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More Dumbing Down
Wouldn’t you think if teachers actually wanted the kids to learn, they would work on bringing the kids up to standards, instead of dropping the standards to the kids? It’s no wonder our kids are turning out dumber than a bag of hair! Ok…maybe a wee bit extreme, but that’s the way it’s starting to look.
Invasion Of Idiots
Civil rights group says school censored students
The Southern Poverty Law Center sent a letter to the Hardin County school system after a student said she was prohibited from publicly supporting gay rights in school.
The civil rights group said in a release that a student at Hardin County High School said that she was told by an assistant principal that she could not display slogans or symbols supportive of gay rights because those symbols advertise or promote sex.
The group also said the assistant principal terminated a student organized “Week of Pride” event to show support for gay rights and threatened students with suspension, class failure and disqualification from graduations.
SPLC said that unless the school takes action, it will file a lawsuit. The county superintendent did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
It’s quite obvious that the morons at SPLC know absolutely NOTHING about Hardin County! First off, you can throw a rock in any direction, and hit a church. Not a bar, a church! Second, the school is well within it’s rights to prevents students from promoting any kind of sexual behavior. I wonder if they’d get their knickers in a twist if a student was told he/she couldn’t wear a “One Man + One Woman = Marriage” shirt? I seriously doubt it! How about a student who wears a shirt depicting the American flag? Highly unlikely!
The purpose of this group is to promote that which is contrary to nature. Yes, some of the groups they title as ‘hate groups’ really ARE hate groups, but many they peg with that title are no more than a group of people trying to save their country….something that the SPLC, and organizations like them, are vehemently opposed to! I’d have to call THEM a hate group, because, apparently, they hate anything that promotes the Law of Nature.
You know, if these types of groups were more concerned with the health and well being of our kids, they’d do more to promote Biblical values for our kids, instead of encouraging them to push themselves into poverty with unwanted pregnancies, and an ‘alternative lifestyle’ that does more harm physically, mentally, and emotionally. Just sayin’.
Big Primary Day In Wisconsin
Today is primary day in Wisconsin to see which moronic, lying, cheating, self centered Democrat (but I repeat myself) will be Scott Walker’s opponent in the ridiculous, and totally union thug run recall election. Will it be Tom Barrett, who lost to Walker in 2010 by a 52-47 margin? He seems to be leading in the polls. Possibly Kathleen Falk, another hack that has, apparently, never lived in the real world, residing in the Land of Oz, aka Madison, running it into the ground as county executive.
Isn’t it odd that since Walker has been in office, the unemployment rate has dropped? What happened to all those morons shouting at the Capital about how people were going to lose their jobs? From 7.6 to 6.8 (Mar ’11-Mar ’12). It helps if your state has a business friendly atmosphere, which Walker has been trying to create. Many school systems have been able to actually SAVE money through Gov. Walker’s budget reforms. Unfortunately, the BIG union districts failed miserably. Many teachers ended up losing their jobs.Why? Well, let’s just say that selfish union thugs don’t give a damn about what’s best for the kids that they are entrusted to ‘educate’. Wait a minute! Isn’t that what the morons who banged drums and behaved like animals in the Capital said Walker’s budget would do? Cost teachers their jobs? It appears they are just as stupid as they appeared on the idjit box.
In the long run, this whole recall BS isn’t about ‘children suffering’, or job loss. It’s about union power. Plain and simple. The years of Dopey Jim Doyle put the state into a financial disaster that only a person of strong character, and TRUE concern for the state could pull it out of, yet the unions have spend a fortune spreading the most absurd lies about the man. And unfortunately for Wisconsin, the ill informed have bought into the crap being spewed. You hear utter nonsense about how the Koch brothers bought Scott Walker. Excuse me while I clean off my monitor. Spewing coffee from laughter y’know. Who is buying whom? Well, let’s look, shall we?
