Public school teachers wild on social networks

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As part of a disturbing new trend, America's public-school teachers are increasingly posting questionable and even sexually explicit information on video-sharing websites and social networks frequented by youth.

According to several nationwide reports, students often search for their teachers on MySpace and Facebook, and some find more information about their instructors than they ever expected.

The National Education Association listed a number of cases, while news outlets have been consistently reporting similar incidents, including the following:

Virginia – Monacan High School art teacher Stephen Murmer posted pictures of what he called "butt art" on YouTube in January 2007. He painted his buttocks and genitals and pressed them onto canvas. Many students saw his painting before the school fired him. He then contacted the ACLU and sued the district, saying it violated his First Amendment rights. Murmer reached a $65,000 settlement with the district.

A kindergarten teacher from Prince William County, Va., posted a video of a half-nude man having an orgasm in the shower, the Washington Post reported. Another Prince William County substitute teacher used MySpace to post photos of a woman lifting her dress, showing lingerie and flashing breasts.

One of the biggest things that conviced my wife and me that homeschooling was the right choice for us was what we saw when we became involved in our children's education.

My wife missed our sons when they were sent to school every day. My oldest was in 2nd grade and my next oldest was in Kindergarten. Both are boys, and we also had a 2-year old girl at the time. My wife started volunteering at the school to help the teachers in K and 2nd, and also served as a detention aid and playground monitor. The children's behavior was enought raise serious concerns about what these kids knew, how they knew it, and how they acted it out on the playground. Even more concerning was how the teachers acted when we attended their annual staff Christmas party. It was a "White Elephant" party with plenty of gag gifts that would have made a prostitute blush.

Social Worker: “All Homeschoolers Get Psychological Evaluations”

Here is a story that was posted on the HSLDA website yesterday. In this poor family's story, a social worker shows up at the door of a homeschool family with demands to enter the home and question the children. The social worker first refuses to disclose the reason for her visit, and then, only after talking with a lawyer with HSLDA, does she then inform the family that an alligation was made 8 months ago regarding one of their children. Now, 8 months after the alligation, this social worker acts like it some kind of emergency that the children be removed from the home and says that all homeschooled children under investigation be subjected to a psycho-social assessment. I think I know who needs the "psycho-social" assessment. This action was a blatant violation of this family's rights, and both the social worker and the police that she involved seemed to be surprised by all of this.

As a public service announcement, I'd like to refer all of my homeschool readers to a nice resource from HSLDA called "The Social Worker At Your Door: 10 Helpful Hints". If you can't open the link, and you're a homeschooler, perhaps you need to seriously consider joining the HSLDA. It may well be the best money you ever spend.

Home schooling – A Fighting Chance to Save Our Nation from Itself

Posted at Family Security Matters, is an excellent article on the hope for our nation that is in our children. That is, homeschooling.

As moral relativism, political correctness, revisionist history and overt immorality have insidiously crept into our public school system, more parents have been opting for home schooling for their youngsters. FSM Contributing Editors Mark and Renee Taylor relate their personal odyssey.

I would recommend reading the entire article.