Korrectnik Word Games, Down Under
Source: PIG News Wire [09/03/10]

It’s named ‘Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree’, but don’t feel like the Lone Ranger, if you’ve never heard of it. For our purposes, we’ll simply stipulate that it’s a classic Aussie song which is, we’re informed, popular with the tykes Down Under.

Popular or not, this little ditty is at the center of the latest Korrectnik storm. Why? I’ll get to that, shortly, but first, I’ll serve up the song’s lyrics to let you see for yourself, the infamous insensitivity that’s embedded in this ditty:

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop, Kookaburra!
That's not a monkey that's me

Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail
Gets a boo-boo in his tail
Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, kookaburra!
Oh how life can be

I apologize for unleashing that egregious inkorrectness on you. If you need a breather, go for it. I’ll be here when you get back. What’s that? You didn’t see it? Congratulations, rational adult Sparky. You didn’t see it, because there’s nothing to see, unless, like a certain Aussie Educrat, you’re a blithering idiot.

The offending word, as if you didn’t guess, is in the last line of the first verse. That’s right, PIGsters, some Korrectness addled asshat - Principal Garry Martin from Cheltenham’s Lepage Primary school - went non-clinically bonkers over "gay". Unable to tolerate such egregiously inkorrect speech in his outpost of alleged learning, Principal Pinhead decreed that his minds full of mush must change "Gay your life must be" to "Fun your life must be".

When asked to explain his antics Principal Pinhead stipulated that his actions were ‘hypersensitive’, but he tried to mitigate his Korrectness, by whining that some of the tykes use "gay" to bully other kids, even though they don’t know about the GLAAD BAAG implications.

Unmoved by Principal Pinhead’s insistence that he preferred to "err on the side of caution", Crusader Hills - he’s a spokeshole for a GLAAD BAAG advocacy group, the Also Foundation, panned the lyric change:

"I don't think that's a very good message for kids to have, particularly when they've been working really hard to bring in respect and diversity into schools. They're drawing attention to it and being a bit stupid." (Stuff.co)

The results are in, Principal Pinhead, and the survey says: MORON. Better luck next time, dude.

Health & Safety Insanity is HERE
Source: PIG News Wire [09/01/10]

In one West Virginia outpost of humanity, Cabell County, that icon of the American elementary school playground, the swing sets, have been black flagged as ‘uncool for school’. Thanks to some litigation bonkers whiners, all of the swings are being removed from the county schools’ playgrounds.

The prime mover in this frontal assault on childhood fun is Tim Stewart, the safety manager for Cabell County schools. Painfully aware of the blowback which ensued after he announced his decision, Timid Timmy cites another painful, swings-related experience.

Life, according to Timid Tim, went to crap, during the past year, when a tyke made a Superman leap from the swing and broke his arm. Unwilling to confront the fun ‘kids do dumb things’ facts, the tyke’s parents made noises about a lawsuit. Unwilling to nail the litigation bonkers parents with a richly deserved ‘bite me’, the relevant cess-school minions paid the parents $20,000 of taxpayer money to make the parents go the f**k away.

Does one set of litigation bonkers parents need to spoil the fun for everybody? They do in Timid Timmy’s world, because - he whines - putting a safe surface beneath the swings is too hard.

Parting shot: If something needs to be expunged from Cabell County schools it’s that whining cretin, Timid Timmy.

Rhode Island School Nukes Recess
Source: PIG News Wire [08/27/10]

Why, you ask, would the asshats running East Providence Elementary School eliminate recess? For a variety of asinine reasons, the most infamous of which is ‘because they can’. How, you ask, will the cess-school inmates blow off steam, if the Educrats eliminate their 10 minute ‘free play’ period? They won’t, unless you’re buying into the cess-school’s scheme to ‘partner with the YMCA to design a more comprehensive physical education program that will keep students active, even without recess’ as stress reducing.

If you’re smelling another Fat Nazi intrusion into government cess-schools, join the club. The school district tipped its hand with that bloviating about ‘a more comprehensive physical education program’. Yeah, that’s much better than letting Little Johnny and Moonbeam hone their social skills by making new friends on the playground during recess. No recess? What a load of crap!

You Quoted HIM?
Source: Fox News [08/26/10]

I understand, from personal experience, how a good quote, especially one that’s ‘on topic’, can enhance an outburst of prose. If you select the right one, and insert it just so, it serves as a nifty exclamation point on your writing. I get that, and so, it appears, do the members of Easton Area High School (Pennsylvania) yearbook staff. In fact, the members of the yearbook staff collected enough quotes from famous leaders and authors to spread them, randomly, throughout the pages of the yearbook. No harm, no foul? Not exactly.

As far as I can tell, although they aren't thrilled spitless about the uproar, the relevant school officials are willing to proclaim that THE QUOTE is not what it appears to be. It was not, they insist, a prank, or an upsurge of neo-Nazism on the part of the yearbook staff. Neo-Nazism? You bet, thanks to a quote which appears on page 190 of what is destined to be one of them most famous yearbooks in history.

The quote itself - "and in the final analysis, success is what matters" - doesn’t raise any flags, until you trace it down and realize who said it: Adolph Hitler. Adolph Hitler makes landfall in Pennsylvania? Yup. Did the cow squeeze hit the rotating cooling device? You better believe it Sparky, because the usual suspects are setting their hair on fire over it.

Apparently, ‘shit happens’, is on life support in the Keystone State. Learn something new every day.

A Rational Adult Sounds Off on Government Schools
Source: CATO Institute [08/15/10]

I obtained this letter to the Washington Post, after a CATO Institute link landed on my Facebook page. I’ll bloviate about it, after you read it.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Apparently, like most supporters of national curriculum standards, The Post's editorial board either hasn't read or doesn't care about the research on such standards ["Holding out," editorial, Aug. 10]. Otherwise, in lambasting Virginia for not signing on to national standards, the editorial would not have said that "the wide variation in state standards . . . has produced poor outcomes." There is zero meaningful evidence of that, just as the research reveals that all other things equal, countries with national standards do no better than those without.

Meanwhile, there is a great deal of evidence demonstrating that our problems stem largely from public schooling being a government monopoly. And the feds bribing states to adopt a national curriculum will only make that problem worse.

Neal P. McCluskey, Washington

The writer is the associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute.

The gentleman from Cato nailed it with this prose: "there is a great deal of evidence demonstrating that our problems stem largely from public schooling being a government monopoly." It compelled me to get on my soapbox and unleash my PIGish Educrap rant.

The time has come for the taxpayers of this country to face up to one simple fact: this one size fits all government school scheme doesn't work. There's a lot of ‛stuff' going on in government schools. A lot of ‛stuff', but, tragically, imparting knowledge to the students isn't part of it.

We need to get rid of the synapse stifling shackles that tether America’s schools to the Nanny State. We’ve been there, done that, with our government cess-schools. Enough already with a system which, routinely, fails to produce the requisite product: EDUCATED - not INDOCTRINATED - individuals.

Our bumper crop of government cess-schooled idiots with self esteem has produced its bitter fruit PRESIDENT Barry Obama. What further proof do you need that our one-size-fits-all government schools, and the national standards that go with it, aren’t working?

We need to put the education of America’s future generations of sovereign individuals where it belongs: in the MARKETPLACE. Only the marketplace can produce what we need: a laboratory of educational ideas where the good ones thrive and the bad ones are dropped like a bad habit.

Education is too important to leave in the hands of the Nanny State. I’m just sayin’.

The Devil, You Say
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution [07/29/10]

Back in the day, Robins Air Force Base paid to have a high school built in Warner Robins (Georgia). When the school was completed, in 1946, the relevant civic authorities responded by naming the mascot after the 7th fighter squadron which brought its planes to the base for repair. The 7th fighter squadron, ‘The Screaming Demons’ made the school mascot choice an easy one. That’s why this Bible Belt town’s oldest high school's teams are known as the Warner Robins High School Demons.

To a rational adult, ‘Demons’ is no harm no foul. Unhappily, ‘rational adult’ excludes a professional Tome wrangler, Donald Crosby. A new - only one year in town - Warner Robins resident, Donald is the pastor at the Kingdom Builders Church of Jesus Christ. Wearing his supernaturalist sensitivity on his sleeve, he’s painting a bull’s-eye on the venerable ‘Demon’. This paragon of piety won’t tolerate having his son exhorting the school’s sports teams on to more glory by shouting ‘Go Demons!’ His hissy fit puts a whole new spin on "not 'no', but 'HELL no'"

"A demon never has a good connotation. Never," Crosby told[a] Macon TV station [WMAZ]. "If you look it up in Webster's Dictionary, there's nothing good about a demon." (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Little Donny is frantically trying to move his son to another school with a more ‘suitable’ mascot. At the same time, he insists that Warner Robins High School dump the ‘Demon’ like a bad habit. Whine, whine, whine.

Since ‘Demon’ only annoys HIM, it’s his personal problem, and he needs to GET OVER IT.

