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[Actually, the “aren’t accountable” line in that meme is not entirely true (the other lines are) — at least not everywhere .]
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Here’s the famous 1895 eighth-grade test from Kansas.
Liberals had not yet taken control of government schools at that time.
In fact, liberals hadn’t yet even created government schools at that time.
But they did one generation later. What they created is what we now have.
Abject, total failure.
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The Facts:
How Systemic Liberalism Failed Public Education in America
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/23/how-systemic-liberalism-failed-public-education-in-america/
and…
“Twenty-five countries outperform U.S. K-12 students… The majority of U.S. public school students do not achieve grade-level proficiency… [I]nstead of focusing on academic instruction, [left wing] school boards, administrators, and teachers advanced curriculum agendas centering on a host of other topics. These include gender redefinition and self-selection, a twisted anti-American historical narrative, Critical Race Theory, and other woke academics under the increasingly familiar guise of innocent-sounding terms — diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice. Redefining equity as equal outcome rather than equal opportunity, challenging students academically with high standards is now viewed as discrimination. Consequently, advanced courses are being removed because students of some races and ethnicities aren’t represented proportionately… Some schools take it a step further and dumb the system down by doing away with standards altogether.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/dumbing_down_k12_education.html
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The Odious Campaign to Sexualize Children in Public Schools
Condoms, bananas, deviancy, and gender fluidity as education.
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How LGBTQ Groups Are Quietly Dismantling Norms, Changing Education
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Public School LGBT Programs Don’t Just Trample Parental Rights.
They Also Put Kids at Risk.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15118/
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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
A Chronological Paper Trail Through Liberalism’s Intentional Destruction of Education
http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf
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http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ddd_update.pdf
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Government Spending on Education Has Increased, Not Decreased
Even During the Trump Administration
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American Students’ Test Scores Unchanged After Decades of Federal Intervention in Education
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Federal Early Childhood Education & Care Don’t Benefit Kids.
Here Are the Facts.
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Racism in Government Schools (a.k.a. Public Education):
The Left Are Lying
They Are Peddling Hate With Critical Race Theory In Public Schools
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-left-is-lying-they-are-peddling-hate-with-crt-in-our-schools
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The Tragedy of Black Education Is New
It Came With the Liberal Takeover of Public Education
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/12/02/the-tragedy-of-black-education-is-new/
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The Real ‘Structural Racism‘ Is In America’s Union-Run Schools
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Conservative, Not Liberal, Cities Are Ending the White-Black Achievement Gap in Education
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[See this page for the peer-reviewed scientific research data falsifying school mask mandates.]
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Nearly 50 Years of Growing Federal Intervention in Education, Explained in One Picture
http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/11/federal-government-intervention-education-continues-grow/
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‘What is Government?’ Elementary Students Taught It’s ‘Your Family’
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[Obama’s] Education Department Harassment Rules Metastasize through Administrative Fiat
http://cei.org/blog/education-department-harassment-rules-metastasize-through-administrative-fiat
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How [Obama’s] Education Department Warped Title IX
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2014/10/how-the-education-department-warped-title-ix/
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Even The Washington Post editorial board finds one Obama administration [education] policy unconscionably stupid
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/09/even_the_washington_post.html
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Metrics:
Report Card on American Education
Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform
http://www.alec.org/docs/ReportCard_18_Edition
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SAT scores continue decline; 57 percent of incoming freshmen not ready for college
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Measuring America’s [Educational] Decline, in Three Charts
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In 23 Advanced Economies: U.S. Adults Rank 21st in Math Skills
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Behind America’s Decline in Math, Science and Technology
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“… the cost of remedial education is adding billions in wasted dollars to the overall cost of college education...”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/09/are_public_schools_to_blame_for_student_loan_bubble.html
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US adults are dumber than the average human
http://nypost.com/2013/10/08/us-adults-are-dumber-than-the-average-human/
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Who Benefits from the Public Schools?
http://pjmedia.com/blog/who-benefits-from-the-public-schools/?print=1
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America’s Faulty Educational Equation
http://christianobserver.org/americas-faulty-educational-equation
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Understanding the Educational Mess We’re In
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-educational-mess/?print=1
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Your children deserve better than this, first-grade teachers tell parents
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One Hundred Reasons to Abandon Public Education Now
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/one_hundred_reasons_to_abandon_public_education_now.html
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Khan Academy: The future of education?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxJgPHM5NYI
[Khan Academy is easy to find on the Web.]
