• Student
beats up teacher
• Teacher
beats up student
• Student has sex with teacher
• Teacher
has sex with student
The
Right Jack is at a total loss of words to explain how to describe what these searches render, but I do know that praying in school by students is not in the same league as any of the above findings.
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I am still laughing about the parent who said that her little girl has moods! Maybe this little diva needs a Snickers Bar.
Cal
State campii plan enrollment freeze unless they can get more tax money from the voters.
4/16/12 See www.WorldOnCampus.com
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• No jobs so HS grads are applying for college. College grad unemployment has doubled under Obama = +4% to +8%.
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• Time to cut administrative overhead and require all professors teach a full load. That means a minimum of four courses per term.
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This is similar to what is
going on in the schools where teachers and administrators host sensitivity
training, green training, no bullying training, condom training, self concept coddling,
diversity training and democrat indoctrination training [i.e, learning how to
protest, etc, not a joke].
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Is it any wonder that student
test scores continue to fall, students
• cannot do much math beyond
add or subtract,
• cannot find their neighboring
state on a map,
• know little about the three
branches of government
• know nothing about economics and the free market,
• know more about socialism than capitalism, and
• have no idea how to search for or apply for a summer job or any other kind of job. =TheRightJack 4/6/12
Virginia school teacher
thinks Republicans are stupid, she tells her 6th grade class. [dailycaller.com] 4/5/12
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Democrats have no problem politicizing education and religion when it fits
their agenda ... as they move to take religious broadcasters off the air.
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Remember when teachers were well respected?
12% of millionaires are wealthy educators. Highest percentage are managers. [westernjournalism.com] Short
video. 3/31/12 Average $60,000+ salary of educators puts them in the top 25% of wage earners. Hear that OWS and Wisconsin union protesters!
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See Occupy Wall Street Protesters here at TheRightJack
Republicans accused of being anti-science. That is a Democrat talking point. Study of some sort reported on the radio revealed that Republicans who are anti-science are less educated or not as smart ... as who?
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Can you "trust" science or education when there is so much fraud connected with it ... like climate change ... where "scientists" are not even willing to open their findings to professional or peer review.
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Let us not even get started on the "science" and false hope of green energy. How about just a little scientific market research! That would be a great idea. =TheRightJack
Anti-semitism. Why is higher
education, a liberal bastion, anti-semitic? There have been a number of media
comments about this recently. This is curious since the Jewish population in
the USA is identified in polls as more Liberal than Conservative, despite the
pro-muslim stance of the Obama administration. This is very odd. =TheRightJack
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Search topics for self-study:
• universities and
anti-semitism
• David Horowitz, former
radical
• Barack Obama’s Rules for
Revolution: The Alinsky Model by David Horowitz
• Muslim Hate Groups on Campus
by Daniel Greenfield
Who is getting cheated?
• More suspicious fluctuations
= test cheating nationwide. … Overall, 196 of the nation’s 3,125 largest school
districts had enough suspect tests that the odds of the results occurring by
chance alone were worse than one in 1,000. [ajc.com] 3/25/12
20 common arrows for the
grammatically challenged. [litreactor.com] 1/31/12 My high school Senior
English teacher would have loved this.
Sign: Teenagers.
Tired of being harassed by
your stupid parents.
Act Now! Move out. Get a job.
Pay your own bills while you
still know everything. ;-)
Surviving
Socialism/Communism. Part 1. [westernjournalism.com] 2/23/12. No explanation needed. Just read this.
Youngster being "schooled" by Obama. The Lesson: Everything belongs to Big Dem Gov.
Northern Virginia 8th
grade middle school teacher requires students to do opposition research in
support of Obama. [dailycaller.com] 3/22/12
If the teacher wanted this to
be a fair and balanced class exercise, the teacher would have split the class, with half taking one side and half taking the other side. To do this exercise
his way, it becomes indoctrination, not education. Is he a union teacher?
O’Green Day replaces St
Patrick's Day in Massachusetts school so not to offend non-catholics and be more inclusive. [moonbattery.com] 3/15/12
Will "they" soon change
President’s Day to Leaders Day so as not to offend those who grew up under
kings, dictators, generals, theocrats, and despots?
Melting Pot No More. Multi-Culturalism has been an educational objective for well over 30 years. In that vein, Democrats have been leaning heavily on the notion that immigrants and illegals who come into the USA should maintain a strong sense of their native heritage - where they came from. In prior times, the USA was regarded as a melting pot. That concept seems to have been thrown out by Democrats. Why? Is it possible that Democrats seek every means possible to segment the US population into voting blocks?
Examples of Pro-Democrat groups that can be kept in "their camp" with special legislation include ...
• union members
• media broadcasters, reporters and other employees
• Hollywood's highly visible and vocal stars
• single mothers
+
• public school and college teachers and students
• debt ridden college students
• african americans
• gays and lesbians
+
• hispanics
• seniors
• the poor
• immigrants, legal and illegal =TheRightJack 3/18/12
San Antonio Showdown. USA USA
USA chants Alamo Whites [i.e., Heights], nickname given to them by the largely Hispanic high
school. Apologies from San Antonio Heights chanters school and superintendent. [ironicsurrealism.com]
3/7/12 You gotta read this story where the chants of US students are called
racist, but not those of the opponents. No winners when schools are politicized like this. It is common for attitudes like this to begin at home if there are no positive influences there. If not home, then it is the mean streets. Learning suffers.
Pedophilia? Teachers having sex with
students. It just keeps happening. Do your own search on that topic. See results in California. Too
many to report. Times sure have changed from when teachers could get in serious
trouble for chewing gum during school hours. 2/24/12
Education begins at home, not day care or school or your kid's coaches. The "streets" will raise your kids for you but you are not going to like the outcome. =TheRightJack
Our scientific and engineering workforce has dropped from 5.4% of the workforce to 4.9% of the workforce. 2/17/12
School lunches from home now
under control of Big Dem Gov. Parents appear to be unable to handle this
morning task to suit the Obama administration. The observational opportunities
of TheRightJack tell us that smart students have their diet needs figured out
while others consider “fat” to be a resume enhancement along with multiple teen
pregnancies, rotten school grades and dropping out of school. Do you recall
that Bill Cosby was ripped to shreads by “his” people for suggesting that
minority kids should become good students, etc. With that kind of negative
motivation, there is slim hope that some students will ever figure all of this
out on their own without serious one-on-one mentoring, like parents and grandparents
could provide. =TheRightJack
Houston school teacher
indoctrinating youngsters = Praising Obama. [examiner.com] 2/12/12. Is this how you want your tax money spent?
Read: "The College of Really Hard Knocks" here at TheRightJack, published 2/13/12
Incubators. Have you noticed that Obama gives many of his speeches to gullible college students and their Big Dem College Professors.
California public school teachers found to be sexually abusing elementary school students. 2/6/12
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Jobs today: College internships and volunteering [read more at this post on 1/22/12]
Once upon a time in the Land of Oh Ap A Dah, a college degree opened the doors to good jobs. In some cases, getting that degree meant employment regardless of the field of study. That was then. This was now.