Parting shot: For a rational assessment, from a CHRISTIAN perspective, I offer the following into the official record:

“This is not something new.” [Jenni Russ class of ’81 and mother of two Demons] told the AJC on Wednesday. “This is typical when you have somebody new to the community. We’ve had people complain about this … I just don’t even connect that with Satan. It’s just a mascot.”

"Most mascots are supposed to strike fear," [Brian Russ, class of ‘82] told the AJC. His 15-year-old daughter, Brianna, doesn’t get the preacher’s argument either. “I’ve been part of Demon football since I was a baby,” she said. “It has nothing to do with worshiping the Devil. I’m a Christian myself. I love God to death. But the demon mascot has never changed my thoughts about worshiping the Devil." (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Game, set, match? You better believe it, ‘Go Demons’ Sparky.

Ivory Tower Whiner Prevails
Source: PIG News Wire [07/16/10]

The focal point of our story is an Egghead named Dr. Kenneth Howell. From 1998 to Fall 2001, Dr. Howell taught college courses relating to his Catholic faith at St. John’s Catholic Newman Center. Since the Fall term of 2001, under an agreement with the University of Illinois, Dr. Howell - toiling as an adjunct professor in the Ivory Tower’s religion department - has taught 2 classes on Catholicism. No harm, no foul? Yes, and no.

His sojourn at University of Illinois hit his speed bump, when a hypersensitive asshat signed up for "Introduction to Catholicism". What speed bump? Among other things, this course includes ‘an explanation of Natural Moral Law as affirmed by the Church as well as an application of Natural Law Theory to a disputed social issue’. His social issue of choice is homosexuality and its morality, under church teachings.

Dr. Howell’s approach is laid out in this excerpt from a Catholic News Agency article:

Howell said he taught the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality. He summed it up by saying, “A homosexual orientation is not morally wrong just as no moral guilt can be assigned to any inclination that a person has. However, based on natural moral law, the Church believes that homosexual acts are contrary to human nature and therefore morally wrong.”

To show how homosexual behavior would be considered under competing moral systems, Howell sent an e-mail to the students contrasting utilitarianism with natural moral law. “I tried to show them that under utilitarianism, homosexual acts would not be considered immoral whereas under natural moral law they would,” Howell said. “This is because natural moral law, unlike utilitarianism, judges morality on the basis of the acts themselves.” (CNA)

On May 13, the hypersensitive cretin who lurked in Dr. Howell’s class had ‘a friend’ unleash a whining missive via e-mail:

The e-mail complained about Howell's statements on homosexuality, calling them “hate speech.”

"Teaching a student about the tenets of a religion is one thing," said the e-mail, according to The News-Gazette. "Declaring that homosexual acts violate the natural laws of man is another. The courses at this institution should be geared to contribute to the public discourse and promote independent thought; not limit one's worldview and ostracize people of a certain sexual orientation."

As a direct result of an e-mail complaint, from a cretin who wasn’t even in Dr. Howell’s class, Dr. Howell was called in at the end of the semester and fired. His invocation of his first amendment rights and academic freedom fell on deaf ears. This pagan scribbler is no bull crap OUTRAGED over the Ivory Tower’s shabby treatment of Dr. Howell.

His response to these slings and arrows is, in my opinion, an excellent. His task is to teach his students what the Catholic Church teaches/believes. When they complete the course, the students are NOT required to share the Catholic Church’s beliefs. They ARE, however, required to demonstrate the requisite UNDERSTANDING of what those beliefs are. It’s like a history course which focuses on the Nazi. The goal isn’t to turn students into Nazis. The goal is to teach them what made the Nazis tick.

Parting shot: How does the University of Illinois expect to offer a meaningful course on Catholicism, if it doesn’t include the church’s beliefs? How is a professor supposed to instill knowledge of Catholic beliefs without laying them out in considerable detail? It’s Enquiring Minds time, again, in the PIGdom.

Sexing It Up In Montana
Source: Fox News [07/09/10]

The Educrats, who infest the government cess-schools in Helena, Montana, thrilled rational adults spitless, with a bold new sex Educrap concept which starts indoctrinating the tykes in - I’m not making this up - kindergarten. From that point, they kick it up a notch, each year, until their insanity reaches critical mass with 12th graders.

A Fox News story shared these putrid, prurient, particulars:

The Helena Public School system is considering a comprehensive plan for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It includes teaching first graders that people can be attracted to the same gender. In second grade students are instructed to avoid gay slurs and by the time students turn 10 years old they are taught about various types of intercourse.

According to the draft proposal obtained by FOX News Radio, fifth graders should “understand that sexual intercourse includes but is not limited to vaginal, oral, or anal penetration.” (Fox)

If all goes according to plan, Helena cess-school inmates will know enough about sex, in all its diverse forms, that they’ll put Kinsey to shame.

Parting shot: Our top secret sources tell us that the final exam, for fifth graders, requires them to talk so ‘dirty’ that it makes Larry Flynt blush

A Bold New Educrap Concept
Source: Golden Oinks [07/09/10]

It makes so much sense that its implementation in Kansas City (Missouri) schools sounds too good to be true. Since it sounds like an idea that should work like gangbusters, I’m still wondering how it slipped past the usual, ‘idiots with self esteem’ suspects.

Instead of chaining a given student to a grade level, based on his, her, hisher, or its age, Kansas City Educrats plan to group students based on their ability in a given subject. When the student masters one level, in a given subject, that he, she, heshe, or it won’t be forced to wait for the rest of the class to get ‘er done. Instead, the student will move up to the next level in that subject.

Students — often of varying ages — work at their own pace, meeting with teachers to decide what part of the curriculum to tackle. Teachers still instruct students as a group if it's needed, but often students are working individually or in small groups on projects that are tailored to their skill level.

For instance, in a classroom learning about currency, one group could draw pictures of pennies and nickels. A student who has mastered that skill might use pretend money to practice making change.

Students who progress quickly can finish high school material early and move forward with college coursework. Alternatively, in some districts, high-schoolers who need extra time can stick around for another year.

Advocates say the approach cuts down on discipline problems because advanced students aren't bored and struggling students aren't frustrated. (Fox News)

Admittedly, this system of learning isn’t new, but a good idea doesn’t need to be ‘fresh from the oven’. The results, in school systems where it has been implemented, are promising. The students have a much better understanding of core subjects like reading, writing, and math, a fact which shows up on standardized test scores. The FSOP gives Kansas City Educrats props for giving this a try.

Parting shot: I suspect that the usual Korrectnik suspects view this new system as an ‘end run around social promotions’, since it - in their minds - takes ‘failure’ out of the equation. I get that, but I still see more good here than bad.

Mexifornia’s Islamikaze U
Source: Fox News [06/19/10]

If you want to get up close and personal with an angry Islamikaze mob, you don’t need to travel to Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, or Gaza. In fact, if you still consider Mexifornia part of the America, you don’t even need to leave the USA. You can get that Islamikaze rampage thrill behind Southern Mexifornia’s Orange Curtain, at Islamikaze U - AKA University of California Irvine. That’s where the rage-a-holics in the Muslim Student Union determine who gets to participate in the largely mythical ‘free exchange of ideas’.

How bad is it? I’ll let you be the judge:

The school revealed this week that it had recommended suspending the Muslim group after 11 students were arrested in February for repeatedly disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, who was repeatedly interrupted and called "murderer" and "war criminal" by pro-Palestinian students as he gave a talk on the Middle East peace process.

The Muslim group is appealing the recommendation -- a process that is expected to be completed before the next school year begins.

The appeal comes after more than 60 faculty members at UC Irvine signed an open letter last month condemning what they said was an anti-Semitic atmosphere at the school.

"We…are deeply disturbed about activities on campus that foment hatred against Jews and Israelis," the letter read, citing incidents over the past few years that included "the painting of swastikas in university buildings and the Star of David depicted as akin to a swastika. Some community members, students, and faculty indeed feel intimidated, and at times even unsafe." (Fox)

After - belatedly - facing up to years of Islamikaze rampages, the student affairs disciplinary committee found the Mecca Maniacs ‘guilty of disorderly conduct, obstructing university activities and other violations of campus policy’. I’d like to tell you that the punishment is summary execution, but I can’t.

The committee recommended suspending the group for one year, placing it on disciplinary probation for an additional year and requiring the student organization to collectively complete 50 hours of community service, a move that would prevent the group from conducting organized campus events until at least the fall of 2011. (Fox)

If anyone thinks this suspension will keep the Islamikazes from terrorizing Islamikaze U, they’re delusional. Like all their Islamikaze homeboys, these rage-a-holic don’t give a crap about the prevailing rules of engagement. It’s bad enough, when campus Korrectniks pull this kind of ‘above the law’ crap. It’s intolerable, when Islamikazes do it, at an Ivory Tower bought and paid for with OUR money.

Enough is enough!

