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No warrant necessary with GPS
From Time Magazine:
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn’t tracking your movements.
That is the bizarre — and scary — rule that now applies in California and eight other Western states. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers this vast jurisdiction, recently decided the government can monitor you in this way virtually anytime it wants — with no need for a search warrant…
Many columnists, including some liberal ones, call the Ninth Circuit the Ninth Circus because they have had the most rulings get overturned by the United States Supreme Court. The court has been accused of heavily liberal for quite sometime, but I digress………
How much money builds a school
$578 Million.
That is how much Los Angeles paid for their new school. It is located where The Ambassador Hotel once was – which is the place Robert Kennedy was shot. In 2005 the hotel was demolished and in 2010 a new $578 million school is born. The Robert F. Kennedy Community School.
Let’s us remember that California has the largest deficit that hovers around $14 Billion. It also has one of the highest drop out rates too, at about 20%. To make things worse they only have a 68% graduation rate.
Now, some of you may be saying that since it is in Los Angeles, they probably have the money to do this right? Wrong! The school district is $640 million short, 3,000 laid off teachers, cutting back on the academic year and programs, and an above average drop out rate of 35%. According to ABC News “LA Unified is one of the lowest-performing school districts in America”.
Parents? What’s that?
The Catholic News Agency reports:
The Modesto City School Board on Monday voted to allow junior high and high school students to leave campus during the school day for “confidential medical services,” …. without the consent or knowledge of their parents.
Karen England, executive director of the pro-family lobbying group Capitol Resource Institute, attended the meeting and reported that four people testified in favor of “excluding parents.” Three were from Planned
Parenthood while one was described as an “activist.”
School district attorney Roman Munoz said the new policy updates district regulations to conform to a provision of the state Education Code which took effect in 1986.
The relevant section of the Education Code says the governing board of each school district in each academic year should notify pupils in grades 7 to 12 and their parents and guardians that school authorities may “excuse any pupil from the school for the purpose of obtaining confidential medical services without the consent of the pupil’s parent or guardian.”
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