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“Overall… 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrated proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.”
[When will you conservatives get it? The only way to stop this madness is to increase funding for it ! ]
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Teacher urinated in trash can during class
http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/riverdale-cops-teacher-urinated-951016.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss
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Dallas student, 12, duct-taped to chair and beaten by classmates while teacher ignored attack
[I sure get tired of reading these rare , actually exceedingly rare reports of fanatical , abusive , immoral , hypocritical , under – performing (and supposedly over-paid ), pampered , politically and religiously biased and, once in a great while, even corrupt public school teachers (not to mention administrators ) as if the losers described in the right-wing media “reports” were somehow typical of public school teachers and administrators . Nothing could be further from the truth .
Numerous additional examples (in addition to those provided above) of the despicable right-wing conspiracy against taxpayer-funded, left-wing indoctrination of children – I mean public education – are provided below. I can provide several dozen more to anyone who requests them.]
The Federal Takeover of Education
Save Education, Privatize Government Schools
Schools let students seek secret abortions
Parents not notified when 12-year-olds obtain ‘confidential’ medical procedures
School-Assisted Abortion a Shocking Lesson
U.S. schoolbook glorifies communists
Anti-American radicals upheld as ‘role models for citizenship’
Lawsuit: CPS pushing Democrats
Children and parents are not first in most school systems
A Priest and an Altar Boy, Hah, Ha, Ha
High-stakes tests can drive teachers to cheat to improve students’ scores
D.C. schools investigate security breaches in 2011 tests
School Teaches Kids Religion Is a ‘Disease’
Uttering ‘Jesus’ in school ‘not protected free speech’
Preacher’s toe touches school lawn, he gets arrested
Case brought after principal calls cops to silence Gospel
Principal threatens to fire teachers who help Christian club
Earns warning from civil rights organization
Chicago public school forbids kids from bringing their lunch from home
East Bay schools offer gay studies for high school students
Teenager suspended from Fairfax County school over acne drug
New York classrooms promote communist activist
New ‘human rights’ curriculum espouses teachings of Van Jones
School Makes Boy Take American Flag Off Bike
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees
Flag wars! Teen gets 3-day Cinco de Mayo suspension
Student wouldn’t let Mexican colors fly higher than the Stars and Stripes
Teacher Sues Over Right to Flunk Her Students
Art Horn: Climategate in the Classroom?
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[Four] Truths About Government Schools:
Teachers and Administrators are Ideologically Neutral Participants in the System
If We Pay Them All More, They Will All Perform Better
Likewise, If We Spend More on Government Education in General, Children Will Perform Better
Government School Choice Damages the Quality of Government Education and
http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4218155/k.89F4/Education_Myths.htm
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[Government] Education Is Worse Than We Thought
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/20/education-is-worse-than-we-thought/print/
[For those who don’t know, Walter Williams is a black American.]
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Punishing Achievement in Our [Government] Schools
Advanced students suffer from the “disparate impact” of witch hunts by the Office for Civil Rights.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/393407/print
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1,183,700 Violent Crimes Committed at Public Schools; Only 303,900 Reported to Police
[ASND, of course, simply asks, “Why?“]
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Will American Liberals Ever Wake Up?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/still_a_bfd_obama_loses.html
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Defining the Federal Role in Education
http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/Choice-and-Federalism.pdf
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180: The Movie
[Where do you suppose all those people “learned” what they believe?]