Zero Tolerance Strikes Again
Source: PIG News Wire [06/19/10]

When his second grade class at Tiogue School in Coventry (Rhode Island) got the class assignment, 8 year old David Morales put on his thinking cap. His design for a ‘patriotic hat to honor Army troops’ is, in our opinion, a winner. Unhappily, the Zero Tolerance Zombies at his cess-school black flagged it as a violation of school policy.

Somehow, gluing toy Army figures to a camouflage hat, then topping it off with an American flag, is a dire threat to school safety.

‘...[David’s mom Christan] Morales said the principal at David's school called her to say the hat wasn't appropriate because it had guns, which violated a school ban on weapons and toy weapons.

“We don’t advocate having any concept of weapons in the school,” Kenneth DiPietro, superintendent of Coventry Public Schools, told FoxNews.com. “(David’s) military theme was all welcomed. The only issue was the weapons displayed on the hat.” (Fox)

Game, set, match? Not necessarily. After what had to be some IMPRESSIVE blowback, Superindent Dipietro beat a hasty retreat:

Coventry schools superintendent Ken Di Pietro said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the no-weapons policy shouldn't limit student expression, especially when students are depicting "tools of a profession or service," such as the military or police.

"The event exposed how a policy meant to ensure safe environments for students can become restrictive and can present an image counter to the work of our schools to promote patriotism and democracy," Di Pietro said. (News Max)

In addition to getting a hasty ‘nothing to see here’ retreat from school officials, our young hero also got noteworthy support from the retired head of the Rhode Island National Guard, Lt. General Reginald Centracchio who praised the lad for his support for our men and women in uniform.

Promoting Failure In New York
Source: Golden Oinks [06/11/10]

The New York Post is guilty of an egregious understatement, when it calls what’s going on in New York’s cess-schools ‘dumbing down’. The smoking gun on this insanity is the state’s math test, which is used to determine if an inmate will be allowed to advance to the next grade.

Painfully aware of past scoring abuses, the usual Educrat suspects insisted that the tests wouldn’t be ‘dumbed down’ this year. In a way, they kept that promise, because they didn’t dumb down the exams. They accomplished that mission with an inventive scoring scheme.

The Post exposed the truth with these fetid facts:

State education officials had vowed to "strengthen" and "increase the rigor" of both the questions and the scoring when about 1.2 million kids in grades 3 to 8 -- including 450,000 in New York City -- took English exams in April and math exams last month.

But scoring guides obtained by The Post reveal that kids get half-credit or more for showing fragments of work related to the problem -- even if they screw up the calculations or leave the answer blank.

Examples in the fourth-grade scoring guide include:

* A kid who answers that a 2-foot-long skateboard is 48 inches long gets half-credit for adding 24 and 24 instead of the correct 12 plus 12.

* A miscalculation that 28 divided by 14 equals 4 instead of 2 is "partially correct" if the student uses the right method to verify the wrong answer.

* Setting up a division problem to find one-fifth of $400, but not solving the problem -- and leaving the answer blank -- gets half-credit.

* A kid who subtracts 57 cents from three quarters for the right change and comes up with 15 cents instead of 18 cents still gets half-credit.

* A student who figures the numbers of books in 35 boxes of 10 gets half-credit despite messed-up multiplication that yields the wrong answer, 150 instead of 350.

These questions ask students to show their work. The scoring guidelines, called "holistic rubrics," require that points be given if a kid's attempt at an answer reflects a "partial understanding" of the math concept, "addresses some element of the task correctly," or uses the "appropriate process" to arrive at a wrong solution. Despite flubbing the answer, students can get 1 point on a 2-point problem and 1 or 2 points on a 3-pointer. (Post)

The Post’s scribblers can call this ‘dumbing down’ if that thrills them spitless. The Educrats can call it ‘holistic rubrics’ until the bovines answer the dinner bell. Here in the Free State of PIG, we’re going to call it what it is, a steaming pile of government cess-school bullshit.

Uncool For School
Source: Yahoo News [05/27/10]

Unless there’s one, or more, pre-pubescent wenchlets in your life, you probably never heard of the latest wenchlet fad, Silly Bandz. What the hell are Silly Bandz? According to Yahoo News, they’re collectable, rubber band-like bracelets which are sold in packs of 24 for a mere $5 per pack. According to killjoy Educrats, they’re a pestilence which have no place in school.

The Bandz are now contraband. Schools in several states, including New York, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts, have blacklisted Silly Bandz, those stretchy, colorful bracelets that are creeping up the forearms of school kids across the U.S. And starting this week, all 800-some kids at my son's elementary school in Raleigh, N.C., were commanded to leave at home their collections of rubber band–like bracelets, which retail for about $5 per pack of 24. What could possibly be so insidious about a cheap silicone bracelet?

"It's a distraction," says Jill Wolborsky, a fourth-grade teacher at my son's school, who banned them from her classroom before the principal implemented a schoolwide ban. One student stole some confiscated Bandz from her desk, choosing them over the cash in her drawer.

Students fiddle with them during class and arrange swaps - trading, say, a bracelet with a mermaid for one with a dragon - when they should be concentrating on schoolwork, teachers say. Sometimes a trade goes bad - kids get buyer's remorse too - and hard feelings, maybe even scuffles, ensue.

That's what prompted Karen White, principal of Snow Rogers Elementary School in Gardendale, Ala., in October to become one of the first administrators to forbid students their Bandz. "We try not to limit their freedom of expression and what they wear, but when this became a problem, I knew we had to nip it in the bud pretty quickly," says White, who has since extended an olive branch in the form of monthly Silly Bandz days. (Yahoo News)

Bandz banned? Isn’t that a tad extreme? Why not use this wenchlet enthusiasm for Bandz creatively, by working them into a teacher’s lesson plan?

Not Your Daddy’s Geometry Lesson
Source: Golden Oinks [05/21/10]

When does a high school math lesson cross the line from ho-hum, to ‘holy crap’? If you’re a Educrat at Corner High School in Jefferson County (Alabama) it happens when you use a Messiah Barry assassination scheme to illustrate a complex geometry problem.

A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. [Roy Sexton, special agent in charge of Birmingham's Secret Service office] said he generally doesn't discuss threat cases, but confirmed his office investigated the incident. No federal charges followed the probe.

The teacher was apparently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama. "He was talking about angles and said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,'" said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class.

Efforts to reach the teacher for comment Monday were unsuccessful. Superintendent Phil Hammonds said the teacher remains at work, and there are no plans for termination. "We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate," Hammonds said. "It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words." (The Birmingham News)

In this case, I join rational adults from sea to shining sea, by asking, "What the hell were you thinking, dude?"

A Pair Of Steaming, Educrap Loads
Source: PIG News Wire [05/14/10]

Mexas Food Nazi Rampage
Leighann Adair blundered into Zero Tolerance Zombie hell, when she accepted some Jolly Rancher candy from a classmate at lunchtime. In a heartbeat, a marauding Fat Nazi busted the 10-year-old gourmet for violating the state’s rules of nutritional engagement, exiling Leighann from the other inmates at Brazos Elementary. When the Food Nazi furor reached critical mass, Leighann was on the receiving end of a week-long stretch in detention.

Eager to elude richly-deserved blowback, school officials are fixing the blame on state guidelines:

Jack Ellis, the superintendent for Brazos Independent School District, declined an on-camera interview. But he said the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned “minimal nutrition” foods. “Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,” he said.

The state, however, gives each school discretion over how to enforce the policy. Ellis said school officials had decided a stricter punishment was necessary after lesser penalties failed to serve as a deterrent. Ellis said failing to adhere to the state’s guidelines could put federal funding in jeopardy.

According to the Texas Department of Agriculture’s website, “The Texas Public School Nutrition Policy (TPSNP) explicitly states that it does not restrict what foods or beverages parents may provide for their own children's consumption.”

Brazos Elementary Principal Jeanne Young, said the problem, in this instance, was that the candy was provided by another student – not the girl’s parents. (KHOU)

I suppose Leighann should be thankful that all she got for her sweet tooth is detention. I mean, it is Mexas, which means summary execution was, and still is, in play.

Korrectnik Educrat Calls Flag Drawing ‘Offensive’
If you need proof that our government cess-schools are a threat to our inalienable liberty, I’ve got it covered. It shouldn’t shock you to learn that this happened in a Mexifornia cess-school: Gavilan View Middle School in Salinas.

This stinker reached critical mass, when an art teacher vilified a wenchlet’s artwork as ‘offensive’. Was she drawing kiddie porn? Nope. Was she casting aspersions on the properly-hyphenated? Nope. Did she castigate the Marxist Messiah? Nope. Did she assault her teacher with her artistry. Nope, and you’re not even warm.

Tracy Hathaway’s ‘offensive’ artwork depicted - GASP - the American flag:

A simple art project has turned controversial in Salinas after a student said her drawing of the American flag was deemed offensive, while another student's picture of President Obama was praised. Tracy Hathaway said her art teacher at Gavilan View Middle School told her daughter she couldn't draw the American flag, calling the picture offensive.