Yep! You Wisconsin union members are getting the shaft! Is this why you pay your dues, voluntarily or forced? I always thought those unions dues were for the members benefit, NOT the top echelon who want more and more power. But don’t forget, they also use the money you work for, and pay into as dues, for resorts trips (and let’s not forget the resort that was/is? owned by the fattest union of all)….not for you, who actually earned the money, but for those who having been sucking the life out of the U.S. economy for decades. Think Detroit.
Your head honchos are living high off the hog from your money, and yet, you continue to get out there and make total jackasses of yourselves…for THEIR benefit, NOT yours! Please note the area where your dues is being spent. Politics. To say that the Koch’s are pouring money into politics is down right laughable. More than half a BILLION dollars compared to 12 million over the course of, what….23 years? In one state? Come on people, snap out of it! I know you can’t all be that damn ignorant! Or, maybe you can. I’ve seen some of the comments made by the leftard union thugs. Logic does NOT enter into the conversation….only talking points and hysteria. My goodness. Grow up!
If Wisconsinites really love their state, as so many claim, then why on earth would you want to destroy it by electing another Dopey Doyle (totally owned by unions, especially WEAC). Is it so much to ask for teachers, and other government employees, to actually contribute their own money, instead of the taxpayers, to their own health care and retirement? Government employees work for the people. The people spoke when they elected Scott Walker. Get over it! Stop throwing 2 year old tantrums! If you aren’t happy with something, then go about it in the proper manner, instead making asses of yourselves, and showing the entire world just how totally ignorant, selfish, and childish Americans are…..especially UNION states. Get over your gimme mentality…it is NOT all about YOU! And you are NOT entitled to diddly! Especially not OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY! But then, that’s the way of the communists, isn’t it.
This election isn’t just about the survival of Wisconsin. No, this election is about the survival of the United States. Governor Walker has brought Wisconsin back from the brink, and the rest of the country needs to follow in his footsteps…not the footsteps of Lenin and Stalin! Scott Walker is the best thing to happen to Wisconsin in a VERY long time! Use YOUR brain, not the union/commies’!
Stacy Swimp – Unhyphenated America
Ya Know Why They Call It “Higher Education”?
Not because the students are getting smarter….they aren’t! Actually, I could give quite a few examples of quite the opposite. (Think Jay Walkers on Leno, when he asks COLLEGE students the simplest questions!) No, the reason they call it ‘higher education’ is because the COST keeps getting higher and higher!
Washington Needs A Lesson on Student Loans
The Foundry
You know a politician is looking for applause when he speaks in front of a crowd of college students and says he’s there to help them pay back their student loans. After all, who doesn’t like the prospect of free money? But as the saying (sort of) goes, beware of politicians bearing gifts. That’s especially true this week as President Barack Obama travels the country warning students that their student loan interest rates are set to double and that he has the answer to all their problems.
Guess what? He doesn’t. But if there’s one thing the president has managed to accomplish, it’s in turning this issue into a political football. And now the House of Representatives is joining the game.
This all began back in 2007 when Democrats pushed for a five-year student loan interest rate reduction to 3.4 percent as a temporary subsidy in order to help make the loans more affordable. Now that “temporary” subsidy is set to expire, meaning that rates will return to their original 6.8 percent levels. In the midst of all this, the House is expected to vote today on a measure that would keep interest rates where they are — costing taxpayers $5.9 billion for a one-year extension. And under the proposal, the extension would be paid for by taking funds from Obamacare’s Prevention and Public Health Fund. Obamacare, instead, should be repealed outright — not used as a “slush fund” to pay for other programs.
Public Education Has NOTHING To Do With “The Children”
Council of Despair: The CFR on America’s Public Schools
The CFR’s “task force” has announced that the failure of tax-funded K-12 education is the #1 threat to America’s position in the world.
The United States’ failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country’s ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role, finds a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)–sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Education Reform and National Security.
“Educational failure puts the United States’ future economic prosperity, global position, and physical safety at risk,” warns the Task Force, chaired by Joel I. Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state. The country “will not be able to keep pace—much less lead—globally unless it moves to fix the problems it has allowed to fester for too long,” argues the Task Force.
The report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries.
