarten.(See http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/26/kindergarten-show-canceled-so-kids-can-keep-working-to-become-college-and-career-ready-really/ )

Boys and girls, if you think you can just waltz into college and pick up a degree in Women’s Studies or Queer Literature, just like that, you’ve got another think coming! By cracky, you should’ve started cramming in the womb! Now you’re already five years old! If you had to start college tomorrow, you wouldn’t be ready! To say nothing of starting a career!

Are you absolutely, positively sure you can’t raise your own children as wisely as these “educators” are raising them? Are you sure you can’t do just as good a job of preparing your children to earn college degrees in ridiculous subjects and take on a lifetime’s worth of student debt?

Get some self-confidence, and homeschool your kids.

Who’s Dumber? The Student or the School?

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Every high school class has a kid in it who plays really dumb tricks because he thinks he’s just so unbelievably cool. You remember him, probably, as a tail-less monkey without much hair. Or, at best, the Klass Klown–and how wonderful it is that you haven’t seen or heard from him in 30 years!

One such klass klown got into the national news recently–yes, you read that right: “national news,” like presidents and movie stars–when his Pennsylvania high school had Miss America as their guest at an assembly ( http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pennsylvania-teen-suspended-america-prom-school-assembly-article-1.1761713 ). School administrators got wind of his plan to ask Miss America to be his prom date. They took him aside and told him not to do it. Heck, the gag has been pulled a zillion times already: Joe Nobody gets his 15 minutes of fame by asking Ms. Celebrity for a date.

Of course the klown didn’t back down. He’s way too cool and way too stupid. So he went up to the stage and handed Miss America a plastic flower (some people have no class at all) and asked her to come to the prom with him, and she tee-hee’d her way out of it… and the school administrators gave the klown a three-day suspension.

They could have ignored him; there was no harm done. They could have kept him out of the assembly in the first place, kept him busy cleaning erasers in the janitor’s room until Miss America had come and gone. But, no, they had to suspend him–and they played right into his hands. Now I’m writing about him and you’re reading about him. That’s what he wanted.

As I’ve observed before, fame ain’t so famous anymore. You don’t have to do much to earn it, and there’s no way you can keep it.

Maybe when I wake up tomorrow, this shameful age in history will be over.

 

 

How Common Core Will Make Your Kids Smart

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Our secret agents have ferreted out the test that will be given to America’s high school seniors to prove that the Common Core universal curriculum has succeeded in its quest to bestow upon our youth an education second to none. The results of this test will be compared to the results of earlier tests.

The whole test is too long to be reproduced here, so I have randomly selected half a dozen of the questions, to give you the general idea. Ready? See how well you do!

1. Name at least three persons who are not the President of the United States.

2. Which of the following statements is true, A or B?

A. Global Warming is caused by human activity, and can be fixed by paying much higher taxes.

B. Global Warming is caused by human activity, and can be fixed by paying much higher taxes.

3. If Jamaal has a dozen Obama phones and gives all of them away to his friends, how many will he have left?

4. Fill in the little box with your pencil.

5. Write “True” in the blank after this sentence: “The Bible is hate speech.”____

6. Find the area of a floor that is 200 square feet.

Oddly enough, preliminary results show public high school seniors still getting questions 3 and 6 wrong. That means the questions will have to be rewritten, according to the Dept. of Education.

So far, approximately 70% of the students have been able to pass this test–“proving,” says Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, “that Common Core is money well spent.”

The Hatchery of Stalinism

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One gets the impression that libs ‘n’ progs aren’t comfortable with free speech and would, if they could, get rid of it.

Last week it was the FCC trying to insert government “monitors” into the newsrooms. We also had some bint from Swarthmore demanding that the college allow no more debates: because, she explained, there really is only one side to every question and why should anyone on campus ever have to hear from some conservative who is just plain wrong about everything?

This week it’s the Harvard Crimson publishing an article by a student calling for the end of academic freedom–no more “oppressive,” non-leftist ideas should be allowed (see http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single ). She looks back fondly on the good old days of the SDS, the Students for a Democratic (LOL!) Society, when they’d just show up with bullhorns to drown out anyone who tried to say anything the SDS didn’t like. If the speaker was a college professor, they could “occupy” his office and destroy all his papers, and maybe vandalize his car. If the speaker was a student, they could beat him up.