Hathaway said they were floored when they heard the news and met with the teacher and principal at Gavilan View Middle School. When asked what she thought was offensive about drawing an American flag, the teacher didn't answer, Hathaway said.

The Hathaways now want an apology. "From her teacher to just say 'I'm sorry for offending you' and saying this was 'offensive,' just a heart-felt apology is all I'm asking," Hathaway said. (KSWB)

As expected, the ensuing blowback has been memorable, to say the least. Eager to make it all go away, so the cess-school can resume its indoctrination sessions, District Superintendent Mike Brusa is making vague noises about a ‘possible’ apology - Brusa said one ‘might be in order’. It ‘might’ happen at a forthcoming meetings between the Obamunist art teacher, the young artist, and her parents, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Why Bayou Bobby Can’t Read
Source: PIG News Wire [05/08/10]

If you live in Louisiana, and your tyke was a scholar at Riveroaks Elementary School during the 2008-09 cess-school year, I have troubling news for you, about your young scholar’s grades. Due to orders from on high, grade inflation was MANDATORY. That’s right, MANDATORY.

I’m pleased to report that at least one of the school’s teachers, Sheila Goudeau, got so pissed about it, she’s suing the relevant Educrats in a federal court:

‘...Sheila Goudeau now teaches at another Baton Rouge public school, Villa Del Rey Elementary, attorney Craig Sterling Watson said in the suit.

Defendants include the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, current Superintendent John Dilworth, former Superintendent Charlotte Placide and Riveroaks Principal Shilonda Shamlin...’

‘...Goudeau alleges that Shamlin informed fourth-grade teachers in April 2009 that they were not to record a grade of less than 60 percent, or “D,” for any student.

No student should receive a grade of “F,” Goudeau quoted Shamlin as saying.

Goudeau also alleged that Shamlin told the teachers “to assign a ‘D’ grade to students who had failing grades and would almost certainly fail both the Spring and Summer LEAP exams.”

Goudeau added that Shamlin said: “The LEAP test would catch him or her if he or she was truly meant to fail and be held back in fourth grade.”

LEAP tests are those of the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program. A student is expected to pass those tests in order to gain promotion to the fifth grade.

Goudeau said in her suit that she expressed disagreement with Shamlin’s position but complied with the principal’s orders.

Because of the disagreement, Goudeau alleged, Shamlin harassed and criticized her in front of her students.

Goudeau said in her suit she filed a grievance against Shamlin. But Goudeau said the School Board and Placide took no action against Shamlin, while Dilworth ruled in Shamlin’s favor...’ (Baton Rouge Advocate)

The FSOP salutes Sheila for swimming against the government-schooled idiots with self esteem tide.

Gotcha
Source: Central Florida News 13 [05/01/10]

After a rash of locker break-ins, the inmates at North Marion High School were fed up. Since school officials weren’t up to the challenge, some students decided to show school officials how it’s done. They deployed a cell phone camera where it could catch the thief in the act, and it worked.

If you think they bagged a sticky fingered classmate, think again. The truth is much stranger than that:

Deputies said the video showed the crook was Steven Simmons, 49, their PE teacher. It's news that spread quickly at North Marion High School.

“There's videos going around and forwarded messages of his mug shot, and it's crazy,” said Shelby Revels, a North Marion High student.

Deputies said at first Simmons denied going into the lockers. However, when confronted with the video, they said he confessed to stealing money from students for years. This year, it totaled around $400.

“When you think about it, like, he does have a job,” Revels said. “He can work for his money. Why would he steal it, especially from the school he works at. I just think that's insane.” (News 13)

Marion County school officials aren’t circling the wagons, yet. So far, they’re serving up Stevie’s spotless 25 year record and expressing shock. In a rational world, Stevie would be perp walked out of North Marion High School. In teachers union ravaged America, that’s much harder than rational adults want, or need.

Old Man River Wads Korrectnik Panties
Source: UPI [04/27/10]

A music instructor at a Mexifornia Ivory Tower, St. Mary’s College, Louis Lebherz, hit a speed bump this week, when he served up a Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein classic to his music class. A purist, this ‘artist-in-residence’ gave his class that ‘Showboat’ show stopper, ‘Old Man River’, in its original form. So what? So plenty.

A Melanin-Enriched inmate had unresolvable ‘issues’ with Louis’ antics, prompting the inmate to run to the Ivory Tower’s presiding Egghead, brandishing the ubiquitous race card. Old Man River is racist? It is if you consider a pair of ‘n-bombs’ justification for fitting Kern, Hammerstein and Louis Lebhertz with sheets and hoods.

An on-line lyrics site provided these pertinent particulars:

Niggers all work on de Mississippi**
Niggers all work while de white folks play**
Pullin' dose boats from de dawn to sunset
Gittin' no rest till de judgement day

(Don't look up an' don't look down)
(You don' dar'st make de white boss frown)
(Bend your knees an' bow your head)
(An' pull dat rope until you're dead)

Let me go 'way from the Mississippi
Let me go 'way from de white man boss
Show me dat stream called de river Jordan
Dat's de ol' stream dat I long to cross

(Ol' man river, dat ol' man river)
(He mus' know sumpin', but don't say nothin')
(He just keeps rollin')
(He keeps on rollin' along)

**The lines "Niggers all work on de Mississippi, Niggers all work while de white folks play" were sung in the original 1927 Broadway Show. They were changed for the 1936 film version to "Darkies all work on de Mississippi, Darkies all work while de white folks play".

By the time of the 1946 Broadway revival, the lines had changed again to "Colored folks work on de Mississippi, Colored folks work while de white folks play". And soon after, in the film "Till the Clouds Roll By", they had become "Here we all work on de Mississippi, Here we all work while de white folks play".

How screwed is Louis Lebherz? Very. Despite his written apology to the outraged Ethnocrat student, Louis’ Educrat career hangs in the balance:

Beth Dobkin, the provost of St. Mary's College, a Catholic institution in the San Francisco area, said the college is considering whether Louis Lebherz, an artist-in-residence, should remain there, the Contra Costa Times reported. His brother is a trustee. (UPI)

Good luck, Louis. I think you’re going to need it, you’re so screwed Sparky.

Terrors of Technology Make Landfall in Pennsylvania
Source: Patriot News [04/15/10]

The aftershocks from last year’s ‘sexting’ scandal are still reverberating through a Pennsylvania high school. The fun started at Susquenita High School, after some stoolie ratted out 3 wenchlets and 5 hormone gorillas who exchanged sexed up images via their cell blights between April 2009 and September 2009. That’s when the cow squeeze hit the rotating cooling device.

Citing the letter of the state’s child porn law, the proper authorities nailed the relevant cess-school inmates with felony child porn charges. Why? Because a minor who sends/shows a nude image or images of a sex act involving a minor - even if it’s an image of themselves - to another minor is guilty of child porn. The smoking ‘gun’ in this instance involved a ‘video taken of a sex act on school grounds’ which one or more of the young ‘felons’ were sharing with their classmates.

If convicted of a child porn felony, the impact is massive. For starters, it means that a classic teenage brain fart could pin a life-long ‘registered sex offender’ label on these peep show purveying young ‘uns. As fun as those felony charges sound, this incident bagged another group of perps, this week, courtesy of some angry parents:

Now, based on parents’ complaints, the administrators who caught them might face their own consequences, creating another murky legal issue in the largely untested intersection of children, technology and pornography.

Susquenita High School officials are being investigated after parents claimed pornographic images and videos from cell phones confiscated from students were “passed around” and viewed by more than just those administrators who investigated the incident.

“Of course, one or two people had to see the images to determine what they were,” Perry County District Attorney Charles Chenot said. “But if more than one or two top administrators saw them, there better be a good reason why.”

School employees could be charged with displaying child pornography — the same charges the students involved face — if they showed the images to people not involved in the investigation, Chenot said.

Parents of the students involved contend district administrators “passed around” the images to other employees.

“Why did they willingly view those pics when they already knew what was on those phones?” asked one of the students’ parents. “Keep in mind, a state police officer needs parental signed consent or a warrant signed by a judge to go through cell phones.” (Patriot News)

Child porn is serious shit and it’s no laughing matter. It needs to be snuffed out. BUT, there needs to be some way to differentiate between a hard core pedophile and some teenager who wants to electronically ‘flash’ his, her, hisher or its naughty bits at some classmates. Unless there’s a lot more to this story, pinning a ‘registered sex offender’ label on 7 teenagers is asinine, and you can quote me.

Inmates Running the Educrat Asylum?
Source: Daily Mail [04/03/10]

Determined to improve their government cess-schools, Brit officials are taking the road less traveled, when it comes to identifying pressing Educrap problems. How? You’re going to be thrilled.

