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Gender Blurring And Bullying In Schools

There are a number of very sensitive social issues that continue to divide us in this nation.  But the dangers of bullying at schools affects more than just the immediate victims.  Self worth, self confidence and self image once destroyed can have disastrous consequences for the individual, for classmates and society.

Not only can bullying cause one person to be stigmatized the rest of his/her life but in some instances school violence or general community mayhem results.

Now some students at a New York middle school are worried that a gender blurring message being taught to them will result in more bullying and add undue pressure to an already tough time in their lives.

A recent anti-bullying presentation at a middle school in New York that focused on homosexuality and gender identity has angered parents after their daughters have come home to tell them they were forced to ask another girl for a kiss.

According to reports, the session occurred last week at Linden Avenue Middle School in Red Hook, New York, near Poughkeepsie. A group of students from Bard College led two workshops for the youth, separated by gender.

During the workshop for girls, the 13 and 14-year-olds were told to ask one another for a lesbian kiss. They were also taught words such as “pansexual” and “genderqueer.”

Parent Mandy Coon told reporters that her daughter was very uncomfortable with the exercise.

“She told me, ‘Mom, we all get teased and picked on enough; now I’m going to be called a lesbian because I had to ask another girl if I could kiss her,’” she lamented.

Coon stated that she was especially irate over the matter because parents were given no warning about the presentations, nor an opportunity to opt out. [via GatewayPundit]

Instead of parents complaining maybe they ought to run for school board, participate more heavily in PTSA or maybe, as in Kentucky, make themselves very much aware of who is teaching what to their kids by way of the authority of site based councils.

Government Cartoon Training Children To Submit

When the communists in the 50's vowed to take over America without firing a shot they focused on indoctrinating the next generations with propaganda via the schools and universities.  The technique has now re-educated our nation into being very much more accepting of socialism and other government controls.

The same techniques are now being used to make children more compliant with government intrusions into their personal privacy and away from the concepts embodied in the Fourth Amendment and the remainder of the Bill of Rights.  Here is just one example of how kids are being taught to think.  Removing distrust of government and teaching submission to government are the lessons of this cartoon.

 

Efforts Increase To Stop "Patent Trolls"

The Internet Association is launching an ad campaign in targeted states and districts urging Congress to take action to stop patent trolls. The Internet Association is collaborating with the National Restaurant Association, National Retail Federation and Food Marketing Institute (which represents grocers) on these ads.

This broad coalition shows that the issue of patent trolls is affecting business across a variety of industries. And as a result, the coalition calling for a change in law to stop the trolls is broader than it has been in the past.

“Patent trolls use bad patents to bully companies of all sizes, in every economic sector, from coast-to-coast,” said Michael Beckerman, President and CEO, The Internet Association. “This is essentially legalized extortion, forcing hard working businesses to go to court or write a check—money they can’t spend on hiring and growth.”

Patent trolls are draining the economy of $80 billion every year and are targeting an increasingly broad array of businesses—moving on from just technology companies and start-ups—to Main Street businesses like supermarkets, restaurants, and retailers. Even charities have been victimized by patent trolls.

Newest Executive Order: Black Students Exempted From School Discipline?

This might be spin, but look at what the Examiner is reporting:

On July 26th Obama signed an executive order titled the "African American Education Initiative." The order essentially gives a green light for black students to misbehave in public schools. In two places, Obama's executive order calls on schools to reduce the number disciplinary actions taken against blacks students. The order specifically calls on schools too "not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools."

To comply, public schools would have to engage in a racial quota system of discipline. The executive order will create a new Federal bureaucracy to pressure school systems to comply with the president's demands. The executive order makes no mention of any effort to get black students to improve behavior.

There is a reason why blacks are more likely to be disciplined in school. Black students are more likely to misbehave. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that there is a huge crime rate disparity between blacks and other racial groups.

Based on those disparities, one should expect that there would be a disparity in frequency of bad behavior between black and white school students in the public schools.

