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District 204 Participates in Teaching Tolerance’s Mix It Up Day
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.09
Last week, IFI was alerted to the fact that some School District 204 (Naperville, Aurora, Bolingbrook, & Plainfield) middle schools were participating in a diversity day last week. The person who contacted us thought that it would be a good...
Response to College of DuPage’s Dr. Collins
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.04.09
Here is the form letter sent by the College of DuPage to those who expressed concern over Dr. Adelman‘s use of curriculum to advance her particular political biases. What is noticeably absent from this letter are any responses to the...
Boycott Scholastic Books
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.02.09
The famous — and soon to be infamous — Scholastic Books has decided to include the pro-homosexual book for 9-12 year-olds, Luv Ya Bunches, in its middle school book fairs. This troubling book is already in the Scholastic Book Club...
Naperville North Invites History Revisionist Howard Zinn — Again
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.29.09
What is the difference between an educator and an ideologue? Perhaps a look at Naperville North High School’s teacher Kermit Eby will help answer that question. Kermit Eby, the Naperville North social studies teacher who last year invited unapologetic Weather...
College of DuPage Bio/Film Class: Education or Indoctrination?
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.28.09
Last spring I was contacted by a remarkable student at the College of DuPage who could teach many adults a thing or two about courage and conviction. She was enrolled in an integrated biology and film class entitled “Honors Seminar:...
“Safe Schools” Czar Kevin Jennings Helps Harvard Celebrate Homosexual Terrorist Group “Act Up”
10.22.09
by MassResistance.org Contributes to offensive display of sexual perversion, child pornography, and anti-Catholic bigotry — now being exhibited at Harvard University WARNING: Photos at the linked site are offensive and pornographic. If you want to know what Americans can expect...
High-Quality Online Education Can Revolutionize K-12 and College Education
10.15.09
Both higher and K-12 education are in desperate need of reform, though there are some extremely positive signs are on the horizon. