Tara Harris Charged With Assault After Stephanie Bennett Says Daughter Cut Hand in ‘Islami Hand Sign’ Drill .....

They will destroy us from within.....

“When she didn’t get it right, [Harris] went over and yanked her hand out of her desk and my daughter’s hand got hung up on the metal wire on her file folder and the skin got caught on it,” the mother explained, her voice cracking with emotion. “The other children saw my daughter’s hand dripping with blood after the teacher had gotten so mad that she went to twist my daughter’s hand into an Islamic sign.”

Despite 54% Graduation Rate, Buffalo Union Officials Campaign for Obama – in Ohio.......

Sara Gordon works for the American Federation of Teachers in Buffalo, and she’s in Ohio as part of an effort to bolster Obama, partly by taking advantage of new rules that allow union members to more aggressively go after non-union voters.”

So what is Gordon leaving behind? Try a 54 percent graduation rate in the Buffalo school district. According to the New York Times, 27 percent of 8th graders pass the K-8 test. A meager total of 40 percent pass the science portion while just 26 percent pass the math portion.

Denver schools' attempt to spur student 'revolution' backfires ....

“I think our job is not to challenge the dominant culture, but to prepare students for college or the military or the workforce, and be productive citizens,” Mr. Peterson said. “‘Working toward social justice’ typically comes as code words from the far left for big government programs and a redistributionist philosophy.”

Michelle Obama's school lunch rhetoric collides with reality.....

I am all for healthy eating. However...I also have a friend who cooks for the School Dept. 
She said she has never seen so much waste in her life. 
Between the entitled kids on free lunch tossing what they don't want and kids just not touching what is being offered....money is going down the drain. 
Hey...Michelle Antoinette Obama.....more "Let them eat cake"?!

The nationwide experience is mirroring what happened years ago in Berkeley, when world-famous restaurateur Alice Waters gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Berkeley schools in order to offer healthy, organic fare to school children, only to see it go uneaten. It seems that progressives never learn.

College Professor Sharon Sweet on Leave After Making Students Sign ‘Obama’ Pledge.....

A college professor at Brevard Community College (BCC) in Cocoa, Fla. has been placed on leave after she allegedly required her class to sign a pledge to vote for President Barack Obama “and Democrats up and down the ticket.

Verenice Gutierrez Claims PB&J Could Hold Racist Connotations.....

Thank heavens it's late in the day...I can drink soon................

Are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist? A bizarre question, to say the least, but one that at least one school administrator is asking out in Portland, Oregon. Verenice Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, seems to believe that there are racial connotations associated with the common lunch-time meal.

The Plot Thickens......

It makes me wonder if they have any explicit or implicit mission statement. For example, is it, "My mission as a journalist is to choose a political candidate and then select and slant what I report so as to help him/her get into office." Or possibly, "My mission as a journalist/reporter is to show my like-minded colleagues that I'm one of them." I simply cannot conceive what they perceive their professional responsibilities to be. It apparently never enters their minds.

Chicago thuggery personified: Meet Chicago Teachers’ Union president Karen Lewis.....

This is the woman leading the walkout of 26,000 public school teachers in Chicago. Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union, is a loud-mouthed “social justice” radical whose Big Labor racket would rather abandon 350,000 children to the streets than accept merit-based pay, teacher evaluations, and a 16 percent pay raise. The school board had already caved considerably on the union’s demands, but as the Chicago Sun-Times put it: “From the get-go, the union seemed intent on striking.”

Paul Ryan Supports Prayer in Public Schools....

When I was younger - I attended first Catholic School - then public.
I remember ( 45 years ago ) kids voluntarily NOT saying the morning prayers and also not saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
I did not agree even at that age...but respected their right. I do again today.
But even though I am a totally lapsed Catholic with no intention of returning there....I believe one of the things missing in this Country's soul is the presence of God in our lives.... let the States decide.

The Wisconsin congressman addressed the issue during a brief stop inside a Republican volunteer center in Provo, Utah. He was in the state to attend a fundraiser.

Asked by a volunteer whether he supported giving states the right to allow “prayer or pledge” in schools, Ryan said he did.

“That’s a constitutional issue of the states, moral responsibility of parents, education,” Ryan continued.

Deaf Preschooler Hunter Spanjer May Change Name Because Sign Resembles ‘Weapons’ .....

If this is true...I need a drink....we all do....

Hunter signs his name by crossing his middle and index fingers– leaving his thumbs up– and then wagging his hands.

Watch an interview with the family, and a demonstration of the gesture:

Should Colorao University Segregate Students Based on Gun Permits? .....

This is INSANE.....once again...Academia proves it hasn't a clue.....

By now you might know that the University of Colorado has decided to comply with a state supreme court ruling saying that it cannot ban permit-carrying students from having guns on campus. But in complying, the university has created a separate controversy: It has decided to segregate those students with concealed carry permits. Now, if a student has a permit and is living on campus, that student will have to live in separate dorms off campus.

School withholds valedictorian’s diploma for saying “hell” .....

But they pass out condoms to 12 year olds............

He said the principal told Kaitlin she would have to write an apology letter before he would release the diploma.

A move her dad believes is illegal.

“She earned that diploma. She completed all the state curriculum. In four years she has never made a B. She got straight A’s and had a 4.0 the whole way through.”

Kaitlin starts college in a few days on a full scholarship, making the administrators’ decision even more appalling to her family.

San Bernardino 8th Grader Brianna Gentry Pulled Out of Class for Having Photo of Military Brother on Her Binder.....

“Her brother is a positive role model in her life,” Eudy told the station. “She’s very active in Little League. She has been for six years. So these are things that are happy moments for her. … I think if you’re going to enforce a rule, the rule should apply to all children.”

The school sent back a list of guidelines for keeping a notebook — guidelines that didn’t mention keeping pictures in the binder.

Young Michelle Obama argued for race-based faculty hiring ....

It worked! The hired and Indian - Elizabeth Warren!

Michelle also gushed praise for critical race theory itself — the view that law is an instrument of the powerful against the powerless, rather than an effort to seek justice.

“Now, unlike before, students are being made to see how issues of class, race, and sex are relevant to questions of law,” she wrote. These issues, she said, were “being presented by people who possess the enthusiasm, sensitivity, and ingenuity necessary to bring excitement back into the classroom.”

Occupy Unmasked .....

Occupy Unmasked uncovers the answers through exclusive footage of the Occupy movement – footage that will leave your skin crawling and your stomach writhing. This was not a peaceful, hippie movement of the 1960s, with thousands of grassroots turning out for drug-induced love-ins. This was a top-down, insidiously planned movement with a set of very real goals: chaos, political pressure, undermining the existing constitutional order. Occupy was dangerous, and it was purposefully designed to be dangerous.

Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’ ....

I am President Obama’s classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. It’s his college records. Call it “gut instinct” but my gut is almost always right. Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia- and it’s a bad one that threatens to bring down his presidency. Gut instinct is how I’ve made my living for 29 years since graduating Columbia.

James Holmes' Psychiatrist Contacted University Police Weeks Before Movie-Theater Shooting......

The psychiatrist who treated suspected movie-theater shooter James Holmes made contact with a University of Colorado police officer to express concerns about her patient's behavior several weeks before Holmes' alleged rampage, sources told ABC News.

More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation - Yahoo! News

If only I thought they'd actually like to get America BACK to the educational excellence it used to have.
President Obama - have you checked the curriculum's lately... if you stopped social engineering and got back to basics, that would do it without the added expense; and tip of the hat to the Teachers Union. This has NOTHING to do with the kids.....


More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation - Yahoo! News:

WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.

'Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas,' the president said earlier this year. 'Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.'"

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Arguing with Idiots

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Arguing with Idiots:

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Obama eyes $4-bln education plan

Obama eyes $4-bln education plan: "President Barack Obama was to unveil a scheme to boost US education standards on Friday, luring states toward controversial reforms with four-billion-dollars worth of grants, the Washington Post reported.
In an interview published in Friday's paper, Obama outlined plans to help support semi-private charter schools and performance related pay for teachers, both strongly opposed by some in the country's highly decentralized education sector."