The link below is from a Washington Post article that current and soon to be college students AND PARENTS should read. It appeared in the Sunday business page 1/22/12.
The wise student will read and study it. Look closely at the unemployment data.
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Atlanta
3rd grade teacher resigns for inserting slavery into questions for
math problems [suwanee.patch.com] 1/18/12. And 150 years after the end of the Civil War, it is quite
likely that some people will never allow the slavery issue to die. It is far too important in keeping voters with the Democrat Party.
74%
success rate if these three “suggestions” are followed:
• Finish
high school
• Get
a job
• Get
married before having children
2%
success if this is ignored. Noted by Neil Boortz on the radio. From Creating an Opportunity Society [Search TheRightJack] 1/18/12
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Hazing death from severe
beating at FAMU. Was drum major. Judged not a hate crime. Family to sue bus company
and school. [kctv5.com] 1/10/12
Failed Education Policy Has
Crippled Economy. Poor education linked to relatively low skilled work force.
[moneynews.com] 1/6/12
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Two new pieces of legislation effecting education:
1. California Assembly Bill 266
has been amended to read:
"A pupil shall be
permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and
facilities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with his or
her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil's
records." Note: This effectively permits boys and girls to share locker rooms.
-- and --
2. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and
openly homosexual Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) now have 138 co-sponsors in the House
and 38 in the Senate, to do what?
To mandate nationwide "re-education" of kindergarten and
first-grade children that homosexuality is normal, not a sin. No
kidding. The bills are S. 555 and H.R.998, (aka the "Homosexual classrooms
act") that bullies kids without permission of Christian parents,
in the name of promoting sexual re-orientation in kids they wish to
recruit for sinful acts.
[http://prayinjesusname.org].
Have not yet found specific links to the education items mentioned above. Anti-bulling legislation has been a favorite educational strategy of gay and lesbian groups to get their agenda into the school curricula.
= = =
Students baiting their
teachers into committing acts like bullying and physical abuse while shooting videos for
You Tube that can get them fired. [yahoo] 1/3/11
Dumbing down. Cal Thomas
editorial is good reading for teachers and parents. [jewishworldreview.com]
1/4/11
As you read this Thomas article above and other
articles related to “dumbing down” the curriculum, keep in the back of your
mind that union teachers and like minded educational administrators are at the heart of this issue. So what does that
mean? Well, either our teachers have been dumbed down right along with the
students, or worse, far too many teachers have totally bought into the Democrat
social philosophy of 2+2=5 or 3 and every students is entitled to good grades
regardless of interest, effort and appitude. =TheRightJack
Study reveals that Oregon
University students earned better grades when their football team was less
successful. Male students most effected. 12/11 [Freakonomics] 12/22/11
$56/hr. Average teacher pay.
$28/hr. Average worker pay.
[Source: NLRB] 12/15/11
Yikes: My starting gross pay as a teacher back when the Earth was cooling --- $25/day.
No brains. No gain. Politics of
education. Dumb down the students. Hold students to lower and lower levels of
learning and comprehension. Why? Studies have shown in this section [scroll
down and learn] that our average Democrats are not quite as bright and scholarly as are
Republicans. So, keep students dumb and/or pregnant so that they will never learn
what they need to know to pull themselves up and seek independence from Big Dem Gov. But wait, business is no friend of educating their work force either. Just ask your local GED course instructors. =TheRightJack 12/21/11
47% of schools do not meet No Child Left Behind standards. The Fix is to lower the standards even more so more schools pass. That is called dumbing down the educational system. Missouri and then DC are the two lowest performers. Heard on the radio 12/15/11
VP Biden tests Obama 2012 campaign strategy on education to fix financial problems in education created by Obama administration policies over the past three years. [dailycaller.com] 12/12/11
Education with their K-12 and college indoctrination programs, is a key Obama support group along with public sector unions, single mothers, blacks, gays, Hollywood and the Big Time Dying Media, of course.
Smart students for hire to take SAT exams. See there, Education Pays.
The Strategy: Gotta look like a high schooler. Do not take the exam at a school where the client is enrolled. Be inconspicuous. Do you suppose they offer a money back guarantee?
5th grader kicked out of school when he said a local anchorman looks like Obama when the man visited their school. Racism charged. [theblaze.com] 12/5/11
Busted for sexual harrasment. 9 year old boy suspended from school for calling his teacher cute. [theblaze.com] 12/5/11 Back in the day, my female classmates went crazy over our new good looking blond phys ed teacher.
Student Education or Indoctrination? Student achievement is the primary purpose of education in our public and private school systems. Education versus indoctrination is becoming a critical issue in shaping young minds. Remember that capturing the minds of the youth through indoctrination has been a primary “social” objective and accomplishment of most totalitarian regimes like those of NAZI Germany, Japan, USSR, China, Cuba and Iran. This includes many of the muslim theocracies where government, politics and religion are one in the same. We now see evidence of indoctrination becoming more common in our US public and private school systems. Mindless repetition of political dogma is indoctrination, not education. =TheRightJack 11/28/11
Typography of Religion from USA Today
Government schools are one of our most debilitating government failures. First, school leaders and politicians cry out for more and more money. Then, when it occurs, more money has absolutely no effect on student performance. Secondly, teacher indoctrination of students into favored political positions takes precedence over the unbiased education of students. This is criminal behavior befitting the world’s worst despots. =TheRightJack 11/15/11
Parental alert: Do you know what your kids are learning in school today. Is it the 3 Rs or how to protest or Unions are the answer. Guess which side teachers are taking. Find out if it sounds like indoctrination or education. My wife and I always needed to set our children straight [i.e, re-educate or un-learn] after what they learned from their classmates and their teachers.
$25,250. Average student loan, now facing a 9.1% unemployment rate. 2010 data.
Oakland teachers supporting Occupy. Some teachers pledge to teach about the Occupy protests. [biggovernment.com] 11/4/11
Teacher Salaries
I met a teacher in California three years ago. She was on an after school field trip with her middle school students. She was making nearly $90,000 a year and that included $20,000 for the after school program she led. I made $4,300 my first year of teaching and $990 for coaching two sports. That was nearly 50 years ago. =TheRightJack
educ ** educ ** educ
College degrees: Fields of study with a bachelor’s degree that do not pay well. Do not take out massive student loans if you plan to major in one of these areas.
• History - become an attorney
• Psychology, need a PhD
• Ethnic studies
• Women’s studies
• Classical studies
Strategy: Get a job and/or find a less expensive college. Take two years at a community college and then transfer.
So, select another major unless you are willing to earn a Masters Degree and then a Doctorate. Consider also that unemployment for people with a college degree has doubled. It was 4%, now it is at 8+% under the Obama economic policies. Employment = jobs are much worse for young adults with no college degree and even worse yet for dropouts with no high school diploma.
Prostitution: It is interesting to hear that women who complain about their job prospects are quick to bring up prostitution as their only course of action. In addition to hearing it in broadcasts, I have actually heard well educated women say this.
educ ** educ ** educ
School district must pay muslim teacher for trip to Mecca. ... DOJ forced a Berkeley IL middle school district to pay muslim teacher $75,000 and implement a sensitivity training course throughout the district after administrators refused to allow new hire to take 3 weeks off for trip to Mecca in 2008. [westernjournalism.com] 10/26/11 Outrageous!
