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Dumbed-Down Common Core
03.12.14
Big name Republicans and putative conservatives signing onto the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms in the belief that they will raise standards in public schools may want to entertain the possibility that they will actually lower them.
National Takeover of School Curriculum
02.27.14
Many people said Ho-Hum when Barack Obama threatened to change any law with his pen or phone, and even used that power to personally alter Obamacare and the welfare law, and to “legislate” the Dream Act that Congress refused to pass. But Americans are rising up by the tens of thousands to stop Common Core...
Keep Children Home From School on GLSEN’s Day of Silence April 11 2014
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.26.14
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) seeks again to exploit captive audiences and disrupt instructional time in public schools for the purposes of transforming the moral and political views of other people’s children through the Day of Silence...
Google Doodle, Putin and Our Public Schools
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.11.14
Google’s recent “doodle” announces to the world that Google is gaga over homosexuality-affirming propaganda for minors. Google’s doodle pokes a virtual rainbow-colored flag in the eye of Russian president Vladimir Putin for signing into law a bill that protects minors...
Home Schooling: An Opportunity to Go Against the Flow
02.01.14
Home education is never conventional. Any parent who has accepted the immense challenge of instructing his children at home is familiar with this truth. It’s one of the stumbling blocks parents often encounter when they are deciding whether to homeschool or place their children in public or private institutions.
Think Abstinence Doesn’t Matter? Look At This Graph!
By   |   01.27.14
Why does Planned Parenthood push so hard to get explicit sex-education in schools? Why do pro-abortion groups want to get condoms and birth control in the hands of middle and high school students? The graph below answers these questions. According...
Reject Homosexuality-Affirming “Education”
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.30.13
As 2013 comes to a close, I want to make a few observations on the pervasive assault on sexuality truths—observations which are relevant to those with and without children. “Progressives” wax jubilant over the sexual revolution that continues unabated and...
The Top 3 Reasons Parents Choose to Home Educate
By   |   10.29.13
Have you ever wondered what it is about home schooling the government, whether American or otherwise, finds so objectionable? It seems to me that teachers who are often overwhelmed by large class sizes would welcome having a few less students...
Fighting the Teaching of Obscenity in Schools
By David E. Smith   |   10.04.13
On the final Thursday and Friday of September, I was honored to stand with two outstanding men in Decatur and Shelbyville. We were there to fight for decency and virtue. At the meetings presented by Parents for Sensible Sex Education...
Eanes Officials withdraw Job Offer to Disgraced Teacher
09.26.13
The Eanes school district announced Wednesday that it has withdrawn its offer to a new Westlake High School assistant principal after the public disclosure that he was criminally investigated last year for sending questionable texts to a male student at a Chicago-area school where he was dean.
Former Stevenson HS Principal Hires Disgraced Teacher
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.25.13
Last spring, Stevenson High School (SHS) in Lincolnshire, Illinois erupted in yet another public relations scandal when 41-year-old homosexual dean and former French teacher Paul Weil was forced to resign when it was discovered that he had sent “inappropriate text”...
“Progressive” Opposition to Private Schools Grows
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.10.13
A recent essay by Allison Benedikt appearing in the online magazine Slate makes the startling claim that all parents have an ethical obligation to send their children to—hold on to your hats and socks—government schools. Well, that’s a summary of...
Government=Family According to Elementary School in Skokie
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.04.13
East Prairie School in Skokie, Illinois finds itself in the eye of a storm or at least a tempest in a tea pot. I would love to see more public schools caught in such tempests of their own making. Public school administrators tend to respond to only three things:
Concerns About Common Core (Part 2)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.27.13
Yesterday in the Chicago Tribune, Bob Secter writing ostensibly in support of Common Core Standards (CCS) engaged in the very kind of hyperbolic mischaracterization of critics of CCS for which he condescendingly mocks them. He spends the first quarter of...
Concerns About Common Core (Part 1)
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.27.13
Most Americans have heard the term Common Core Standards (CCS), but many have little idea what those standards are, who created them, or what is troubling about those standards, which are a significant step in the movement toward nationalizing public...
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