http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/publicschool/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:13:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411892/posts A Christian teacher fears she may never work again after she was sacked for offering to pray for a sick pupil. Olive Jones, 54, said she had been made to feel like a criminal, and claimed that Christians were being persecuted due to 'political correctness'. Mrs Jones, who taught children not well enough to attend school, said that after she raised the topic of prayer during a visit to a 12-year-old's house, the girl's mother lodged a complaint. Just hours later, said Mrs Jones, her boss told her she would no longer be working for Oak Hill Short Stay School... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411892/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:13:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411531/posts Found this on a web site I frequent. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411531/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:12:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408052/posts One eight-year-old in Taunton just learned a valuable lesson in political correctness, and a school district may wind up learning a little something about free speech, religious expression, and not asking questions to which one does not want to hear the answers. An elementary school student was asked to draw something that reminded him of Christmas. When he drew a picture of Jesus on a crucifix, the teacher and the administration recoiled in horror at the “violent image.” No, really: An eight year old elementary school student in Taunton was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological... HOTAIR.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408052/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407547/posts They go out of their way to not mention Jesus or any reference to Christmas being a Christian holiday and then they want the kids to sing "Allah is god." The height of liberal PC insanity..... A battle over religion is brewing in central Indiana after a public school wanted second graders to sing a song declaring, “Allah is God.” The phrase was removed just before the performance after a national conservative group launched a protest. The principal of Lantern Road Elementary School in Fishers, IN, said they were trying to teach inclusiveness through their holiday production. It included references... Todd Starnes on Fox News via weaselzippers.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407547/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:11:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407561/posts An elementary school in Indiana reportedly removed a mention of Allah in its holiday show after protests from a national conservative Christian group. Lantern Road Elementary Principal Danielle Thompson told IndyStar.com that school officials in Fishers, Ind., attempted to teach inclusiveness through the second-grade program that included portions on Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Las Posadas and Kwanzaa. "It went off last night without a hitch," Thompson told the Web site. "Several families thought it was a nice program." FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407561/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:29:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407925/posts Hollywood celebrities and education gurus have teamed together to distribute to schools across the country a dramatic new curriculum that casts American history as an epic march of victims seeking to shrug off the shackles of the warmongering, racist, capitalist, imperialist United States. Celebs to kids: America stinks! '55 rich white men drafted Constitution to protect their class – slaveholders'Hollywood celebrities and education gurus have teamed together to distribute to schools across the country a dramatic new curriculum that casts American history as an epic march of victims seeking to shrug off the shackles of the warmongering, racist, capitalist,... Education News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407925/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:14:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407336/posts Phonics Makes a Cameo Malcolm A. Kline, December 14, 2009 A surprisingly positive development in the textbook publishing world leads us to believe that hoped-for change may actually arrive some day. “In four major publishers’ new 1st grade Reading programs for Cali­fornia and Texas, a long-overdue national pro-phonics rout of anti-phonics pedagogy is at last in full cry,” Educational Analysts of Longview, Texas, report in the group’s latest newsletter. “Our reviews of these two submis­sions find the Texas editions clearly stronger on decoda­bility than their Cali­fornia analogs, with some flaws remaining in each.”... AIA- FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407336/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:07:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405467/posts You won't believe how 'gross' topics got for teenage students Jennings was co-chairman of committee that set up statewide program A pro-family organization is accusing President Obama's Office of Safe Schools chief, Kevin Jennings, of knowing in advance the "gross and disgusting" subjects that would be covered at a seminar on sex for teenagers. There have been multiple reports about a Massachusetts school seminar 10 years ago sponsored by the group Jennings founded, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, that included instructors providing explicit direction on homosexual activities, such as "fisting." The subject has been raised as a direct challenge... Education News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405467/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:39:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405456/posts AP - Following months of heated debate, the Alameda Board of Education has voted to phase out the elementary school curriculum it adopted in May to prevent anti-gay bullying. Under the duress of a lawsuit and threats of recall, the Alameda Board of Education has voted to phase out