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Here is another fun game to play as you are driving about on this Christmas Day. Short video ( 27 seconds): School or Prison?/Another "Fun" Game A variation of this game: Count how many times that the signs outside those buildings that look like prisons but are actually schools will say, "Winter Break". No mention is made that this "Winter Break" just happens to coincide with our national holiday, Christmas.

AdamVSTheMan plays "IS IT A SCHOOL, OR IS IT A PRISON" with Alexander McCobin and Sloane Frost of Students for Liberty. Have fun with this one. Here's the link: School or Prison? ( Play the New Game)

"Are US SCHOOLS more like PRISON? JUVENILE HALLS or Educational Institution?" Here's the link to the video: Are US Schools more like Prison? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5RaDNHwc_M Several thoughts come to mind in the light of the recent school shooting: 1) Government schools will resemble prison even more so than they do now. 2) With more police presence in the schools, minor school infractions will more often be treated like crimes. 3) The children who attend these schools risk learning to be comfortable with a prison-state government control of their lives, government compulsion, and the government trashing every First Amendment Right ( speech,...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBSgchJe2Z0 At about 2:20 in the video, Mr. Round begins listing what is occurring in his government school. He states that only 4 or 5 of the children in his class were able to consistently endure this treatment. Please think about this. Question: What would happen if parents treated children this way in the home? Question: What would OSHA officials have to say if employers treated their adult employees this way? Answer: It would be called what it is: Abuse! Where are all the "good" teachers standing up and protesting this? Where are the mass resignations? Where are these so-called...

If Barack and Michelle Obama feel comfortable allowing Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to babysit their children, that is their problem. The question is, would you allow them to babysit yours? Let's take that a step farther: would you let them raise your children? Would you give them exclusive supervision over the majority of your children's daylight hours up to age eighteen, primary control of your children's academic curriculum and teaching methodology, and authority to arrange the broad social and moral framework within which your children will be educated? No? Then why do you accept modern public education? Furthermore, why,...

On perhaps my saddest day of teaching, I was witness to an assembly presented to juniors and seniors at La Puente High School under color of "AIDS Awareness." Within the 45-minute series of very cleverly devised humorous skits and demonstrations, I beheld the barbaric demolition of the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian West before my very eyes. Along with provocative descriptions of male-on-male coitus and the disparagement "twisted and perverse" directed at anyone who found fault with the emancipated vision of a sexual free-for-all was a single demonstration that elicited only wild applause and profound laughter amongst the audience. A mid-twenties...

I don't have an opportunity to listen to talk radio very much and we don't subscribe to cable. So?....Question: Do you think Rush, Hannity, and the others in the conservative talk media will cover the blatant voter fraud in the swing states? Do you think these so-called "conservative" entertainers will bother to mention the more that 100% turn out in dozens of voting districts in the swing states and give it the coverage it deserves? Do you think they will ignore this issue has they have other important news? Personally, I would appreciate an update from those who do listen...

President Barack Obama recently signed an executive order hiring race-sensitive bureaucrats to hold meetings and mandate racial discipline quotas. The order charges his new racial justice team, in part, with "promoting a positive school climate that does not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools." In plain English, that means that if different races have different incidences of disciplinary action, those of a favored race who act worse will be punished less, or those of a disfavored race who act better will be punished more, or both. It's true that a higher percentage of black students...

HetchingerEd is offering a rather radical proposal to increase the number of American students who graduate college: dump math. Specifically, the argument is that since many college students, a disproportionately large number of them of an African-American or Hispanic descent, are unprepared to tackle college-level mathematics courses, they might be stymied by a requirement that all those receiving a degree from a particular institution must pass the freshman version of the course. A fifth of students entering a four-year college don’t have the needed math skills to pass the course and are forced into remediation. Nearly half of community college...

New Jersey is seeing a rise of inclusive homeschooling groups that aim to provide opportunities for parents to network and for children to socialize, conduct science experiments, and play sports and games, says Homeschool World of the Practical Homeschooling Magazine. Before New Jersey parent Heather Kirchner decided to homeschool her daughter, she believed that mothers who homeschooled their children were only the types “who wore long skirts and praised Jesus and all that,” writes Alesha Williams Boyd and Sergio Bichao at USA Today. Kirchner is one of number of parents joining secular organizations across the country that offer homeschooling. And...

