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Sacked

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: July 17, 2008 · Comments (16)

The latest episode of the Nanny state run amok The sack race and three-legged race have been banned from a school sports day because the children might fall over and hurt themselves. Parents and campaigners described the move as "completely over the top". Teachers at John F. Kennedy Primary School... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (9 votes cast)

Life in Florida VIII

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: July 13, 2008 · Comments (6)

I have lived in 6 states in my life, but it seems like Florida gets most of the crazy people. Never bring an orange to a knife fight. An interesting domestic disturbance takes place between boyfriend and girlfriend in Indiantown Florida. No serious injuries, but both are taken off to... [Full Story]

Rating: 2/5 (1 votes cast)

Rules are rules

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: June 19, 2008 · Comments (13)

A 67-year-old woman can't grade AP exams because she only has one form of identification. From the Washington Post- Every time Elly Kluge's friends and colleagues ask what happened last week at the Advanced Placement European history test grading session in Colorado, the 67-year-old Arlington County history teacher says: "I... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (19 votes cast)

Scared straight or just dumb?

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: June 16, 2008 · Comments (14)

What happened to the days when schools just taught the 3 R's? From the San Francisco Chronicle- On a Monday morning last month, California Highway Patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

School Pride

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: June 6, 2008 · Comments (5)

It's not all too often I have something in common with a person in the news. FORT LAUDERDALE - Yazmany Arboleda is a New York artist with South Florida ties who has achieved a big goal at age 27: People are talking about his provocative work. Arboleda's 24-hour exhibit in... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.5/5 (6 votes cast)

Sex and the Cafeteria: Teaching Middle-Schoolers How to Have Good Sex

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: May 29, 2008 · Comments (8)

Wow, things have sure changed since I went to school. Middle-schoolers at Fort Herriman Middle School in Utah had a, well, interesting lesson plan waiting for them which made their parents furious. They were taught all about sex! Europe, here we come... A middle school health teacher is under investigation,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (18 votes cast)

Subway: Home Schooled Kids Need Not Apply

Posted by Kim Priestap · Published: May 25, 2008 · Comments (22)

Michelle Malkin reports that Subway Sandwich Shop is holding a story-writing contest for kids, but they're excluding home schooled kids from participating. It's shocking, really, like Subway thinks kids who are home schooled are second class students. Home Education Magazine has the story and outlines for us exactly who is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (21 votes cast)

Cheat sheet

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: May 23, 2008 · Comments (1)

Why couldn't this have happened when I took the AP American History exam in 1978? LONDON (Reuters) - It sounds like every student's dream -- turning over an exam paper and finding the answers on the back. But that was what happened to 12,000 lucky British teenagers when they sat... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

What If They Held A Pedophilia Scandal And No One Cared?

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: May 20, 2008 · Comments (12)

Several times, I've lambasted the Catholic Church and its "pedophile priest" scandal. It was a huge black mark on the Church, and it persists to this day -- far, far too many of those who enabled the child-molesting clergy to continue abusing children and protected them from justice still hold... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (13 votes cast)

Gess there getting stuc n Irak.

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: May 13, 2008 · Comments (9)

Our kids are failing. Shocker. ... 75 percent of the seniors headed to Dallas community colleges can't read above an 8th grade level, and others can't add or subtract[.] And for the Captain Obvious quote of the day: "This percentage is much too high," said Dr. Joan Rodriguez, who teaches... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (6 votes cast)

UW-SC students show tolerance for opposing views on abortion.

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: May 7, 2008 · Comments (22)

See for yourself just how "tolerant" they are when pro-life group Pointers for Life put up a display of 4,000 crosses symbolizing murdered fetuses on campus at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Here's the story: Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point butted heads Thursday after an anti-abortion organization planted... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (16 votes cast)

More from Aliza Shvarts: Ranting against the "Patriarchal Heteronormative"

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 17, 2008 · Comments (28)

Oh, boy. Here's video of Aliza Shvarts, the girl I just wrote about earlier today, who made an art project out of artificially inseminating herself as often as possible, and then -- somehow -- giving herself home abortions. Well, here's Aliza ranting against the "institution", and the "establishment", the "patriarchal... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (14 votes cast)

There are no words.