[ And where do you suppose they didn’t learn what they didn’t know about what was one of the most important (though obviously no-longer-taught) lessons of history? ]
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Study: Most state history standards don’t mention 9/11 attacks
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Outcomes-Based Education
A generation is despoiled of its cultural inheritance.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/outcomes-based-education/?print=1
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How the Program Approach Has Failed Big Education
http://pjmedia.com/blog/how-the-program-approach-has-failed-big-education/?print=1
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Whitewashing History for California’s Kids
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/whitewashing_history_for_californias_kids.html
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Some California Teachers Ditching Traditional Thanksgiving Lessons
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,231159,00.html
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A grandfather asked his grandson:
“[To whom] did the Pilgrims give thanks…?”
The grandson responded:
“I don’t know—I guess they were thanking the Indians. That’s what we learned at [government] school.”
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/breakpoint-commentaries-search/entry/13/10052
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Repeal Obamacare – but Keep Socialized Education?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/repeal_obamacare_-_but_keep_socialized_education.html
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The basics of education policy explained in three videos
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Rise of the Thought Police: Bullying Your Children into Forsaking Their Values
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Discipline:
“… any disciplinary ‘alternative‘ that puts ‘respect‘ for miscreants on par with justice for victims warps the very concept of justice.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/the_latest_education_fad_inverts_justice.html
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“Almost certainly, the chief culprit in the gradual stupefaction of the citizenry is the public school.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/infantilizing-the-culture/?print=1
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“The boy was booted from his school for 55 days…”
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“… watching this documentary about bullying in schools was more viscerally disturbing than sitting through almost any horror movie I can think of.”
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Documentary The War on Kids compares U.S. public schools to prison system
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“I don’t understand how he’s being punished for something he has no control over.“
http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/popular-senior-denied-diploma-because-of-too-much-cheering
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Bullying Crisis Horrifies Parents, Ignites Homeschool Revolution — Research Reveals
http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/331897380.html
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NYC Public Schools Change ‘Discipline Code’ To Ease Penalties For Smoking, Cursing, Cutting Class
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“Bill Gates… says schools should rebuild their budgets ‘based on excellence,’ and not just seniority and degrees.”
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True Tolerance For Back-to-School
http://www.citizenlink.com/2011/08/24/true-tolerance-for-back-to-school/
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“Overall , financial literacy, both directly and indirectly, is found to have a strong link to household wealth.”
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17339
[Anyone wanna volunteer the names of government schools that teach economics and financial planning?]
[I didn’t think so.]
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Teaching Your Child to be a Dictator’s Lackey
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/teaching-your-child-to-be-a-dictators-lackey/print/
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“… you can’t wear an American flag [to some government schools in America] because someone is liable to come up and hit you. But it’s OK to wear the Mexican flag because no one cares enough to attack you.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/my_country_tis_of_who.html
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“A [California] high school teacher is under investigation after school officials said she was maintaining a pornographic website from her school-issued laptop computer.”
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-teacher-porn-sites-gets-put-leave-004117907.html
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Senate Committee on Track to Make No Child Left Behind Even Worse
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“Nobody got in trouble, not the people instigating, not the people that were fighting.”
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/girl-pummeled-inside-detroit-school-bathroom-20111130-ms
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Lawsuit Filed After New Mexico Teen Arrested for Burping in Class
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[Government] Schools ‘spy’ on fat kids
“The devices are already in use in [two other government] school districts… and have raised privacy concerns among some parents and observers.”
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/local/schools_spy_on_fat_kids_HpPAgsKXPYjt1EWFfaNp9K
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New York School’s Strict Bathroom Policy Rewards Students For Holding It In, Outrages Parents
http://main.aol.com/2012/01/18/new-york-schools-strict-b_n_1216199.html?1326990959?test=latestnews
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Student suspended for photo of teacher napping
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/student-suspended-photo-teacher-napping/nHGsh/
[Well, at least the teacher wasn’t Mapping.]
[Inside joke to self. No one is expected to laugh there.]
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Records:
“… students’ private health records, grades, and family information will be available to anyone who can provide a reason to have them.”
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“All 50 states and Washington, D.C. collect long term, individualized data on students performance, but just eight states allow parents to access their child’s permanent record.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/19/who-should-have-access-to-student-records
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Reform:
Closing the Door on Education Innovation
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/05/3263/
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What Uncle Sam can (and cannot) do to improve K–12 schooling: Lessons for the next four years [through 2016]
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The futures of school reform: Five pathways to fundamentally reshaping American schooling
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Indiana Seizes the Hammer, Enacts Comprehensive Reform
http://www.alec.org/docs/17thReportCard/ALECs_17th_Report_Card.pdf
[One down, forty nine to go.]
