Another Day,
Another Reason To Homeschool
Another Reason To Homeschool
Friday, January 28, 2005
School district cancels spelling (NCLB the cause)
Here's an excerpt, but yeesh! the whole thing's worth a read:
The administrators decided to eliminate the spelling bee, because they feel it runs afoul of the mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
"No Child Left Behind says all kids must reach high standards," Newman said. "It’s our responsibility to find as many ways as possible to accomplish this."
The administrators agreed, Newman said, that a spelling bee doesn’t meet the criteria of all children reaching high standards -- because there can only be one winner, leaving all other students behind.
"It’s about one kid winning, several making it to the top and leaving all others behind. That’s contrary to No Child Left Behind," Newman said.
A spelling bee, she continued, is about "some kids being winners, some kids being losers."
As a result, the spelling bee "sends a message that this isn’t an all-kids movement," Newman said.
Furthermore, professional organizations now frown on competition at the elementary school level and are urging participation in activities that avoid winners, Newman said. That’s why there are no sports teams at the elementary level, she said as an example.
The emphasis today, she said, is on building self-esteem in all students.
"You have to build positive self-esteem for all kids, so they believe they’re all winners," she said. "You want to build positive self-esteem so that all kids can get to where they want to go."
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Thursday, January 27, 2005
Gay-Affirmative Public School Teachers/Curricula May Influence Brain Maturation In Teens
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Principal accused of offering student money to take off clothes
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Monday, January 24, 2005
RESEARCHERS MAP THE SEXUAL NETWORK OF AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL
Researchers interviewed 832 of the approximately 1,000 students at the school. Students were asked to identify their sexual and romantic partners in the past 18 months from a roster of other students attending their school. (Romantic relationships were ones in which the students named the other as a romantic partner. Non-romantic sexual partners were those in which the participants said they had sexual intercourse, but were not dating).
Nobody's asking a child of mine these questions.
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Gays want children taught "queer issues"
From the Great White North...
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Saturday, January 22, 2005
Fonda will speak at "Opening Doors" conference for girls:
A two-time Oscar-winning actress, Fonda now focuses on girl's reproductive health and building resiliency in girls and boys by addressing destructive gender stereotypes.
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SpongeBob, Barney promote 'gay tolerance (FedEx to Sponsor in Gov't Schools)
Link to researched info at post #460... and, yes, it is a stealth campaign. (Wish I could say I was shocked...)
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Friday, January 21, 2005
5-year-old told to walk home (and his mother, of course, has a nervous breakdown)
Unbelievable.
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Parents assert rights ("They cannot wield trump card based solely on their child's best interests!")
Lots of statism to go around in this one...
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Monday, January 17, 2005
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Bump, grind your way to riches, students told (stripping as career choice)
Words fail.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Germany Outlaws Homeschooling, Threatens Seizure of Children
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Saturday, January 08, 2005
Friday, January 07, 2005
Autistic Child's Parent Sues Over Alleged Abuse
A horrible read. What a piece of work.
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Teacher in Bristol Virginia accused of taking indecent liberties with student, 13
It's an epidemic.
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Williston woman accused of sexual offense at Gainesville school
Oh, brother... ANOTHER!
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San Marcos teacher accused of child-sex crimes
And another...
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2/3 MA leg. on board for universal early childhood education to be phased in/fully funded by 2012
Another day, another reason to fight to limit government.
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Thursday, January 06, 2005
Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Teen Students
'Nother one...
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Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Student (A Different One)
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
When a Parent Doesn't Know - Mother Not Told of Thirteen-Year Old's Abortion
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
Religion in the Classroom {Southern Baptist Discontent with Public Schools}
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