Theory of Education
…The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. …Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family… Instruction should be by persons who are licensed… and a curriculum approved by the state… [and] home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools. …
…Standardization is one thing – but is there yet another deeper concern about Common Core? No doubt some readers will find this difficult to fathom, but could it be that Common Core has as one of its goals the “Islamasization” of the United States?…
…Over the next two hours, the social worker quizzed their 15-year-old son… whether his parents fought or did drugs… wanted to see his homeschool curriculum… to inspect their firearms… told the Zimmers to sign papers agreeing to turn over their son’s medical records. And then she left, and the Zimmers never saw her again. But they can’t let it go. They can’t erase the memory of what it felt like when they thought the state might take away their son.
In April the Zimmers filed a $60 million federal lawsuit against the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, along with several division officials and the social worker, Michelle Marchese, for an “unlawful and unconstitutional home intrusion.”…
…one day last week, the bus took several unfamiliar turns that scared students and led parents to start driving to find it and get their children. …
…If parents understood how hopeless and painful this process is, they would never allow their children near sight-words. So we need a way for parents to grasp viscerally that sight-words are a mission impossible for almost all children.…
Public Grade School is a highly crafted set of "lessons" designed to…
Okla City, May 20 …14-year-old… thrown to the ground and beaten relentlessly, while a teacher was taking attendance. … Junior ROTC student was taken to the nurse’s office and checked out. … had several teeth knocked out, his gums were severely damaged and he had teeth penetrating his chin.… ambulance was never dispatched. … administrators called [his] mother, who works 30 miles away.… more than an hour to come to her son’s aid.… will need reconstructive surgery and is limited to a liquid diet for the next three months.… school district… saying, “We are deeply saddened and share the mother’s concerns in regards to her son’s injuries.” [Deeply saddened… by this criminal behavior by our wardens.]
Lots of luck, kids — you’re going to need it
[bob's excellent selections]
On Monday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill withdrawing the state from the Common Core education standards…
…One of my students asked “How involved was President Bush with what was going on?” I smiled and responded, “What you really mean is, ‘Was President Bush smart enough to understand what was going on,’ right?”
The class went dead silent. Everyone knew that this was the true meaning of the question. Kudos to that student for asking the hard question and for framing it so politely. I had stripped away that decorum and exposed the raw nerve.
I looked hard at the 60 MBA students and said “President Bush is smarter than almost every one of you.”…
…served to students in some Hawkins County, Tennessee schools last week. … 6-year-old meat had been frozen and then was thawed for meal preparation… at Joseph Rogers Primary School… the staff decided not to serve the meat. However, it was served at other schools. …the meat smelled so bad they made gravy to put over it…
…“My son said thanks Mrs. Obama for screwing us out of a good meal. He comes home starving,” parent Kristina Souders responded.
“My kids rarely want to eat anything the school serves because ‘it’s gross,'” according to parent Stacey Toth.
Carl Daub told the paper, “My daughter is in 3rd grade. Her lunches cost $2.40 a day. She complains that the portions are too small.”…
[Pictures of disgusting lunches at link]
SEATTLE -- Not a single 11th grade students showed up to take the SBAC test at Nathan Hale High School this week, a Seattle Public Schools spokesperson confirmed. … Earlier this year, teachers at Nathan Hale passed a resolution against the Common Core Standards test, but SPS Superintendent Larry Nyland threatened teachers with the loss of their teaching licenses if they didn't administer the test
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.
[Emphasis added.]
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."
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,"
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