The DOJ reports that the homicide rate in the black community is nine times greater than in the white community. Between 1976 and 2005, the DOJ reported that blacks averaged 13 percent of the population, but accounted for 59 percent of felony homicide charges and 53 percent of non-felony manslaughter charges. It also might come as no surprise that 93-95 percent of black homicides victims are killed by a black perpetrator. Most of the rest are killed by a Latino perpetrator.

In reality, blacks are already less likely to be suspended for bad behavior than whites. Often, white teachers and administrators are afraid to discipline black students for fear of being called “racists.” Even some black school officials are afraid of being labeled a “sell-out” by black students.

The executive order also states that black students "lack equal access" to education. This statement, by the White House, is outrageous and easily disproved. Across the nation, majority black public schools routinely receive more funding per pupil than majority white public schools.

Do you see an effort to ratchet up racial tensions coming from somewhere?  What might be the goal of the people behind such an effort?  We've discussed this before.

Teacher Spoon Fed His Semen To Students

It appears that in some places around the country teachers are so protected that even the most egregious behavior prevents appropriate sanctions.

Los Angeles Unified School District's often bizarre rules for disciplining teachers were exposed with the recent disclosure that former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, charged with 23 counts of lewd conduct, including spoon-feeding children his semen, was quietly paid $40,000 to resign last year.

School officials, widely denounced in recent days for handing cash to an alleged sexual pervert, have responded that paying off Berndt to leave his job was far cheaper than firing him. [LA Weekly]

Now the school district is being accused of strong arming the parents of the children who were subjects of this abuse.

Alleged victims of abuse at Miramonte Elementary have until July 5 to accept recent settlement offers from the Los Angeles Unified School District, officials said Tuesday.

The school district pressed its point with a new website that emphasized that fact with a countdown clock clicking toward the deadline second by second.

Attorneys representing alleged victims have accused the district of trying to strong-arm their clients into settling for less than they deserve. They have scheduled a news conference for Wednesday morning to respond.

The damage claims stem from allegations that former teacher Mark Berndt spoon-fed his semen to blindfolded students as part of what he called a "tasting game," among other alleged incidents of abusive conduct.

Berndt, 62, has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial. [LA Times]

 

As time marches on unions and other powerful groups will perhaps have carte blanche to run amok.

Idiocracy Update: No Headline Will Suffice You Must Read This

Okay, grab your jaws before they drop to the floor.

The parents of a 3-year-old deaf boy from Nebraska say his preschool told them he must change the way he signs his name because it looks like a finger-pistol, but the school says the family has their signals crossed.

The family of pre-schooler Hunter Spanjer said officials at the Grand Island Public Schools told them the manner in which the boy signs his name is a violation of its “weapons in school” policy. The claim they were told Hunter had to modify the way he signs his moniker to comply with the school's zero tolerance code against weapons in school. [FoxNews]

Have those in charge of educating our children lost their ever loving minds?  Seriously, a deaf student who has learned standard sign language is told he can't use certain fingers because they violate the school's "weapons" policy?

I have a suggestion for all of you liberty loving patriots out there who think we are racing over the cliff.  Run for school board.  Run good candidates for school board.  Get off your gilded chairs and forget the monumental task of trying to fix Congress, fix the danged country by fixing this broken educational system out of which the next generation of voters and leaders will come!

Now they are trying to censor sign language!  God help us.

Report: GOP Is Closed Minded, Racist, Rigid, Old Fashioned

POLITICO is reporting that an intensive study conducted by the next generation of republicans, The College Republican National Committee, due to be released today is a scathing account of how the GOP has lost young voters.  Bottom line, the party is completely out of touch with the attitudes of youth.

Young voters apparently see the GOP's stance on gay marriage, immigration, social welfare programs and of course, abortion, as out of touch with their world view.  In otherwords the survey suggests that in order for the GOP to win the youth vote it needs to jettison its platform and model itself after the Barack Obama liberal agenda.