This sounds bad. It is bad. The problem is, all this has been known for years. Nothing changes except cost per student, which rises. Reform after reform is proposed. A few are begun. The performance of the students falls. The cost per student rises.
I’m going to HAVE to slip in a “WE TOLD YOU SO!” here. What those on the right have known for years, has been confirmed over and over. This report is just one more confirmation! The cost of education continues to skyrocket, yet the quality continues to plummet. There is no one answer, but there is a BIG one at the forefront!
Here are some data on student performance.
- More than 25 percent of students fail to graduate from high school in four years; for African-American and Hispanic students, this number is approaching 40 percent.
- In civics, only a quarter of U.S. students are proficient or better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
- Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, roughly eight in ten Americans speak only English and a decreasing number of schools are teaching foreign languages.
- A recent report by ACT, the not-for-profit testing organization, found that only 22 percent of U.S. high school students met “college ready” standards in all of their core subjects; these figures are even lower for African-American and Hispanic students.
- The College Board reported that even among college-bound seniors, only 43 percent met college-ready standards, meaning that more college students need to take remedial courses.
These are national over all averages. Of course, there are some schools, school districts, that exceed expectations, but those are becoming fewer and farther between. Do you ever ask yourself why? I did, many years ago, and after some majoy reading, investigating on my own, I figured it out. Those school districts that are at the bottom, and usually wholly ‘owned’ by the unions. Yet, in those same districts, taxes keep rising due to the cost of ‘education’. It’s not the education of the student that is so expensive these days….it’s the cost of putting a union hack teacher in the classroom. You aren’t paying for books, desks, needed supplies for your kids. No, you are paying for fat benefit packages, the type of package that will continue to pay the so called ‘teacher’ until the day he, or she, dies.
Fired For An Opposing View
Why does this not surprise me? Educators are suppose to educate, not push their political views. Yet, teachers unions are pushing their views on our kids. Charter schools! Home schooling! Our kids are not learning to think or reason, they are being indoctrinated with views that are, in many cases, completely opposite of what we teach them at home. They have an agenda, and it’s isn’t educating!
Natural Born Citizens
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…
You, who worry about Democrats versus Republicans — relax, here is our real problem.
In a Purdue University classroom, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States. It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age.
However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.
The class was taking it in and letting her rant, and not many jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating, “What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?”
Yep, these are the same kinds of 18-year-olds that are now voting in our elections! They breed, and they walk among US…
Lord — we need more help than we thought we did!
The Mr sent me this yesterday, and in Ol’ Broad fashion, I got behind on my emails, and just now got a gander. All I can do is shake my head. God help us all!
Undermining Faith
When Lainie posted this story on Facebook yesterday, I was already tired, and in a very good mood (always am after church), so didn’t really feel like tackling this issue. But now, it’s Monday morning, and no one is in a good mood on Monday mornings. Well, normal people who have to face a long week of work usually aren’t. Heh.
State University will no longer cancel classes for Christian, Jewish holidays
State University of New York at Stony Brook has decided to no longer cancel classes for major Christian and Jewish holidays in an effort to ensure that some religions are not given special treatment and to “afford equal support and equal respect to students and faculty from all faiths.”
Jewish students would be impacted on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Passover and Holy Week. Christian students would be impacted on Good Friday. The Christmas holiday is protected under a union contract and occurs when classes are traditionally not in session.
You’ll excuse me if I find this decision to NOT be equal, to anyone. Evidently, Jews and Christians paying for their assumed education at this institution will be unable to celebrate important events in their faith. Oh, but since Christmas is in the ‘union contract’, people of all faiths will get a break. Does anyone else find this a rather odd way to show “equal respect to students and faculty of all faiths”? Apparently, the students and teachers will either be missing those classes, or violating their faith?
For the Jews, it’s pretty much a mandate from God that they observe these Holy Days. Whoever came up with this absurd idea might want to read the Old Testament. Better yet, they should read the Torah, where God gives His statutes that the people are REQUIRED to observe.
