At least 135 teachers, aides charged with child sex crimes this year alone. They’re obviously teaching the wrong things. They should be in jail eating Snickers Bars.
Tag: education
Nearly 100 people at this NJ school got brain tumors — a survivor demands answers
Nearly 100 people at this NJ school got brain tumors — a survivor demands answers. So where’s the EPA and CDC? Oh, never mind, they’re busy covering for China.
Al Lupiano is among the 94 former staff and students from Colonia High School in the Woodbridge Township School District who have been stricken by the devastating diagnoses in recent years.
“I will not rest until I have answers,” Lupiano, 50, declared in an interview with NJ.com and the Star Ledger on Thursday. “I will uncover the truth.”
Among the others diagnosed with brain cancer was Lupiano’s younger sister, who passed away from the disease in February at the age of 44.
What Is Up with All the Freaks in Our Schools?
What Is Up with All the Freaks in Our Schools? Schools appear to have become grooming grounds for pedophiles. We have some suggestions, starting with locking them up.
Whatever happened to English class, math class, history, foreign language, and the sciences? It was a simple day of learning from all those fields of study. Now, we have added all this gender crap into the mix. Little kids are holding Pride parades. We have these creepy TikToks from teachers in this community saying the quiet part out loud. Libs of Tik Tok has become indispensable in tracking and exposing these creeps. Right now, the left is all in a furor over Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The word “gay” is not mentioned, though that hasn’t stopped these folks from going indiscriminately insane. It should be called the “STFU and teach” bill because that’s what it does.
Ninth Circuit rules against Calif. Gov. Newsom order barring private school in-person teaching
Ninth Circuit rules against Calif. Gov. Newsom order barring private school in-person teaching. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event. Gavin Newsom getting slapped by the idiots in the 9th Circuit, who actually got a ruling right.
BREAKING NEWS— 9th Circuit just ruled against Gavin Newsom’s lockdown orders regarding schools, holding that the state deprived parents of five private school students of their rights to control their children’s education when it ordered all schools shut: https://t.co/ZgW7jMzJzc
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) July 23, 2021
The oldest Chinese-American association has announced a revolt against critical race theory.
The oldest Chinese-American association has announced a revolt against critical race theory. If you’re Asian, now you’re ‘white.’ Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an evil abomination that’s being used by leftists to separate the country.
The oldest Chinese-American association has announced a revolt against critical race theory. Many fled the Cultural Revolution in their home country—and they're not going to fall victim to the New Cultural Revolution in this country.
Welcome to the fight, friends. Swords up! ⚔️ pic.twitter.com/JFxUeAVNPG
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 24, 2021
Least-Educated State: 2,471,189 California Residents 25 and Older Never Completed 9th Grade; Highest Percentage in Nation
Least-Educated State: 2,471,189 California Residents 25 and Older Never Completed 9th Grade; Highest Percentage in Nation. Want an explanation for how people like Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown get elected? Want an explanation for why Californians keep voting for higher taxes and stupid laws? Here it is.
Extra credit: University of California gives faculty hefty raises while students pay higher tuition
The University of California will spend $140 million raised from increased student tuition to give raises to professors.
In a move that makes Marie Antoinette’s “Let them eat cake” seem like a kind act, University of California President Mark Yudof has decided, as usual, that they need mo’ money.
The University of California will spend $140 million raised from increased student tuition, general fund money and other UC sources to give merit raises to thousands of faculty members and nonunion employees earning up to $200,000, UC officials said Wednesday.
Let’s see, we have a reduced budget due to the financial crisis, we’ve laid off people, the students get a notice of tuition increases every 5 minutes, but damn the torpedos! Full steam ahead! They all need nice big fat raises!
One student sums it up perfectly:
“So all of a sudden they have money?” said Claudia Magaña, president of the UC Student Association and a senior at UC Santa Cruz. “Is this where our fee increase went to? I wouldn’t want to say they don’t deserve it, but I think it’s questionable that all of a sudden there’s money for this, but there’s no money for our services being cut.”
We have to ask if Mr. Yudof is aware that there’s anything unusual going on outside of his little bubble? Like perhaps a global financial crisis?
Perhaps he should go talk to one of the pointy-headed professors in the university’s economics department.
On second thought, they’re the ones who got us into this mess.
– Written by CO2Insanity
Source: SF Gate
Buddy, can you spare a little GPA?
A California college graduate proposes students with good grades contribute grade points to comrades with poorer grades in order to make grading fairer.