Some Einstein in the Brit Educrap system has ‘empowered’ cess-school inmates to provide ‘feedback’ - teachers call them ‘spies’ - on their school and their teachers. As concepts go, this one is beyond bold:

Pupil 'spies' are attempting to rid schools of strict teachers by sabotaging their promotions and snitching on their lessons, it has been claimed. They are being allowed to rate members of staff through observing their teaching, filling in anonymous questionnaires and even sitting on interview panels.

The Government has put greater emphasis on schools allowing the 'voice' of youngsters to be heard in recent years.

In Ofsted forms, school heads need to illustrate how the views of pupils are taken into account.

From September, headteachers will have a legal duty to consult pupils on major changes to school policy.

Headteachers insist that the student’s views, their recommendations, are useful, but these assurances are falling on deaf, Educrat ears. Feeling threatened, teachers are poised to defend their turf:

But the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers has warned of widespread abuse following a survey of more than 200 members. At its annual conference in Birmingham today, teachers will call for ballots of industrial action to stop 'inappropriate use' of the 'student voice'.

One teacher told how he was 'culled' from the interview process for a new job because the pupils on the panel thought he was 'too strict'. The teacher said: 'I felt upset that two out of three of the adults liked me enough but that the pupils had that much sway.'

Another claimed: 'Before you know it, students are choosing to keep "easy-going" teachers who let them do as they like and getting rid of the more strict ones.' (Daily Mail)

Are Brit Elected Tormentors letting the inmates run the asylum? Apparently. Is this an utterly insane idea? Not necessarily. When properly motivated, a serious student could provide a valuable insight on the kind of changes needed to maximize ‘teaching/learning’ and minimize ‘indoctrination/brainwashing’. That, of course, is the last thing a teacher with a personal, political/philosophical, agenda wants.

Zero Tolerance In J.O.E.
Source: PIG News Wire [03/26/10]

This infuriating insanity started with a classic, boys will be boys, outburst, which left one young lad up a tree. Brimming with that energy which comes so readily to 5 year olds, an inmate at Manor School in Melksham, Wiltshire (J.O.E.), thrilled school officials when they found him 20 feet off the ground in a tree on the school grounds.

What happened next takes asinine to new levels. Instead of helping the lad get out of the tree, the school’s staff poured over the relevant health and safety guidelines. That pile of health and safety riddled crap instructed them to retreat inside the school building to ‘observe from a distance’ lest the young climber would get ‘distracted and fall’. The standoff continued, for nearly an hour, until a rational adult, Kim Barrett arrived on the scene:

"I was completely shocked when I first saw him because he was sitting on a branch hanging out over the pavement. He was so young. He didn't look frightened but he was completely on his own - there were no teachers or friends in the playground and the field was empty."

"I walked past at 11.15am and he told me he had been hiding since the end of playtime because he didn't want to go back into class. Break ends at 10.30am so that means he had been in the tree for at least 45 minutes. I stopped to ask him if he was OK, and it became clear that he'd been there since the end of playtime, which had been around half an hour earlier." (Daily Mail)

The mother of a 6-year-old girl, Kim helped the lad down from his perch, then escorted him to the school building where she was accosted by a school official. Did they thank Kim for her good deed? Nope. Sneering and snarky, they accused her of trespassing - "approaching the school in an inappropriate way" - and ordered her to get out of Dodge. A few days later, the injustice system officials paid her a visit, to make menacing noises about ‘trespassing’ on the school’s grounds. The final indignity came, when the Wiltshire Council upbraided her in a letter for, among other things, giving the school official a piece of her mind.

For what it’s worth, Kim, we like your style. You did good, and that’s a fact.

Girls Will Be Girls
Source: The Oregonian [03/18/10]

The pestilence at Portland’s (Oregon) West Sylvan Middle School has reached epidemic proportions. It’s such a ‘disruption to the indoctrination, uh, learning process’ that the cess-school’s top Educrat, Principal Allison Couch, bannished it, via a non-negotiable moratorium.

What is it? Hugging:

Students could not pass each other in the hallway without a hug, the principal said. The girls were hugging one another all the time. Kids were late to class because of the hugs.

Classes would end, middle schoolers would eye a classmate at the other end of the hallway, "they'd scream, run down the hallway and jump in each other's arms," Principal Allison Couch said. It was, Couch said, a virus of hugs.

So the principal banned hugs on the school campus in late February.

The campus of nearly 600 seventh- and eighth-graders joined a growing list of schools nationwide that have halted hugs as well as other behaviors deemed detrimental to teaching and learning.

Couch said she was prompted to act in part because of a school bus incident that drew police. Though she would not describe what happened, she said no students had been harmed. (Oregonian)

Been here, done this? Agreed, but this one has an utterly PIGish ‘girls will be girls’ twist which elevates it to a new level:

[P]arents reported that girls were using hugging as a game to see how fast boys could become aroused, Couch said, adding, "I was seeing evidence of it." (Oregonian)

Seen evidence of it? I should hope to spit, given the hair-trigger libido of pubescent lads.

Parting shot: I thought giving teenage lads a boner was a job that certain female Educrats had assigned to themselves. Are the wenchlets at West Sylvan Middle School, reclaiming this time honored ritual? It’s Enquiring Minds time in the PIGdom.

Mississippi’s GLAAD BAAG Drama
Source: Fox News [03/12/10]

It’s safe to assume that Constance McMillen isn’t the most popular inmate of Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi. How, you ask did she garner that ignoble status? It was depressingly easy.

The first thing you need to know about our 18-year-old heroine is that she’s an out of the closet GLAAD BAAG. That fun fact reached critical mass, when Connie decided to attend the forthcoming prom, with her girlfriend - a fellow student. Making life thrilling for everyone concerned, Connie proclaimed that she would attend the prom wearing a tux.

Connie’s prom plans hit the first speed bump, when school officials brandished a ban on same-sex dates. They kicked the drama up several notches, after Connie responded with a non-negotiable ‘bite me’, and declared her intention of attending the prom, despite the same sex date ban. By this time, the ACLU was making menacing noises, so, declaring the matter an unnecessary distraction from their prime Educrap function, school officials hit Connie with their best shot. How? They cancelled the April 02, 2010 prom.

Game, set, match? Not exactly:

A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she faced some unhappy classmates after the Itawamba County School District said it wouldn't host the April 2 prom.

"Somebody said, 'Thanks for ruining my senior year."' McMillen said of her reluctant return Thursday to Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton.

The lawsuit seeks a court order for the school to hold the prom. It also asks that McMillen be allowed to escort her girlfriend, who is a fellow student, and wear a tuxedo, which the school said also violated policy. The district's decision Wednesday came after the ACLU demanded that officials change a policy banning same-sex prom dates because it said it violated students' rights. The ACLU said the district violated McMillen's free expression rights by not letting her wear a tux. (FOX)

Proving that there’s still intelligent life in Dixie, a New Orleans hotel owner named Sean Cummings has offered to host a prom at one of his properties. He’s even willing to provide free transportation, in addition to free accommodations. In a rational world, Connie and her classmates would tell school officials where to stick it and take the prom on the road to the Big Easy. It’s my idea of a win-win solution.

Why is a New Orleans prom win-win? It eliminates GLAAD BAAG activists, Elected Tormentors, and ACLU asshats, each of whom has their own axe to grind. It leaves the Mississippi cess-school ‘unsullied’, by a teenage Y-naut and her girlfriend. Best of all it prevents this ‘girls will be girls’ insanity from becoming LITERALLY, a federal case.

Everybody Panic, He’s Got A FINGER
Source: MLIVE [03/04/10]

When he headed for his kindergarten class at Jefferson Elementary in Iona (Michigan), 6 year old Mason Jammer didn’t know, that, before the sun went down over the western horizon, he’d be bagged and tagged as public enemy number one. How, you ask, did Mason manage that?

In these Zero Tolerance Zombie ravaged times, it was infuriatingly simple. He curled his hand in the shape of a gun and GASP, SHUDDER, CRINGE, pointed it at one of his classmates. Hit the deck he’s got a FINGER GUN. Call SWAT. Mobilize the National Guard. Send in the United States Marines. If all else fails, have the USAF carpet bomb this budding terrorist.

Okay. Okay! I’ll revoke the carpet bombing, unless we restrict it to the Zero Tolerance Zombies running Mason’s school:

‘...[W]hen Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter. They suspended Mason until Friday, saying the behavior made other students uncomfortable, said Erin Jammer, Mason's mother.

School officials allege Mason had displayed this kind of behavior for several months, despite numerous warnings.

"I do think it's too harsh for a six-year-old," said Jammer, who was previously warned that if Mason continued the practice he would be suspended. "He's six and he just likes to play."...’ (MLIVE)

Mason’s only ‘sin’ is being a typical young lad. As such, he’s not the one with a problem. The villains here, are the Zero Tolerance Zombies who want to turn Mason into a mincing, metrosexual, wimp whose primary defense mechanism is cringing and caterwauling. Don’t let them do THAT to you, Mason.