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Education Savings Accounts:
A Promising Way Forward on School Choice
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/pdf/wm3382.pdf
and…
“Existing voucher programs create healthy competition between public and private schools, but [Education Savings Accounts] can create a much deeper level of systemic improvement. ESAs would allow parents to build a customized education to match the individual needs of every child, thus transforming education for the better.”
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Solving America’s Math Problem
Tailor instruction to the varying needs of the students
http://educationnext.org/solving-america%E2%80%99s-math-problem/
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Time in school matters. More school, more learning.
http://educationnext.org/time-for-school/
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Private Enterprise and Public Education:
Strange Bedfellows or Natural Allies?
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THE EDUCATION DEBIT CARD
What Arizona Parents Purchase with Education Savings Accounts
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“A teacher charged with 23 counts of lewd conduct in his classroom successfully thwarted attempts by the Los Angeles Unified School District to fire him. In the process, the teacher, who is accused of spoon-feeding his semen to blindfolded children, managed to retain lifetime health-benefits provided by the nation’s second-largest school system.”
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Second teacher arrested at Los Angeles school where teacher allegedly molested children
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Hypnotist principal avoids jail with plea deal
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/235664/8/Hypnotist-principal-avoids-jail-with-plea-deal
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Junk food remains plentiful at the nation’s elementary schools
[Well, at least you’re paying for it.]
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FBI agents scoured the school where he’s suspected of filming kiddie porn.
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“The [D.C. school voucher] Program significantly improved students’ chances of graduating from high school.”
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104018/pdf/20104018.pdf
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Cincinnati High School Paying Students To Come To School
http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/02/13/cincinnati-high-school-paying-students-to-come-to-school/
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“… school officials made no effort to help them escape the hazing that sent them both to hospitals for treatment.”
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Parents-Hazed-students-not-allowed-to-play-sports-3288152.php
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“The girl’s [home made] turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines…”
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8762
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2nd N.C. Mother Says Daughter’s School Lunch Replaced for Not Being Healthy Enough
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Georgia student sues school over strip search in front of classmates
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“A district in Missouri has decided to allow images of zombies on its school walls but not posters promoting the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, which focuses on the abortions inflicted on American girls and women daily.”
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/school-ok-with-zombies-but-not-pro-life-posters/print/
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Mich. Education Official: Educators, Not Parents Know What‘s Best for Kids’ Education
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Guns: (Or What Govmt Schools Admins Call Guns)
“A father has been arrested, strip-searched and hauled in for questioning – all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school.“
[Yet…]
“… several hours after his arrest a detective apologized and informed him that he would be released without charges.“
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/madness-after-girl-4-draws-gun-pic-at-school/print/
[Hmm… ASND wonders if government school administrators remember what “homework” is.]
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[Maryland] school suspends 6-year-old for pretend gunshot [with his fingers]
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Schools Jump the Shark
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/schools_jump_the_shark.html
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Pennsylvania girl, 5, suspended for threatening to shoot girl with pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles
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Literacy sign slipup has school principal shaking his head
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Racism:
“Other white students also report a pattern of racial harassment at the high school at the hands of their peers — and, shockingly, their teachers.“
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High School kids chanting ‘USA! USA’ deemed a racist act
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Trayvon Martin Day declared at D.C. elementary school
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/05/trayvon-martin-day-declared-at-d-c-elementary-school-76327.html
[For the many reasons why this article was cited in this Update section, see here .]
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“A fifth grade award ceremony at Hickman Elementary School in Garland, Texas, is under scrutiny after the grandmother of a student took issue with awards handed out based on race.”