A California college graduate proposes students with good grades contribute grade points to comrades with poorer grades in order to make grading fairer.
Since we said “California”, you’re probably thinking this is a serious proposal by a Democrat politician running for office.
For once, you’re wrong as Fox News informs us:
[Recent graduate] Oliver Darcy … proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners.
Darcy, who films his encounters with teachers and fellow students, doesn’t have much luck selling this theory.
He said many students … support high taxes on the rich, but … cringed at the thought of spreading around their academic wealth.
In a video posted on Exposingleftists.com, one student said, “If I do give GPA points to students that don’t deserve it, it isn’t fair, I work for what I have.”
Just say you know Nancy Pelosi and ask for an exemption. It works with Obamacare.
Oliver also [asks] whether students want to sign his petition to pay their share of the national debt – which amounts to nearly $47,000 per person.
[reaction was mixed] with one student saying the debt isn’t hers because she didn’t contribute to it.
Nobody wants to be “mean” and nix another’s government check but nobody wants to pay the bill, either. Taxing “the rich” becomes the easy out until one discovers “the rich is me.”
Students, that’s one thing they don’t teach you in school.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Fox News
California blows $100 million building one new school, but doesn’t have enough money to open it
We don’t know what it’s like in the other 56 states, but in California we have an interesting situation in which morons are in charge of the education system.
We don’t know what it’s like in the other 56 states, but in California we have an interesting situation in which morons are in charge of the education system.
In Riverside, California (the Editor’s hometown) the voters approved construction of a new high school back in 2007. The total cost of its construction eventually reached an astounding $100 million.
One. Hundred. Million. Dollars. For that kind of money the school mascot should be George Soros.
Construction is now complete, but the district can’t afford to open it because it would cost another $3 million to operate it each year and the district is tapped out. So neighboring schools will remain overcrowded while the new Hillcrest High School gathers dust and cobwebs.
Yahoo News reports the idiocy:
Wendell Tucker of the Alvord Unified School District said the district’s $130 million operating budget had been cut by $25 million.
“When the California budget goes down and income in the state goes down, funding to K-through-12 education goes with it,” Tucker told USA Today. “We made a number of budget adjustments. Right now, we simply are out of adjustments, and it’s not feasible … to open this school.”
And it’s not clear that things will be any different in 2012. “We’ll look at it on a year by year basis,” Tucker added.
But wait. We know this is hard to believe, but it gets worse.
… even though the school won’t be in use, the district will still have to spend $1 million to maintain the buildings and run air conditioning and other systems, to keep them from deteriorating.
May we be so bold as to suggest that if the school ever opens it might be a good idea to make economics a required class.
H/T: Kimmy Queen
Source: Yahoo News
Your tax dollars at work: Government spends $3.6 million to study dope-smoking, menstruating monkeys
National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine.
Pardon us. We’re a bit embarrassed. We saw that headline and immediately assumed it had something to do with Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. But, no, we were wrong.
CNS News has the latest installment of “Let’s Piss Away Your Money On The Stupidest Crap Imaginable”:
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spent $3,634,807 over the past decade funding research that involves getting monkeys to smoke and drink drugs such as PCP, methamphetamine (METH), heroin, and cocaine and then studying their behavior, including during different phases of the female monkeys’ menstrual cycles.
The study also uses “interventions” as “treatment models” for monkeys who have been taught to use drugs.
Precursor research on drug-using monkeys, also funded by NIDA, discovered that after smoking cocaine monkeys exhibited “dilated pupils and slightly agitated, hyperactive behavior”—which helped researchers conclude that the “physiological effects” of cocaine on monkeys “were similar to those reported in studies of human subjects.”
Monkeys and members of Congress are reportedly lining up to volunteer for the next phase of the experiment.
Source: CNS News
Pacifists on parade: Indiana college bans national anthem because it’s too militaristic
This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.
This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.
OK, now it’s probably safe to read about the lunatic pacifists in the Midwest:
A small northern Indiana college has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events after starting to do so for the first time last year.
Goshen College’s board of directors says it will find an alternative that honors the country and the Mennonite Church-affiliated school’s pacifist traditions.
The 1,000-student college has been playing an instrumental version of the national anthem, followed by a peace prayer, before games and other events. Some were upset with the school’s decision last year because the song’s lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.
Art professor John Blosser tells The Goshen News that there is much national pride at the school, but that most people aren’t going to blindly accept what the country does.