This, she says, would all be in the cause of “justice.” Trust lefties to give the word “justice” a bad name! It’s only “justice” to silence Global Warming “denial,” opposition to homosexual pseudomarriage, criticism of abortion, blah-blah-blah.

Has the American university become a hatchery for Stalinists? What are those jerks with the grey ponytails teaching our young people? What’s going to happen to this country when these ignorant freedom-haters take over? Looks to me like we’re clutching a whole brood of vipers to our breast.

Something has to be done to break the Far Left’s stranglehold on education in America, and it needs to be done quickly.

PS–the link to the article in The Crimson doesn’t work, for some reason. If you want to read the original, search for Feb. 18, The Harvard Crimson, Academic Freedom, by Sandra Korn. Sorry.

PSS–I have corrected a typo, and now the link works.

Tots ‘Having Sex’ in Public School

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If you think I’m going to post a picture of a couple of little kids “having sex,” think again. What do you think this is–a public school? So here is a picture of some wildflowers instead–more of God’s stuff that is so much better than ours.

Check out this news story: “Teacher Faces Ax Over Naked Kids ‘Having Sex'” ( http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/teacher-faces-ax-over-kindergarten-sex-674521 ).

When the kindergarten teacher checked the bathroom, she found two five-year-olds naked, and they told her they were “having sex,” according to the police report. No charges were filed, but the teacher has been suspended, and may be fired.

Somehow I doubt this was only that teacher’s fault; she might even be a scapegoat. After what I’ve seen and read about public schools’ sex education programs, it would be astonishing if five-year-olds were not having sex. If we dismiss the unlikely possibility that their parents taught these kids to “have sex,” and if we resist the temptation to single out the teacher as a crazed rogue–well, then?

I’ve been researching and writing about public school sex education for over a decade. I’ve attended sex educators’ conventions. I have read through the teacher manuals and the textbooks.

And I’m here to tell you that it’s every bit as awful as you’ve ever heard, if not more so.

Christian parents wouldn’t dream of allowing their children to be educated by Muslims.

But they seem perfectly content to have them taught by moral imbeciles.

Thou Shalt Not Reward Straight A’s

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Public educators can’t do anything right, even when they try.

Last week school officials at Eastern Middle School decided to reward straight-A students by throwing an exclusive party for them. Because the explicit purpose of the party was to recognize and reward straight-A students, students who didn’t get straight A’s were not invited.

What flabbergasted me was that this happened in ultra-lib Montgomery County, Maryland.

Well, the nooze media weren’t going to take that lying down. “Reporters” descended on the school to denounce the unfairness of it all. Oh, they asked sharp questions! Make those sixth-graders squirm! “Don’t you think this was unfair to the kids who weren’t invited to the party? Don’t you think it made them feel left out? Don’t you think it hurt them terribly?” There’s a Fox News clip floating around the Internet in which a “reporter” sticks her mike in the little kid’s face and asks, “Does this make you think you’re smart?”

So… if the “educators” reward kids for high achievement, they’re “promoting elitism”… and if they don’t, then they’re encouraging mediocrity. They can’t win.

But the answer to this problem is simple and obvious.

Just throw more parties.

One for kids with a B average, one for kids with a C average, another for Ds, and finally, a special party for kids who get straight F’s–parties for everyone. You’d think a party for the F Troop would be a natural for Montgomery County.

What lesson do you suppose this incident has taught the children at Eastern Middle School?

Religious Liberty? What Religious Liberty?

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Organized Sodomy is at it again. Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts to force a Roman Catholic school to hire a sodomite who is “married” to another man ( http://b.globe.com/1n16Gqg ).

Given that marriage is a holy sacrament of the Catholic Church, for the school to hire a person who takes part in a mockery of the sacrament would be to join with him in the mockery.

In 2012, in Hosanna-Tabor Church vs. the Equal Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the federal government’s efforts to force a Lutheran School to hire a teacher who was not wanted. The frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Christian Obama administration couldn’t even get Ginsberg to go along with them on that one.

Here, Organized Sodomy’s claim has been filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

You would think the weight of that much hypocrisy would sink the whole state into the ground.

Hello, America–where does this end? How far must it go before it ends?

You tell me.