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Laurie Higgins
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08.31.11
Decades ago, summer was the time that necessitated increased parental vigilance. School was the safe place. But the times they have a’changed. Self-righteous “agents of change” stand ready at the schoolhouse door to mold other people’s children into ideological replicas...
By
Laurie Higgins
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08.22.11
There’s troubling news coming out of Florida that provides evidence that the cultural movement to normalize homosexuality poses a serious threat to First Amendment speech and religious rights.
Mount Dora High School social studies teacher and winner of the 2010...
By
Laurie Higgins
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08.17.11
Part I of this two-part article about Illinois’ new “enumerated” school anti-bullying law and its attendant Task Force exposed the bias and lack of diversity of the Task Force as well as the troubling recommendations made by it.
106-page Task...
By
Laurie Higgins
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08.09.11
Illinois parents may soon begin to taste the diseased fruit of the Illinois “enumerated” anti-bullying act that Governor Quinn signed into law a year ago on the Sunday morning of the Chicago “gay pride” parade at a ceremony at Nettelhorst...
By Meghan Cox Curdon, Wall Street Journal
Raise questions about self-mutilation and incest as a young-adult theme and all hell breaks loose.
If the American Library Association were inclined to burn people in effigy, I might well have gone up...
By
Laurie Higgins
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06.21.11
On Friday, May 27, Hawthorn Middle School North in Vernon Hills organized an in-school field trip titled “CHOICES” (Create Hopeful Opportunities in Children’s Everyday Situations) that included six speakers, two of whom told middle school students that they were homosexual....
By
Laurie Higgins
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06.14.11
I can think of no more fitting way to conclude the school year than with excerpts from the retirement speech delivered by retiring Glenbrook North High School social studies teacher, James McPherrin, who is retiring after 33 years of teaching....
By
Laurie Higgins
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06.08.11
In a May 28, 2011 Wall Street Journal article, Bari Weiss said this about David Mamet, one of America’s foremost contemporary playwrights, who in the last few years has experienced a conversion to political conservatism of sorts.
Before he moved...
By
Laurie Higgins
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05.24.11
You can bet your bottom dollar that if there’s a way to use public money to promote leftwing political or educational theories, District 113 (Highland Park and Deerfield High Schools) will find it.
Superintendent George Fornero and Director of Diversity ...
By
Laurie Higgins
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05.20.11
I’ve said it countless times, but maybe hearing it from the horse’s mouth will convince the fearful or naïve that we’ve got to grow spines and boldly oppose every resource, activity, and policy in public schools that affirm homosexuality as...
By
David E. Smith
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05.19.11
The “comprehensive” sex education bill that we alerted you to in March has been re-written and re-introduced as HB 3027 and will soon be heard in the Illinois State Senate.
Background
HB 3027 is completely unnecessary and an intrusion into...
By
Laurie Higgins
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05.18.11
Anyone who has spent any extended period of time in a public high school, either as an employee or student, knows that discrimination exists in these purported bastions of tolerance and diversity. Just ask any conservative Christian teen — especially...
By
Laurie Higgins
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05.13.11
State Representative Dan Burke (D-Chicago) is the lead sponsor of House Resolution 254 that, as of today, Friday, May 13, states the following:
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that...
By
Laurie Higgins
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05.05.11
Thank you for your emails and calls!
We have some very good news to report. Superintendent Michael Meissen of District 87, which includes Glenbard South High School, just sent a gracious letter to the parents who expressed their concern about...
By
Laurie Higgins
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05.02.11
In Part 1 of this two-part article about a recent dust-up at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake, I discussed English teacher Christine Wascher’s decision to teach meditative techniques as a means of helping “students forge a deeper connection...