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 17, 2008 · Comments (27)

There are no words, when something like this is considered art: Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement. Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts (pictured) will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (24 votes cast)

Male Castration = Good; Guns = Bad

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 13, 2008 · Comments (11)

Academia shows how tolerant it is of opposing viewpoints (read: NOT LIBERAL) yet again, this time at Colorado College. For liberals, when you spout idiotic drivel that falls in line with liberal orthodoxy, it's OK. Anyone offended is supposed to just smile and take it. Lip service is given to... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (29 votes cast)

100 words to know, but only 57 you will ever use

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 12, 2008 · Comments (12)

Houghton Mifflin has published a list of words every high school senior should know. I've used words like feckless and diffident in conversation(usually with myself or on my blog LOL), and I knew a few yeoman over the years, but when is the last time any of us employed the... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Student attacked for anti-illegal immigration stance

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: April 9, 2008 · Comments (48)

Usually, when teachers assign politically charged homework, students are supposed to rigidly toe the liberal line. I guess Melanie Bowers didn't get the message, because she decided to do her project on anti-illegal immigration. Her poster said, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration." A group of latino... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (31 votes cast)

Smithsonian Institution: not smarter than a 5th grader!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 3, 2008 · Comments (13)

When you're the nation's leading Museum of Natural History, you don't expect to be perfect - but shouldn't you be smarter than a 5th grader? Apparently NOT, since an 11 year-old just caught them in a basic mistake, reports the Associated Press: Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian?... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (7 votes cast)

Today's lesson in irony

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 31, 2008 · Comments (7)

Is a story like this and the fact that college students use wikipedia as a reference source, a scary trend in US education? SAN ANTONIO - University of Texas at San Antonio students wanted to draft an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing. Unfortunately, it appears they copied Brigham... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (8 votes cast)

Morale booster

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 23, 2008 · Comments (4)

Exhibit 3183 in why Boards of Education are often dumber than the children in the schools they are supposed to be running. To soothe the bruised egos of educators and children in lackluster schools, Massachusetts officials are now pushing for kinder, gentler euphemisms for failure. more stories like this Instead... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Gay porn required for public high school students

Posted by Cassy Fiano · Published: March 10, 2008 · Comments (26)

No, it's not a joke. Be warned -- graphic material below. From CNS News: Parents in Deerfield, Ill., are upset that a local high school is using books in advanced English classes this spring that they say are laced with graphic sexual content, pervasive expletives and mockery of religion. Worse,... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (11 votes cast)

Judge: "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children"

Posted by Kevin · Published: March 7, 2008 · Comments (16)

Justice H. Walter Croskey of the 2nd District Court of Appeals in California wrote those words in a a Feb. 28 opinion is a case involving home schooling. The ruling requires that parents who home school their children have valid teaching credentials. From The Los Angeles Times: "This decision is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (11 votes cast)

'A' is for armored

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 3, 2008 · Comments (8)

California's Governor has an interesting incentive for children to do well in school. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new rewards program for schoolkids: Stay in school, take a tank for a spin. The Republican governor is bringing home an Austrian army tank he loaned the Motts Military Museum in Columbus,... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (7 votes cast)

Nope, Don't See Any Connection Here...

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: March 1, 2008 · Comments (201)

Today's Boston Globe has two stories that, when I looked at them side by side, proved far more enlightening than, I suspect, the Globe intended. The first was an account from a rather prestigious school in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Officials at the John D. O'Bryant School Of Mathematics And Science have... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (21 votes cast)

Indoctrinate U Available Free To Bloggers

Posted by Kevin · Published: February 11, 2008 · Comments (17)

Evan Maloney recently released documentary "Indoctrinate U" about the left's ironclad control of America's academic institutions has been taking the campus by storm. To help get the word out, he has set up a review program for bloggers to get a free copy of the movie. Don't miss this opportunity!... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

Well qualified

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 2, 2008 · Comments (6)

Here's some news you don't read every day. The winner of the Miss Korea 2002 pageant, Keum Na-na (21), has received a letter of acceptance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Monday. The letter from MIT stated that Ms. Keum is an outstanding student with a great deal... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

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