Educating Ourselves
Students at a High School in Lexington, MA had to fight to keep a planned American Pride dance celebrating the American revolution. School officials tried to get them to cancel it and hold a "National Pride" dance instead to be more "inclusive". The students refused and finally got their way.…
LEXINGTON, Mass. (WHDH) - A debate over a themed dance is sparking controversy at Lexington High School.
Students said the administration canceled an "American Pride" dance because it excluded other nationalities, despite the theme getting the most votes from the dance committee.
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A middle school teacher in Louisiana received one of the most disgusting-looking lunches imaginable and posted a picture of it online yesterday. … [Don't be eating when you click the link.]
"A fourth-grade teacher at Rosewood Elementary School in Los Angeles was charged today with a felony count of child abuse for allegedly putting a plastic bag over a 10-year-old girl's head in class. …removed the bag after several seconds… faces up to six years in state prison if convicted. …"
"An Oklahoma legislative committee overwhelmingly voted to ban Advanced Placement U.S. History class, persuaded by the argument that it only teaches students 'what is bad about America.' Other lawmakers are seeking a court ruling that would effectively prohibit the teaching of all AP courses in public schools."
"Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males,” said the presentation. “At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children … Normal males are aroused by children.” [No.]
Survey data continually show that Oklahomans favor policies that give parents more educational options. However, enacting those policies has proven to be difficult. A simple metaphor can help explain why.
So the College Board is using the alleged curricular pressure as a pretext to implement a curriculum that is completely at odds with the traditional APUSH course – which was designed to provide students with a balanced survey of the American experience while also preparing them for college-level courses in American history. “Balance” has disappeared. Students will learn a great deal about American oppressors and exploiters but little about the dreamers, innovators, and heroes who built our country.
The redesigned Framework is best described as a curricular coup.
Petitioners, organized by the National Associations of State Boards of Education (NASBE), recently filed a lawsuit arguing that the repeal of Common Core is unconstitutional under Oklahoma state law. The plaintiffs take issue with a provision in House Bill 3399 allowing the state legislature to be involved in drafting new standards to replace Common Core….
- 10-year-old girl raped in OKC elementary school
- Student accused of threats at Mustang school
- Police investigate sexual assault claim at Sand Springs school
- Four-year-old wanders from OKC school, found in city street
- Kellyville teacher arrested for sex with student
- Yukon settles lawsuit over bullying ... by teachers
- Okla. high school coach arrested on molestation complaint
- Self-interest of grown-ups again trumps concern for the children
- Sex abuse of students by school personnel addressed in new Title IX guidance
- Two former Okla. school bus drivers charged in alleged sexual contact with young girls
- Former Oklahoma high school coach guilty of rape
- Tulsa Public Schools bus nearly hit by train
- Tulsa sixth-grade teacher arrested for lewd molestation
- Two Oklahoma inquiries focus on possible sexual relationships between teachers and students
- Coweta Public Schools bus driver arrested for lewd molestation
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal vetoed Friday a controversial bill that many critics of the Common Core standards said would bind the state further both to the nationalized standards and the PARCC tests aligned to them. … The governor added that the measure “would significantly impair parents’ ability to have clear information about the performance of their child’s school and teachers’ ability to have meaningful feedback.”
The Republican controlled legislature in South Carolina recently infuriated liberal groups by insisting that state universities teach students about the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents.
'We hate math' say 4 in 10 — a majority of Americans. [Um... seriously? See graphic at link.]
Cass Sunstein, Obama’s former regulatory “czar” and one of the smartest and most devious thinkers on the left… reports that recent curricular reforms in China, explicitly designed to transform students’ political views, have mostly worked. … The crucial finding from the study is that the new curriculum greatly affected students’ thinking. They became more likely to count the Chinese political system as democratic. They displayed a higher level of trust in public officials. They were more skeptical of free markets, and more likely to reject the view that a market economy is preferable to any other economic system….
Riverside Twp, NJ– Two 12-year-olds… allegedly trying to sell prescription sleep pills for $10 a piece to classmates at… Middle School… boys… confessed to consuming them…
Pittsburgh… elementary school student… caught smoking marijuana in a school restroom… [4th-graders] were just about to board buses for a field trip…
[Plaintiffs] attest that three Spanish teachers and a guidance counselor at the high school indoctrinated their daughters into a cult that "celebrates death,"
Chances are your parents were selfish and didn’t raise you correctly. Like, at least one-third of the people reading this have no idea how to fold a T-shirt. What the fuck is wrong with you? Did you just not show up to that day of life? But it’s OK. We will show you the way.
[Middle school student] suspended for twirling a pencil in math class. He says that a student (who had been allegedly bullying him) yelled to the teacher that "He’s making gun motions, send him to juvie." …would have to be evaluated by a therapist and cleared as a threat before being able to be around students….
teacher ...punished them for misspelling words by forcing them to trace the letters of the words on sandpaper with their fingers until their fingertips bled.
The misconduct investigation occurred last year after the student’s parents alleged that the teacher, Juliet Hibbs, persuaded the student to come out as a lesbian, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The school’s principal, Jon Marlow, initiated the investigation. The district ultimately exonerated Hibbs and took no action against her or anyone else.
October 8, 2012 4:45 P.M.
One of the great missionaries of classical learning and American freedom passed away over the weekend. J. Rufus Fears ... Rufus Fears is perhaps best known outside of Oklahoma, however, for his fantastic series of lectures published by the Teaching Company. These works represent nearly 150 hours of entertaining and insightful presentations on subjects ranging from mythology, classical literature, and the Great Books to the political, religious, and intellectual history of Europe, the Americas, and beyond. As it happens, I was just listening to his fascinating 36-lecture series on the history of freedom when I learned of Professor Fears’s untimely death.
Young conservative Samantha Pawlucy was ridiculed this week for wearing a pro-Romney T-shirt to class. The teacher even compared Samantha to the KKK. [Video]
“was forced, on multiple occasions, to engage in explicit sex acts with other children and forced to perform oral sex on children his own age.”
The Star reports that the alleged incidents took place in the library, the school bathroom and in the second-grade classroom.
the school administrators, through Social Justice Week, gave a platform to community organizers who in turn provided students biased information and encouraged them to take specific steps to protest.... When we heard about the week, we contacted school officials requesting to observe and record the events. All parties consented. [video]
The dangers of academic deification are numerous. Those who dominate the educational language of the times determine the moral compass (or lack of compass) of the curriculum. They control who is accepted and who is rejected, not by measure of intelligence or skill, but by their willingness to conform to the establishment ideal. They construct a kind of automaton class, which has been taught not to learn independently, but to parrot propaganda without question. Simultaneously, those of us who do not “make the grade” are relegated to the role of obliged worshippers; accepting the claims of the professional class as gospel regardless of how incorrect they happen to be. To put it simply; the whole thing is disgustingly inbred.
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