Horrors of State-Run Schools and Schooling
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Education: Government Schools
EDUCATION AND THE DEBT CRISIS: Austerity in the Mind Factory
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Alan SearsIn March 2012, over 200,000 Quebec students are waging a general strike against tuition increases and have faced brutal police repression.
Kids All Over America Are Being Put On Buses And Sent To Alternate Locations
• http://endoftheamericandream.comAll over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills.
New York City Department of Education Bans References To Dinosaurs To Avoid Insulting Creationists
• http://jonathanturley.orgThis story is so bizarre that I had to check it twice to make sure it was not an early April Fool’s joke.
'A Test You Need to Fail': A Teacher's Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Ruth Ann DandreaI spent last night perusing the 150-plus pages of grading materials provided by the state in anticipation of reading and evaluating your English Language Arts Exams this morning
Having lost the war for your mind, the Fed now focuses on your children
• www.zerohedge.comIt now appears that the propaganda masters at the Federal Reserve have decided to go for young American minds while they are still pliable.
School of Shock
• http://motherjones.com, By Jennifer GonnermanEight states are sending autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to a facility that punishes them with painful electric shocks. How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture?
Va. middle-schoolers assigned opposition research on GOP candidates
• http://dailycaller.com, By Kalyn McMackinA Virginia middle school teacher recently forced his students to support President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign by conducting opposition research in class against the Republican presidential candidates.
Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion
• Wall Street JournalThe amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, officials said. Total student debt outstanding surpassed $1 trillion late
British ban having "best friend" in school
• Lew Rockwell blogThe Brits are banning best friends. British school teachers are encouraged to discourage children from having a "best" friend so that the children don't have to deal with "the pain of splitting up from their best friend."
"It began with people being schooled to be stupid”
• dailypaul.com"This video is about how government-run schooling contributed to the rise of socialism, imperialism and eventually fascism in Germany between the 1890s and 1940s."
The Origin and Evil of Public Schools
• http://lewrockwell.com, John Taylor GattoA weekend seminar with John Taylor Gatto
No Child Left Behind's 10th Anniversary....it FAILS
• www.fairtest.orgTen years have passed since President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind (NCLB), making it the educational law of the land. A review of a decade of evidence demonstrates that NCLB has failed badly both in terms of its own goals and more broad
Fed To Take Propaganda To The Schoolroom
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenBack in September we noted a peculiar RFP by the Fed which sought to become a secret 'big brother' to the social media world, and to "monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria."
70% of all Ground Beef Contains "Pink Slime"
• http://www.zerohedge.com, By Washingtons Blog“Pink slime,” a cheap meat filler, is in 70 percent of the ground beef sold at supermarkets and up to 25 percent of each American hamburger patty, by some estimates.
Minnesota girl alleges school privacy invasion
• CNNA Minnesota middle school student, with the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing her school district over a search of her Facebook and e-mail accounts by school employees. The 12-year-old sixth grade student, identified in court
Student loans seen as potential ‘next debt bomb’ for U.S. economy
• Washington PostIn most cases, those clients could not meet the federal hardship standards that are necessary to discharge a student loan through bankruptcy. Many of these parents who co-signed the student loans face the prospect of losing their life savings, cars o
Dear Tucson Students, It Gets Better
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Jeff BiggersIt's spring-time in the Sonoran Desert, and as la maravilla of the wild flowers stretches across the valleys of southern Arizona, caravans of literary heroes and national education advocates will be descending on the Old Pueblo this weekend for a ser
'Save Our School!': Students 'Hunger Strike' to Protest Budget Cuts
• http://www.commondreams.org3 California high schoolers forgo food to protest devastating layoffs and the gutting of programs
‘Pink slime’ in school lunches: Government is buying 7 million pounds worth
• Washington PostWhen McDonald’s and other fast-food chains announced last month that the infamous “pink slime” was no longer being used in their burgers, some thought the ammonium hydroxide-treated beef cuts had disappeared from our food supply once and for all.
The "Pink Slime" in Your Kid's School Lunch
• By Tom PhilpottLike a horror-film villain, "pink slime"—the cheeky nickname for scraps of slaughtered cow that have been pulverized, defatted, subjected to ammonia steam to kill pathogens, and congealed into a filler for ground beef—takes a pounding but keeps comin
On Stealing School and Other "Crimes"
• by Abby Zimet“You shouldn’t be arrested for stealing a free education. It's just wrong.”
Colorado court says students can carry guns on campus
• ReutersThe University of Colorado overstepped its authority when the school's board of regents imposed a ban on the carrying of concealed weapons at its four campuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In overturning the policy, the court said t
To Get Kids To Class, LA Softens Its Hard Line
• by Krissy ClarkLos Angeles is easing its stance on truancy. For the past decade, a tough city ordinance slapped huge fines on students for even one instance of skipping school or being late.
Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class
• by Robert ReichLast week Rick Santorum called the President “a snob” for wanting everyone to get a college education
Charter School's Troubling Twists - Scientology, bankruptcy protection and Louis Farrakhan
• Sierra Vista Herald in FloridaOne Friday afternoon in December, leaders of a tax-funded elementary school called Life Force Arts and Technology Academy shepherded students into a Scientology church in Tampa’s Ybor Square. The children were fed candy and pizza, given Scientology b
Michelle Ugenti, Arizona State Representative, Defends Tuition Bill To Students: 'Welcome To Lif
• By Leigh OwensAn Arizona House committee passed a bill last week that would require every student at a public college in the state, regardless of economic status, to pay a minimum of $2,000 in tuition.
Why Math Matters
• arcleinDrs. Eric Hanushek and Paul Peterson, senior fellows at the Hoover Institution, looked at the performance of our youngsters compared with their counterparts in other nations, in their Newsweek article, “Why Can’t American Students Compete?” (Aug. 28,
Teachers: How Are You Teaching US War Crimes, Destruction of US Constitution?
• by Carl HermanWe teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right means that one’s life cannot be taken by tyrannical government.
Outlawing Solidarity in Tucson
• by Rethinking Schools EditorialAs many Rethinking Schools readers know, in January Tucson school officials ordered our book Rethinking Columbus removed from Mexican American Studies classes, as part of their move to shut down the program.
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