Tag Archives: Deerfield

image_pdfimage_print

Banning and Confiscating Guns in Deerfield, Illinois

Posted on April 4, 2018 by David E Smith

Deerfield, Illinois, an affluent suburb on Chicago’s North Shore, is making national headlines for passing an amendment to a 2013 village ordinance that regulates the storage of guns. The amendment mandates a ban on “certain types of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” and grants to the “police chief or his or her designee” the authority to “confiscate” any of the banned weapons if they are not “removed, sold, or transferred.” In addition to gun confiscation, failure to comply will result in fines of $250-1,000 per day. Deerfield residents have until June 13 to get rid of the banned guns.

The …

Posted in IFI News | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off on Banning and Confiscating Guns in Deerfield, Illinois

The “Vagina Dance” Taught in a Crystal Lake High School

Posted on January 10, 2011 by altha-admin

A couple of months ago Crystal Lake’s Prairie Ridge High School Health teacher Jacqulyn Levin decided that the best way to teach her co-ed class of sophomore students the parts of the female reproductive anatomy was to use something she called the “Vagina Dance.” To the tune of the Hokey Pokey, Levin led her class in a puerile dance that involved pointing to and singing about reproductive body parts while prancing about the classroom.

Her selection of this inappropriate instructional activity demonstrated a lack of empathy for those who may have a degree of modesty and self-respect that Levin does …

Posted in Education | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The “Vagina Dance” Taught in a Crystal Lake High School