The public education system, at every level, has already taken away the Christian Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter, and replaced it with ‘spring break’, where kids go off to some 24/7 party, get drunk, behave like heathens and hoochies, some ending up in jail. Yeah…that as a real good idea, wasn’t it. 
Now, they want to take away Good Friday as well?
The university had considered allowing faculty to schedule exams on Saturday and Sunday — a time when many students attend worship services. However, that decision was tabled after reaching a compromise with students.
Isn’t it the student and the parents who are paying these yahoos salaries, whether through tuition or tax money? Who is in charge? The paid or the payee?
“As a secular university, as a state-funded university our priority must be to maximize instructional opportunities for our students,” said Charles Robbins, vice provost for undergraduate education. “First and foremost, it’s important to note that while I respect everyone’s concerns, the reality is it’s a relatively small number of people who are upset.”
It’s state funded? I guess that means that the students aren’t paying ANY tuition at all, right? That ‘relatively small number’ who are upset should probably change schools…and take their parents money with them. Also, the state should cut off all funding for an institution that obviously has NO respect for ANYONE’S faith.
I would suggest that the students of all faiths tell the school’s administration to stuff it where the sun don’t shine! In light of recent shootings in Mississippi, I think education systems need MORE faith, not less. If anyone needs the lessons of morality, it would be our kids. Those “Thou Shalts” were not suggestions…they were ORDERS!
The Looming Doom
Voter Fraud
In typical Democrat fashion, any ability to fight voter fraud is being blocked. This is nothing new for them, it’s been going on quite a while. The latest target in the corrupt Democrat machine of Barack Obama and Eric Holder is Texas. There are people here in Texas who are just as fed up as those in the rest of the country with the constant blatant racism of this Attorney General and his minions.
Demonstrating the need for Texas’s law, a Texas-based group called True the Vote has found many instances of the very voter registration irregularities that Voter ID is designed to prevent from turning into fraudulent votes, and thus to shield our elections from some of the easiest to perpetrate forms of corruption. They found particular problems in the Houston-area district of Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who, as usual, cried “racist!”
I know it’s not funny, but I can only chuckle when I hear Shelia Jackson Lee spouting her ‘racist’ line. Doesn’t matter what it is about, that’s her battle cry, and too many follow along blindly. What is racist is the obvious fraud that has been perpetrated on the American people, of all colors, by the Democrat Party. This isn’t new. Since the days of Reconstruction, the Democrats have been targeting white AND black Americans. Their history is steeped in racism and violence.
Don’t believe me? Go to the National Black Republican Association website, read for yourself. Educate yourself on the REAL history, and who it has been, closing in on 2 centuries, that has fought any progress for black Americans. Talk to people like Alfonzo Rachel, Stacy Swimp, and Lloyd Marcus. Learn from Thomas Sowell, Frantz Kebreau, Kevin Jackson, Starr Parker and many more. Listen to Representatives Allen West and Tim Scott.
Ya just gotta love those Dems who equate voter ID with ‘bringing back Jim Crow‘. (My goodness, that’s one extremely ignorant woman! Y’all should be embarrassed!) Well, they should know better, since it was the DEMOCRATS who enacted those laws. But even they are willfully ignorant of their own history. Or perhaps they choose to keep their followers blindly in the dark? Apparently, it’s another one of those important tidbits that is being left out of our public school system. Why would the Democrats, and their ‘strong armed unions’ want our kids to learn the REAL history of the country?
The Truth Is Bad For Kids!
Haywood principal quits over anti-gay remarks
Haywood County High School’s principal has resigned after a national civil rights organization said she made anti-LGBT remarks and threatened to expel gay students.
A statement released by the Haywood County School Board’s law firm, Purcell, Sellers & Craig Inc., said Principal Dorothy Bond tendered her resignation Thursday.
“The Haywood County Board of Education acknowledges its student body’s right to free speech,” the board said in the statement. “Further, the Haywood County Board of Education strives to provide an atmosphere of tolerance and diversity while maintaining high academic standards.”
So…what was it that she said that was so horrible that the ACLU had to butt their noses in?
