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It’s All About the Kids … and the Intifada Too
The United Teachers Los Angeles is the collective bargaining agent for teachers in the LAUSD. As a bonus, they have a foreign policy. The LA Daily News reported this week that “On Oct. 14, the L.A....
View ArticleBanning Tag? You’ve got to be kidding.
From Sports Illustrated: …school districts as diverse as Cheyenne, Wyo.; Spokane, Wash.; Charleston, S.C.; Santa Monica, Calif., and Attleboro, Mass., have decreed that the game children have been...
View ArticleWrongheaded USC Cheerleader Strikes Again (video)
One of our favorite posts was about the Wrongheaded USC cheerleader who was caught cheering for the wrong team in last year’s Rose Bowl (and here). It looks like it happened again. Story tip: Onion....
View ArticleIrony: UCLA creates the Internet only to fall victim to it
Think of it as Frankenstein turning on its maker. Years ago UCLA played an active role in creating the Internet. Then several years later, it is used to steal personal information of 800,000 current...
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American Schools Gone Wild: Drugs, Drag and Fondling (and that’s just the...
In the last week alone, a teacher was caught SMS’ing cops for pot, a principal was caught in his office watching gay porn while sitting butt-ass naked, a lesbian teacher was arrested for fondling her...
View ArticlePrincipal Not To Be Fired For Throwing Poop at Student
No “zero tolerance” for doo-doo throwing. Some things should be cut and dry and not require debate. We nominate throwing human excrement at students as one of those things that should result in...
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Sex education in school; 3-way action in principal’s offiice
How times have changed from when I was a kid when being sent to the principal’s office meant that you might get a lecture or perhaps a spanking. No fun. These days if you go to school in at least one...
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Another Day Another Hot Teacher Doing a Student
Hot Teacher In Hot Water The blog Odd Culture found another pretty good looking teacher arrested for unlawful sexual activity with a minor. First, let’s look at the perp: Janet Lea Hughes Hughes is 32...
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What could go wrong? High school includes images of drinking and marijuana in...
Not your typical yearbook You don’t need to be a Rhodes Scholar to see that this idea wasn’t going to end up well. “The point of the yearbook entirely is to cover what happens in the year,” Hannah...
View ArticleWoman responsible for “providing personal, social and academic support” to...
Sabrina Walker, 37, is a high school counselor and whose job is to help kids navigate the difficult choices they have to make in life. It is hard to imagine a less qualified individual as she possesses...
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Sad Day for Parents of School Age Children In Los Angeles
From LA Observed: “Former School Me blogger and Current editor Bob Sipchen is believed to be on the [buy-out] list and said to be headed for a post with the Sierra Club.” Bob Sipchen was in the process...
View ArticleMath sucks, so let’s make math students hate their lives
Yeah, that’ll help em learn. At least that seems to be the theory of Social Justice Math. Dedicated to integrating issues of social and economic justice into math instruction with questions like: Using...
View ArticleThe Open University
An idea that has been floating around in the back of my head for awhile. Delivering a better education with less (not zero although that might be nice) government involvement. One of the major...
View ArticleNo Child Left Behind Meets Miss Teen U.S.A.
When asked why it was that 20% of American’s can’t even find the United States on a map, Miss Teen South Carolina had this to say… As a U.S. American, I’m embarrassed that our education hasn’t done...
View ArticleTip: If you complain about the poor portrayal of students by the media…
…then don’t get arrested for drunk driving shortly after your letter to the editor is published. Bloomsburg University’s student government president,Christopher Bevan, was charged with drunken driving...
View ArticleShould an educator lose his job for something he did on his own time?
Tony Soprano had a similar dilemma. One of his top earners liked to dress up in leather and hang around in gay bars. He did this on his own time and it didn’t interfere with his work. In the end...
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Shocking: Woman with seven kids having trouble making ends meet on $7/hr job
Atlanta is trying to undo decades of failed social experiments and poverty programs. In a Los Angeles Times article on housing for Atlanta’s poor came this: Conswayla Gardner, 35, [pictured above...
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Finding your favorite 5th grade teacher on the Sex Offender Database
I was poking around the net typing in names of old friends and teachers into Google and seeing whatever happened to them. I came across this photo of my 5th grade teacher, Terry Bartholome:...
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What’s wrong with this picture?
The irony between Ms. Williamson’s attitude toward the construction noise and her smoking while pregnant is obvious (and somewhat painful). According to a follow up article in the Roanoke Times...
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