Elementary school suspends boy after he threatens to turn fellow student invisible with the One Ring from Tolkien novels An elementary school suspended a male student who arrived at school last week with what he alleged was a powerful ring … Continue reading
Category Archives: Educrats
Bedford reprimands students for tweets critical of superintendent for not cancelling school Wednesday | New Hampshire “It’s been a really good exercise in issues of students’ right to speech, on the one hand, and students’ and teachers’ rights to an … Continue reading
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Common Core Co-Author Admits He Wrote Curriculum to End “White Privilege” – Freedom Outpost “The reason why I helped write the standards and the reason why I am here today is that as a white male in society I am … Continue reading
New Mexico University President Emails Students: “Vote As Often as Possible” | The Gateway Pundit This email was sent out by Cheri Jimeno, Ph.D., the President of New Mexico State University Alamogordo to the university students. Jimeno encourages students to … Continue reading
Instapundit » Blog Archive » ASHE SCHOW: Insight into how campus sexual assault panels are being ‘trained.’ Much of the focus… Kangaroo courts. Why would anyone send a kid — especially a son — to institutions that would do this? … Continue reading
Wesleyan rules fraternities must start accepting women – Washington Times Fraternities at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, must start accepting women and all residential fraternities must become fully co-educational over the next three years, the school’s Board of Trustees has … Continue reading
High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in – NBC12.com – Richmond, VA News “I could understand if they made him re-write it because he did have “gun” in it. But a pet dinosaur?” said Alex’s mother … Continue reading
America’s Medieval Universities | National Review Online An aging campus generation that has nearly wrecked the university should bow out and let more open-minded and innovative minds repair the damage that the old generation has wrought. Bow out? Heh. They … Continue reading
Stanford Punishes Rapist With Forced ‘Gap Year,’ As Students Demand Tougher Sanctions At the beginning of 2014, Stanford University senior Leah Francis awoke at a fellow student’s house during winter break to find him sexually assaulting her, pinning her down … Continue reading
ANOTHER university stops students from handing out Constitution | The Daily Caller Two students are suing the University of Hawaii for violating their First Amendment rights after administrator prevented them from distributing copies of the U.S. Constitution — demonstrating a … Continue reading
Finally, Someone Acts Like An Adult: District Attorney Drops Charges Against Bullied Teen Who Recorded His Tormentors | Techdirt South Fayette School in Pennsylvania, along with a complicit criminal justice system, recently made headlines with its groundbreaking anti-bullying program, which … Continue reading
Idea of New Attention Disorder Spurs Research, and Debate – NYTimes.com With more than six million American children having received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, concern has been rising that the condition is being significantly misdiagnosed and overtreated … Continue reading
Teen stabs 22 at Pittsburgh-area high school | Mail Online I wonder how long they’ve been cramming him full of amphetamines to cure his ADD? … Continue reading
Oklahoma bill would ease school policies on imaginary, toy guns | Fox News “If there’s no real intent, there’s no real threat, no real weapon, no real harm is occurring or going to occur, why in the world are we … Continue reading
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Are Private Schools Worth It? – Julia Ryan – The Atlantic Studying the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, they have found that, when controlling for demographic factors, public schools are doing a better job … Continue reading
I was going to write a comment on Bill’s screed about tack and tact, but the episode I want to describe (oh — maybe I should say “refer back to,” so I can commit two bloomers in one phrase) is … Continue reading
It’s what Wiki should do, but probably won’t. ‘Storming Wikipedia’: Colleges offer credit to students who enter ‘feminist thinking’ into Wikipedia Fifteen universities worldwide — including Yale University, Brown University, and Pennsylvania State University — will offer college credit to … Continue reading
“The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013″ [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom The college’s administration knew early on this was a hoax and chose to remain silent. They deliberately fed into the Leftist narrative that America is more racist … Continue reading
Principal, seniors clash over Palo Alto High streaking tradition | www.ktvu.com PALO ALTO, Calif. — A new principal at Palo Alto High School is putting the brakes on the school’s tradition of senior streaking in a way that has some … Continue reading
