Katherine Kersten: At U, future teachers may be reeducated

Posted at the Star Tribune.

Do you believe in the American dream -- the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools -- at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.

In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace -- and be prepared to teach our state's kids -- the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.

Here is the report: Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task Group

Why does skin color always have to be made an issue? Why to the exclusion of other natural traits such as height, eye color, hair color, type of hair, head shape, etc.? The people who write these kind of reports must think that people with skin color other than that which is classified as "white" are intellectually inferior and need their help. They also seem to think that white people need to be punished for... well, I guess for being white.

Is this the kind of future that we have to look forward to from teachers in the government school system? Doesn't the fact that this country legitamately elected an interracial American to the office of President of the United States dispell this report as hogwash?

Do black kids really believe that "All black men go to prison"? Are Buddhist Korean parents really horrified to see their child's name in red ink? Or, are these clowns simply painting with a broad brush in much the same way as racists who believe that whites are indeed superior to other races? Can anyone enlighten me on this?

Girl May Have Arranged Classmate's Gang Rape

Posted on Fox News today, Girl May Have Arranged Classmate's Gang Rape.

MONROEVILLE, Ala. — A 14-year-old Alabama girl might have helped arrange the gang rape of her ninth-grade classmate and could face charges as an accomplice based on her comments in a televised interview, a district attorney said.

The girl told reporters last week that she and her 14-year-old classmate had planned to have sex with the suspects who have been charged with rape. The girl under investigation is dating one of the three suspects who are 16, 17 and 20 years old.

"The victim told police that the attack did begin as consensual contact," Monroe County District Attorney Tommy Chapman told the Press-Register of Mobile for a Monday story. "But when all three suspects began to join in, she told them no repeatedly, but they did not stop."

Authorities said the girl required surgery after the Nov. 16 attack and was in intensive care for three days.

Why would a 14-year-old girl think so little of having group sex with men as old as 20 that they are willing to state on a TV interview that it was planned? The culture today on TV, in music, and yes, even in SCHOOLS is so sexualized that children are overexposed to it all and begin to think that this kind of behavior is "normal". When is America going to wake up to the destructive forces that are being leveled against our children?

The worst part of the story comes farther down.

The men then took the classmates back to school where the injured girl sat in bloody clothes for hours until school officials called police, investigators said.

This is heartbreaking. This is just a little girl. Why did it take school officials "hours" to call the police?

Karen Hollander sues Department of Education for slipping on condoms outside high school

Karen Hollander sues Department of Education for slipping on condoms outside high school: "The suit says school officials failed to maintain safety in the cafeteria by allowing trash that included condoms to pile up on the floor."

The idea of condoms laying all over the floor in a highschool cafeteria should discust american parents.

Former teacher's aide charged with sexually assaulting a child

Even in small-town Wisconsin, Former teacher's aide charged with sexually assaulting a child.

Schools let students seek secret abortions

Posted at World Net Daily: Schools let students seek secret abortions.

The reason that this can happen is because there have been occasions where it has happened and schools are making sure that they are covered for it. How often does this go on? The state is taking measures to gain the confidence and control of your children by acting as their friend to try and protect them from you, regardless of whether or not protection is warranted. In most cases, it means protecting the child from a parent who disagrees with the immoral decision to kill a baby.

So, if the state school, in conjuction with your minor child, think that its OK to kill an unborn baby, and you happen to disagree, they'll go ahead and do it without you. Hey, it's legal isn't it? It's right there in black-and-white. If it's legal, it must be OK and if you disagree, you must be wrong. If you're unwilling to change your position, you must also be unreasonable and close-minded.

I can hardly think of a more troubling situation than to have a school or clinic give me a call to inform me that there has been a problem in the course of administering a routine abortion to my 13-year-old daughter and I need to come down right away.

God, help any parent who gets a call like that.

New Jersey Teen Barred From Abortion Protest Sues School

Here's another story from Fox News. This one is regarding a student who was told that she couldn't participate in an abortion protest because it was "religious": New Jersey Teen Barred From Abortion Protest Sues School.

I don't get it. Why are schools so afraid of students expressing themselves in a religious manner, but are OK with them expressing themselves in just about any other way?

The principal said:

The armband would have violated the school's strict dress code, he said. He said it allows "no insignias unless it has to do with Bridgeton High School."

And he said the school has a policy that generally doesn't allow students or staff to distribute literature without prior approval. He says the policy is in place partly to guard against lawsuits like this one.

I think that he's talking about lawsuits brought by organizations like the ACLU who loves to scare school districts into believing that they cannot allow students to express their beliefs if they can in any way be perceived as religious in nature.

I think that this school has gotten this one 100% wrong. What about being pro-life is "religious"? Is it religious to believe that killing unborn babies is wrong? Science hasn't even been able to answer the question as to when human life begins with any certainty. Once an egg is fertilized, it has human DNA and even has been assigned a gender, hair color, eye color, etc.

I find it interesting that the school, Bridgeton High School, uses the word "moral" in both it's "mission" and "vision" statements.

Our Mission

The mission of the Bridgeton Public Schools is to have all pupils meet the Core Curriculum Content Standards and graduate from high school as lifelong learners who will make positive contributions to the community, act with the highest moral and ethical standards, promote equal opportunity, and participate in the advancement of our democratic society.

