by Kyle Olson. Meghan Hellrood is determined to make her point about the new skimpy lunches in her school. The D.C. Everest High School senior is organizing a boycott of the
new “healthy” lunches required by federal regulations that were
championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. After posters announcing the boycott were taken down, she was ... MORE
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Grant Duwe: The Truth About Mass Public Shootings
Why do the numbers appear to be going up? Because previous shootings have been underreported. The findings from two separate reports
released in the last month—one
by the FBI and the other by progressive investigative media
outlet
Mother Jones—have been offered up as evidence that
"mass shootings" are occurring more ... MORE
5-Year Old Girl Points Crayon at Classmate; Government School Makes Her Sign Contract Promising Not to Kill
by Robby Soave. The relentless march of government nitwittery. Stories
of public schools dishing out ridiculous punishments to students
who did absolutely nothing wrong generally fail to shock me at this
point. They have to clear a very high bar of absurdity to be even
noteworthy, given how common they are. Okay, brace ... MORE
How Prohibition Drives People Toward Riskier Drugs
by Jacob Sullum. Rise of the mystery high. Last week NBC News broadcast
a story about Cloud 9, "a dangerous new synthetic drug
that's been turning up at high schools." Anchorman Lester Holt
warned that Cloud 9 is "legal, unregulated and readily
available at convenience stores"; that it "has sent almost two
dozen young people to ... MORE
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Vegas Schools Want To Teach Masturbation To Little Kids
by Jennifer Kastner. 5 and 6 year olds targeted. Monday's Clark County School District Board of Trustees meeting was
met with a packed room of angry parents who recently discovered possible
updates to the district's sex education curriculum, which could teach
kids as young as five-years-old about topics like masturbation. "We certainly ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Teacher Indoctrination
Repeat the lie enough and they will believe. Students at several Jefferson County, Colorado, high schools walked out to protest the school board's recently proposed curriculum review committee that seeks to promote patriotism, respect for authority, free enterprise, plus the positive aspects of U.S. history. The teachers union, ... MORE
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America,
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indoctrination,
liberalism,
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Cynthia Walker: Common Core Is Un-Common & Not Core
Making math hard. I became a math teacher by a circuitous route. My degree is in engineering. I spent five and a half years refurbishing nuclear submarines, and then I quit work to bear, rear, and eventually homeschool our three children. As a homeschool mom, I participated in co-ops, taking turns teaching groups of homeschooled children ... MORE
Michelle Obama's Stupid & Tyrannical Snack Rules For Kids
by Victor Skinner. School nutrition experts in Nebraska are struggling to comply with new federal snack regulations championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. “I think we’ve gone too far, too fast,” Diane Zipay, director of nutritional services for the Westside School District told KIETV.com.
“And I don’t think it’s a real-world environment. ... MORE
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Michelle Obama,
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nitwittery,
obesity,
regulation,
schools
Thomas Sowell: Attacking Achievement
The work of teachers' union lackeys. New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves "progressive," is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that doesn't exist, even though there are plenty of other educational problems that definitely do exist. The ... MORE
Editing Out An Enlightened History Of America
by David Keene. Indoctrinating a view of dark motives. In the early days of the American Republic, Thomas Jefferson was perhaps the staunchest advocate of public education. Jefferson
authored a plan for public primary and secondary schools and is father
of the University of Virginia. He would be appalled at the state of
public education ... MORE
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freedom,
government,
history,
ideas,
individual liberty,
principles,
schools
Windsor Mann: We Should Ignore Michelle Obama
Why listen to an unelected busybody? Last month, Michelle Obama took an "unusual" step, The
Washington Post reported,
"by delivering White House remarks taking issue with makers of
frozen pizza and french fries." I'll say. One scours in vain the
speeches of Martha Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt for
proclamations about ... MORE
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Michelle Obama,
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obesity,
politics,
power,
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VIDEO: Should Our School System Be Privatized?
Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, William F Buckley Jr.
Walter E Williams: White Privilege
The propaganda and lunacy is deepening in schools. What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that "white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have an advantage in a lot of things and they can get a job more easily"? You would have heard that at the recent 15th annual White ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Moral Bankruptcy
As if monetary poverty is not enough! If you want to get some idea of the moral bankruptcy of our educational system, read an article in the May 4th issue of the New York Times Magazine titled, "The Tale of Two Schools."The article is not about moral bankruptcy. But it is itself an example of the moral bankruptcy behind the many failures ... MORE
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class warfare,
disparity,
education,
envy,
equality,
morality,
race baiting,
schools,
students
Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. How do you persuade a nation to march in lock step with a police state? You start by convincing them that they’re in danger, and only the government can protect them. Key them up with constant danger alerts, distract them with wall-to-wall news coverage about disappearing planes and pseudo-celebrities, use ... MORE
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censorship,
individualism,
police state,
schools,
surveillance,
SWAT,
tactics,
zero tolerance
Thomas Sowell: Politics Versus Education
Sacrificing children for votes. Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers' unions. Attorney General Eric Holder's attempt to suppress the spread of charter schools in Louisiana was just one of the signs of that cynicism. ... MORE
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children,
education,
Eric Holder,
government,
politics,
school choice,
schools
Public Schools Deliberately Create a Culture of Fear
by Daisy Luther. Setting the stage for tyranny. What is the best way to ensure that gun control takes place within a generation?Forget trying to change the minds of those who already have guns. The best way to do this is to encourage a culture of fear among young people. And the public school system, with all of its zero tolerance lunacy, is doing just ... MORE
Zero Tolerance Hurts Kids and Ruins Schools
by A. Barton Hinkle. Virginia Beach sixth-grader Adrionna Harris took a razor away from a troubled student who was cutting himself and threw it in the trash. When school administrators found out, they gave her a certificate of merit for helping a classmate. Ha, ha! Of course they didn’t. They gave her a 10-day suspension, with a ... MORE
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education,
liberalism,
policy,
political correctness,
politics,
schools,
zero tolerance
Abby Wisse Schachter: The War On Fun
When safety becomes a god. In 1859, the esteemed magazine Scientific American issued a warning about young people's "pernicious excitement" over a trendy game: chess. The shuffling of pawns and rooks was "a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Left Versus Minorities
Hypocrisy exposed. If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and the place would be New York City, where far left Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched an attack on charter schools, cutting their funding, among other things. These ... MORE
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Blacks,
education,
government,
liberalism,
minorities,
politics,
schools,
students
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