Wouldn’t you just know the whole thing would be explained by an art professor? It’s never a professor from the business schoool nor someone from the athletic department. It’s always an art professor.
Source: WTHR.com
Tennessee introduces the Cuban curriculum, elementary school students sing “Boycott big business”
Here are students at Riverwood Elementary School in Cordova, Tennessee singing about the glories of Earth Day and the evils of big business.
If there’s anyone out there who still doubts that green is the new red, just watch this video clip and have those doubts eliminated once and for all.
Here are students at Riverwood Elementary School in Cordova, Tennessee singing about the glories of Earth Day and the evils of big business.
Brainwash them while they’re young.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfYawbcBGQ
H/T: Fox Nation
When lunchboxes are outlawed, only outlaws will have lunchboxes: Chicago school bans homemade lunches
“Put down that peanut butter sandwich,” the grade school Gestapo ordered, “and step away from your lunchbox.”
“Put down that peanut butter sandwich,” the grade school Gestapo ordered, “and step away from your lunchbox.”
We’ve officially gone from compassionate school officials offering lunch to underprivileged school children to over-zealous administrators outlawing homemade lunches and requiring that all school kids eat state-approved lunches.
The Chicago Tribune reports that even the kids aren’t accepting the nanny state nuttiness without a fight:
Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.
“Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?” the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English.
Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: “We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch! We should bring our own lunch!”
Fernando waved his hand over the crowd and asked a visiting reporter: “Do you see the situation?”
At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria.
Liberals must be terribly conflicted in this situation. Should they support this idiotic extension of the nanny state or support the little Che Guevara-ish rebels who are standing up against oppression?
Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their own unhealthful food choices.
“Nutrition wise, it is better for the children to eat at the school,” Carmona said. “It’s about the nutrition and the excellent quality food that they are able to serve (in the lunchroom). It’s milk versus a Coke. But with allergies and any medical issue, of course, we would make an exception.”
Carmona said she created the policy six years ago after watching students bring “bottles of soda and flaming hot chips” on field trips for their lunch. Although she would not name any other schools that employ such practices, she said it was fairly common.
Why don’t they just change the name of the school to Michelle Obama Elementary School and Re-Education Camp and get it over with.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Zero tolerance: School suspends kid named Grass for possession of …
When school officials say zero tolerance for drugs, what they really mean is zero tolerance for something that might be mistaken for drugs by someone who doesn’t really know his aspirin from a hole in the ground.
When school officials say zero tolerance for drugs, what they really mean is zero tolerance for something that might be mistaken for drugs by someone who doesn’t really know his aspirin from a hole in the ground.
AOL News has the tale of zero tolerance for intelligence:
Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports.
Unfortunately for the disciplined boys, now facing expulsion, there isn’t much of a difference between Italian herbs and Mary Jane, at least in the state’s eyes. According to school board member Christie Craig, Virginia has a zero-tolerance policy against “imitation controlled substances.”
Mary Jane? Nice use of slang that no one has used since the 60s, AOL News. This will certainly go a long way toward convincing people that you’re still bitchin’ and groovy.
H/T: Mathew S. Harrison
Source: AOL News
Standards, schmandards: President Obama doesn’t want students to be tested
President Obama is apparently in hot pursuit of the student vote. He announced Monday that he thinks our poor, pampered little darlings are either bored by tests or punished by them.
President Obama is apparently in hot pursuit of the student vote. He announced Monday that he thinks our poor, pampered little darlings are either bored by tests or punished by them.
The Associated Press has news that tests our patience:
President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in other ways. Too much testing makes education boring for kids, he said.
“Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students,” the president told students and parents at a town hall hosted by the Univision Spanish-language television network at Bell Multicultural High School in Washington, D.C.
Obama, who is pushing a rewrite of the nation’s education law that would ease some of its rigid measurement tools, said policymakers should find a test that “everybody agrees makes sense” and administer it in less pressure-packed atmospheres, potentially every few years instead of annually.
At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
“One thing I never want to see happen is schools that are just teaching the test because then you’re not learning about the world, you’re not learning about different cultures, you’re not learning about science, you’re not learning about math,” the president said. “All you’re learning about is how to fill out a little bubble on an exam and little tricks that you need to do in order to take a test and that’s not going to make education interesting.”
“And young people do well in stuff that they’re interested in,” Obama said. “They’re not going to do as well if it’s boring.”
Let us summarize the President’s position: Don’t judge students on things like tests, because that could cause members of the teachers unions to look bad, but do judge them on things like showing up for class because that causes more tax dollars to flow directly into the school districts.
