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    1. rambone

      Elementary school children are allowed to feel breast implants on Career Day

      On career day, elementary school students at Shady Grove Elementary listened to a presentation by the local plastic surgeon. He discussed all the ways that you can buy happiness through the vanity of plastic surgery, and let the students feel the breast implants that they will someday buy from...
    2. M

      Venting about IPS

      My girlfriend who is a 2nd grade teacher at IPS (currently going onto her 5th year) just got word she will be out of a job next year along with every single IPS teacher who has 5 years or less with IPS due to cutbacks. Although Dr. Eugene (IPS Superintendent) just recieved a $6,000 raise and is...
    3. rambone

      Homeschooled girl gets court-ordered to attend public school

      A divorce court battle has resulted in the government forcing a 11-year-old girl to be forced into public schools. The disturbing part is the court's reasoning. They are worried that the girl has too rigidly adopted her mother's faith-based teachings, as well as a concern for how the girl's...
    4. dross

      The Myth of Low Teacher Pay

      These stats are for Colorado Springs, but they hold up more or less for the rest of the nation, though some places they will be lower, some higher of course. The median teacher salary in Colorado Springs is about 52K. Fifty percent of teachers here make between 41K and 61K. Twenty-five...
    5. rambone

      Schools tracking truant students with GPS devices

      In Anaheim public schools, truant students are either forced to carry GPS tracking devices, or their parents will be fined $2,000. Schools are becoming practice grounds for becoming future prison inmates. Maybe the kids should be forced to wear jumpsuits so they can be spotted easier when...
    6. rambone

      Federal grant to bring mandatory Arabic language classes to Texas public schools

      A federal grant being "awarded" to the Mansfield School District in Texas, and will make it mandatory for students in their elementary schools and intermediate schools. Not that learning a language is notable or wrong in and of itself... but it should not be mandatory, it should not be tax...
    7. rambone

      School commits 6-year-old to Psych Ward after drawing picture of violent video game

      A six-year-old student was strapped in an ambulance and sent from school to a psychiatric ward, after his teacher caught him drawing a picture of a violent video game. He was forced to be committed for 72-hours in a mental hospital. The article says he misses his dad who is serving in the...
    8. Sticky

      Who remembers School Ranges?

      I was surfing and ran across this page (about the 5th paragraph down). It reminded me of having shooting ranges at most of the schools I went to; and how they have mostly disappeared. Maybe it would be a good way to see our tax dollars usefully spent, again. Sure would drive the Antis crazy...
    9. theweakerbrother

      Sikhs allowed to wear religious daggers to school

      I couldn't find a duplicate thread so I apologize if this is one. Michigan School District Allows Sikh Students to Wear Religious Dagger to School - FoxNews.com I carried a folding knife almost all throughout my "school" career from around 1st grade through the end of high school. I never...
    10. Prometheus

      The deliberate dumbing down of America

      YouTube - The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
    11. semperfi211

      student suspended for facebook post

      Free Speech or Suspension: Student Insults Teacher on Facebook 15 year old student was suspended for calling a teacher a fat a** on a facebook post. Then after complaints from mom and the aclu suspension was lifted. Should students be disciplined at school for what they say away from school...
    12. rambone

      Corporal Punishment in School

      A recent discussion brought up the point that some parents think that teachers should be able to punish kids using methods outside of today's acceptable "PC" means. Please let me know if any of these appeal to you, being administered by strangers running your child's school. Feel free to...
    13. rambone

      1st Grader punished for pointing his fingers like a gun

      A 7-year-old from Oklahoma City made the news this week when he was suspended for pointing his fingers like in the shape of a gun. Government institutions are doing a good job of teaching the staff and students to hate freedom, aren't they? Public schools, what a joke. :noway: First grader...
    14. rambone

      Scan your ID Card to enter your child's school

      Detroit Public Schools are requiring all visitors -- including parents -- to scan their state-issued ID cards in order to enter the school and be issued a pass. More statist conditioning, more institutionalization, more privacy invasion. Just another day in modern America. Have we forgotten...
    15. rambone

      "No Child Left Unimmunized" program in Health Control Bill

      It seems that Obamacare Bill included a section that is literally titled "No Child Left Unimmunized." I don't know how I haven't seen this before now. H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act Page 1391: "SEC. 2524. NO CHILD LEFT UNIMMUNIZED AGAINST INFLUENZA: DEMONSTRATION...
    16. rambone

      Father of missing person facing $500 per day in "truancy fines"

      A 17-year-old girl has been missing since December 3, and her father is facing $500 per day in "truancy fines" for her absence at school. Enforce all laws, ensure that injustice is served. Father facing fines for teen's truancy
    17. serpicostraight

      tickets for kids?

      Texas school police ticketing students as young as 6 - Yahoo! News
    18. rambone

      Teacher bans pencils from classroom; cited as potential weapons

      A Massachusetts teacher sent a note home with students that said pencils would be not allowed in her class because they could be used as a weapon. Fortunately the superintendent said that she had not received approval to write the note. But it is illustrative of the anti-weapon mentality that...
    19. rambone

      15 year-old student arrested for sharing chicken nuggets

      A 15 year-old accepted a chicken nugget meal from a student who receives subsidized lunches. Eating the "free" lunch without being enrolled in the "free" lunch program was considered theft by school administrators & by the 2 police officers who responded. Reason did not prevail that day...
    20. mrjarrell

      Indy Schools Are So Good

      That you have to be a drunk to work in them. Guess that's one way of getting through the day in the states worst school system. Speedway H.S. Teacher Accused Of Being Drunk In Class | Indy's News Center - 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis - Live. Local. First.
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