Run the numbers. Obama student loan plan will save students around $10.00 a month. University costs continue to rise. 82% of student loan debt has been taken in the last 10 years.
Student borrowing has increased. Student loan default rates rising. Most recent figures: 7% in 2008. 8.8% in 2009. 11.6% to 15% for for-profit schools. 9/12/11
Texas school students pledge allegiance to Mexico, not USA. [TheBlaze.com] 10/17/11 Watch Video.
Steve Jobs on Wall Street protesters at Kamp Alinsky and teacher unions. [capoliticalreview.com] 10/14/11
The problem there of course is the unions. The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it’s not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can’t teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It’s terrible. - - - Steve Jobs on education reform
Union Schools: Good for bad teachers. Bad for good kids. A thought expanded upon a bit with original credit based on what John Stossel tweeted on 9/20/11
Wall Street Protesters want free university education, a $20 minimum wage, total debt forgiveness, and an end to corporate profits among other things.
As educational corporations, nearly all US institutions of learning of all sizes are subsidized with local, state and federal US Taxpayer money at a rate of 30% or more. When all corporate profits and all income are seized by Big Gov, who pays the bills. Seems like our protesters need to go back and review Econ 101 where it is taught that innovation and risk vs reward are the foundations of capitalism, profits and comfortable university teaching, learning and living. =TheRightJack
No profits = No charity. There goes the alumni associations, the building funds, the endowments and the athletic programs.
Obama's Unfunded Teacher Mandate: He funds the teachers for a year, and then when the year is up and there's no money to pay them, guess what? It's "The Republicans hate teachers!" all over again. - - - Rush Limbaugh 10/4/11
Church Sign: Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Degrees in demand
Degree #1 - Master's in Business Administration (MBA)
Degree #2 - Associate's in Paralegal Studies
Degree #3 - Bachelor's in Accounting
Degree #4 - Associate's in Dental Assisting
Degree #5 - Bachelor's in Human Resources
[Yahoo education] 9/15/11
Should math be taught in schools. Miss USA 2011. Click here to see the video.
Caught or taught? Unidentified school system superintendent says that what is going on in the schools sets the tone for attitudes [i.e., improvement, unrest or despair] in the community. 9/3/11
I believe that there is a measure of truth to that. Parents set the tone from day one for how their children think and behave in school, at home and elsewhere. Students spend 185 days a year under the very personal influence of their teachers and coaches. What are they learning, either caught or taught? =TheRightJack
Most popular on line degrees
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ACLU battles schools over gay websites … wanting filters removed that block sexually explicit materials. Called objectionable materials for children. Responses to law suits being crafted. [washingtontimes.com]
Will sexually explicit web sites help students learn reading, writing and math? Help diversity? Stop bullying? Improve conflict resolution?
Democrat Special Interest Groups: Teacher Unions and Gays.
$9.2 million in 2011. US Taxpayers via Peace Corps are subsidizing higher education in China where volunteers are limited to teaching classes in English. [cnsnews.com] 9/2/11
Miami Vice. Did former Clinton Health Secretary Donna Shalala know about the ethics violations at “The U” that went on for nine years or more under her watch [2001 to present]? What did she know and when did she know it. Perhaps she will use the Obama Defense and blame all of these "lapses" on Florida, Florida State, SEC, ACC, Big Ten, PAC10, all former U coaches, Bush 43 or The Tea Party. =TheRightJack
Student Loans. $1 T-t-trillion. Delinquency and default rates on nearly $1 trillion worth of private and federally subsidized loans are growing, the report discloses. … In August of last year, data showed student loan debt for first time had surpassed credit card debt. A month later, Department of Education said default rates for student loans had risen from 4.6% in 2005 to 7% in 2008, the most recent year for which data is available. … Tuition has doubled since 2000. [NewsMax.com] 8/15/11
Education represents a huge Special Interest voting block for Democrats. Students seem to move their political allegiances to the Right once the get into the real work world and away from the teachers running their indoctrination courses, colleges in particular. =TheRightJack
Boortz on Re-Education in US Schools. Remember how you bought school supplies and then bought a small box or zippered binder in which to keep “your” supplies – paper, pencils, ruler, glue, scissors, crayons, etc. Hold on. This is how that is done in some schools today. Buy your school supplies, just like we always did. Bring them to school, just like we always did. … But now … bring them to the front of the room and put them in a common or community box. Now “your” school supplies belong to all of your classmates. Student come and get supplies that you bought, when needed. Do you see a little “collectivism” creeping into the minds and actions of your treasured offspring?
From each according to his ability. To each according to his need. - - - Karl Marx, circa 1875.
Flash Mob riots in Europe and USA. Spreading the wealth through crime.
2002. 9 years later. DOE to grant waivers so that schools do not have to meet the basic standards posed in No Child Left Behind. 9 years later. The racial gap has been closed a bit. The bottom has come up. Still far too many students can neither read nor write. Who is to blame for this. Certainly not the students. It is teachers, parents and governments that keep lowering the bar that enables teachers to "dumb down" their students. See History just below =TheRightJack 8/9/11
History. In the history of public school education in the USA, there have been Legislators who did not want the masses to become too well educated. They might start asking questions. Today, some business leaders do not want their employees to become too well educated for fear that they will seek employment elsewhere. You can verify this with the GED leaders in your area. ... Furthermore, since teachers became unionized, starting in the 1960s, we have Big Dem Gov and unions putting union seniority rather than teacher competence above the education of our children. This lack of educational focus gives private school graduates a big head start into positions of leadership, and employers know it. =TheRightJack
@Gretwire on Twitter. 30,000 college students in Michigan on Food Stamps: The cost is $75 million. What do you think about the ... http://bit.ly/oBJMQf
Wisconsin and Ohio teachers fighting against having to pay union dues against their wishes as well as being denied the right to work. Teachers oppose being forced to pay union dues that go to union political activism. [National Right To Work Foundation]. Click here too.
Matt Damon on education vs Michelle Malkin on education. [HumanEvents] Click Here. Do you really know what you think you know, about teachers, government workers and education?
Drug deal gone bad. Seller calls 911 when he was stiffed by the buyer. Reported on the radio by Neal Boortz. You just have to love these stories about dumb crooks. What does it say about our system of education and their parents.
• Wrote a hold up note on his bank statement.
• Went to sleep in the bed of the home he just robbed.
Unemployment and Education
• Around 14% - less than a high school diploma
• Around 10% - HS diploma and no college degree
• Bit over 8% - Some college, no degree
• Around 7% - Associate degree
• Around 4% - College degree and higher
• Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010
The more you learn, the more you earn.
Why can students not find Alabama or Afghanistan on a map. Do you think it might be because geography is no longer a subject that is taught in school.
Why do students know little or nothing about the founding fathers of the USA or how the USA differs from China. Maybe it is because it is not taught in school.