In othe words, let’s just change it from “No Student Left Behind” to “Leftist Students Sitting On Their Behinds” and get it over with.
Source: Associated Press
Sad news: Barack H. Obama Elementary School to close its doors
Would you want your kids to attend a school named after Barack Hussein Obama? Nah, we didn’t think so. Apparently, Asbury Park, New Jersey parents didn’t, either.
Would you want your kids to attend a school named after Barack Hussein Obama? Nah, we didn’t think so.
Apparently, Asbury Park, New Jersey parents didn’t, either. The school is closing its doors forever due to lack of students.
The Asbury Park Press presents the particulars:
The century-old Bangs Avenue School … renamed for President Barack Obama just a year ago … will be closed as a neighborhood school this summer, largely because of a steep slide in the district’s total enrollment the past decade.
Bruce N. Rodman, the state-appointed monitor who oversees the district’s finances, Thursday ordered that elementary students be reassigned to the city’s two other elementary schools as of July 1.
According to a plan presented at a community meeting Monday night, all kindergarten-through-fourth-grade students living west of Comstock Street would go to Bradley Elementary School at 1100 Third Ave., and those east of Comstock would attend Thurgood Marshall Elementary at 600 Monroe Ave.
Fifth-graders would be moved to the middle school.
The Obama school closing is expected to result in 470 students enrolled at Bradley and 540 at Thurgood Marshall.
Luckily, the Barack Obama Male Leadershp Academy is still open in Dallas.
This year, anyway.
Source: Asbury Park Press
Consensus: Only 3% think the Ivy League produces better workers
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided.
Surely the Ivy League elite would explain away the results of this survey by testily explaining to society’s losers that they don’t produce workers, they produce leaders.
Rasmussen has the sad news for America’s elite:
Ronald Reagan was the last president we had who didn’t graduate from an Ivy League school like Harvard or Yale, and the highest levels of government for much of the nation’s history have been filled with Ivy League grads. But that doesn’t seem to influence the thinking of most American Adults.
In fact, only three percent (3%) say individuals who go to Ivy League schools are better workers than those who go to other schools. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Adults across nearly every demographic agree that an Ivy League education does not necessarily make someone a better worker.
We don’t care what the Ivy League’s response to this survey might be, because this looks suspiciously like a consensus and as Al Gore has taught us, nothing’s surer than a consensus.
Source: Rasmussen
High school confidential: Only 68 schools enter contest to win Obama as a speaker, down from 1000 last year
An internal White House memo indicates there are facing a shortage of applications for a contest to win having President Obama as commencement speaker.
Forget the Rasmussen Poll, ignore Pew and don’t bother with Gallup. The best way to gauge President Obama’s popularity may be to look at strength among America’s youth. And a recent White House memo underscores the Commander In Chief’s plummeting popularity.
CBS News has the declining details:
The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.
An internal White House memo indicates that the White House is facing a shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline.
The competition was extended from the February 25 deadline until Friday, March 11 after few schools met the original application deadline. CBS News has learned a White House Communications Office internal memo dated February 22 noted “a major issue with the Commencement Challenge.”
“As of yesterday we had received 14 applications and the deadline is Friday,” the memo said. The memo also urged recipients to, “please keep the application number close hold.”
A follow-up memo on February 28 reported receipt of 68 applications. Noting the competition among more than 1,000 schools last year, the memo said, “Something isn’t working.” It called on staffers to ask “friendly congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral offices” to encourage schools to apply.
“We should also make sure the Cabinet is pushing the competition out to their lists,” the memo said. The note reiterated, “We do not want the actual application number out there (we didn’t release the number of applications we received last year until after the submission period)-so folks should not use it in their pitches.”
On Monday, officials declined to cite the number of applications received so far.
There does appear to be hope for the youth of America.
Source: CBSnews.com
“I saw daddy wrestling with mommy and it sounded like daddy was winning.”
A Texas mother took her kids to the library. One of the kids found a book that made the mom say, “Holy Dewey Decimal.”
Leave it to those dirty degenerates over at iOwnTheWorld.com to find this story. Wouldn’t surprise us if they checked the book out of the library to see if they could learn a few things.
A Texas mother took her kids to the library. One of the kids found a book that made the mom say, “Holy Dewey Decimal.”
H/T: iOwnTheWorld.com
No go, Joe: Delaware voters won’t name an elementary school after the Veep
The mere thought of Joe Biden Elementary School makes us laugh. Out loud. Who could even come up with the concept of naming a school after a national embarrassment?
