http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/publiceducation/ en-us Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:13:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137720/posts A real sad example on how these brain dead morons have no idea when was the biggest event in American history Attack of the Brain dead Sheeple... you tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137720/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:13:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127609/posts Absolutely disgusting. This teacher should be fired immediately. Breitbart.tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127609/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 04:32:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120603/posts Good friend is a teacher in Westborough, MA, public schools. Told me that when either student or staff tries to open Free Republic, you get "Site Contains Unsuitable Material. Contact IT Manager." But DumpsterUnderground, Slate, etc. come up just fine. Westborough accepts both state and federal (your) money. Our tax dollars being used to censor conservative opinion. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120603/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:50:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118270/posts YES ON 8 CHALLENGES SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION JACK O’CONNELL TO LIVE DEBATE Yes on 8 Says Debate Will Make It Clear: If we do not Pass Proposition 8, Gay Marriage Will Be Taught in California Public Schools, and that is Already Happening October 28, 2008 SACRAMENTO – The Protectmarriage.com – Yes on 8 campaign today challenged Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and the No on 8 campaign to a live, televised debate this weekend so voters can learn the truth about the issue of gay marriage being taught in California public schools. The Yes on 8 Campaign, in... ProtectMarriage.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118270/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:13:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118082/posts Judge delays 8th-grade algebra in California schools SACRAMENTO — A Sacramento County judge has agreed to delay a requirement that all California eighth-graders be tested in algebra. AP via San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118082/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117780/posts Fremont mayor's campaign apparently broke law by recruiting students on campus for election work Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman's re-election campaign has recruited more than 130 high school volunteers by approaching them on campus in apparent violation of state education law. The mayor's campaign staff recruited students in classrooms at three of Fremont's five high schools, promising college recommendation letters from the mayor himself. They asked students to commit four hours a week to phone-banking, door-to-door outreach and other work like putting up lawn signs and preparing mailers. And many students have signed up. Offering the recommendation letters was legal, but... San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117780/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:30:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111520/posts November 4, 1997 Press Contact: Julia Morse (773) 702-8359 morse@uchicago.edu Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community. William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court(Beacon Press, 1997), says “We should call a child a child. Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School. One hundred years later, the system is “overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist,” Ayers said. Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111520/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:42:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111148/posts Acts of Terrorism - Not ISLAM Terrorists are not Muslims Acts of Terrorism attributed to the Taliban (the Afghanistan Ruling Party) or any other Muslim groups or organizations must not be equated with Islam. Instead, if one acts like a Judge or a Jury, he or she will evaluate their actions in the light of injunctions of Holy Quran (God's commands and Final Guidance), the practice of the Final Prophet of God-Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his companions and the Four rightly guided Islamic Rulers (may Allah be pleased with them) after him before saying any thing false about... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111148/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:30:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106429/posts RACINE — Racine Unified officials say they will review the district’s textbook adoption policy after a parent complained to a local blogger about an eighth-grade literature textbook that included an excerpt from a book written by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. Officials also will review the district’s policy and procedures for handling complaints concerning educational materials. District officials haven’t received a formal complaint from the parent who complained to the local blog realdebatewisconsin.com said Stephanie Hayden, Unified’s spokes woman. Superintendent Jim Shaw also directed administrators to review with teachers the 8th grade English Language arts curriculum and instructional practices to comply... Journal Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106429/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:49:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105770/posts Education: The joint effort between Barack Obama and terrorist William Ayers to "reform" Chicago schools was a flop. After spending $160 million, Chicago's children were still being left behind.It was, and some say still is, his only claim to have executive experience qualifying him for high government office. "My experience previous to elected office equips me for the job," Obama said in a 2000 televised debate during a failed campaign to unseat incumbent Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush. Of that experience, Obama said: "I have chaired major philanthropic efforts on the city, like the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) that gave $50... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105770/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:51:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105503/posts The creepy indocrination of children in the art of Obama-worship continues: My 8th grade son is in an advanced English class at a public middle school here in Racine, Wisconsin. I just found out that my son's new (copyright 2008) Wisconsin - McDougal Littell Literature book has 15 pages covering Barack Obama. I was shocked - No John McCain, no Hillary Clinton, no George Bush - Just Barack Obama. I'm wondering how it is that Obama's story gets put into an 8th grade literature book? It would be one thing, if it was just the tidbit about his boyhood days,... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105503/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105483/posts Stanley Kurtz's examination of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge provides us evidence of the sort of educational policies Barack Obama funded when handing out scores of millions of dollars he was entrusted with. In a must-read article at National Review Online, Kurtz provides the detailed history of the movement Obama backed with tax-free charitable funds. It is absolutely fair to quiz Obama on his views toward education today based on his track record. A few brief samples: Obama gave legitimacy - and a whole lot of money - to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105483/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:36:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105393/posts Obama has been given a pass as an intellectual, as “professorial,” yet has been unwilling to release his school records or senior thesis at Columbia that would prove the merit upon which his scholarships were based. It is now well known that he got through Harvard law school with some help by Khalid Al-Mansour. Other associations include Rashid Khalidi, professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia. An Obama associate and founding member of the terrorist group the Weathermen, Bill Ayers, as professor of education, does this in one of his several books on education, Teaching toward Freedom, where he writes,... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105393/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:52:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2105382/posts This is getting really freaky. Dear Leader gets 15 page spread in 2008 children's textbooks. This isn't teaching, it's indoctrination! The hard Left is already pumping out massive Obama indoctrination material in 8th grade textbooks. Maybe this was part of the Bill Ayers education plan? 8th grade students in Racine, Wisconsin are now using textbooks that contain a 15 page section on Barack Obama. Note: No Hillary, No McCain, No Palin, No Bush... Just Obama! Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2105382/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:38:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102224/posts Sometimes, Jennifer Ross feels she cannot make a move at home without inviting the scorn of her daughters, Grace, 10, and Eliza, 7. The car she drives? A flagrant polluter. The bath at night to help her relax? A wasteful indulgence. The reusable shopping bags she forgot, again? Tsk, tsk. "I have very, very environmentally conscious children - more so than me, I'm embarrassed to say," said Ross, a social worker in Dobbs Ferry, New York. "They're on my case about getting a hybrid car. They want me to replace all the light bulbs in the house with energy-saving bulbs."... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102224/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:34:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099788/posts MHS student suspended for having hunting bow in his SUV A Milaca [Minnesota] High School senior has been suspended for 10 days for having a hunting bow in his vehicle. But is the school administration following its own policies? Keith Larson realized he had forgotten the cased bow in the back of his Ford Explorer when discussion of a recent incident in Blaine took place during his first hour economics class on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Keith had said he didn’t think the Blaine student should have been suspended because the box cutter was for his job. “I didn’t see what... Mille Lacs Country Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099788/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:13:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099798/posts What about those "real issues" that Barack Obama's supporters in the media say we should get back to, whenever some new unsavory fact about his past comes out? Surely education is a real issue, with American school children consistently scoring below those in other countries, and children in minority communities faring worst of all. What about Senator Obama's position on this real issue? As with other issues, he has talked one way and acted the opposite way. The education situation in Obama's home base of Chicago is one of the worst in the nation for the children— and one of... Creators Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099798/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:28:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098786/posts Unfortunately Gov. Sarah Palin wasn’t exaggerating when she said on Saturday that Presidential hopeful Barack Obama was friendly “with terrorists” referring to William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist and former Weather Underground Operative. The question to ask today, however, is whether or not Ayer’s radical ideologies play a role in Obama’s revolutionary 2007 education legislation. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098786/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:29:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095733/posts Teachers union e-mail touting Obama scorned Mike Drost Thursday, October 2, 2008 An e-mail distributed by a Virginia teachers union encouraged members to bring politics into the classroom by wearing blue in support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama and simultaneously suggested that the union's voter registration efforts include those "you teach." The Virginia Education Association (VEA) e-mail drew strong criticism Wednesday from elected Republican officials and some residents after the state Republican Party obtained a copy. The author of the e-mail conceded Wednesday that the e-mail should have been worded differently. The VEA is an affiliate of the... Washington Times stories http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095733/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:07:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095767/posts The teachers union has been handing out thousands of Barack Obama campaign buttons to its members, sparking a clampdown by education brass. The Department of Education - which has a long-standing policy barring teachers from wearing campaign buttons in schools - is set to send out an e-mail this week from Schools Chancellor Joel Klein laying down the law. "Schools are not a place for politics and not a place for staff to wear political buttons," said department spokeswoman Ann Forte. "We don't want a school or school staff advocating for any political position or candidate to students and we... NEW YORK POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095767/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:46:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095570/posts SOQUEL -- Teachers at Soquel High School have agreed not to wear "Educators for Obama" buttons in the classroom after a parent complained that educators were attempting to politically influence his daughter and other students. John Hadley, an importer of South African goods, called the school to complain Friday after his 16-year daughter Teegan returned home and reported that she had seen several teachers wearing the buttons. Santa Cruz Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095570/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:00:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092511/posts ANN ARBOR, MI – For the past twenty-five years, Brad Johnson, a high school math teacher at the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, CA, has been displaying large red, white and blue banners in his classroom that mention God. The banners contain patriotic phrases such as: “In God We Trust,” “One Nation Under God,” and “God Bless America.” However, last year school officials ordered the banners removed because they promoted a “Judeo-Christian” viewpoint. The School District allowed classroom displays by other teachers that included posters of Buddhist and Islamic messages and Tibetan prayer flags, among other displays. As... Thomas More law center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092511/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:02:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088685/posts Extremely slick propaganda directed at the youngest of children! The videos below are from It's Elementary, a 78-minute feature film produced by homosexual activists. These are actual scenes from elementary schools in Massachusetts and New York. It's Elementary is meant to be a training video for homosexual activist teachers across the country. In addition, the film itself has been shown to schoolchildren in public schools in Massachusetts and elsewhere. This is what is actually going on in more and more elementary schools across America. Watching this will really affect you! You will not believe what you are seeing. Part 1:... Mass Resistance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088685/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:17:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088454/posts An 11-year-old boy in Colorado was suspended from school after he refused to take off a shirt that read, “Obama is a terrorist’s best friend.” His father says that the school is violating his son’s First Amendment rights. Daxx Dalton, a fifth grader at Aurora Frontier K-8 School in Aurora, Colo., wore the homemade shirt on a day when students were asked to show their patriotism by wearing red, white and blue, according to MyFOXColorado.com. When he was given the choice of turning the shirt inside out or being suspended, Dalton chose suspension. “They’re taking away my right of freedom... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088454/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088458/posts Today, in a piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools,” I offer a report on my research into the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education foundation once headed by Barack Obama. As I explained in “Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?” the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago first agreed to grant, then abruptly denied me, access to the files of this foundation. Subsequently, the Daley Library again reversed their decision and made the CAC files available. As I note in today’s Journal piece, I’ve conveyed the... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088458/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:14:50 GMT