@danieljmitchell on Twitter Dan Mitchell. The Diversity Racket in California: Good for Bureaucrats, Bad for Education. Click on his link that follows. http://bit.ly/rduBbL
Democrat Debt Scam. Obama will not assure seniors and soldiers that they will receive their monthly checks while continuing to pay out billions to the favored Big Gov recipients.
--&--
Compare this Democrat Debt Scam to school levies when they are up for a vote. Of all of the things that schools could stop paying, they prefer to threatened an end to school bussing, kindergarten, library, art and gym classes. I suppose they also must now threaten to end in-school day care for young teen students with babies.
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In the meantime, teacher unions oppose volunteers who come into the schools to help out where needed.
National Education Association has never endorsed a Republican for president.
Degrees worth the investment: Finance degree. Information technology degree. Accounting degree. Marketing degree. Health care administration degree. [Yahoo] Click Here to get more details.
Fraud in Education by Herbert London [NewMax.com]
Book: Decline and Revival in Higher Education by Herbert London [Hudson.org]. Book summary by publisher
8th grade test in 1895. See post here at TheRightJack
ACLU attacks teachers. Two years ago, two senior school employees in Florida were charged with criminal contempt and faced $5,000 in fines, six months in jail, and the loss of their collective 70 years of retirement benefits. Their "crime" was asking a blessing over a meal. [LibertyAction.org] 7/1/11 In the meantime, muslim garb and muslim religious practices continue in the USA without question or interference, because?
Best career reboots:
1. Medical assistant.
2. Paralegal.
3. Administrative assistant.
4. Computer support specialist.
5. Dental assistant. See related articles at the bottom of this report. [Yahoo] Click Here.
Degrees in demand: Accounting. Finance. Engineering. Computer Science. Business Administration. [Yahoo] 6/21/11 From the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Do parents really want to see their adults children returning to the nest because of this economy the past 2 1/2 years with No Change in sight?
No Change. No Change.
Department of Education SWAT Team leaps into action over a student loan. In Stockton, California, one such unit of “operators” -- a term almost exclusively used to refer to military special operations personnel like Navy SEALs and Delta Force -- was used to assault the home of a person who owed money on their student loans. [www.nationalgunrights.org] The question was asked ... Why in the world does the Department of Education have a SWAT Team?
No Child Left Behind Act, first introduced in 2001, gave educators 12 year and more to see that all students were proficient in reading and math. Democrats believe that objective is too tough. Reread that first sentence. [Christian Science Monitor] 6/13/11 You get what you expect! Ask any coach in any activity from sports to music.
Google sponsoring a multi-million dollar homosexual campaign that targets children as young as 10 years of age. [Grassfire] www.grassfire.net
Programs like this and many others foisted upon our schools are part of the reason our students cannot read, write, add, subtract and do not know their geography. While they do not know Alabama from Arizona, they do know all about sexting and how to put a condom on a banana. Add "indoctrination" rather than "education" to the agenda of some teachers and school administrators and it is easy to see why many students in this generation know much less than their predecessors. Of course, if you are a Democrat, there is no need for you to know anything. Big Dem Gov will care of your every need, at US Taxpayers expense, of course. =trj
Kindergartner allowed back in school after being expelled. His crime: He touched the teacher’s thigh attempting to comfort her when she complained that her leg hurt. [MyWay.com]
Ann Counter sizes up the colleges by the nature of their actions toward her at her speeches. [Daily Caller] 6/8/11 Click Here to see how she evaluates our college population. Interesting.
65%. California schools among others have become aggressive sponsors of gay lifestyle agendas. Homosexuality is not a religion, is it, so what is the beef that parents are not given the opt-out choice for their children. … scientific telephone survey done April 19-21 with a margin of error of 3.23 percentage points found that 65% of all respondents objected to teaching elementary school children that homosexuality is a "normal alternative lifestyle." [WND.com] Click Here for a must read article.
In the meantime, teachers complain that there is not enough time in the school day to see that their students know [actually know, not just spend some time on it] reading, writing and arithmetic. It is no wonder that our students come out of school knowing less than did our ancestors. Look at the number of mandated social agenda items that are eating up the instructional time for students. Consider … basic hygiene, anger management, homosexual lifestyle agenda, save the “green” earth training, fake global warming indoctrination, protest training, condom training, aids awareness, diversity training, self-esteem brainwashing, conflict resolution, muslim religion study/awareness, computer games time … and those curricular [?] topics are for the teachers as well as the students. Back to basics parents. Back to basics if you want your child to succeed in school and in life. =trj
12%. High school students poll in 1985 to find out if they thought they were very important. In 2005, 85% said they were very important. [Gallup poll results heard on the radio] 6/1/11
• Are teachers today giving our students a false sense of importance?
• Is this the self-concept or self-esteem version of empty calories?
$1 million. California school system [Alvord Unified School District] built a new high school for $105 million and cannot now afford to open it. Maybe next year. Maintenance and security costs for this new “unopened” school are $1 million a year. What ever happened to that olde fashioned concept of Plan Ahead?
If you think that education is expensive, consider ignorance ...
$24,000. Average annual cost to keep a criminal behind bars. In jail, many criminals us that time to perfect their craft. The dominant characteristics of inmates are poor roles models, school dropouts, drug and alcohol abuse, single parent homes, and parental abuse. Click Here.
Good grammar now called "white" grammar rather than "correct" grammar. Teachers in some schools are not permitted to correct poor grammar of students. Is this a hidden strategy to keep the poor unemployed and on Big Dem Gov welfare programs? How many businesses can afford to hire people who "cain't tauwk a lick?"
See: Formula for Failure posted here on TheRightJack.
High school student in Virginia faces zero tolerance “spit wad” assault charge. Suspended for remainder of school year. Complaining grandmother wanted him expelled. [WND] 5/24/11 Click Here.
Map Game with focus on nations of northern Africa and the middle east. Click Here. Caution: this could be considered educational.
6,000. NYC teaches to be cut. Click Here.
3. Teachers fired in NYC last 6 months for flirting with students on Facebook. Another teacher gave extra credit for “friending” him. Click Here.
Pro Abortion fanatics vandalize Pro Life memorial at Clarion University in Pennsylvania. Tolerance missing in the ivory towers of intolerance. [Americans for Life] How can our young open minded adults become so intolerant at such early ages? Click Here and Here.
Gasoline. Solutions for shrinking school budgets:
• Stop bussing. Students take health walk to school.
• School sports teams play only home games.
47% of Detroit citizens are functionally illiterate. Hmmm. Were these people absent from school the first 2 or 3 years? [SayAnythingBlog.com] 5/4/11 Absolutely inexcusable! In fact, how is it even possible to sit through five or more years of primary and elementary school and know nuttin?
