Category: Public Education

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.

A Lesson in Wastefulness

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One of the swell features of growing up in the 1950s was, your mother would serve you canned wax beans or weary meat loaf for supper, you’d sit there staring at it, and she would say, “Don’t you know that there are children starving in Korea/India/Europe? Stop fussing and clear your plate!”

As tiresome as this was, it did teach a moral lesson. Food is the gift of God. To waste it, knowing that there are many people who really are starving, is a sin. I don’t mean you should force your children to eat wax beans. But food should be respected.

Which brings us to Uintah Elementary School in Utah, where, recently, school employees snatched away the lunches from some 50 kids and threw the food into the garbage, because it was discovered that these children owed money for school lunch (see http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/utah-school-takes-lunches-from-students-in-debt.html?_r=1 ). Right in front of a whole lunchroom full of children, adults took the uneaten, untouched food and tossed it.

What lesson did that teach?

Well, we already know that public schools are run by moral imbeciles who concentrate on teaching the three S’s–sex, self-esteem, and socialism. So why wouldn’t they waste perfectly good food?

Utah, wake up! Unless you do something about your public schools, your red state is going to be turned blue. The same teacher unions that control education in Progressive wildernesses like New Jersey, Oregon, and Chicago control the schools in Utah. They are teaching your children to be aliens.

Do something about it.

[Sorry, the link to the Jan. 31 New York Times article doesn’t work. It is not my fault.]

UK School Threatens to Brand 8-Year-Olds as Racists

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Home of the Magna Carta and the English Common Law, the United Kingdom nowadays comes out with one outrage against liberty after another. For instance:

The headmistress of a Staffordshire public school recently threatened parents: if their children did not participate in a field trip “to explore Islam,” kids as young as 8 years old would be perpetually punished. The exact quote from Headmistress Lynn Small’s letter to parents:

“Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s education record, which will remain on their file throughout their career.” ( http://godfatherpolitics.com/13380/students-labeled-racist-years-dont-go-islamic-field-trip/ )

Littleton Green Community School is operated by the county of Staffordshire.

Ms. Small further warned parents that she would make “a thorough and detailed investigation” into any student who was absent on the day of the field trip.

Despite public outrage and terrible publicity, this little tin fascist has not been fired from her post. In fact, the kids still have to go on the field trip, or else. Why?

Because it’s “part of the National Religious Education Curriculum together with the multicultural society in which we live, [and] it is a statutory requirement for Primary School aged children to experience and learn about different cultures,” babbled Ms. Small.

Why do we care what happens in England?

Because the tin fascists who subject America’s schools to Common Core absolutely cannot wait to do things just like this!

I promise you, pilgrims, it’s coming right at you.

Get your kids out of public education. Now.

Update: Shortly after this story broke, Head Teacher Small apologized for “inaccuracies” in her warning letter and asked parents to disregard it. “Inaccuracies”–well, that’s one way of putting it. But it seems the public uproar over her PC tantrum has convinced her not to brand as racists any children who don’t make the field trip.

But she still isn’t fired, and it’s still possible for some idiot schoolmarm to give a child a permanent “racist” label for whatever stupid reason she pleases.

 

Education Nabob Rails Against ‘White Suburban Moms’

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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who used to preside over the circus of overpriced failure that is the Chicago public school system, has blamed “white suburban moms” for problems with “Common Core”–the scheme to have the federal government micro-manage all the nation’s public schools ( http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/111813-679647-duncan-blames-white-suburban-moms-against-common-core.htm ).

Common Core uses grammar, math, science, and history lessons to indoctrinate children into a state of left-wing Kool-Aid drinking–with lessons like, for instance, “The people must obey all the commands of government officials.” Sit. Heel. Beg. Roll over. Because the program is so enormous, unwieldy, and messianically ambitious, the feds have had a lot of problems with it.

I have interviewed Arne Duncan. What he wants for public education, down the road, is for children to be in school 12 hours a day for at least six, and maybe seven, days a week, all year round–no summer vacation, no time off for good behavior. This is because he believes families are incapable and irresponsible, fathers don’t really exist, and only the government has what it takes to raise children.

But it’s all the soccer moms‘ fault that Common Core isn’t a roaring success–them and their naughty pushback.

Then again, soccer moms voted for the Big Golem in the White House who made Arne the Grand Sultan of Education, so maybe it is their fault, after all.

You want leaders who will “take care of you”?

Sit. Stay. Play dead.

More Crap from Common Core

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Remember how you learned the use of possessive nouns, like “mine” and “yours” and “Bozo’s,” when you were in school?

Well, here’s a lesson on how to use possessive nouns. The lesson is part of the glorious educational extravaganza of Common Core–that is, lesson content provided by the federal government. (Source: http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/31/more-common-core-indoctrination-the-people-must-obey-the-governments-commands/ )

Ready? Good. Rewrite these sentences using possessive nouns.

The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.

