Horrors of State-Run Schools and Schooling
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Education: Government Schools
Kids All Over America Are Being Put On Buses And Sent To Alternate Locations
• http://endoftheamericandream.comAll over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills.
New York City Department of Education Bans References To Dinosaurs To Avoid Insulting Creationists
• http://jonathanturley.orgThis story is so bizarre that I had to check it twice to make sure it was not an early April Fool’s joke.
'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Ruth Ann DandreaI spent last night perusing the 150-plus pages of grading materials provided by the state in anticipation of reading and evaluating your English Language Arts Exams this morning
School of Shock
• http://motherjones.com, By Jennifer GonnermanEight states are sending autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to a facility that punishes them with painful electric shocks. How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture?
Va. middle-schoolers assigned opposition research on GOP candidates
• http://dailycaller.com, By Kalyn McMackinA Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates.
"It began with people being schooled to be stupid”
• dailypaul.com"This video is about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s."
The Origin and Evil of Public Schools
• http://lewrockwell.com, John Taylor GattoA weekend seminar with John Taylor Gatto
To Get Kids To Class, LA Softens Its Hard Line
• by Krissy ClarkLos Angeles is easing its stance on truancy. For the past decade, a tough city ordinance slapped huge fines on students for even one instance of skipping school or being late.
Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class
• by Robert ReichLast week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education
Why Math Matters
• arcleinDrs. Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson, senior fellows at the Hoover Institution, looked at the performance of our youngsters compared with their counterparts in other nations, in their Newsweek article, “Why Can’t American Students Compete?” (Aug. 28,
Grade Students Racking Up Cafeteria Debt
• .Many school districts are switching to electronic payment systems in their cafeterias. Parents can fund their kids' accounts online and even see what their kids are buying for lunch. But kids can also charge food when there's no money in their accoun
Arizona State University unblocks Change.org after outcry
• RawstoryArizona State University announced Saturday that it would no longer block the popular online petition website Change.org after receiving a flood of complaints from students and others. “The university acknowledges and understands the expression of
Judge sets trial date in Loudoun school-tardiness case
• Washington PostAmy and Mark Denicore are headed to a full-blown trial to defend themselves against charges that they violated Virginia law by making their kids late to elementary school too often. The Loudoun County couple was arraigned in juvenile and domestic rel
Los Angeles teacher charged with molesting 23 children
• The Raw Story websiteAuthorities took 61-year-old Mark Berndt into custody Monday for allegedly tying up the children, putting large cockroaches on their face and reportedly feeding them his semen.
How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State
• www.lewrockwell.com/Karen De CosterPublic education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the "parent" best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults.
Rhode Island student follows American Founders, gets hate speech, death threats
• www.freethoughtnation.comBring back the witch burnings! The brouhaha involving Rhode Island high school student Jessica Ahlquist, 16, who requested her school remove a prayer banner invoking '"Our Heavenly Father," serves to illustrate how the ideals of the American Founders
Hercules Family Battles Sex Assault Claim Against 6-Year-Old
• CBS NewsAn dad claims a game of tag on the playground resulted in his 6-year-old son being was kept in the principal’s office for 2 hours until he confessed. He was suspended, and a sexual battery charge was placed on his permanent school record.
Pic Of Sleeping Sub Nets Student Suspension
• .Mustang Public Schools officials said a ninth-grader snapped a photo of a snoozing substitute with a cellphone last Friday at Mustang Mid-High School. The student was later suspended.
Teacher Accused Of Pouring Hot Tea On Battling Students
• www.detroit.cbslocal.comPolice are reportedly investigating a claim that a teacher dumped hot tea on a 15-year-old high school student and an 18-year-old classmate after they refused to stop fighting in school.
Public Schools: The War on Kids
• Lew Rockwell blogHere is a brilliant documentary on the horrors of public school prisons in America, where children are subjected to monitoring, authoritarian supervision, arbitrary rules, conformity, coerced abstinence, zero tolerance insanity, irrational fears, inv
Public School Surveillance of Inmates
• Lew Rockwell blogWristwatch-like devices called Polar active monitors will be used by older students in PE classes at all elementary schools to help improve the students' fitness and academic achievement. The district plans to collect data about activity levels and e
Cracking Down on the Pupil Personnel (Suspected Skippers)
• Lew Rockwell blogA new city ordinance has police taking school truancy into their own hands. If kids are caught skipping school they could now be arrested on misdemeanor charges. If their parents are complicit in the hooky-playing, they too could be hauled into court
Parents Furious Over Apparent Use Of ‘Scream Rooms’ Inside Middletown, Conn. Elementary School
• newyork.cbslocal.comFather: Kids Hitting Their Heads On Walls, Urinating Inside 'Time-Out' Room
Dumb As A Rock: You'll Be Absolutely Amazed At The Things That U.S. High School Students Don
• www.endoftheamericandream.comAre we raising the stupidest generation in American history? The statistics that you are about to read below are incredibly shocking. They indicate that U.S. high school students are basically as dumb as a rock.
Plundering the American Dream: College Students Demonstrate the Idiocy Of Our Education System
• www.shtfplan.comEconomics Professor Jack Chambless of Valencia College in Florida had his sophomore students write a short essay on what the American dream means to them and what, specifically, they wanted the federal government to do to help them achieve that dream
Police kill eighth-grader after he refuses to drop pellet gun that looked like real weapon
• APPolice shot and killed an eighth-grader in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked like a handgun and pointed it at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun that closely resembled the real thing. Fifteen-y
Fight continues for academic freedom in the US
• www.electronicintifada.netA professor at North Carolina State University is fighting the university and the state government over what seems to be a clear-cut case of discrimination and censorship due to her outspoken criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine.
Lt. Frank Gordo, Hero
• Lew Rockwell blogWhat a delicate, sensitive creature Lt. Frank Gordo must be — and what a cruel and dangerous world he must live in. Just weeks ago, this brave little man, who is employed as a "resource officer" by California's Stockton Unified School District, survi
7-Year-Old Accused Of Possible Sexual Harassment For Kicking Bully In Groin
• CBS NewsA 7-year-old boy is being investigated by his South Boston elementary school for possible sexual harassment after kicking another boy in the crotch. The first grader’s mother, Tasha Lynch, says she was shocked by the school’s decision.
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