School Assembly Lap Dance Aftershocks
Source: Winnipeg Free Press [03/02/10]

Unless you’re in a coma, or have shut down all sources of information, you know about the inspirational display which took place at a school spirit assembly at Churchill High School in Winnipeg, Canada. Thanks to a video shot on one of the attendee’s cell phone, we got to see two of the school’s teachers perform a lap dance routine in the center of the gymnasium. As lap dances go, this one -with its simulated oral sex - was, to say the least, memorable.

That happened two weeks ago, but the story is far from over. As expected, the two teachers have been suspended (a meaningless wrist-slap, since it’s a suspension ‘with pay’), but they aren’t the only ones who are in hot water over the incident. Thanks to the school district’s asinine Zero Tolerance policies, some of the cess-school’s inmates are also in very hot water:

Students who filmed two suspended teachers performing a lap dance at Churchill High School and posted the event online could face serious disciplinary action. The students appear to have violated Winnipeg School Division's zero-tolerance policies forbidding use of cellphone cameras and other devices in schools.

School board chairwoman Jackie Sneesby refused to rule out punishment for the students Monday. "We haven't finished the investigation. It (disciplining students) hasn't been discussed yet," Sneesby said in an interview. "It isn't anything we would do without thinking about it." (Winnipeg Free Press)

As far as I can tell, the students’ cardinal sin involves making it impossible to sweep the incident under the rug, after the lap dancs video made such a big splash in cyberspace.

Some Are More Equal Than others In Flori-DUH
Source: PIG News Wire [02/26/10]

Hannah Workman, a fifth grader in the Clay County (Flori-DUH) school system, is a young lady (she’s 11) who wants to make the most of her educational opportunities. A straight-A student, Hannah has racked up an impressive array of academic awards and honors. Far from satisfied, she wants to kick it up a notch, by entering the cess-school’s program for gifted students.

Is she good enough? You bet. Is she going to achieve her lofty goal? She should, if the Korrectniks will get the hell out of her way.

After securing parental permission, Hannah took the requisite qualifying tests, then waited, impatiently, for the results. When the results came in, it was a mixture of good news and bad news.

The results came in and [Hannah’s mother] Jennifer said Hannah scored exceptionally well. She said she was told that Hannah scored high enough for some students to get in, but not high enough for Hannah. "Because Hannah's daddy made a little more money than that and was considered middle class and a higher income, she would have to score a 130," Jennifer said. "I was mad, I didn't think that was fair," Hannah said.

According to the school district, there are different standards for different students. If a student gets a free or reduced lunch or speaks limited English, the grading scale is different. Hannah was so upset that she sat down and wrote a letter to the editor. It was printed the very next day in the Florida Times-Union.

"It's an insult. It's an insult to the low-income children that they're expected to score lower," Jennifer said. "They should have one set score where it doesn't matter how much money your family makes or if you have fare-reduced lunch, if you get that score, no matter what, you can get in," Hannah said. (WJAX)

Hannah deserves better than this, that’s a fact, but she’s unlikely to get the level academic playing field she deserves, in a government cess-school. The only way that Hannah - all the Hannahs - will get a level academic playing field with a single standard for all students would require taking education out of the government’s hands and turning education over to the marketplace.

A Facebook Fandango Twofer
Source: PIG News Wire [02/19/10]

Teacher Disses the Tome
Melissa Hussain blew her southern fried schoolmarm image to hell and gone, recently, but she didn’t do it in the Wake County (North Carolina) classroom, where she teaches Christianity and Southern culture. She saved her pointed prose for a Facebook posting:

Melissa Hussain, an eighth-grade teacher at West Lake Middle School in Apex, wrote on her Facebook page that it was a “hate crime” that students left a Bible on her desk and how she “was able to shame her kids” over the incident. Her Facebook page included comments from friends saying that the parents of Hussain’s students were “bigoted, stupid and uncaring.” (Fox Nation)

At first, Melissa was allowed to keep on teaching, but that changed, after Holy Roller howling reached critical mass. Eventually, school officials decided to dampen down the uproar, by suspending Melissa, with pay. Will she be back? Probably, but I doubt that she’ll be teaching a class about Cross Cultism on Wake County’s dime.

Student Disses A Teacher
In 2007, Katherine "Katie" Evans was a senior at a Flori-DUH cess-school - Pembroke Pines High School. For a variety of reasons, Katie had unresolved ‘issues’ with one of her teachers. Needing to vent, she set up a Facebook page, then unleashed all her pent up anger over the teacher in question. Among other things, she called the Educrat "the worst teacher I’ve ever met". No harm, no foul? Not exactly.

[I]nstead of other students expressing their dislike of the teacher, most defended the teacher and attacked Evans. A couple days later, Evans took the page down.

But after Principal Peter Bayer found out about it, he bumped Evan from her Advanced Placement classes, putting her in classes with less prestige, and suspended her for three days.

In late 2008, Evans filed suit against the principal, asking that the suspension be ruled unconstitutional and reversed, that the documents be removed from her file at the school and that she receive reimbursement for attorney fees. Evans, an honors student, was concerned that the suspension would tarnish her academic record and hurt her chances in graduate school and her career.

Bayer tried to get the case dismissed and asked for immunity against paying damages.

In a ruling on Friday, Magistrate Judge Barry Garber declined Bayer's request to toss the case and said the principal could be forced to pay up if Evans, now 19 and a journalism student at the University of Florida, is victorious.

"Evans' speech falls under the wide umbrella of protected speech," Garber wrote. "It was an opinion of a student about a teacher, that was published off-campus, did not cause any disruption on-campus, and was not lewd, vulgar, threatening, or advocating illegal or dangerous behavior."

The judge also noted that the principal suspended Evans two months after she had taken the page down. "In short, the potential spark of disruption had sputtered out, and all that remained was the opportunity to punish," Garber wrote.

The judge dismissed the student's request to force Bayer to purge the records of her suspension, but gave her the opportunity to amend her complaint and make the demand of the right parties. (Miami Herald)

The good news is that Free Speech might be off life support in Flori-DUH. The bad news is that Zero Tolerance Zombies still run Flori-DUH cess-schools. Win some. Lose some.

Common Sense Dead in Louisiana
Source: PIG News Wire [02/12/10]

It happened at a Louisiana High School - Maurepas High School - on the last school day before the Super Bowl. School officials stepped in a pile of unintended consequences crap, when they relaxed the school’s dress code, by allowing - encouraging - students to wear the New Orleans Saints’ black and gold colors to school. No harm, no foul? Not exactly.

For reasons that seemed spiffy to him, one student, Brandon Frost, decided to swim against the ‘Who Dat’ tide, by wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey to school. Was his go team go fashion statement an act of rebellion? Not really. A former denizen of Indianapolis, Brandon only moved to Louisiana, 3 years ago. Was his go team go fashion statement well received by his classmates and the relevant Educrats? His classmates didn’t have a chance to react, because the humor-challenged school administrators sent him home for violating the dress code which had been relaxed, temporarily, to allow black and gold. The Colts’ blue and white were still, they claimed, uncool for school.

As asinine as this already sounds, it got much worse, when the local infestation of the ACLU intruded, to kick the ‘thrills’ up several notches.

A Livingston Parish School Board member said Frost wasn't sent home, but was told he couldn't wear the blue jersey at school. Keith Martin, whose district includes Maurepas, said the school uniform had been relaxed only for black and gold.

He said he planned to ask school system attorneys whether that violated Frost's right to free speech, as the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana contends. State ACLU director Marjorie Esman sent a letter to Principal Steven Vampran, asking him to wipe Frost's record of any discipline stemming from the incident. (CBS)

Normally, I’d bitch-slap the Educrats and lay all the blame at their door, but, in this case, Brandon must share part of the blame. Why? On the day before this incident happened, Brandon asked Principal Vampran for permission to wear his Colts jersey and was told "no". Brandon had a similar discussion with at least one teacher and was warned him that he would get in trouble.

Bottom line: School officials should have cut Brandon some slack. The ACLU should stay the hell out of it. Brandon needs to learn that, "no" means "no".

Educrap Roundup
Source: PIG News Wire [02/05/10]

Founding Fathers Expelled From North Carolina Cess-Schools
If you think neo-Marxist, government cess-school, indoctrination is strictly a Blue State malady, get over it. It’s alive an well, deep in the heart of Dixie. In fact, based on a story from the Fox News web site, it’s no shit THRIVING.

Under the new rules of Educrap engagement, the following items have been expunged from the high school curriculum: The Declaration of Independence, Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, The Revolutionary War, The United States Constitution, The War of 1812, Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War, Reconstruction...every scrap of American History prior to 1877. If you think that’s bad, hold onto your hat because World History - ALL OF IT - has been flushed down the crapper and replaced by a terminally Korrect steaming turd named ‘global studies’ which brainwashes inmates on bullshit like Global Warming.

State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."