#1 Objective. When will the Left begin telling parents that they must see that their children come to school ready and willing to learn. Teachers cannot push a rope. In this wretched educational climate, teachers bring a lot less grief on themselves if the just pass “bad” students along to the next teacher. More money for teacher salaries is not the issue or the fix. Learning is about parents and school administrators who support and stand behind the teachers. How many more wasted lives will it take before learning becomes the #1 Objective in education. =trj
Football memorabilia. While Ohio State and head football coach Jim Tressel dance around with the NCAA, there are hundreds of college and university athletic departments around the nation that are hoping against all hope that the NCAA czars do not come knocking on their doors. 4/27/11 =trj
$1.5B. National Education Association and their state affiliates are a $1.5 Billion operation … a union dedicated to Democrats and indoctrinating [not educating] your children in the classroom to the Ways of the Left, either by commission or omission. [HotAir.com] 4/27/11
72%. Number of US Taxpayers who say we are not getting our moneys worth from the public schools. [Rasmussen] 4/27/11
It is widely known in some circles that the education of our school children in not the number one priority of union leaders and some teachers.
School Finance. [New American Foundation]
Ethnic Language. Who in their right mind wants to make unintelligible variations of our common language and dress acceptable, if not preferred. Are people like this coming from the same faulty position where “acting white” is still considered a bad thing in the black community. Who is irreparably harmed by this position. Certainly not people who make sure their children go to school every day, learn, behave and go on to have successful lives - - at least until TUO came on the scene. =trj
It is my personal experience as a seasoned professional and through first hand anecdotal evidence that people remain young at heart when they are involved with young people whether by coaching, teaching or associating with the younger set in some other way. [Pedophilia is very bad.] Ignore this advice and become an olde fuddy-duddy well before your time. = trj
Stay Young! Doctor’s Orders from Dr Judy Garman:
• “The fountain of youth can be found between the sheets ...”
• “Vigorous sex three times a week for a year is the equivalent caloric burn as walking 75 miles.”
• “middle-aged men who have sex five times a week can lower the risk for prostate cancer by 33%, compared to those that have sex only five times a month.”
Source: Staying Young: 10 Proven Steps to Ultimate Health
The Stay Young Book
Why are tax dollars at Univ of Missouri being used to fund a program that espouses Communism, teaches tactics in industrial sabotage (including stalking CEOs, using members to insinuate sabotage, as well as the killing of cats), and convincing union members that their “group goals” are more important than their individual goals. Click Here.
Coalition for Educational Success. For profit colleges bring in “Fast Eddie” Rendell, former PA Gov, to help sell proposal to open up [i.e., disclose] information that students and their families need to know about financing and job possibilities. [Inside Higher Education] 4/22/11. Click Here.
MTV promoting ‘transgender” lifestyle in the show DeGrassi to their young audiences. More Here.
NY safety inspectors to crack down on Tag, Capture the Flag, Red Rover, Kickball and other “dangerous” games that kids play at camps. Meanwhile dangerous, abusive, murdering illegals ignored. Click Here.
Follow up the next day: Never mind. They backed off their knee-jerk announcement.
The Workforce. Retirees generally are more costly to support than children. The average public school education costs $10,000 a year. The average retiree gets $25,000 a year in benefits — $13,000 in Social Security and Medicare benefits of $12,000. In all, taxpayers will spend about $125,000 educating a child and $500,000 caring for a senior, in today’s dollars at current life expectancies, according to federal education and retirement program data. The costs are paid differently, too. State and local governments, through sales and property taxes, pay most education expenses. The federal government, though income taxes, pays most retiree costs. [USA Today]
$24,000. Average annual cost to keep a criminal behind bars. … and you think that education is expensive. In jail, many criminals use that time to perfect their craft. Click Here.
Ban on bringing your lunch to school is becoming more prevalent. How long before the ban is implemented on a large scale. Click Here.
California teachers association supports a cop killer. Between negotiating for more benefits and teaching their students, AFT has adopted a resolution of support for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal [who was Wesley Cook], former Black Panther. [Republican Heritage] 4/11/11
Education or Indoctrination? Majority Democrats in California legislature have given another thumbs-up to "sexual brainwashing" plan that would require public school students to believe transgenders, bisexuals, homosexuals and those with other alternative sexual lifestyles are role models to be admired. [World Net Daily] 4/6/11
Unions loose big bucks when dues become voluntary as Wisconsin turmoil becomes more about union power than anything else. [Red State] 4/2/11
Unions using intimidation in Wisconsin just like organized crime and street gangs. Threaten phone calls and boycotts if businesses do not comply with their wishes. Those threatened not allowed to be neutral. Click Here for the story.
6.7 million college educated immigrants in USA. 350,000 college educated immigrants underemployed. 1.2 million unemployed. [Numbers USA 3/28/11] Click Here for article.
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Muslim Student Association. Chapters on hundreds of college campi. [ActForAmerica.org] Click Here for more. Recruiting ground for impressionable minds?
Islamic organizations in academia. Click Here.
NIE. Newspapers in Education. Always seeking sponsors for this tax deductible enterprise. Providing free Democrat propaganda to schools. Many big city newspapers are biased toward Democrats. Is this how you want your tax money used?
Wisconsin union dues supporting Planned Parenthood in addition to Democrat campaign coffers.
ACLU continues the fight in court to criminalize religious expression such as praying over meals in schools and government dining rooms.
Obama taking sides – both sides as usual - talking against his own education policies. Clinton was pretty good at taking both sides of important issues too when he was president. Like Clinton, you must pay attention to what he does, not what he says.
TUO says too much testing. Providing students with excuses for failure? This may be a step along the way to awarding diplomas to students who can prove that they have a pulse. Then eliminate testing for Civil Service exams. Click Here 3/28/11.
Job applicants should read the center section of the April 2011 Readers Digest, pages 130-139, for job interview rejection traps. They have present some really bizarre stories about job applicants that will get your application tossed in the circular file in a heart beat. Well worth your time if you or a relative is job hunting. I have seen job applicants at fast food places filling out applications in their jammies. =trj
$69.9B. US Dept of Education discretionary budget. The Department's elementary and secondary programs annually serve nearly 14,000 school districts and approximately 56 million students attending some 99,000 public schools and 34,000 private schools. Department programs also provide grant, loan, and work-study assistance to more than 15 million postsecondary students. What does it do? Certainly not improve the academic performance of students. Click Here.
17.1%. National average for moderately physically activity high school students. Take out 5-6 million students who are on sports teams. That leaves a huge percentage of high school students who are physical slugs.
States with the most couch potatoes and lowest activity levels: TN at 51.8% active is the laziest state. LA with 56% active. MS with 57.2% active. KY with 57.9%. AL with 59% active. NC with 60.9%. Following in ascending order of increased physical activity by AR WV NV OK. [CDC 3/22/11]
Gay activists have found the bullying of children to be an easy way to spread their literature, gain acceptance and influence public schools. =trj
Bullying. US Civil Rights Division and entire Justice Department are committed to ending bullying and harassment in schools. BUT … DOJ will only investigate bullying cases if the victim is considered protected under the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. In essence, only discrimination of the victim’s race, color, religion, sex or will be considered by DOJ. The overweight straight white male who is verbally and/or physically harassed because of his size can consider himself invisible to the Justice Department. Click Here for article.
