Eight-year-old Kicked out of School For Drawing Picture of Jesus

This drawing, released by Chester Johnson, of Taunton, shows a sketch of Jesus on the cross created by his son as part of school work, in Taunton, Mass. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. The 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday.

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MEPs Call for Compulsory EU Indoctrination in All Schools

Leaders of the centre-right EPP grouping in the European Parliament say there should be compulsory classes for 14-year-olds in all member states.

The calls are being led by Mario David, a Portuguese MEP who was chief of staff to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso when he was the country's prime minister.

He claimed the controversy surrounding the Lisbon Treaty demonstrated their was widespread ignorance of the EU's work.

"All the debates about the constitution and then the Lisbon Treaty showed a great deal of lying, cheating and mistrust about the EU," he said.

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School Fingerprints Pupils to Monitor Absenteeism

Students were fingerprinted yesterday as a Limerick secondary school introduced its own database in a hi-tech bid to monitor absenteeism.

But the Data Protection Commission is already investigating the school’s new security scanning system, styled on the popular TV crime series CSI.

The principal of Salesian College at Copsewood, Pallaskenry, however, emphasised that the school did not have an absenteeism problem.

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Bouncers and Postmen 'Cheap Labour' Substitutes for Teachers

Thousands of untrained staff – including ex-bouncers, postmen and driving instructors – are being used as "cheap labour" to cover for absent teachers, government research has revealed.

By law only fully qualified teachers and assistants can take lessons in state schools, but academics identified instances when untrained staff – so-called "cover supervisors" – were taking their place for weeks at a time.

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How University Betrays Students

I'd only send my son to university if he had no talent.

He is going anyway, for the social life and the certificate. I warn him that after studying the Humanities and Social Sciences, he won't be able to think independently or absorb information that doesn't fit his programming.

The modern university is not devoted to truth, quite the opposite. Repressive fe-manism is rampant on campus but that is just a symptom of a more profound problem.

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School Officials Face Jail Time for Meal-time Prayers

A principal and an athletic director are facing criminal charges for a lunch-time prayer.


Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Pace High School in Santa Rosa County, Florida. The ACLU claimed some teachers and administrators were endorsing religion, but the school chose to give in to the ACLU's demands rather than fight them in court.

According to the settlement, all school employees are banned from engaging in prayer or religious activities before, during, or after school hours. Now two school officials are facing criminal charges for offering meal-time prayers at an appreciation dinner for adults who had helped with a school field house project. Principal Frank Lay and athletic director Robert Freeman are scheduled to go on trial next month on criminal contempt charges. If convicted, both are subject to fines and imprisonment.

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UK: All Parents to Sign 'Behaviour Contracts'

Pupils and their families will be required to agree to the deal - setting out minimum standards of behaviour and attendance - before the start of term. Contracts, known as Home School Agreements, will also establish parents' responsibilities for the first time.

They face court action and possible fines of up to £1,000 for repeatedly breaking rules.

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Just homeschool your kids!!!!!

Ruling Brands Judaism Racist – Chief Rabbi

The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, issued a rallying cry for Jews today to defend their schools from English law after the court of appeal decided that admission on the basis of a parent's Jewish status was discriminatory. Writing in this week's Jewish Chronicle, he condemned the ruling, saying it branded Judaism "racist".

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Labour to Junk Tony Blair's Flagship School Reform

The government is to abandon the most significant education reform of the New Labour era in order to end the centralised control of schools and grant headteachers more powers, the Guardian has learned.

In a totemic break from the Blair years, next week's education white paper will signal the end of Labour's national strategies for schools, which includes oversight of the literacy and numeracy hours in primaries. The changes will strip away centralised prescription of teaching methods and dramatically cut the use of private consultants currently employed to improve schools.

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Fabian Ed Balls Considers Ban on BNP Teachers

The government is investigating a possible ban on British National party members working as teachers in schools in a move that could challenge the legitimacy of the far-right party.

A source close to the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said there had been several meetings on the issue with teaching unions which are lobbying for a change in teachers' contracts to prevent them from working if they are members of far-right groups including the BNP. The issue was being "actively looked at", the source said.

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Ed Balls Has always been heavily involved with the Fabian Society so what room has he to talk. Maybe all Fabians should be banned from government posts!

Watch out Ed Balls You are being watched!

MMR Jab Should Be Made Compulsory

A former chairman of the British Medical Association is calling for the MMR jab to be made compulsory.

Public health expert Sir Sandy Macara believes children should not be able to go to school unless they have first been vaccinated.

Sir Sandy has submitted a motion for debate at the annual BMA conference later this month.

