Jun 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER A Florida school district scanned the eyes of 750 students without their parents’ knowledge. The Polk County School District was carrying out a pilot program to track bus riders administered by the private surveillance company Stanley Convergent Security Solutions, The Lakeland Ledger reports. The district sent parents a letter giving them a ...
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Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH Mark Slater, head of The Leys in Cambridge, said students at the historic school need to be aware of the unrealistic nature of the online material. It is vital that children are made aware of the differences between online porn and genuine, fulfilling relationships, he argued. Referring to the possibility of inviting ...
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Jun 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Maine’s highest court will soon decide which restroom Nicole Maines, a 15-year-old transgendered student, should use. Last week the state supreme court heard oral arguments about whether a school district violated her civil rights when it forbid her from using the girl’s restroom. She was in fifth grade at the time. Maines ...
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Jun 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) --Despite a shortage of U.S. primary care doctors, less than 25 percent of new doctors go into this field, and fewer still work in rural areas, researchers say. Lead study author Dr. Candice Chen, an assistant research professor of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, said the ...
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Jun 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A Christian university that expelled a lesbian student for dating another woman wants her to repay the $6,000 scholarship she received to attend classes there. Danielle Powell didn’t know she was a lesbian when she first enrolled at Grace University — a private, Christian university in Nebraska. Nevertheless, she began a ...
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Jun 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
(CNSNews.com) – Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday that “cultural hesitation” makes it more difficult for some Hispanic parents to want to enroll their children in public pre-school programs because of their preference for family and friends. Duncan’s remarks came when asked about pre-school and the Hispanic community at an event to mark the anniversary of ...
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Jun 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FRONT PAGE MAG he Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is pressuring public schools in this country to make special accommodations for Muslim students and to deny comparable accommodations for students of other faiths. For example, CAIR’s instructional material for teachers entitled “An Educator’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices” advises schools to permit Muslim ...
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Jun 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
12 News KBMT and K-JAC. News, Weather and Sports for SE Texas Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation has sent a two-page letter to a school district in southeast Texas complaining about a preschool graduation ceremony begun with an unconstitutional prayer. The controversial supplication occurred on May 31 in a classroom ...
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Jun 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com Excerpted from Fox News: A Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during his speech when he diverted from his pre-approved remarks and instead spoke about the Constitution. Joshua High School graduate Remington Reimer, who was accepted into the Naval Academy, had his microphone silenced during his speech right after he ...
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Jun 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Breitbart News: As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools. A recent report in Education News ...
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Jun 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
RELATED: WATCH – BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: The Ghost of Columbia University PART 1 Excerpted from THE BLAZE My life has crossed paths with President Obama on multiple occasions. According to Obama, we were Columbia University classmates, both Pre Law and Political Science majors in the Class of ’83. I also ran against Obama in 2008 ...
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Jun 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TODD STARNES An 11-year-old boy who hopes to become a Navy SEAL was suspended from a Maryland school last December after he used the word ‘gun’ in a conversation on board a school bus. The sixth-grader at Northern Middle School in Owings was talking with a group of friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary school ...
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Jun 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via the Arizona Daily Independent: Update: The Governor’s Ombudsman has notified the AZDI that TUSD could offer “no compelling reason” to withhold the curriculum from the public. The district agreed to respond to an RFI by Wednesday. In its ruling against the Tucson Unified School District, the Arizona Department of Education found that the District in violation ...
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Jun 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
(CNSNews.com) – Marshall University Journalism Professor Christopher Swindell, who wrote in a recent commentary that the National Rifle Association (NRA) was guilty of treason and “worthy of the firing squad," is apologizing for his remarks, telling CNSNews.com on Monday that he was “waaayyy too angry to comment on gun safety” and that he had learned ...
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Jun 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
(CNSNews.com) – A government website designed for girls ages 10 to 16 offers health advice and information on a wide range of topics, including homosexuality, anal sex and “mutual masturbation.” The Health and Human Services’ girlshealth.gov includes tips on fitness and nutrition and an “environmental health” section where girls can read about leading a “green” lifestyle. But ...
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May 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: In the latest incident of anti-gun hysteria to erupt in a school setting, a kindergarten boy has been suspended from school for 10 days because he showed a friend his cowboy-style cap gun on the way to school. The incident happened on Wednesday morning at about 8:30 a.m. on a ...
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May 30, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
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May 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
PALMER, Mass. (WGGB) — A plastic Lego sized gun caused a disturbance on a Old Mill Pond Elementary School bus Friday morning. Mieke Crane is the mother of the six-year-old kindergarten student who brought the gun on the bus. “I think they over-reacted totally. I totally do,” said Crane. Another student on the bus saw the toy and ...
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May 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
(CNSNews.com) – The New York City Health Department’s NYC teen website now includes an app that teens can download to their smart phones to get information on “sexual health,” including where they can get birth control and abortions. The app, under the heading “Important Links and Info,” has three main links – Where to Go; sexual ...
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May 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Ryan, a "gender variant" fourth grader, sits at her desk in her school in Illinois on May 2, 2013. Ryan outwardly lives life as a girl but is physically still a boy underneath. "I feel that I'm a girl in my heart and a boy in my brain," the 10-year-old says. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) ...
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May 25, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Northwestern University’s attempts to increase diversity and tolerance on campus stumbled badly recently as the student government rejected a political appointee because he was a white male, and the university’s first-ever Social Justice Week manifested an anti-Israel bias. Various members of the Associated Student Government opposed President Ani Ajith’s nomination of ...
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May 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: In the annals of political correctness run amok in American schools, this story — if true — is easily an all-timer. A junior-high school Spanish teacher has filed a lawsuit alleging that she was fired from P.S. 211 in the Bronx in March 2012 because of a misunderstanding over the word ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Following closely on the heels of Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s recent proposal to subsidize student loans through the Federal Reserve, another senator is taking aim at student loan debt with a bill that would give a borrowers a huge break but leave taxpayers scrambling to make up the difference. New York ...
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