As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward. (Fox)

If this shit is happening in North Carolina, I don’t want to think about the steaming pile of Educrap turds pooped out in Libertard infested pest holes like Mexifornia, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.

Blatant Neo-Marxist Indoctrination In Ohio
A rabid Libertard moonbat with teaching credentials was bold as brass about the indoctrination it perpetrated while ‘teaching’ a government class:

The government teacher at Perry High School in Massillon, Ohio, handed out forms recruiting students to intern for Organizing for America, a grassroots organization with direct ties to the Democratic National Committee and the successor organization for Obama for America.

Included on the forms was a suggested reading list that included Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and Organizing for America's mission to build on the "movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change."

No Republican equivalent was offered to the students, according to Perry schools' Superintendent John Richard. (Fox)

Was this steaming Libertard load fired? Nope. Suspended? Nope. Reprimanded? I doubt it. He, she, heshe or it is still on the job, and, therefore, free to brainwash Perry High School inmates with this Marxist bullshit. As far as school Principal Don Gregoire is concerned, the teacher’s primary sin seems to be getting caught spewing Obamunist propaganda:

"We apologize that your son or daughter was given this information without approval," Gregoire wrote. "This error in following Board Policy has been addressed and has been clearly communicated to staff."

The bad news is that the teacher, the principal, and the superintendent are still gainfully employed Educrats. The good news is that the ‘fire these Commie bastards’ blowback is memorable. How memorable? One enraged rational adult opined the Superintendent Richard should apply for a job in Cuba.

Thanks to the egregiously leftist Educrats, Marxism has taken root in American schools. As far as I can tell, there’s only one cure: forcibly remove education from the Nanny State’s clutches and put it where it always belonged, in the marketplace.

Big Apple Overkill
Our heroine’s name is Alexa Gonzales, but to the pinheads running Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, Queens, this wenchlet is public enemy number one. In fact, Alexa is such a menace to society, she was handcuffed, then forcibly removed from school.

What, you ask, is Alexa’s crime? Drug dealing? Nope. Bringing deadly weapons to school? Nope. Kicking a classmate’s ass? Nope, and you’re not even warm.

A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.

Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said. "I love my friends Abby and Faith," the girl wrote, adding the phrases "Lex was here. 2/1/10" and a smiley face.

But instead of simply cleaning off the doodles after class, Alexa landed in some adult-sized trouble for using her lime-green magic marker. She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours, she and her mother said.

"I started crying, like, a lot," said Alexa. "I made two little doodles. ... It could be easily erased. To put handcuffs on me is unnecessary." Alexa, who had a stellar attendance record, hasn't been back to school since, adding, "I just thought I'd get a detention. I thought maybe I would have to clean [the desk]."

"She's been throwing up," said her mom, Moraima Tamacho, 49, an accountant, who lives with her daughter in Kew Gardens. "The whole situation has been a nightmare." (NY Daily News)

Faced with impressive blowback, cess-school officials, and the badge packers, belatedly, admit that arresting, then handcuffing, Alexa was just a tad Draconian. Unhappily, despite this unscheduled baby step toward sanity, Alexa’s punishment is, in my assessment, excessive. The ongoing suspension, and 8 hours of community service are overkill. The essay on what she learned from the experience seems much more reasonable.

Book Banned By Mexifornia School
Source: Guardian [01/25/10]

The ususal Morality Nazi suspects got their knickers knotted and set their hair on fire, when they found out that a certain book with its unacceptably salacious subject matter was a fixture in some Menifee Union school district 4th and 5th grade classrooms. Shocked, shocked, I tell you, they demanded its immediate removal. They would not tolerate this book and its graphic description of a certain sexual act anywhere near these eager young Enquiring minds.

What is this book? You’re going to be thrilled, when you find out.

Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for "oral sex". Merriam Webster's 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the "sexually graphic" entry is "just not age appropriate", according to the area's local paper.

The dictionary's online definition of the term is "oral stimulation of the genitals". "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper. (Guardian)

The bad news is that the relevant Educrats are mulling a permanent ban. The good news is that there is at least one rational adult left in Mexifornia:

"It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground," [the father of a Menifee student] Jason Rogers told local press. "You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina?"

Banning the Merriam Webster dictionary? Wow. That’s off the scale asinine, by any meaningful standard.

Missing Letters Spell Prankish Fun In Mexas
Source: Houston Chronicle [01/20/10]

By now, most of you know the nursery rhyme where the fork runs away with the spoon. But, how many of you heard about the ‘C’ which ran off with the ‘L’, leaving smirking ‘ASS’ flapping in a Mexas breeze?

Up to a point, it was business as usual, when more than 600 seniors from Cypress Ridge High School (Mexas) posed for the class photo. The devilish detail that makes this story PIG-worthy is the fact that some seniors wore special T-shirts which, when assembled in the proper order, spelled out ‘C L A S S O F 2 0 1 0'. No harm, no foul? At first, until the ‘C’ and ‘L’ went missing for a second photo which spelled out ‘A S S O F 2 0 1 0'.

Here in the PIGdom, we salute these high school hijinks, but those Educrat killjoys were far from amused:

Administrators at Cy-Ridge cited the school's code of conduct and suspended the three students for three days. The penalty began Tuesday.

Senior Austin Knight says “C and L ran off” and it's not the fault of the other three students, who also were fined $135. The money will help pay the cost of retouching the photo.

Senior Raymond Carrigan says the students were “ignorant and disrespectful.” (Houston Chronicle)

If Raymond thinks that is "ignorant and disrespectful", I can tell you a few things about him. He leads a sheltered life. He needs a humor transplant. He has never walked on the wild side with a trip to PIG’s Dumpster Diving page.

Run! Hide! He’s Got A...
Source: Fox [01/16/10]

An 11-year-old San Diego lad put the officials running Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in an evacuation-spawning panic, when he brought ‘it’ to school. Admittedly, ‘it’ was only a thing of beauty in his eager young eyes, but that’s no reason to call in the bomb squad:

Authorities say a San Diego middle school was evacuated when a student's science project was mistaken for a bomb.

A Fire-Rescue spokesman says a concerned vice principal prompted the evacuation of Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School yesterday afternoon. He says an arson team took photos and X-rays of the empty plastic bottle with wires and determined it was harmless.

He says the 11-year-old was trying to build a motion detector with instructions he found on the Internet and parts he bought online. His parents helped him buy the parts. They say they didn't realize the experiment looked threatening. (Fox)

Hopefully, our young scientist won’t take this over-reaction too personally. Buck up, lab coat Sparky, true genius is rarely appreciated by its contemporaries.

Insufferable Educrat Arrogance
Source: Golden Oinks [01/15/10]

A New Jersey mother, quite rightly, got pissed, when she learned that some sweaty-palmed asshat had pulled down her 13 year old daughter’s sweatpants, in front of other inmates at Hasbrouck Heights Middle School. Determined to get some answers, Cindy Schwalb decided to seek them at a school board seminar on bullying.

Cindy went, seeking answers, but by the time she departed the meeting, all she got out of it was a disorderly conduct charge, for cussing out an Educrat:

Schwalb says she became enraged when the district superintendent starting asking her questions, including one about whether her daughter was wearing a thong. Superintendent Joseph Luongo says it was a fair question, "I had to find out what body parts were actually revealed."

She later cursed out school principal Edward Bocar in a hallway. Schwalb calmed down and apologized and left the building without further incident. Still, the district filed a complaint against Schwalb. Detective Sgt. Joseph Rinke, who also sits on the school board, filed the report. School officials said the meeting wasn't the place for Schwalb to express her concerns. (MYFOXNY)

The Free State of PIG salutes Cindy Schwalb for her passionate defense of her daughter. She deserves some answers, not this bullshit disorderly conduct charge.

Beserkely’s Blatant Racism
Source: Steaming Loads [01/08/10]

In Beserkeley (Mexifornia), the Libertard moonbats, who infest the city in large numbers, are boldly going where only a RACIST asshole would go. Unable to suitably educate the properly-hyphenated, the usual suspects have decided to throw more money at the problem, by scuttling classes which - in their race card blinded eyes - are expendable, because they favor whitey:

Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.

Science teachers were understandably horrified by the proposal. "The majority of the science department believes that this major policy decision affecting the entire student body, the faculty, and the community has been made without any notification, without a hearing," said Mardi Sicular-Mertens, the senior member of Berkeley High School's science department, at last week's school board meeting. (East Bay Express, emphasis added)

Coming soon to a cess-school near you? You better believe it, today Mexifornia, tomorrow Amerika, Sparky.

A Peppermint Flavored Panty Twister
Source: PIG News Wire [12/31/09]

I’m shocked and dismayed to report that an Empire State middle school wenchlet just got busted by the relevant Educrats in the Commack School District, for bringing a banned substance to school and - GASP, SHUDDER - distributing it to her fellow cess-school inmates. Has this 10 year old wenchlet no shame? Has she fallen so deeply in to a life of crime that she’s dealing drugs at school? Not exactly.