Science education vs. high-profile ignorance | Ars Technica In Kentucky, the fight over science education is getting ugly. Kentucky has been one of the first states to consider adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards, a set of goals meant … Continue reading
M.I.T. Cleared in Report After Suicide of Activist – NYTimes.com A long-awaited report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the university made mistakes but engaged in no wrongdoing in the case of Aaron Swartz, a renowned … Continue reading
I’m sure I’ve read a study somewhere concerning the long term effects of them. There is a such a study, isn’t there? Shouldn’t there be one before they start exposing students to possible blindness? Winthrop U. installs eye scanners to … Continue reading
NUT’s Christine Blower on pay and sacking teachers It was a “nonsense to be employing people who don’t have qualified teacher status” said the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers. The NUT’s are in charge. … Continue reading
One of the regulars over at E-P.com posted the following: God help America. I kid you not folks, this is what happened to my little 4 year old grand daughter. She is in preschool in a subburb of D.C. She … Continue reading
» 7-year old Pop-Tart gun offender loses first appeal – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion CNS News via Weasel Zippers: An appeal to have an eight year-old boy’s record expunged for a suspension he received for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape … Continue reading
Video: Valedictorian silenced after mentioning God, faith « Hot Air I’ve made a number of speeches at a lot of private venues, and I’ve never been asked to submit my remarks for approval from the host organizations. Of course, I’m … Continue reading
Hayward school to sponsor toy gun exchange – San Jose Mercury News HAYWARD — An elementary school will hold a toy gun exchange Saturday, offering students a book and a chance to win a bicycle if they turn in their … Continue reading
JustOneMinute: Gun Madness (Ongoing) The Suffolk school system has a "zero tolerance policy" when it comes to weapons. And the weapon was? "A pencil is a weapon when it is pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises … Continue reading
» Second Grader Suspended for Pointing Pencil Like a Gun – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion The boy’s parents said they felt the school failed to use common sense. Their son has good grades and has never caused any problems in classes before, … Continue reading
Classmates rally around Princeton student who left gun in car :: WRAL.com Princeton, N.C. — The Princeton High School community is rallying around a student who was arrested and expelled for having an unloaded shotgun in his car in the … Continue reading
Florida school district responds to child’s ‘Give up some of my Constitutional rights’ assignment: ‘A review and investigation will occur’ THE BLAZE — A school district in Jacksonville, Fla., said Friday it will review and investigate what happened after a … Continue reading
Video: 35 Atlanta educators to surrender today in massive cheating conspiracy « Hot Air At one middle school, 86 percent of eighth-graders scored proficient in math, compared to 24 percent the year before. Prosecutors say that progress was a criminal … Continue reading
Kid Punished For Preventing School Shooting – All American Blogger With all the hysteria lately about school shootings and guns in general, this story is surprising. Actually, it isn’t surprising at all. A young man riding the school bus home … Continue reading
New school rules won’t allow hugging, homemade treats Remember when your mom brought homemade cookies for your class on your birthday? That’s not happening anymore in one Maryland school district. St. Mary’s County public elementary schools will not allow students … Continue reading
It does show that his priorities are fucked up. 80% of graduating NYC high school students can’t read Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s … Continue reading
Forget cupcakes. Don’t you even *mention* guns in school, young man! Pasco School District overturns 6-year-old’s suspension for discussing toy gun The Pasco School District has overturned the suspension of a 6-year-old boy who talked about his toy guns at … Continue reading
High School Student Disarms Gunman…Gets Suspended? | TheBlaze.com That’s when, the teen told the station, he and two others tackled the suspect and wrestled the gun away. The next day, all three were suspended. “How they going to suspend me … Continue reading
WyBlog — When pastry is outlawed only outlaws will eat pastry A 7-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from school for two days for shaping a breakfast pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun, according to his father. … Continue reading