Our Vision

To create a transparent school system, with state of the art facilities, clearly focused on having all student acheive academic and interpersonal excellence, supported by committed parents, community members and staff who feel a moral obligation to help all students meet the highest standards.

Makes you wonder how they define "moral"...

Georgia Teacher Accused of Putting a 'Hit' on Student

I haven't posted in a long time, but maybe it's time I get busy again. There has been a lot going on, especially since the election last year. Here's a new story from Fox News: Georgia Teacher Accused of Putting a 'Hit' on Student.
According to the article:

Forde’s attorney, Borquaye Thomas, said his client asked the student if he was gay after seeing the boy dance inappropriately with another male student, the newspaper said.

The student didn’t seem to have a problem with the question until he got into trouble for another incident, according to the Journal-Constitution.

"All of the students knew Mr. Forde was joking. The other students said Mr. Forde always plays around with them like that," Thomas told the paper. "The student only complained after he was getting suspended."

I have a feeling that this whole thing is being blown out of proportion by the student, but the teacher must be a complete fool if he was indeed "joking" in this manner. We'll have to see how this plays out before making any final judgment.

I've seen some very troubling news articles recently regarding the condition of government schools and I may post some here later this week.

If you're reading this and you're new to my blog, then welcome. If you've been here before, then thanks for stopping by again.

God bless.

Reading teachers balk at condom lesson for middle-schoolers

Posted at the Reading Eagle in Reading, PA.

Safe-sex advocates preach that there are ways to make sex with condoms fun, but some Reading middle school teachers are uneasy about discussing the topic in class.

Teachers union President Daniel Grim is questioning whether a planned teen-pregnancy program in the health curriculum is appropriate for students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades.

Grim told the school board that some teachers feel the material is too graphic and they are uncomfortable teaching it.

"I recommend you take a look at this," Grim said at a board meeting Wednesday. "It's not appropriate for middle school."

Grim noted part of the program that deals with how to make condoms "fun and pleasurable." Suggested lessons include how to work a condom into foreplay and tips on making sex with condoms more physically pleasing.

The program is scheduled to begin in Reading's four middle schools this school year.

This is discusting. Teaching middle school children that sex with condoms can be fun and pleasurable? Is anyone teaching them that it is wrong? Is anyone teaching them exactly what the risks are regardless of whether they use a condom or not? It's the weirdos with a radical agenda that are driving the bus right now. Don't let them drive it in your neighborhood, even if your children are not attending these schools. These are children that we're talking about.

Police: Illinois Teacher Claims to Have Molested 75 Boys

Posted at FOXNews.com

An Illinois middle school teacher charged with 10 counts of illegal possession of child pornography has allegedly admitted to molesting dozens of boys.

Kenneth Lee Johnson told police he sexually abused 75 boys over the past 35 years, but those claims have not been substantiated, according to MyFOXChicago.com.

Parents, keep the line of communication wide open with your children whether they go to public school or not. I have a haunting feeling that this guy is probably estimating fairly accurately the number of children that he has harmed, and that most molesters who are caught and charged are responsible for many many more incidents than they are eventually charged with.

Also, if you pay any attention to the news, you'll see a consistent pattern of reducing charges before court, and plea agreements or deals, all resulting in convictions of lesser charges than what the perp was originally alleged to have done.

Based on that information, we can't very well look at a registered sex offender's criminal record and hope to have a good idea of what he or she has done. Nor can we look at someone without a criminal history and assume that they are not monsters. That is why we must beware and choose carefully whom we turn our children over to day after day.

Illinois Moment of Silence in Schools Ruled Unconstitutional

Posted at FOXNews.com

CHICAGO — A federal judge has ruled that a state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools across Illinois is unconstitutional, saying it crosses the line separating church and state.



"The statute is a subtle effort to force students at impressionable ages to contemplate religion," U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman said in his ruling Wednesday.

It has come to the point where I would say that only those parents who don't want their child contemplating religion should continue to send their children to the government schools. I agree that I wouldn't necessarily want my child to be taught anything about God at a government school since I know that I wouldn't trust them to do so accurately, but to not even allow a moment of silence?

Prayer in government schools used to be non denominational and basically Christian, in agreement with the overwhelming majority of American citizen's faith and values. In 1782, the United States Congress passed the following resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."

The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment requires public school officials to be neutral in their treatment of religion, showing neither favoritism toward nor hostility against religious expression such as prayer. Good News Club v. Milford Cent. Sch., 533 U.S. 98 (2001); Everson v. Board of Educ., 330 U.S. 1 (1947).

However, in their effort to be neutral, they have swung so far to the left that they seem to think that allowing for any religious contemplation by the students is somehow crossing that line. The only people who should be comfortable with going this far to remove all consideration for any contemplation of the existance of God from our school systems are the atheists and indifferent agnostics. If that's what they want, let them have the school system. Then the government will be forced to change it or abandon it all together, allowing our money that continually goes to pay for these schools to be better spent.

By sending our children to government schools and not combating the indifference on a daily basis at home, we have been raising godless generations since the 1960s. We will reap what we sow.