25 Is the New 21 – The Atlantic My 22-year-old daughter, Emma, waved goodbye to her college campus last spring and walked into a job this fall. Given the still-tepid state of the economy and all the stories—in the news … Continue reading
Category Archives: Child Abuse
Student’s photo of skimpy Michelle O school lunch sparks outrage – EAGnews.org CHICKASHA, Okla. – Lunch meat, a couple of crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower qualified as lunch in Chickasha Public Schools Monday. Student Kaytlin … Continue reading
Burlington school bans birthday cake, sweets Students’ birthday celebrations at Burlington Elementary School can include singing, balloons and recognition in morning announcements. But as of this month they can no longer included cake. Or ice cream. Or food, period. Burlington … Continue reading
Instapundit » Blog Archive » TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Another day, another case in Bucks County of a boy being sexuall… Another day, another case in Bucks County of a boy being sexually molested by a woman. “On … Continue reading
NJ dad says state is threatening to take away son after pencil twirling incident | PIX 11 A simple pencil-twirling incident landed Ethan Chaplin in hot water with his school, which threatened to suspend him after a classmate claimed he was … Continue reading
See what they’ll be teaching in the Chicago public schools | The Daily Caller Chicago public schools are set to introduce a new Afro-centric curriculum, according to a closely-guarded copy obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The curriculum covers … 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
Bullied Student Records Bullies, Gets Threatened With Felony Charges For Violating Wiretapping Law | Techdirt Still sending your kids to public schools? You’re a child abuser in waiting. (via Instapundit – thanks!) … 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
Fla. 5-Year-Old Told ‘It’s Not Good’ To Pray By School Employee « CBS Pittsburgh Dunno how much credence to put on this – it’s out of a Facebook posting via a religious advocacy organization. But if it’s true, the employee … Continue reading
Child in wet bathing suit made to stand in -5F weather because school policy forbade her from waiting in teacher’s car – Boing Boing Kayona Hagen-Tietz, a ninth grader at Como Park High School in St Paul, MN, says she … Continue reading
10 year old boy suspended | point finger gun | Columbus These sorts of incidents are greeted with near universal condemnation in the blogosphere, but rarely make the evening MSM news. Which is why troglodyte female school administrators assume they … Continue reading
Teens defend ‘fail factory’ school in error-filled letters | New York Post Earlier this month, The Post exposed a scheme at Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers in which failing students could get full credit without attending class, but … Continue reading
Oh, FFS: Tonight Show Parody Video of Obama Kicking Down a Door After a Press Conference is Now the Subject of a Racial Grievance Complaint at a University “The email in question contained the phrase “Honestly midterms get out of … Continue reading
Chicago school suspends 11 year old for voluntarily turning in broken toy gun « Hot Air We also have to wonder what sort of lesson this teaches children and parents. It’s not safe for many of these families to leave … Continue reading
You may be a child abuser if you send your kids to public schools. You may be a child abuser if you think the most important thing your kid can have is great self-esteem. You may be a child abuser … 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
Here’s a kid who has more guts than brains, and he seems to have a lot of brains. A Chicago teen accused of bringing a loaded gun to Urban Prep Charter Academy feared he would be killed by gang members … Continue reading
Ever since the eighties, non-underclass children have been raised in an all-encompassing cocoon of adult supervision and smothering protection, their self-esteem carefully stroked, their lives circumscribed by an endless litany of controls “for their own good.” Is it any wonder … Continue reading
Teenage Boys Find Newborn Baby in a Bag Dumped Behind NJ Apartment Building Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino told NJ.com the infant, breathing on his own, was rushed to Jersey City Medical Center. Born about three months premature and … Continue reading
Viral video: 11-year old Yemeni girl runs away from home to avoid forced marriage A video, posted on YouTube, shows an 11-year-old Yemeni girl called Nada al-Ahdal recounting how she escaped her parents who wanted to force her to marry. … 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