This TUO = DOJ policy is de facto discrimination! Voters can absolutely NOT trust a biased government like this. Two wrongs still do not make a right. =trj
Wisc. Voter attitudes toward collective bargaining are complex. They wholeheartedly support the right to collective bargaining by public employees. By 39-59 voters reject elimination of collective bargaining for public employee unions and by 43-48 they oppose limiting the bargaining to wages and benefits. But, by 66-25, voters agree with limiting "collective bargaining so that the union contract does not stop the dismissal of incompetent teachers and allows teachers to be paid based on merit not on seniority." [DickMorris.com] 3/17/11
Sexual orientation. In an effort to make K-12 sports and physical education safer and more inclusive for all regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, and a diverse coalition of athletes, journalists and sports figures today launch Changing the Game: The GLSEN Sports Project … Nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT youth (84.6%) said they’d experienced harassment in school in the past year because of their sexual orientation and nearly two-thirds (63.7%) because of their gender expression, according to GLSEN’s 2009 National School Climate Survey. Additionally, 61.1% said they felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation. … GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students. New York 3/17/11
Bullying. Rep Jackie Speier [D-CA] will introduce a bill that would require schools to report incidents of bullying against children diagnosed with conditions like Down syndrome and Aspergers to the federal government. It would also mandate that any federal dollars that promote anti-bullying programs focus partially on that group. Click Here.
Priorities. Most states are spending three to four times more incarcerating criminals than educating public school students. In Georgia, they spend $18,000 per inmate and $6,000 per student. New York spends $56,000 per inmate and $16,00 per student. California spend $47,000 per inmate and $9,000 per student. Michigan is $34,000 and $11,000. 3/14/11 [Department of Justice and National Education Association data compared over similar periods of time.] But we may have the smartest bombs and guns!
When it comes to peer to peer education, inmates do a better job helping each other learn "new crime skills" than do students in helping each other learn the "Three R's." =trj
Unprofessional! In NY, NYSUT Union [UFT member] pays teachers to miss school and protest. School system pays for the substitutes. Union rakes in $126 million in dues. $300,000 salary for teacher union boss. Subs costs an estimate $9 million dollars to Taxpayers. [Patriot Action Network] Click Here to learn about Teachers Union 101 – “A” is for Agitation. 3/6/11 Unionism is part of the reason that teachers get no respect.
Florida Democrat with US House of Representatives quick to say that de-funding day care will create criminals. Hey Dems! Parents create good children, not day care! Yet another fact-less claim by the Left. Remember this one? ObamaCare will save money.
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Homosexual Classrooms Act contains a laundry list of anti-family provisions that will:
• Require schools to teach appalling homosexual acts so “homosexual students” don’t feel “singled out” during already explicit sex-ed classes;
• Spin impressionable students in a whirlwind of sexual confusion and misinformation, even peer pressure to “experiment” with the homosexual “lifestyle;”
• Exempt homosexual students from punishment for propositioning, harassing, or even sexually assaulting their classmates, as part of their specially-protected right to “freedom of self-expression;”
• Force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual curriculum and purge any reference to religion if a student claims it creates a “hostile learning environment” for homosexual students. [Public Advocate of the United States 3/15/11]
Sign Petition. Click Here.
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Sex education expert from NEA told the UN that sexual behavior needs to be viewed as an inclusive continuum of behaviors. Click Here.
Mechanical sex toys with a live nude are subject of sex presentation by Prof at Northwestern University. Porn industry promo? Click Here.
Wisconsin has become ground zero. Obama's Organizing for America continues busing in socialist agitators to march on behalf of state employees, while the liberal media are doing their utmost to position greedy union members and their budget-busting benefits as the "poor working class" that is being attacked by big fat-cat Republicans. [Media Research Center 3/1/11] Click Here.
Dick Morris, the pollster with 30 years experience, reports on Wisconsin. Voters support changing the benefits to state workers, pay, and automatic deductions for union dues. [DickMorris.com 2/24/11]
• By 79-16, they support asking state workers contribute more toward their pensions.
• By 74-18, they back making state employees pay more for their health insurance.
• By 66-30, they back limiting state workers' pay increases to the rate of inflation unless voters approve a higher raise by a public referendum.
• By 54-34, Wisconsin voters support ending the automatic deduction of union dues from state paychecks and support making unions collect dues from each member.
• By 51-47, Wisconsin voters favor budget reforms of the governor.
Fact Check. Supporters of Wisconsin teachers get basic facts about teaching completely wrong -- The Democratic Party of Wisconsin and other supporters of the state's teachers union need to check their math: In Facebook posts and twitter messages, union supporters have been "promoting statistics that would suggest that collective bargaining for teachers is correlated with higher scores on standardized academic tests," according to Politifact. More specifically, union supporters claim that the five states that do not have collective bargaining for teachers have the following SAT/ACT ranks: South Carolina -50th/ North Carolina -49th/ Georgia -48th/ Texas -47th/ Virginia -44th," and that Wisconsin ranks second. According to Politifact, the claim is completely bogus. For starters, the data used to assemble the ranking is from 1999. In data from 2010, Virginia places higher (34th) and Wisconsin places slightly lower (3rd) on the SAT. The rest of the non-union states do much worse, but not because of collective bargaining. More likely, it's because only 4 percent of Wisconsin students took the SAT in 2010, compared to 74 percent of Georgia students, 67 percent of Virginia students, 66 percent of South Carolina students, 63 percent of North Carolina students, and 53 percent of Texas students. Hell, every state in the country would have a shot at the podium if it excluded 96 percent of its students from standardized test rankings. [The DC Morning 2/24/11] Click Here to read the article from PolitiFact.com.
Wisconsin's teachers required to teach kids labor union and collective bargaining history. (The Daily Caller)
All teachers in Providence RI to receive dismissal letters by March 1, 2011 in order to comply with the law as the school board do not know the budget allocation for the coming year. This is happening in other locations. [Drudge Report 2/23/11] Done 2/25/11.
There was no massive outcry about budget cuts in Wisconsin by unions and others when former Wisconsin governor, a Big D Democrat, talked about the need to cut spending.
32% of Wisconsin public-school 8th graders earned “proficient” rating
2% earned an “advanced” rating.
66% of 8th graders earned ratings below “proficient”
44% earned a rating of “basic”
22% earned a rating of “below basic”
Wisconsin has the highest per pupil spending in the Midwest.
[National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, 2009]
No Excuses Please. There is no excuse for 8th graders to not be able to read or work elementary math problems. Back when the Earth was cooling and I was in elementary school, we had to stand beside our desks and read aloud in class. We had to go to the chalkboard and work math problems that we were studying. Teachers kept those with difficulties after school to fix their errors. Today, this board work would be considering embarrassing and would harm student self-esteem.
Which is worse when all is said and done. Becoming a functionally illiterate adult or having a slightly bruised grade school ego.
Do you know that not being able to read is one of the prime characteristics of our prison population!
Doctors in Wisconsin handing out “I am sick” excuses for teachers who are cutting classes at the expense of the students and Tax Payers. Fraud. Fraud. Fraud.
Wisconsin Tea Party rally supporting Gov Walker and budget cutting draws thousands. Click Here to see slide show. Union on one side of Capitol. Tea Party on the other side. Popular support for teacher union demands falling like dominoes.
Teachers and other workers should have the "right" to choose whether or not they wish to join a union when they work in what might be called a Union Shop. Forced union membership violates our freedom.
