At least it’s not drugs: NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) — School officials have decided to go light on an eighth-grader caught with contraband candy in New Haven, Connecticut. Michael Sheridan, an eighth-grade honors student who was suspended for a day, barred from attending an honors dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president after he was caught with … Read More
Education: A Local Matter?
Can someone justify to me why a child growing up in Tennessee should get half as much public money going toward his education than a child growing up in Massachusetts? P.S. I would love to see this map placed side-by-side with other multi-color maps showing, oh the teenage birth rate, believe in evolution, etc.
Dennis Campbell On Evolution
I don’t know Dennis Campbell — I’ve never read him before — but I like him. Another loony theory from the wonderland of evolution Proponents of evolution remind me of the slightly dumb class clown who thinks people are laughing with him, while all the time they are snickering as he makes a goofy spectacle of himself. Largely beside the … Read More
Sign Of The Times
High schools students in Denver are demaning maternity leave. Pregnant students in a Denver high school are asking for at least four weeks of maternity leave so they can heal, bond with their newborns and not be penalized with unexcused absences. The request is unusual in Colorado’s public schools, where districts tend to deal with pregnant students or new moms … Read More
Creation Museum Documentary
A few months old, but I missed it: Not a bad YouTube mini-documentary for a trio of high-schoolers….
Only My Mom Cares About This Post
USA Today: It turns out that Montpelier High School is not one of the Top 10 public schools in the USA. U.S. News & World Report had listed it as No. 5 in its rankings of the nation’s secondary schools, but the magazine now acknowledges the school really ranked in the nation’s Top 500 public schools. (That still places it … Read More
Abstinence-Only Education
Here’s the video: …which serves as the launching point for this great comment by Amanda Marcotte: Watching videos of representatives of organizations like the Abstinence Clearinghouse, the CWA, and the IWF always makes me tense, and I finally realized that it’s the women themselves (and women are the official faces of all these misogynist groups) that make me nervous. The … Read More
The Creation Museum
A review: Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we’re talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of ecosystem, from the flyblown chunks at the perimeter, down into … Read More
Hugs Can Get You Detention
A little too PC if you ask me: Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter. The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday. "I feel it is crazy," said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School. … Read More
Naughty Crissy
Ah, such a bright future ahead. From a local Utah newspaper, dated September 1, 2004: Crissy Morris is just starting her career as a teacher at HHS and will be teaching geography, sociology and PE. She hopes to make learning enjoyable for the students and make an impact in their lives. Crissy was born to John and Carol Thorpe and … Read More
A Nice Ad For Literacy
glumbert – Literacy is cute
Well, I’M Convinced
Creationist arguments: The really cute part is that they keep saying that evolution is "obviously" a "fairy tale" (because if you say it several times, it MUST be true). Then they debunk evolution by mis-stating its founding principles. While energy may have played a role in the origins of life, the first life created was microscopic in size. And THEN, … Read More
The War On Reality In Our Schools
From the DesMoinesRegister.com: A community college instructor in Red Oak claims he was fired after he told his students that the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be literally interpreted. Steve Bitterman, 60, said officials at Southwestern Community College sided with a handful of students who threatened legal action over his remarks in a western civilization class Tuesday. … Read More
How To Deal With Autistic And Retarded Kids? Tase Them
I wish I was this was a joke: Every time [Rob] woke from this dream, it took him a few moments to remember that he was in his own bed, that there weren’t electrodes locked to his skin, that he wasn’t about to be shocked. It was no mystery where this recurring nightmare came from—not A Clockwork Orange or 1984, … Read More
Sex Education For Kindergarteners
Our national media is so bad. I mean, it is atrociously bad. Check out this ABC News headline: Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama The story begins: ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the … Read More