The mere thought of Joe Biden Elementary School makes us laugh. Out loud. Who could even come up with the concept of naming a school after a national embarrassment?
DelawareOnline has the story:
In a Brandywine School District contest lasting several months, voters decided the name of the new school being built in the Brandywine Hundred neighborhood of Chalfonte should be Hanby Elementary School, rejecting the name of the second most powerful officeholder in the land.
The winning name, which was revealed at Monday night’s school board meeting, was drawn Oscar-like from an envelope and announced ceremoniously by board President Olivia Johnson-Harris and two student members of a committee that had selected five finalists from several hundred names submitted by the community.
One voter, Ellie Kwick, had a very good reason for voting against Joseph R. Biden, Jr Elementary School:
Although she believes Hanby is perfectly acceptable, she was opposed to naming the school after Biden because he sent his children to private schools.
“It seems to me, if you have confidence in the public school district, you send your children there,” she said. “And so, why would you have a school named for you in a public district?”
This video demonstrates a few more reasons that no school should be named after Joe Biden.
Source: DelawareOnline.com
Raaacists: Texas group offers college scholarships to white men only
We’re just not smart enough to figure out what racism is anymore. All we know is that only white people can be guilty of it.
In an era when black students voluntarily segregate themselves into blacks only fraternities and sororities, form black student unions, and are the beneficiaries of scholarships reserved for blacks only, and none of that is considered racism, we’re just not smart enough to figure out what racism is anymore. All we know is that only white people can be guilty of it.
Some Texas students have noted the same phenomenon and decided to do something about it.
Reuters has the details:
Members of a new Texas association are starting a college scholarship program for a group of students they say do not have as many scholarship options as others — white men.
Colby Bohannan, a student at Texas State University in San Marcos, and some friends have formed the non-profit Former Majority Association for Equality, which will provide the scholarships. The idea was that there are many scholarships geared toward helping minorities and women attend college, and there are also scholarships for people from certain religions or from certain families. But Bohannan thought his demographic group was missing.
“We know that we’re going to be receiving some vicious attacks, from people claiming that we are racists, or promoting some bigotry-filled agenda,” Bohannan said on Thursday.
Starting this summer, the association plans to provide as many as five $500 scholarships to deserving white men who have at least a 3.0 grade point average, Bohannan said.
“Our aim is actually just to help students,” he said. “We are not trying to jump on any political agenda or bandwagon.”
… To qualify for the group’s scholarship, applicants have to be able to prove that they are at least 25 percent Caucasian,” Bohannan said.
“We’re not looking for blond-haired, blue-eyed, stereotypical white males,” he said. “My feeling is that if you can say you’re 25 percent Caucasian, you’re Caucasian enough for us.”
Stand by the phone, guys. You should be hearing from the ACLU any minute now.
Source: Reuters
Wisconsin teacher gets an E for effurt
Why can’t Johnny read? Because his friggin’ teacher can’t read. Someone should make this moron stay after school and write the word “are” one thousand times.
Why can’t Johnny read? Because his friggin’ teacher can’t read. Someone should make this moron stay after school and write the word “are” one thousand times. Unfortunately, the three R’s have now become reading, ‘riting, and retirement funding.
H/T: MoonBattery.com
Michael Moore has a great new idea and it involves your kids
Being on Michael Moore’s email list is fun. A lot of fun, in fact. We get emails in which he rants and raves and comes up with all kinds of stupid leftist ideas. It’s a giant laughfest of leftist stupidity.
Being on Michael Moore’s email list is fun. A lot of fun, in fact. We get emails in which he rants and raves and comes up with all kinds of stupid leftist ideas. It’s a giant laughfest of leftist stupidity.
And now he’s come up with his dumbest idea yet. Let’s just let the fat filmmaker explain it in his own words:
From: Michael Moore
Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Subject: Join My High School Newspaper …a note to students from Michael Moore
To: The AdministratorDear High School Students:
…We like to say that we have this great “free press,” and yet how free are high school newspapers? How free are you to write or blog about what you want? I’ve been sent stories from teenagers that they couldn’t get published at school. Why not? Why must we silence or keep out of sight the voice of our teenagers?
It’s not that way in other countries. The voting age in places like Austria, Brazil or Nicaragua is 16. In France, students can shut down the country by simply walking out of school and taking to the streets.But here in the U.S. you’re told to obey and to basically butt out and let the adults run the show.