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Public School Teaches “White Privilege” Class
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/public-school-teaches-white-privilege-class.html
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Parents Complain About School Ad Excluding Whites From Tutoring Program
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“Recently, there has been a disturbing nation-wide trend of parental rights being trampled upon by public school officials…“
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/relocating_children.html
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School Bans Child Suffering From Cerebral Palsy From Using Walker
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Test turns to humiliation for kindergartner
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-test-turns-to-humiliation-for-kindergartner-20120417,0,5460268.story
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“Alongside nonprofit and public providers, for-profits have a crucial role to play in meeting America’s twenty-first century educational challenges cost-effectively and at scale.“
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“A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl ‘I’m sexy and I know it,’ a line from a popular song.“
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/05/04/6-year-old-suspended-for-singing-im-sexy-and-i-know-it/
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“The federal government currently funds [with your money] a wide range of [superfluous and useless] K–12 education initiatives… [yet only] four functions… are essential to its role in education: creating and disseminating information on school performance in each classroom and program effectiveness, including information on individual student performance; enforcing civil rights laws; providing financial support to high-need students; and enhancing competition among providers.“
http://educationnext.org/let-the-dollars-follow-the-child/
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5 Ways Public Schools Prepare Us For Prison Life
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/05/21/5-ways-public-schools-prepare-us-for-prison-life/?print=1
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Education Decline, One Step at a Time
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/education_decline_one_step_at_a_time.html
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Plastic Language in Education
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/22/plastic-language-in-education/print/
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Stately McDaniel Manor: On Education
https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/category/education/
[Lots ‘o links on that page.]
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School Holds Politically Correct Prom
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-holds-politically-correct-prom.html
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Advertising in schools becoming more common
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-06-03/advertising-in-schools/55366346/1
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“The draft standards integrate global warming and other overplayed worries about human impacts on the planet, starting in kindergarten.“
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/5/teaching-global-warming-in-kindergarten/
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“Hawkins faces other problems. The Department of Education is investigating a parent’s claim that she hit a fifth-grader after confiscating the boy’s cellphone.“
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/local/justin_time_is_up_p2yL2tHwywz5Dq8yXfIdmI
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Sunscreen Ban in Schools Angers Parents
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/06/24/Sunscreen-Ban-in-Schools-Angers-Parents
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“Public-school employees have doubled in 40 years while student enrollment has increased by only 8.5%—and academic results have stagnated.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303734204577465413553320588.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Teachers’ Unions:
National Education Association:
DC schools spending $29,409 per pupil
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/census-bureau-confirms-dc-spends-29409-pupil/
[ASND reminds readers that, without the NEA, the cost per pupil – in every major U.S. City (not just Washington D.C.) – would drop precipitously.]
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Pro-Lifers to Protest NEA Convention Over Its Abortion Views
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/25/pro-lifers-to-protest-nea-convention-over-its-abortion-views/
“It is virtually impossible to get (bad teachers) out of [government schools]…”
http://us.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=26048&content=101615810&pageNum=-1
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We Need Better Teachers
“By eliminating just the bottom 5-8 percent of teachers, the available research suggests that US achievement could climb to the level of Canadian achievement.”
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/174636
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“.. local elections for school boards are heavily influenced by unions.”
http://www.aei.org/files/2012/08/28/-putting-the-punch-in-parent-power_155845671479.pdf
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“Sharply declining enrollment in half the nation’s largest public school districts spells bad news for the union-dominated monopoly of government-run public schools.”
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-crimi/fleeing-public-schools/print/
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“In these essays, members of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on K–12 education, joined by several keen-eyed observers, blend prediction with prescription to paint a vivid picture of American primary and secondary education in 2030.“
http://www.hoover.org/taskforces/education/AE2030#nogo
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“One full day of instructional time is lost each year just to Channel One’s commercials. No other company generates revenue by compelling a captive audience of students to watch television commercials during taxpayer-funded class time.”
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Tennessee high school reading assignment hit as ‘inappropriate’ for profanity, violence
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Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party As Terrorist Act
http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/23/texas-schools-teaching-boston-tea-party-as-terrorist-act/
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School District Owes $1 Billion On $100 Million Loan
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/07/166745290/school-district-owes-1-billion-on-100-million-loan
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2 MI school districts cancel classes due to end of the world nonsense
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