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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”.
Lockdowns at schools
I remember fire drills and tornado drills. We had them because fires and tornados happen and children needed to know what to do. It’s really pathetic that schools now have to have lockdown drills. This is from an email I got from my school:
The week of March 22…..PA announcements will be made before and at the conclusion of the drills. Please follow these instructions when the drills start:
- If in the hallway, take shelter in nearest classroom, office or safe space.
- Students/staff in outdoor areas should immediately evacuate to a safe location.
- Students should follow the instructions of the classroom instructor or Ivy Tech staff/faculty.
- Lock classroom and office doors; Close windows & window blinds or curtains.
- Turn off lights.
- Remain quiet and do not enter hallways.
Texas Textbooks that brainwash
I tried to find this story on CNN and MSNBC but I couldn’t find it anywhere but Fox (for National news). I couldn’t. Seriously, I couldn’t. Go to Google news and Fox, along with some conservative blogs/websites, are the only ones talking about this subject. Which is really very funny because both conservative and liberals are being vocal.
Why should we care? This is going on in Texas, not every state, right? Wrong. Texas is one of the biggest buyer of textbooks, which means they have the most say over what textbooks are used in about 90% of America’s public schools.
The battle right now is over what will be taught in social studies and history. From the mindset of the right:
Don’t put ‘God’ in public school banners
Multiple choice question:
Which banners do you think the public schools had a problem with?
A – a 35 to 40 foot string of Tibetan prayer flags with images of Buddha
B – a poster with the lyrics from John Lennon’s song “Imagine” (which starts off, Imagine there’s no Heaven)
C – a poster with Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi’s “7 Social Sins”
D – a poster of Muslim leader Malcolm X
E – a poster of Buddhist leader Dali Lama
F – a banner with red, white, and blue stripes hung on the wall for twenty-five years and displayed the famous patriotic phrases: “In God We Trust,” “One Nation Under God,” “God Bless America,” and “God Shed His Grace on Thee.”
G – a banner, which had been displayed for seventeen years, contained an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence: “All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator.”
Thou Shalt Not Teach Religion…unless its Islam
There is a slight problem going on in Alexandria townships in New Jersey with their middle schools curriculum:
At a curriculum forum in the Middle School library last night, about 30 parents shared their opinions of the text and of teacher Brian McGrath’s assignments on the topic….
Controversy over the text and an assignment requiring students to create a mini-Quran drew about two dozen teachers, administrators and school board
members as well as the parents….
Several parents said the information about Islam was too nuanced for sixth-graders to understand and that the book read like a religious text. “Why are so many pages dedicated to Islam?” asked one parent. “The book goes above and beyond what a sixth-grader should be doing at this point.”….
Schools know better than Parents
I’m really getting tired of the school system telling our teens that their parents are wrong. Gee, no wonder why parents can’t get control of their kids! Everytime the teens turn around the government or the school system is telling kids that their parents are wrong and it is okay to keep secrets from us. (Gee, its a sexual predators paradise! The authorities have already instilled the thought that parents don’t need to know……)
AMES, Iowa — A teen sex magazine will stay on the shelves at the Ames Public Library despite a petition signed by more than 100 parents objecting to the publication.
Copies are placed out two at a time for teens to take home without requiring sign-out.
So, I went to the website to see if this should be given out to kids. First of all, it isn’t just a magazine, it is a forum. Kids can log on to their
computers and get a strangers advice or other teens advice on their sexual activities.
Appeals go forth in the Corbett Case
I told you about this case on May 4. It is a teacher who hates religion so much that he forces all people of faith to feel as if they are second class citizens in his classroom. One brave student began to tape the lectures, first as an aide for note taken, then to document that hate filled lectures that this High School history teacher spewed.
From the tapes:
· “When you put your Jesus glasses on you can’t see the truth”
· “People in the industrial world lease likely to go to Church are the Swedes. The people in the Industrial world more likely to go to Church are the Americans. America has the highest crime rate of all industrial nations and Sweden the lowest. The next time someone tells you that religion is connected to morality, you might want to ask them about that.”
School starting soon!
Hi all –
I wanted to let you all know that I will not be able to put up any new posts for about a week. My kids are starting school next week and I will be starting college (at age 39!) at the end of the month. Needless to say, things will be hectic. So, I thought I would leave this post open if you all have anything you may want to discuss. Consider it an early Saturday Mixer post. The Closed on Sunday post will go up as scheduled so you can get the readings.
Love to all!
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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