Fact: The substance is ‘technically’ a drug, but, since it’s sold, unregulated, over the counter, it’s not THAT kind of drug.

Fact: The label on the bottle does warn that it should be kept out of the reach of children.

Final Fact: It’s peppermint oil. That’s right, our wenchlet was suspended by Zero Tolerance Zombie asshats for peppermint oil.

The Buffalo News shares these peppermint flavored particulars:

The Commack School District said in a statement on its Web Site that the oil is "an unregulated over-the-counter drug."

The girl's mother, Corrine Morton-Greiner, said on Thursday that the implication that her daughter Sara was bringing an illicit substance to school was "infuriating." Morton-Greiner asked school officials to apologize and to revoke her daughter's suspension.

Commack Superintendent James Feltman said Sara's actions violated the school district's code of conduct when she brought the oil to school on Monday.

If peppermint oil is as bad as it gets in the Commack cess-schools, these Educrats should pull their heads out of their butts and breathe the fresh air of objective, ‘nothing to see here so move along’, reality, for a change.

Suspended for peppermint oil? Hol-y crap!

All Filled Up & No Place To Go
Source: Fox [12/22/09]

When Jennifer Weiler needs to sit down and relieve herself, she’s far from thrilled by the limitations placed on her by the Eggheads running a Vermont Ivory Tower. How pissed - pun unintentional - is she over Green Mountain College’s bathroom policy? It’s off the scale.

Nineteen year old Jennifer is coping, more or less, with the Ivory Tower’s co-ed dorms, but she’s far from thrilled spitless over the dearth of single-sex bathrooms in her co-ed residence hall.

Jennifer Weiler, 19, a first-year student from Sandgate, contends that the college’s failure to designate separate bathrooms for males and females violates state-adopted building and plumbing codes that the Department of Public Safety is charged with enforcing. DPS is listed as the defendant in the civil complaint, filed Monday in Washington County Superior Court.

So far, the DPS dipsticks are invoking a devilish details defense. They tacitly admit that Jennifer is right about the code, then point out that the fine print grandfathers in ‘existing buildings in which the plumbing hasn’t been changed or altered’. That devilish detail applies to Jennifer’s dorm, a fact which might explain why, to date, nobody in a position of authority at Green Mountain College wants to discuss Jennifer’s complaints.

What A Hoot!
Source: Yahoo News [12/17/09]

The ubiquitous high school field trip strayed into the PIG News ‘hot wow’ bull’s-eye, this week, when an Arizona Educrat took the 40 high school students to a local eatery, after the choir members performed in downtown Phoenix. So what? So plenty, because choir director Mary Segall took her hungry singers to - TA DA - Hooters a decision which landed her in administrative leave limbo.

Needless to say, certain Educrats had ‘issues’ with Mary’s choice of eateries:

Paradise Valley school district spokeswoman Judi Willis says choir director Mary Segall accompanied the students to a performance in downtown Phoenix last week, and during the outing, they ate lunch at Hooters. Willis says Segall explained that the restaurant, known for its waitresses' somewhat revealing attire, was the only place that could accommodate a group of that size. But district officials believe there were other options for lunch in the area. (Yahoo News)

PIG News suspects that there’s more to this story than - PUN ALERT - meets the eye. We’re more than a tad intrigued by the fact that Mary Segall plans to retire in January. Was this Hooters visit her way of telling the school district "Bite Me"?

Banned In Old Bridge
Source: Fox [12/16/09]

According to the principal of Madison Park Elementary School in Old Bridge, N.J., one of the school’s teachers ‘made a mistake’, when she black flagged 3rd grader, Mariah’s choice of quiet time reading material. The book in question, the Bible, is not, never was, deemed uncool for school during quiet time, school officials insist.

According to Mariah’s mother, Michelle Jordat, telling her baby girl that she couldn’t read her Bible during quiet time was an injustice which upset and confused Mariah. How mad is mommy? Mad enough to go shyster shopping.

And what, you ask, does PIGster J, our Professor of Piety, have to say about this? Plenty:

I almost smote my computer when I read “..and is considering talking to an attorney” in this article.

An attorney? The teacher got over-zealous, the school straightened it out and you want to litigate? Even as a Christian, I’m shaking my head saying “Oh, GIVE ME A BREAK!” I’d have gone to the school, explained the appropriate reasons as to why this should never, ever happen again, and then left them suitably nervous and worried. But litigate? For crying out loud.

And while we’re at it? Whatever happened to kids saying “No way!” to nonsense like that? Are parents no longer infusing their children with balls, or what?

In our opinion, PIGster J nailed it on this one. That’s why he’s our Professor of Piety and you’re not.

A Brit Cess-School Stinker
Source: Daily Mail [12/11/09]

When Korrectniks spout off about equality, don’t get all choked up about it. For them "equality" translates as follows: Punishing excellence/achievement while rewarding failure in order to produce a one-size-fits-all level of mediocrity. This bastardized ‘equality’ is especially popular among Educrats who view gifted students with suspicion and hostility.

A Brit cabal, Ofsted, was gobsmacked, when a recent study showed the royal shafting that gifted students are getting from Brit Educrats:

As many as three-quarters of state schools are failing to push their brightest pupils because teachers are reluctant to promote 'elitism', an Ofsted study says today.

Many teachers are not convinced of the importance of providing more challenging tasks for their gifted and talented pupils.

Bright youngsters told inspectors they were forced to ask for harder work. Others were resentful at being dragooned into 'mentoring' weaker pupils.

In nearly three-quarters of 26 schools studied, pupils designated as being academically gifted or talented in sport or the arts were 'not a priority', Ofsted found.

Teachers feared that a focus on the brightest pupils would 'undermine the school's efforts to improve the attainment and progress of all other groups of pupils'. (Daily Mail)

I love that fetid dose of Eduspeak: undermine a cess-school’s efforts to improve the attainment and progress of all other groups of pupils. What a load of pretentious bullshit. They need to call it what it is: Educrat imposed, universal, mediocrity and misery.

Parting shot: If you wonder how asinine this gets, I have the answer. According to another study, conducted by two Eggheads from Buckingham University, schools specializing in science education were - I am NOT making this up - ‘barred from selecting pupils according to their ability in science’.

Another Day, More Connecticut Crap
Source: Fox [12/05/09]

More Connecticut crap? You better believe it, Constitution State Sparky. This one isn’t quite as noxious as our recent story about a wide spot on a Connecticut road where yellow ribbon hating Elected Tormentors claim these tributes to our deployed troops give trees crotch rot. It’s not THAT big a stinker, but it’s stinky enough to merit a PIGish bitch-slap.

The scene of this 'tis the season' crime is Walsh Elementary School in Waterury (Connecticut, DUH), where the Grinch in chief is school principal, Eric "The Asshole" Brown. This year, Eric has, once again, gone terminally Grinchy, by banning "all religious festivities and many decorations from the classroom". I’d love to tell you that this is a new stinker from this pile of Educrat crap, but I can’t. Grinch Eric pooped out this bull crap, 5 years ago, when the Waterbury Public Schools first deposited this steaming load on Walsh Elementary.

Spouting drivel about ‘inclusiveness’ - Korrectnik for universal, one-size-fits-all-misery - Eric, and a much bigger turd higher up the Educraper poop chute, seem determined to defend the indefensible:

Brown, who declined comment through a spokeswoman to FoxNews.com on Friday, explained to The Republican-American newspaper that state law mandates that a public school cannot knowingly exclude children. "This is not a church," Brown told the paper. "It's a school and it's a public school. I have to do things that include every child. So what we do is celebrate winter."

In a statement, Waterbury Public Schools Superintendent David Snead defended Brown, calling the issue of religious celebrations "especially difficult" in December and reminding all staff at the district's schools that holidays festivities can proceed but without religious overtones. "This a constitutional issue — separation of church and state — and is not up to individual discussion," Snead's statement read. "The issue of religious celebrations is especially difficult during the month of December." (Fox)

On the surface, this sounds good, until you shovel aside the self-serving bullshit. A closer look at Waterbury Public Schools reveals that, despite David Snead’s separation of church and state hot air, ‘many of Waterbury’s 20 elementary schools Christmas ornaments and allow Christmas parties’. He tries to finesse this fun fact with more self-serving hot air:

"It is possible to acknowledge and teach about each holiday as it approaches, provided there is a balance and equality in the approach, with no one religion receiving any special consideration. As long as the line is not crossed between 'teaching' about a holiday and 'endorsing' the religion, this is acceptable, but no public school should promote any religious observance." (Fox)

When I run that one through Hambo’s vaunted bullshit detector, it translates Snead’s bloviating as follows: "Yes, I know that Erik Brown is raving asshole who is the poster punk for Grinchiness, but he’s our raving asshole, so I suggest that you get over it." In other words, the tykes who are unlucky enough to attend Walsh Elementary are screwed, and nobody has the nads to do anything about it.

 

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