Let’s change that! I’m starting something on my site called, “HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER.” Here you will be able to write what you want and I will publish it. I will also post those articles that you’ve tried to get published at your school but were turned down. On my site you will have freedom and an open forum and a chance to have your voice heard by millions.
I’ve asked my 17-year-old niece, Molly, to kick things off by editing this page for the first six months. She will ask you to send her your stories and ideas and the best ones will be posted on MichaelMoore.com . I’ll give you the platform you deserve. It will be my honor to have you on my site and I encourage you to take advantage of it.
You are often called “our future.” That future is today, right here, right now. You’ve already proven you can change the world. Keep doing it. And I’d be honored to help you.
Yours,
Michael Moore
[email protected]
MichaelMoore.com
Questions:
- What are the odds that Moore will print any conservative articles?
- How embarrassing is it to be outed as Michael Moore’s niece?
- Would you want Michael Moore hanging out with your children?
- If Michael Moore is going to begin hanging out around high schools, will Michelle Obama make him begin eating at one of her salad bars?
- If the writers for Michael Moore’s high school newspaper wanted to unionize and demand salaries and healthcare benefits, would Moore embrace their efforts or fire them?
- Is this a violation of child labor laws?
LA spends $600 million building two schools, may lay off more than 5000
We can only assume that the district has already laid off all its math teachers. Because it’s easy to see that $600 million for two schools minus 5000 employees, mostly teachers, does not add up.
Where do they find these geniuses? Are they all born and raised in Los Angeles or do they have to bring them in from other districts?
The Daily Breeze has the details:
Faced with an estimated $408 million budget deficit in the coming school year, the Los Angeles school board on Tuesday will consider authorizing layoff-warning notices for more than 5,000 employees, including more than 4,000 teachers.
The notices don’t necessarily mean all of the employees will lose their jobs for the 2011-12 school year, but school districts by law must notify workers that their positions are in jeopardy.
“We must plan for the worst because it just might happen,” Deputy Superintendent John Deasy wrote in a memo to the board and Superintendent Ramon Cortines.
We can’t help but wonder how many employees might be able to keep their jobs if the Einsteins in charge of the school district hadn’t spent nearly $600 million building just two schools in recent years.
Yes, you read that correctly. $600 million building just two schools.
One of them was the Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences, which set the district back $75.5 million. But that one pales in comparison to the infamous Belmont High School, which cost nearly $500 million.
ParentAdvocates.org has that story:
Costs to date for the development are $175 million. The Los Angeles Unified School Board has already approved an additional $110 million for demolition, reconstruction and completion of the on the Belmont campus, which was built on top of one thousand closed oil wells and is plagued with methane gas and other toxic substances. Unbudgeted remediation cost estimates vary from $14 million to $107 million.
Of course, they’ve now changed the name of the Belmont Learning Center to the Roybal Learning Center, so add the cost of new signs to that total.
We can only assume that the district has already laid off all its math teachers. Because it’s easy to see that $600 million for two schools minus 4,000 teachers and 1,000 other employees does not add up.
Source: DailyBreeze.com, Parent Advocates.org
Your tax dollars at work: “Blow his mind with a classic blowjob”
We picked up a copy of the Cal Poly’s school newspaper, The Daily Mustang, at newspaper rack the other day and got a lesson in how our tax dollars are being spent. You won’t like it.
California Polytechnic University, more affectionately known as Cal Poly, is located here in lovely San Luis Obispo, California, intergalactic headquarters of IHateTheMedia.com.
We picked up a copy of the school newspaper, The Daily Mustang The Mustang Daily, at newspaper rack the other day and got a lesson in how our tax dollars are being spent.
A special Valentine’s Day article was headlined “Blow his mind with a classic blowjob.”
The story noted that the writer “Caitlyn Harkins is an English sophomore, Mustang Daily copy editor and sex columnist.” Some of Harkins’ other masterpieces include “A look at nature’s Rubik’s Cube: the clitoris,” “For your viewing pleasure: a closer look at porn” and “Spice up your vocabulary with dirty talk.’
We’re pretty sure that Catilyn’s column makes her a very popular girl and that she rarely spends a Friday night home alone. But we’re far less confident that California taxpayers would consider a hardcore sex advice column in a college newspaper to be a reasonable use of their hard earned-money. Is this really the kind of journalism training we expect from a major university?
That being said, IHateTheMedia.com does have an internship available, Caitlyn.
Source: Mustang Daily