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UNESCO and the New World Order: In their Own Words

In the wake of the last Bilderberg conference, we bare witness to a great darkening front closing in on us yet another few inches toward total world domination. The alert observers saw it coming for a long time; the thoroughly indoctrinated are only now beginning to sense that something is rotten in the state of Denmark. How could this have happened without us knowing? And where were the media during our collective comatose suspension? Well, they were busy taking crash courses in ‘educational-operations’ crafted by members of the elite- who are all into streamlining the different media-outlets towards a single purpose, a single hive-mind for us to assimilate into.

If you have the misfortune of being born after 1970, you have effectively been put under the spell of this new educational system, dripping into every segment of public life: from broadcasting media and newspapers, to readymade textbooks being used in school and, even, big budget motion pictures flickering predictive programming to be subliminally absorbed.

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GCSE Pupils 'Brainwashed to Support the MMR Vaccine'

The Government has been accused of using a school exam paper to indoctrinate children about the controversial MMR vaccine.

Teenagers sitting a GCSE science exam were awarded marks only if they agreed that the study that first raised fears over the safety of MMR was bad science and biased because money changed hands.

The study in 1998 by Dr Andrew Wakefield led to a crisis of public confidence in immunisation.

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English is Second Language for One in Seven School Pupils

One in seven primary school pupils does not speak English as a first language.
The number who normally speak a foreign language rose last year to 565,888 - 14.3 per cent of the total.
In some areas, English is a foreign language to more than 70 per cent of four to 11-year-olds, putting enormous pressure on teaching staff. And there are ten schools without a single pupil who has English as a first language, new figures show

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Schools Put 'Big Brother' CCTV Cameras in Classrooms to Monitor Teachers' Performance

Schools are installing CCTV cameras and microphones in classrooms to spy on teachers.

The surveillance technology is being used to check that pupils are being taught well and to expose poor teachers. But the approach has provoked fury among teaching unions, who say the tactics smack of Big Brother.

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Headteacher Paid to Run School That Doesn't Exist and Has No Pupils

It was supposed to be one of John Prescott’s flagship new towns designed to ease Britain’s housing crisis, creating homes for 10,000 people, with its own schools, shopping centre, library and sports centre.

But because of planning delays and the economic crisis, only a handful of houses have been built and just three people have moved in.

One thing it does have, though, is a headteacher who is being paid about £60,000 a year to run a school with no buildings and no pupils.

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School Receptionist Faces Sack After Five-year-old Daughter is Told Off For Talking About God

A school receptionist faces the sack after seeking the support of Christian friends when her five-year-old daughter was scolded for talking about God in class.
Jennie Cain's daughter Jasmine was ticked off by a teacher for discussing Heaven and Hell with a fellow pupil and came home in tears.
After comforting her distraught daughter, Mrs Cain, who works at the school, sent a private email to ten close Christian friends asking them to offer prayers for the families and the school.
But a copy fell into the hands of Gary Read, headmaster at Landscore Primary School, in Crediton, Devon.
Now Mrs Cain, 38, is being investigated for professional misconduct for allegedly making claims against the school and staff members. She may be disciplined and even faces dismissal.

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Private School Turns to Parents For Cash Bailout

AN independent school has appealed to parents for an emergency £500,000 bailout after its bank credit was abruptly withdrawn.

The governors of Bolitho school in Penzance, Cornwall, last week called parents to a meeting in the pupils’ gym to announce that they needed to raise the money within weeks or the school would close.

The plight of Bolitho, which teaches 350 children from four upwards, is the latest evidence of the impact the recession is having on private education.

Dozens of schools are up for sale, some have closed and others are cutting staff to keep fee rises to a minimum and stave off an exodus of parents.

Julia Hopson, a Bolitho governor, said HBOS, the bank that had to be saved by a government bailout last autumn, withdrew the school’s overdraft facility just two days before Christmas.
She said the school was trading at a surplus and that pupil numbers were growing.

She claimed HBOS’s letter was a “bolt from the blue”, adding: “The banks show no mercy. They do not care about the pupils.”

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The Sovietisation of the education system continues with help from the rip off bankers

CCTV Used to 'Spy' on Pupils in Schools

The surveillance equipment is in use in around 85 primary and secondary schools and colleges across the country.

Classwatch, the company behind the system, says it is being used as a way to monitor children who are disrupting lessons.

The firm said the equipment, which is sold with evidence bags approved by the Crown Prosecution Service to store material for court cases, can be used to compile "proof" of wrongdoing.

The system includes ceiling-mounted microphones and cameras and a hard drive recorder housed in a secure cabinet.

They cost around £3,000 to install in each classroom or can be leased for about £50 a month for each classroom.

Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner has warned the surveillance may be illegal and demanded to know why schools are using it.

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