@CatoInstitute on Twitter. How has education spending impacted test scores since 1970? Click Here.
10 dead or dying career paths.
• Computer operators
• Stage performers
• Postal Service mail sorters
• Holistic healers
• Office and administrative support workers
• Telemarketers and door to door sales people
• Photo processors
• Seamstresses
• Radio operators
• Carpenters. [Forbes]
This article did not mention Democrat operatives.
Taxpayers who are age 70½ with IRAs can give money directly to a charity from their IRA this year. Making charitable gifts this way keeps the taxable income off your tax return. This could lower the amount of your Social Security benefits that are subject to tax.
Obama White House calls in the Wisconsin protesters in order to overturn election results of We The People. This Dem tactic is probably not generating any sympathy or support for Big Gov Unions. In fact, watch what happens to Unions down the road when they employ tactics like this.
$89,000+ Salary of Wisconsin teachers has been reported today to be from $89,500 to $101,005 annually counting benefits. Average private sector salaries at $61,000 counting benefits. 2/18/11
Extra Credit. Do you suppose Wisconsin teachers have bribed their students with "Extra Credit" if they show up and protest against the Governor. Hmmm!
Replacements. Retired teachers are notoriously anti-union, as are many workers. They would step up en mass across the nation and fill in for teachers who would rather violate the rules and “sick-out” than teach.
Female teachers and young boys. One has to wonder if the promiscuous attitude toward sex on many college campuses is partially responsible for young female teachers who become entangled, to put it politely, with their young male students. Times sure have changed since I was in school, college too for that matter. =trj
Iowa HS Sophomore wrestler withdrew from his tournament match rather than wrestle a girl. He said: "As a matter of conscience and faith, I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most other high school sports in Iowa."
Trouble ahead for Teenagers. Be aware of the three H's: Hormones. Hooch. Horsepower.
On average, 30% of our students do not complete high school.
Average teacher salaries:
Elementary school teacher $51,240
Middle school educators $50,950
High school teachers $49,400
[Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2008]
Teachers and students in Wisconsin protesting Gov Scott Walker's budget bill. Teachers taking pupils out of school to march on Madison. Called a "sickout" … and it is illegal. Witness to protest said. "Yesterday, more than half of the student body of Madison East High School walked out with the support and assistance of their teachers." [Weekly Standard]
Read more on Newsmax.com: Wisconsin Dems Go Into Hiding to Prevent Union-Busting Vote
Michigan courts rule that Unions cannot take teacher dues and use them for political donations, to Democrats of course. Teachers to get refunds.
10 NFL stars who went bankrupt: Marlin Briscoe. Raghib “Rocket” Ismail. Johnny Unitas. Michael Vick. Deuce McAllister. Mark Brunell. Travis Henry. Dermontti Dawson. Lawrence Taylor. Arthur Marshall. Question: What do they have in common? Answer: They all attended college.
Public school in Texas mandates Arabic as a required language. Parents protest. Federal grant pays for this. Click Here. 2/9/11
Test scores. Many nations have two tracks for students. Some children go to school for anywhere from 5 to 8 years. Other students are enrolled for 12 or 13 years. Why? They have established what you might call a "labor" track and what you might call a "college prep" track. Guess on which track many test scores are based on for math and science? Our test scores are usually based on ALL students, not just our college prep students.
The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in ice hockey in 1874. The first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Seniority is the most dominant feature of unions. Not quality. Not production. Just rate management and job protection in schools, business and government.
Latest economic development objectives of this administration involve sending yet more job money to various government entities like education, cities, counties, etc. Government spending does not generate jobs. They just soak up US Tax Payer money. Listen and Look for who, not what. =trj
Private schools outperform public [i.e., government] union schools. They produce better students at lower costs without rubber rooms for highly paid, under-performing so-called teachers.
13%. Come down from your ivory tower, Dick Durbin - Is Sen Dick Durbin shameless, or just ill-informed? On Tuesday, the Illinois senator spoke to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, a trade group hellbent on cutting off federal funding to for-profit colleges. Durbin had this to say about the industry he's villified for over a year now: "There are many good for-profit colleges and they serve a vital purpose....But there are also a lot of bad for-profit schools that are raking in huge amounts of federal dollars and leaving students poorly trained and over their heads in debt." Are those statements true? Yes. So are these statements: "There are many good non-profit colleges and they serve a vital purpose. ... But there are also a lot of bad non-profit schools that are raking in huge amounts of federal dollars and leaving students poorly trained and over their heads in debt." One such non-profit is Chicago State University in Durbin's home state of Illinois. In its annual education issue, Washington Monthly reported that Chicago State "has the worst graduation rate of any public four-year university in Illinois and one of the worst in the nation, with just 13% of students finishing in six years." Funny how this problem is bigger--and closer to home--than either Durbin or Chicagoan Arne Duncan are willing to admit. [The DC Morning 2/2/11]
National Signing Day in College Football is 2/2/11. These university scholarships for football are one year deals. Some universities over commit beyond the 25/85 rule. That is 25 offers per year and a total of 85 players on scholarship. In order to take in new "hopefuls" they must take away scholarships from some players or run off the under performing players.
Horseplay? Spotsylvania VA high school freshman Andrew Mikel has been suspended for the school year, placed in a "diversion program" by police for blowing soft plastic pellets through a pen at 3 classmates. ... School officials classified the pellets [like spit wads] as a weapon, expelled the student from school the rest of the year, filed assault charges on him with the sheriff's department, mandated that he take 'substance-abuse counseling' and 'anger-management counseling' and must do 24 hours of community service." To read: Zero tolerance 'insane madness' in Virginia high school, Click Here. [WND]
National science scores disappoint: More than 2/3s of the nation's 4th graders failed to show proficiency in science in 2009, the federal government reported, meaning that the average student was likely to be stumped when asked to interpret a temperature graph or explain an example of heat transfer. Roughly six out of 10 8th-graders and 12th-graders also fell short of science proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a key measure of performance in a subject that President Obama and business leaders call crucial for American competitiveness. "It's disappointing," said Francis Eberle, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, based in Arlington. "Essentially, it says that science hasn't been part of the agenda. Science has had very little attention." He said that reading and math - the focus of most state standardized tests - have squeezed time for science lessons in daily classroom schedules.
Click Here to read full article.
Source: Washington Post Education Report
Speed stacking and Cubes. Click Here to see.
And Here.
45% - In “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," a book written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, two professors of sociology ... at least 45% of students showed no statistically significant improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication in their first two years of college. [From my experience, male college students in particular make a big jump in maturity on most all levels as juniors and seniors. There is hope! =trj]
Armed robbers held up middle school students at their bus stops in St Louis MO area. Click Here.
US Congress and Attorney General asked to investigate MTV series “Skins” for child porn.
Teacher at Oakland's Markham Elementary School suspended indefinitely after school officials said pair of 2nd graders performed sex acts on each other in class with the teacher present. 1/21/11 [sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com]
Nearly 30,000 British schoolchildren in 2010 had their names added to a "hate crimes" bullying list for making taunts deemed racist or "homophobic." 10,000+ in elementary school. Figures include nursery school students down to toddler age. 1/22/10 Click Here to read more: Kids put on 'hate crimes' list for schoolyard taunts.
