Archive for Category: "Education"

March 21, 2013 15:16

Eroding Parents’ Rights

If Eric Holder is successful in establishing a legal precedent that parents have no natural right to educate their own children, then it is no exaggeration to say that America is only one generation away from our constitution being reduced to a hollow shell. The American people better wake up, and wake up fast.

March 18, 2013 06:42

Abolish Public Schools

You are forced to pay for a service you may not want or need. You are forced to support the teaching of ideas with which you may or may not agree.

January 10, 2013 06:46

From PhD to Food Stamps? Gee Thanks Obama

A record high of 15% or 46.37 million Americans are on food stamps in June last year — that’s almost one in every seven Americans. That number is not expected to come down much …

January 9, 2013 07:11

Slouching From Gomorrah: Remembering Robert Bork

[M]ost of these evangelicals and Catholics send their kids to colleges dominated by these secular liberals, where all the ideals and values the youngsters learned at home and at their churches is rapidly undermined in four years—with the faithful parents unwittingly paying for the undermining.

December 19, 2012 06:30

School Shooting Caused by Sinful Soul, Souless Education

“Connecticut and the other 49 states have rejected the original vision for education which was to develop the moral character of the students in favor of the fiction that everything is morally gray. That kind of education emboldens mass murderers like Adam Lanza,” said Dr. Foster.

December 4, 2012 08:25

5 States Adding Indoctrination Time to Schools for Unions

Over 60% of 9th graders believe its the government’s responsibility to guarantee a job. 63.5% believe its the government’s duty to redistribute wealth. Our schools have become nothing more than leftist indoctrination centers. More time in these indoctrination camps will not improve education. There has been no improvement in real education since the 2nd worst president, Jimmy Carter, gave the unions the Department of Education to control schools. Two trillion dollars has been spent on education with nothing to show for it. It’s time to eliminate the Department of Indoctrination and give schools back to their communities. More ….

October 23, 2012 05:22

Obama’s Education ‘Progress’ Is Only Union Hiring Not Improving Education

The President conflates the quantity of teachers with their quality. At best, these two factors are uncorrelated. At worst—in those few states and districts which pay teachers based on performance—the two factors are negatively correlated …

September 27, 2012 07:50

New York City Schools: Reading, Writing, and Morning-After Pills

Think about how outrageous this is; girls as young as 14 could be given the morning-after pill and sent home. Suppose she has severe side effects from the pill but is afraid to tell her parents? It’s late at night or perhaps a weekend, what will she do? Who will she call?

September 20, 2012 09:02

Chicago teachers personification of greedy, lazy, utterly unreasonable teacher’s unions

Chicago teachers also get the highest pay. Plus their state is going bankrupt. But none of that will put the brakes on the runaway greed of public sector unions, which are devouring the country from within like a monstrous tapeworm.

September 17, 2012 04:54

Useless, Costly Teacher’s Unions

“Chicago Teachers Union rakes in nearly $30 million in forced dues from rank and file teachers every year. CTU is an affiliate of the behemoth AFL-CIO, which dropped an estimated $100 million in forced dues to support Democratic candidates and causes during the 2008 and 2010 election cycles.”