(Answer: The government’s commands must be obeyed by all.)

The wants of an individual are less important that the well-being of the nation.

(Answer: The individual’s wants are less important that the nation’s well-being.)

Can you imagine George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Patrick Henry writing this bilge? Can you imagine them even having to read it?

Yes, folks, keep on sending your children to those wonderful public schools. “Send us a human being, and we’ll send you back a robot”–National Education Association motto.

Can Anyone Explain This?

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There’s a young woman in our neighborhood who goes around with half her head shaved down to the scalp. That’s right: I said half. The other half is normal.

It looks horrible. And my question is, What’s it all about? Is she imitating some ridiculous celebrity I never heard of? (For that matter, what’s the use of celebrities hardly anyone has ever heard of?) Is it some kind of half-baked ideological statement? Or is she just plain daft? She isn’t doing it for Halloween, because her head always looks like that.

I have ruled out hallucination because other people have seen her, too.

Can anyone tell me why any young woman would want to keep half her head shaved clean?

And does it matter which half?

Kids Taught Bill of Rights is Out of Date

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Check out Phyllis Schlafly‘s column at townhall.com today, in which she offers a coast-to-coast sampling of education malpractice–by which we always mean “standard practice,” when speaking of the public schools–under the banner of Common Core.

I’ll let her tell you about the Arizona school with the class play featuring a character who has sex with a goat, and other goodies. But let’s consider this from the Bryant school district, Arkansas–in which 6th-graders were asked to “update” the Bill of Rights by deleting two “out of date” rights and replacing them with new ones. It seems the teachers didn’t make it entirely clear that this was make-believe.

You know what? It’s not such a bad idea to get kids thinking about the Bill of Rights. Our founders added those first ten Amendments to the Constitution because they thought we absolutely couldn’t do without them. They were put there to protect us, and our states, from the central government. Of course they should be studied. If I were homeschooling a child at this point in my life–over my dead body would any child of mine be taught in public school today–I might well ask him to try to imagine what America would be like without, for instance, the First and Second Amendments. We can all do with a greater appreciation for our liberties.

But somehow I don’t think a unionized public school teacher would ever present it quite that way.

“Now, class, I’m sure you can all see that that pesky right to bear arms is really bad for our country. What we really need is a Constitutional right to practice same-sex marriage, and another right to force those nasty religious haters to celebrate it and say it’s good…”

You get my drift.

Get your children out of the public schools before they’re irreparably brainwashed.

Principal to Parent: Shut Up!

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We’re all in favor of the federal government micro-managing America’s vast multitude of public schools, right? Well, they say we are. Because our schools are pretty much of a joke throughout the civilized world, the devouring worm in Washington has come up with something it calls “Common Core.” Although it’s being implemented pretty much everywhere in the country, its actual content is pretty much a secret. But somehow getting the federal government into every single classroom, every day, deciding what exactly shall be taught and when, is supposed to give us “world-class” schools, according to compulsive liars.

What’s it really all about? Check out this little encounter, experienced by a parent in North Carolina:

“When I began seeing the ill effects of Common Core in my second grader’s classroom, I reached out to other parents and asked if it was just me. Other parents echoed how they did not like Common Core Math and what it was doing to their children. We asked for a meeting with the teacher and the principal. The principal denied us access as a group, and outright told me to stop communicating with other parents about the Common Core because I was generating ‘unrest.'” ( http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/principal-tells-parent-you-cant-talk-about-common-core/ )

You ask, “Who do these people think they are?” I’ve told you who they think they are. They think they are “change agents” who are going to turn America into a socialist basket case run by dictators, and they are going to use America’s children to do it.

Let me shout it from the housetops: GET YOUR CHILDREN OUT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!! Why do you let these wacked-out communist wannabes “educate” your kids? GET OUT, OUT, OUT!

More Books to Rot Your Teen’s Mind

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My local library is going to host a talk by a certain author of Young Adult fiction. And the high school has assigned one of his novels to be read by two of the English classes.

This particular novel is about a boy who shows up to high school wearing lipstick. Once upon a time, if some freak tried that, he would’ve been sent straight home with a sharp letter to his parents. He would not have been allowed to ponce around all day, creating a disruption. But of course now everyone else is required to endorse his loony lifestyle.

The purpose of these novels, we are told, is to “confront issues all teens face on their journey to adulthood.” Huh? Could it be that “all teens” have to “confront” these issues because certain adults are obsessed with shoving them under young people’s noses? In some public school districts, “gender education” starts as young as kindergarten.

Hey, check out the International Reading Association‘s 2013 Young Adults’ Choices Reading List (it’s a pdf file on their website). These are the books the IRA deems the cream of the crop. What’s your pleasure? Sexual anarchy, witchcraft, paganism; abortion, morbid obesity, early death–it’s all here, waiting to be shoved into your teenager’s brain by the friendly folks at IRA and your local teachers’ union.

And to the parents who let them do it, a single question–

Why?