Of course the attitudes of young people tend to change as they get older and it's hard for younger voters to tell a party run mostly by older Americans what to do.  But you should read the report, and then realize that it is based upon "surveys of 800 registered voters each, ages 18-29, and six focus groups of young people, including Hispanics, Asian-Americans, single women, economically struggling men and aspiring entrepreneurs in Ohio, Florida and California who had voted for President Barack Obama — he cleaned up with 60 percent of the youth vote — but were considered “winnable” for the GOP."

I agree that the GOP needs to make some changes, but the problem is more systemic than the youth survey suggests.  Conservatives have ceded control over messaging to the left which means that the left can indoctrinate better because it controls Hollywood, music, news and the Internet delivery systems. 

No wonder POLITICO's report ended with this observation:

“I would say what the report conveys is frustration,” Schriver said. “As we sat in those six focus groups they would continually say they agree with policies we know we hold, but they didn’t equate those policies with the Republican Party. That’s really one of the biggest takeaways of this document. … We need to do a better job communicating. It boils down to dorm-room issues, how policies we are promoting are going to affect young people today.”

How long have I been saying this? And I have a very viable solution if only some in the GOP would only let down their guard and listen.

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Kindergarten Child Age 5 Interrogated For Two Hours Until He Wet His Pants

The world has lost its balance.

A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer.

The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called, she said, adding that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode. The boy is 5 — “all bugs and frogs and cowboys,” his mother said.

For the family, a major concern is the long period the 5-year-old was questioned without parental guidance or support. His sister was questioned, too, she said. [Washington Post]

 

Are You More Activist Than A First Grader? Wake Up To Common Core

Have you been awakened to the Common Core issue yet?  If not, here's a primer. The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a U.S. education initiative that seeks to bring diverse state curricula into alignment with each other by following the principles of standards-based education reform.  What does that mean?

It means teaching to the test.  Or in other words, in order to qualify for federal funds your school will have to meet certain test standards, which of course means that your school will have to teach the kids to know the answers to the tests.  Which of course means that by designing the tests the government controls what your kids are being taught.

Now that you know the kind of indoctrination that comes with the horrible Common Core Initiative, let's look at how it is actually being played out in the real world.  Get ready to gasp in horror and then get very angry.

 

White House Closed, Sex Ed Open

Beside the multi-million dollar vacations, the huge payoffs to the Muslim Brotherhood and other wasteful spending, the Obama administration still maintains that closing the White House to kids headed to our nation's capitol on Spring Break this year is the kind of pain made necessary by the sequestration vote.

But, on the flip side, that same rude bunch of meanines in the White House that won't let kids come visit have no problem at all spending $75 million to teach kids how to have sex.

While the White House says sequestration has eliminated funds for children touring the White House, President Obama has no problem spending $350 million federal tax dollars for sexual indoctrination programs starting in kindergarten for those same children.

This is not your grandmother’s sex education about how things work and what can go “wrong.” In fact, the exact opposite is the essence of the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP): Obamacare funnels $75 million annually into PREP, which must be used exclusively for Planned Parenthood-style “comprehensive” sex ed programs where no type of sex is wrong and the only sexual behavior PP considers “unsafe” is becoming pregnant. [Life News]

The nature of the lessons being taught are actually in some ways too graphic for this blog to publish, so just think about how impactful those images would be to your kids.  Just as a reminder:

Back in 2000 at Tufts University, a state-funed sex education workshop targeting 14-21 year olds caused a scandal dubbed Fistgate. A Massachusetts state official who spoke to teens at the conference said:

“Fisting (forcing one’s entire hand into another person’s rectum or vagina) often gets a bad rap … [It’s] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with … [and] to put you into an exploratory mode.”

This bizarre and dangerous sexual act was presented to children as young as 12-14 as run-of-the-mill normal sex. When PP participated the next year, in 2001, recording devices of any kind were banned and the media was not allowed in to any of the workshops. [Life News]

And one last thing.  Don't forget that it's YOUR MONEY that is being spent this way.