Spelling Matters. Click Here.
Neil Boortz offers an interesting slant on public school education. It was never designed to produce "men of letters." In the early 1800s, government and business did not want a highly educated populace. Way Too Threatening. No different from today at all. Listen to his morning radio show on line at www.boortz.com if he is not on your local station from 9:00am to noon. Neil Boortz is an attorney who brings a unique and entertaining perspective on politics and more to talk radio.
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Facts: young American adults aged 18-29 who have only a high school degree:
• 40% of all these young adults do not have a job
• 43% of the Hispanic-American young adults do not have a job
• 50% of Black Americans of this group do not have a job
• 60% of all American high school dropouts and
• 60% of Hispanic-American dropouts do not have a job
• 75% of Black Americans dropouts do not have a job [Numbers USA]
• Democrat initiatives to open US borders to mass immigration continues with great conviction.
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"A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an 'older man.' At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama's 'safe school czar.' ... Clearly, the process for vetting White House employees has broken down," the Washington Times editorial board said. 9/28/09 [WND]
Auburn defeats Oregon 22-19. Study of 2010-2011 bowl-bound college teams conducted by Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at University of Central Florida showed that Auburn has highest disparity in graduation rates between white & black players of any major football team. White players graduate at 100%; black players 49%. University of Oregon, according to that study, graduates 76% of white players; 41% of African-American players. [Washington Post, The Answer Sheet 1/11/11]
Desperation? Texas schools ticketing students [i.e., misdemeanors] for what were previously trips to the principal’s office or truant officer. Most common infractions are disorderly conduct and leaving school without permission. Black students and special education students were overrepresented among those ticketed. School location important. Yahoo 1/10/11 [Maybe some "stings" could be set up in the schools to entrap more orderly students into breaking school rules. -trj]
Grand Rapids Education Association, local affiliate of Michigan’s largest teachers union, stops taking union dues from the teacher paychecks. Teachers must pay this union separately. Teachers refusing to pay since the union does not represent their wishes. [Townhall.com. This story is not over. –trj]
AZ shooter called a left wing pothead by friend. People on the left are trying to analyze him while blaming this shooting on Conservatives. Shooter escapes blame.
Childrearing starts at birth, not when children begin to cause family and school problems.
Loners. Loaners with few if any friends and social activities tend not to do well in school.
Drugs. When parents and close relatives see a marked change in behavior of their children such as secrecy, declining grades, and absence of old friends, it may be past time to suspect new indulgences in alcohol and drugs.
TV and Internet. Too much TV time and too much internet time with games or what ever, contribute to poor performance and poor grades for students in school.
Abuse. Abusive adults tended to have abused animals when younger.
• 40% of Chicago teachers send their children to private schools. 12/10
• 75% of all teachers are women.
• 50+% of new female teachers come from upper 40% of high school graduates.
• 33% of 4th graders in America are functionally illiterate, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress
Reading to learn. The first good indicator of student chances for success may come in fourth grade. That is when students transition from learning to read to reading to learn. A Manhattan Institute study found that students who cannot read and yet are promoted fall further behind over time. Alarmingly, 33% of fourth-graders in America are functionally illiterate, according to the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Florida's experience in reform during the last decade gives us the road map to avoid this slow-moving economic calamity, says Bush.
• In 1998, nearly half of Florida's fourth-graders were functionally illiterate.
• Today, 72% of them can read.
• Florida's Hispanic fourth-graders are reading as well as or better than the average student in 31 other states and the District of Columbia.
[National Center for Policy Analysis, 1/7/11]
Commonwealth of Virginia finds numerous factual errors [i.e., dates, names, places, etc.] in their public school history text books. No historical fact checking done. No input or editing by historians. January 2011. [In some states, history text books are politically biased based on current events while diminishing the values of our founders. -trj]
Marine Corps Bumper Sticker:
My kid fought in Iraq so yours can party in college.
Schools. Many big city blue state school systems have become educational wastelands. Absenteeism, dropouts and violence run rampant. City and county public - government schools continue to dumb down the curriculum to the point were many students entering college spend their first year in remedial courses. Remedial courses enable them to pass college level courses. Private schools are quite successful at much lower costs. [See Notable Government Failures posted at the right jack]
Inner city parents are coming to realize that unionized government schools do not work. Unions do not have education of their children as their main priority. School administrators continue to make it difficult if not impossible for parents to transfer their children to more successful schools.
40% of teachers come from the bottom 60% of the college population. [statistic from the 1980s]
In the early teaching days of the right jack, San Francisco sanitation workers made 4-6 times my teaching salary.
Democrat 2010 pre-election campaign letter: The Republicans are hell-bent on obstructing the change that our country so desperately needs: restoring our economy, guaranteeing every citizen access to quality health care, improving education, and achieving energy independence. And if we don't shut them down at the ballot box and stop them from redistricting themselves back into power, President Obama's reforms will be dead in the water. [Republicans are getting there. =trj]
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Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin, undated
5. Government Education
Eliminate monopoly control of government education by applying the antitrust laws to the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers; the monopoly is destructive of quality education and competition and is unresponsive to the taxpayers who fund it.
Eliminate tenure for government schoolteachers and college/university professors, making them accountable for the quality of instruction they provide students.
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Posted May 4, 2009 on trj
Proposal Would Transform College Aid
Obama Plan to Expand Federal Control of Lending Includes Creating Entitlement
Click here to read the full article.
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 4, 2009
"President Obama's health-care goals may be garnering attention, but his higher-education proposals are no less ambitious.
If adopted, they could transform the financial aid landscape for millions of students while expanding federal authority to a degree that even Democrats concede is controversial. ..."
Editor’s Note: Remember, HillaryCare was going to dictate what health fields colleges could offer and what students could enroll in and study. Medical schools would have had enrollment ceilings in certain fields. With that, just watch what happens to the choice of majors once the government is in total control of grant money.
Want to become a teacher? That is probably OK because that is how the government indoctrinates the k-12 student population.
Want to study art, business or medicine? Not so fast there lowly high school graduates. Let your all-knowing and all-seeing Uncle Sam take a politically correct look at the job market and decide the appropriate major for you . . . The Right Jack
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Obama plans to expand and take over the college loan business. 4/29/09 [This will ultimately expand the government entitlement class with the objetive to create more Democrat voters. -trj]
What’s Hot, posted at trj on 4/29/09
• States governed by Republicans.
• Private schools that operate on smaller budgets than the public government-run schools
Just Some of What Defines Barack Obama:
• Supports affirmative action in Colleges and Government.
• He voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.
• Admitted marijuana and cocaine use in high school and in college.
• In 2001 he questioned harsh penalties for drug dealing. [dated 9/1/08
• Occidental College records -- Not released
• Columbia College records -- Not released
• Columbia Thesis paper -- Not available
[What is Obama hiding and why? -trj]
'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' [by Prime Minister of Australia John Howard view on immigrants. Undated]
