The Sugar Competition

Gotta love it.  The ‘ol elementary school here is having an Olympic day, meaning clearly, sport competition.  Good.  Kids need to get away from the TV and video games.  I thought it would be a good time to thank GW Bush for taking away so much educational funding in an effort  to up schools’ creativity in [...]

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I’m Back on the School Thing

Gifted Program
I have yet to hear back from my kid’s teacher about the gifted program. But, I do like her teacher so I’m not mad about it.  Thing is, my child is bored. I know I have to supplement her curriculum but I need the school to work with me on that. In fact, I [...]

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How Schools Stifle Educational Freedom

As a reasonably intelligent mind can image, I was rather baffled when my daughter came home and told me she wasn’t allowed to check out any more books in her school library because she exceeded her limit, which is 3 visits a week, one book per visit. My kid read four books last week and was looking [...]

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Atheist Intolerance

I just hate getting into religion but it’s everywhere.  I’m tolerant.  However, it irks me when I witness my child being taught to say grace during lunch at her day care.  The “thank you” poem was rather sweet and I find nothing wrong with teaching children gratitude.  However, why does gratitude always need God attached [...]

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Moving on to Gendertopia

Burlington School Superintendent Jeanne Collins said no one has objected to the program [Gendertopia].
“The district has been in the forefront on this topic for at least a decade, if not longer,” Collins said. “We are very sensitive to celebrating the differences in people and accepting people for who they are and what they bring to [...]

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Ibuprofen Strip Search on 13 y/o

“In this case, the United States Supreme Court will decide how easy it is for school officials to strip search your child,” Adam Wolf, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union…”
I cannot wait to find out the results on this one.
Here’s a video.
UPDATE: June 09
And the results were positive.  The search was illegal.

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Response to Cynthia Logan

Rather than commenting to Mrs. Cynthia Logan’s comment on my blog post, Make the Jump, Vermont, I’d rather direct my readers to what has been an interesting discussion at The Legal Satyricon about it.  If you don’t know, Mrs. Logan wishes to change laws after her 18 y/o daughter committed suicide for being bullied about [...]

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No Dumbing Down Duncan

This is encouraging on the U.S. educational system and Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s plans:
We’re basically lying to children and families now,” Duncan said. “When a child and a parent hear they’re meeting the state standard, the logical assumption is that they’re doing OK. In fact, in many places, if you’re meeting the state standard, you’re [...]

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Einstein, Education and America

As one who traveled 200,000 miles on business last year, I can tell you for certain that the world places no hope, no weight upon America’s youth making even a future ripple in the global waters … Having visited the top public schools in India and China, I can assure you that the future for [...]

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The Principal’s Office

Let me give credit where credit is due.  The principal is very nice, receptive, understanding and helpful, or a great actress. 
I went in not to fight but to express concerns.  All the vocal outcry I’ve blogged helped to unleash the anger as had I not waited two weeks I would have represented myself as a lunatic [...]

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Tucking In Shirts

Found a great essay about strict dress codes, this one in Tulsa.  If I understood correctly, it was written by a high school Junior. 
These rules are forcing my teachers and administrators to spend time telling students to tuck in their shirts or giving them detention, instead of doing their job: educating the students.
If the responsibility of enforcing [...]

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America on My Mind

Rarely am I truly proud of a piece I’ve written.  This is one I feel should be spread as far and wide as beautiful minds dare to go.
Loss of America’s Beautiful Mind on The Legal Satyricon.

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The Bus Room Frisk

What would a logical bus room be like?  I wonder.  What if your kid compared the bus room to a Nazi concentration camp?
In my daughter’s school, kids have to wait up to over an hour in a room until their bus arrives, sadly because the county is short on funds like all school systems but also [...]

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We’re the John McCain Clan, Don’t You Know?

After my pathetically long rant yesterday I calmed down.  Then the kids came home. 
“Now, mommy, don’t get upset.  I don’t want you to freak out,” my daughter said upon entering the house.
Um.  Ok.  Have a kid start like that and the defense walls come shooting up.
“I felt like I was in prison in the bus [...]

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Radical America on School Safety & Political Correctness

Oh I think if I don’t rant this morning I’m going to blow up.  My happy state from yesterday ended way too quickly but hopefully my sarcasm will humor somebody.  If not, come back tomorrow.  I have got to get into the sheer stupidity I’m seeing around me otherwise I’m going to drive my husband [...]

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Technology meets Job-a-the-Hut

One Laptop per Child Program seems like a great idea at first; however, in its end, it seems more of a great PR charity scheme when in fact, it’s about consumerism. 
Here’s a great post about why laptops for all kids  worldwide might come with a social and cultural backlash.  For instance, a rural village in South America [...]

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Sex Chips Replace Viagra

Here’s sex therapy of the future.  It seems we delve deeper and deeper into a Total Recall reality.  I wonder if those sex chips can have the added bonus of false memories to go along with the “tiny shocks” into the brain to create sexual pleasure.  It might add more to the experience.  Imagine this in [...]

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