an elementary school curriculum it adopted in May to prevent anti-gay bullying. The so-called Lesson 9, which had become an opposition centerpiece in a national anti-gay marriage campaign, will be replaced by a more generic anti-bullying message. But the board's action Tuesday night did little to ease the tension between gay... Education News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405456/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:27:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404291/posts Sean Hannity & Michelle Malkin Break Media Silence on Fistgate & Obama’s Dangerous Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings (Video) Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 8:58 PM Jim Hoft Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin broke the media silence on Fistgate, GLSEN and Obama’s deranged Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings. Hannity says he won’t stop talking about Kevin Jennings until he is fired. Gatewaypundit / Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404291/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:47:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403913/posts Children are uniquely malleable beings, readily convinced of magically colorful tales – Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are the first that come to mind. This innocence is beautiful, but it is a quality that can easily fall victim to radically foreign ideas if taught consistently and pervasively at an early age. One need only look at the birth of fascism or socialism to see a recipe for how radical ideas become ubiquitous among a nation’s youth. Enter Howard Zinn – an author, professor and American historian – who, with the help of Hollywood and the History Channel, intends to... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403913/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400702/posts A judge has attacked parents, suggesting they are bigots for seeking to opt-out their elementary-age children from a mandatory controversial pro-homosexual curriculum, according to a non-profit law firm. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400702/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400379/posts Almost all of us agree that it's important to teach students the history of the American Revolution, and the basic principles that guided it. Yet the vast majority of Americans flunked a test on the basic facts surrounding that time period, and the liberties it spawned, a new survey finds. The results were unveiled in a poll conducted by the American Revolution Center, a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote public understanding of those historical events and their legacy. The organization conducted a nationwide poll of adults 18 and older, which had a four percent margin of error. The survey... EducationWeek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400379/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:56:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400328/posts Scott Baker from Breitbart-TV.com and Co-Host of ‘The B-Cast‘ submitted this shocking report today on Obama’s deviant Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings. —-Warning on Content—– I was recently approached by a team of independent researchers that I have known for some time and have come to trust. They prepared this report involving ‘Safe Schools Czar’ Kevin Jennings and the organization he founded, GLSEN, and asked that I find a way to help draw attention to what they uncovered. Knowing that Gateway Pundit has followed Kevin Jennings since his appointment, as we have on The B-Cast (here, here, and here), and... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400328/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:39:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399739/posts A judge today slammed parents as “bigots” for seeking to excuse their elementary-age children from controversial pro-homosexual curriculum. The parents are being represented in court by Pacific Justice Institute. PJI Chief Counsel Kevin Snider argued in Alameda Superior Court today on behalf of parents seeking to enforce a provision of the California Education Code that gives parents the right to opt their kids out of health education. Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch lambasted the parents, repeatedly insinuating that they are bigots and insisting there can be no homosexual indoctrination because people are born that way. The judge equated a... Pacific Justice Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399739/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:36:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399599/posts The principal and a teacher at Goleta Valley Junior High School in Santa Barbara County, California are apologizing to parents for not following school district policy relating to a pro-homosexual workshop given to 8th grade students in a leadership class at the school. The controversial workshop was presented by “Just Communities Central Coast” in three, 45-minute sessions over three days. It included handouts defining homosexual terminology, including queer and transgender, and listed “heterosexism” as “oppression that ‘pushes down’ people who are LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and questioning) and ‘pushes up’ people who are straight.” The handout defines sexual orientation... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399599/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:25:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399308/posts Milwaukee Public Schools' health officials want to make condoms freely available to students in many of the district's high schools, as part of an effort to combat the health risks that sexually transmitted infections and other communicable diseases pose to young people. If the proposal wins the support of the School Board, the new policy could take effect as early as next school year, making MPS one of a few districts in the nation that provide contraception to students. Kathleen Murphy, the district's health coordinator, said that data continues to show that middle and high school students are engaging in... The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399308/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:00:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398579/posts Redefining Public Education Bethany Stotts, December 2, 2009 In the November Education Outlook issued by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), senior fellow Frederick Hess issues an ambitious set of K-12 educational reforms which, he argues, would modernize teacher hiring practices and public education. “Ultimately, the goal is to rethink the teacher challenges of the 21st century,” writes Hess. “While we should recognize that institutions change slowly and celebrate incremental advances, we should not allow that to obscure the goal: to recruit the most promising talent and then foster a more flexible, rewarding, and performance-focused profession,” he later adds. In the... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398579/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:03:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397169/posts FOX News Reporting investigated the $10 billion dollar-a-year textbook industry and how the drive to be politically correct might be taking over American schools. Host Tucker Carlson, asked experts, teachers, publishers and parents the same question: "Do you know what is inside your children's textbooks?" From kindergarten through college, we found staggering errors and omissions which may be pushing agendas, hidden and otherwise. We spoke to the author of “The Language Police,” education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children’s textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397169/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:32:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392741/posts Whether sex education for teenagers should focus on abstinence from sexual activity or fully address the use of contraceptives has emerged as a topic in the debate in Congress over a health-care overhaul. Advocates of differing approaches to sex education are watching whether Congress will come down on the side of paying for what are widely called “abstinence-only programs,” which President Barack Obama proposed eliminating in his fiscal 2010 budget, or of financing only what are known as “comprehensive” programs. [snip] The health-care bill the U.S. House of Representatives passed this month doesn’t authorize any funding for abstinence-only programs. Rather,... EducationWeek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392741/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:29:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392722/posts Condoms may make for safe sex, but a city teacher says they made for unsafe conditions at a Manhattan high school. Karen Hollander is suing the Department of Education over injuries she says she suffered following a nasty spill on garbage and "slippery foreign substances" that included condoms discarded by students at the High School of Art & Design. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392722/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:17:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391719/posts LEWISTON — A national Muslim civil rights organization has filed a formal request with the Lewiston School Department to allow a middle school student to pray on school property. The group also wants Lewiston to modify existing policy and provide "constitutionally protected religious accommodation," such as a designated prayer room. The group has also requested the school department institute diversity training for school staff, and to ensure the middle-schooler won't face retaliation because of her request to pray at the Lewiston Middle School. According to the Washington, D.C.,-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, seventh-grader Nasra Aden had been routinely "praying discreetly... sunjournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391719/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:32:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390592/posts Three years ago, the Washington state association that regulates fair play in high school athletics faced an unusual query from administrators: what should they do about four boys who wanted to participate on girls' teams. One had his eye on volleyball, two wanted to be cheerleaders and a fourth did not specify his area of interest. After consultation, it developed a novel policy that says all students should be able to participate in sports "in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on a student's records." Upon a student's request, the idea is... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390592/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:43:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369831/posts High school student Chad Farnan, 17, speaks at a campaign fundraiser for Shawn Black, a GOP candidate for the 70th Assembly District, earlier this month. The legal group that represents Farnan, Advocates for Faith & Freedom, has been ordered to pay $19,688 in legal fees. SANTA ANA – In a legal twist that challenges the notion of what a prevailing party is, a federal court clerk on Friday awarded $19,688 in court-related fees to the attorneys who represented high school teacher James Corbett, sued two years ago for making anti-Christian comments in class. Milli Borgarding, the deputy in charge of... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369831/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366418/posts The Obama administration’s safe schools czar, Kevin Jennings, has accused the Baptists, the Boy Scouts and sports fans of anti-gay bias, and he has advocated a special high school for gay teens as well as gay-straight alliance clubs for every high school in America. Jennings, who was a prominent homosexual activist before being named director of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education, also has called for kindergarteners to be taught to respect all sexual orientations, while insisting that “ex-gay messages” and “Christian values” are ‘misused to isolate or denigrate lesbian, gay, bisexual... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366418/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:37:36 GMT