In the news release earlier Thursday, the ACLU said it had received reports from parents and students that during a school assembly, Bond said “gay students are ‘not on God’s path’ and threatened to expel them if they publicly showed affection for members of the same sex.”
And? First, it happens to be the truth. If you read God’s Word, you’d find that homosexuality is considered an ‘abomination’. But since they have removed God from education, it’s an anything goes world, and it’s just peachy keen to let kids wander down the wrong path. And second, do the schools allow straight kids to make out in the hallways? PDA (public displays of affection) are typically frowned upon. If the straight kids can’t do it, and would likely be expelled, then why should the LGBT bunch be able to get away with such behavior? It has nothing to do with whether or not a kid is gay or straight, it has every thing to do with common courtesy, and proper public behavior. I guess that’s not taught anymore either, since it’s such a bastion of ‘tolerance and diversity’. Pfft! Nothing more intolerant than those who shout the loudest about tolerance. But this wasn’t the only ‘crime’ the principal committed.
ACLU officials said they were told by parents and students that Bond also said “life is over” for girls who became pregnant.
I dunno…is it just me, or wouldn’t you think parents would prefer their teenage daughters NOT to get pregnant? Ask any teenage mother how her life is going, and likely, they’ll tell you…’I have no life anymore’. So, once again, the principal was correct. Once you have a baby, you’re entire life is tied up with that child. You don’t get to go out with friends, you are always either working to pay for the sitter and a few essentials, or you are living off your parents, or you are taking tax payer money to provide for a child. If, as a pregnant teen, you decide to go the liberal route, and murder the baby, you will always have that in the back of your mind, plus the odds of breast cancer go up. I won’t even mention the botched job that could end up killing the girl as well. It does happen, and more frequently than people might think. Then there’s always that chance that because of that action, the odds of having children in the future, when you are grown up enough to deal with a child, you might not be able to conceive. There are a LOT of reasons why a teen’s life would be ‘over’. Wouldn’t you think that parents would want their kids taught the realities of life?
It really is way past time for us to bring back the concept of ‘shame‘!
When Is It Time To STOP Being A Spoiled Brat?
When Spoiled-Rotten Children Grow Up
Riot police had to be called to an Orlando mall on Feb. 23. Why? Because an unruly crowd of would-be shoppers couldn’t wait to get their hands on the new Foamposite One Galaxy by Nike.
In case you’ve never heard of it (I hadn’t either), this is a special-edition basketball shoe that Nike introduced just days before the NBA All-Star Game. The House of Hoops by Foot Locker at Florida Mall had ordered a bunch of the shoes and announced that they would be sold (at $220 a pair) on a first-come, first-served basis at midnight.
Hundreds of people showed up long before the sale was to begin. Police were called to maintain some semblance of order. But well before the sale began, several hundred people rushed the door.
Law enforcement officers in riot gear pushed back the crowd. The store decided not to open that night at all. By Friday morning, Foot Locker announced that it was canceling the All-Star weekend shoe release at six other malls because of “safety concerns.”
So a near-riot broke out because some spoiled brats couldn’t wait to get their hands on a $220 pair of tennis shoes. Isn’t that ridiculous?
Frankly, we shouldn’t be surprised. This is just one more consequence of the entitlement philosophy our children have been taught. It’s been going for several generations.
Jada Williams
Yesterday on Beck’s show, he spoke to a young lady who has been brutally attacked by the union thugs of her school. Why? For speaking the truth. I applaud this young lady, and her mother for being strong and standing up to the thugs. The fact that she is no longer in school speaks volumes about our public education system.
The first video is from yesterday’s show, with Glenn interviewing her and her mother. It’s heart breaking to see this young, obviously intelligent lady cry because she isn’t allowed to do the one thing she truly loves…learn! It shouldn’t be Jada who was removed from the school…it should be the teachers, and every other “teacher” like them. The union thuggery will continue until WE put a stop to it, and regain control of our education system. The second video is from today’s show, Glenn addresses the evil that has become so prevalent in our schools, and honestly, our society as well.
