Category: Education & Schools

March 4, 2013

Who Controls the Campus Agenda: The Faculty or Campus Administrators?

Filed under: Education & Schools - 04 Mar 2013

Faculty believe that it is their right and duty to set the campus agenda. Faculty expect to establish – either directly or indirectly – the main thrusts that their campuses will pursue. In particular, they see it as their prerogative …

January 14, 2013

When Teachers aren’t Smarter than a Fifth-grader

Filed under: Education & Schools,What The F@#K?!? - 14 Jan 2013

When I’ve written about our listing mis-education system, my focus has mainly been on rampant political correctness, on how students learn few of the right things partially because of emphasis on teaching the wrong things. Yet there’s another problem: in …

January 8, 2013

Six-year-old Suspended for Firing Assault Finger

If you want to know why we’re breeding some crazy youngsters nowadays, you only have to look at the adults surrounding them. A case in point is a Maryland elementary school that recently suspended a little child for using an …

December 20, 2012

Time for Schools to be Gun-free Free

If there’s anything the Newtown massacre has proven, it’s that school zones billed as “gun-free” cannot be guaranteed to thus be.

They’re only virtually certain to be good-guy-gun-free.

And it’s time for this symbolism-over-substance policy to end.

December 15, 2012

Privacy Invasion

Radio frequency identification, or “RFID,” are microchips. They’re used to track inventory such as books, electronics, tools and pharmaceuticals.

They’ve been injected in livestock. And family pets. My dog has an RFID chip. These are acceptable uses.

Using RFID …

December 13, 2012

Mass Higher Education: Good or Bad?

Filed under: Education & Schools - 13 Dec 2012

Mass higher education refers to the phenomenon, promoted aggressively by President Obama, whereby a tremendous proportion of the eligible population enrolls in the nation’s colleges. It presumes that any American high school graduate who desires a higher education should be …

December 9, 2012

Students Forced to Stand for “Black National Anthem”

Students at Capital High School (CHS) in Charleston, West Virginia have been regularly forced to stand during the playing of a song known as “The Black National Anthem.”

The song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was played in the morning right …

October 26, 2012

Bigotry

Everyone’s familiar with blatant forms of bigotry. But sometimes it’s the subtle forms in which the damage is far worse.

The Florida Board of Education has set goals for public schools students to reach achievement levels in reading and math. …

October 19, 2012

Five Strikes and You’re Out

How many second-chances would your boss give you if came to work drunk? Or high on drugs? Thought so.

You’€™d be unemployed. Most businesses today have a zero tolerance policy.

October 6, 2012

Of Supreme Court Justices and Gay Manifestos in Public Schools

California is now instituting laws prohibiting a therapist from counseling a child confused by same sex attractions. Parents are unable to legally find help. But a teacher can arrange for the child to be taken off campus to see a …

September 30, 2012

Communism on Parade? High School Marches to Marx and Lenin

“What do you think of this?” So began a phone call from Todd Starnes of FoxNews radio. Starnes asked me for a comment on a shocking story: A band at a high school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania performed a halftime show …

September 1, 2012

College Dilemma

College has gotten ridiculously expensive as most parents already know. State universities can cost a lot.

The price of a single year at some private colleges can nearly equal the median income of a family of four. And there …

August 20, 2012

Education is the Foundation of the Future

Filed under: Education & Schools,History - 20 Aug 2012

Have you ever asked yourself, “How can Progressives like President Obama hateAmerica? How can anyone who was raised in the most free and prosperous society in the History of the world believeAmericais an imperialistic power and the source of …

June 7, 2012

Arabic As a Second Language

Filed under: Education & Schools,What The F@#K?!? - 07 Jun 2012

Next fall, the students of Hamilton Heights Elementary School in Harlem, New York are required to learn a second language.

Twenty-two percent of its students speak English as a second language. Learning another language is not new to them. Optional languages …

May 27, 2012

A Frustrated Matador Alumni

By: Alexa Lotito

Not everyone graduates from high school, gets accepted into college and graduates with a degree. It’s an honor to achieve all of those things and hopefully find a job in your field of study. Being the first …

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