This year will mark the launch of one of the most extensive, comprehensive charter school programs in the country. Starting this fall, every student in Louisiana whose neighborhood school is considered underperforming will be eligible to transfer to another school with the state picking up the tab via vouchers. In anticipation of families taking advantage of this option, a record number of charter school proposals were submitted to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education this spring. According to State Superintendent of Education John White, the number of proposals for new schools alone – 29 – exceeded the number...

Take your children out of public schools. That's what James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family, told more than five million American listeners in a March 28 broadcast of his daily radio show. "In the state of California ... I wouldn't put [a] youngster in a public school," Dobson bluntly stated. His words sparked a campaign that reveals the extent of parental discontent with public schools. Why are they discontented? Some parents worry about the lack of religious or "moral" values; other parents point to low academic standards or bias against male students. (Dobson objected...

For the Record: Public School is Evil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edZ1xhozjzQ Major points of the Youtube video: Our nation's #2 problem is public education. Public school teachers are killing America. Public school can not be reformed. "Choice" is a dirty word unless you'rr Yank your children out of the public schools IMMEDIATELY. The goal of public education has **always** been about indoctrination.

It’s hard to identify an area where technology has made more impact than homeschooling. With the growth of digital learning options, many parents who have never before considered taking more control over their children’s education are now withdrawing their kids from traditional schools — at least part-time — and allowing them to take advantage of courses offered by not only for-profit providers on contract to their school districts, but also online high school programs offered by some of the best colleges and universities around the country. (snip) Most of the studies compiled by groups such as the National Home School...

WASHINGTON — Parents are urged to teach their kids to speak up if they witness school bullying in new ads that target an issue that top Obama administration officials vow to make a national priority. long-term campaign featuring television, print and web ads was unveiled Monday and will start running in October. The campaign is a joint effort by the Ad Council, a nonprofit that distributes public service announcements, and the Free to Be Foundation, a group that includes entertainers Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda and Mel Brooks. one television ad, two girls are seen bullying a schoolmate, mocking her appearance...

School buses serve as a setting for as much as 10% of all bullying incidents in the country, according to the data collected by the U.S. Department of Education. The reality, however, could be much worse, since as many as two-thirds of all bullying incidents that take place in the U.S. schools are never reported. A recent article on Slate.com explained that limited space and lack of adequate supervision make school bus bullying notoriously hard to control and reduce. Jeremy Stahl, writing at Slate.com, said that he polled his colleagues about their own and their kids’ experiences and many recalled...

Question: Are there blogging or message board sites that are frequented by attorneys who specialize in class action suits? Reason: There are many news articles posted here on Free Republic about high school **graduates** who arrive at community college, or who take the military entrance exam, who are found to be functionally illiterate and innumerate. The only way this could happen is if a fist full of teachers and principals, during these young people's government education, LIED on government documents and fraudulently claimed that these young people had skills that did NOT exist! In any other profession this would be...

Things are looking grim for teachers unions. The National Education Association (NEA) membership has declined by more than 100,000 since 2010, and the union’s own projections indicate that within two more years it could have lost a total of 308,000 full-time teachers and other workers. This would represent a 16% drop in membership from 2010. It’s not simply member numbers at stake, but the dues each member provides. If projections are correct, then the NEA budget will decline 18% and they’ll have $65 million less to work with. Greg Toppo of USA Today reports that the NEA explains the unprecedented...

Here are a few suggestions that would cost the taxpayer nothing and possibly save them BILLIONS : 1) Open up the GED to any child of **any** age. Remove all age restrictions on these exams! If they pass this exam, or similar private exam, award them an official high school diploma from their local government owned and run socialist-entitlement K-12 school. 2) Encourage employers to use SAT and ACT scores as measures of a young adult's capacity to learn the job. (Honestly, why does the event's planner at the local Marriott need a bachelors degree? )Most of the work done...

This is a very interesting sounding group. I also like their rendition of "Little Boxes." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M Five people play one guitar.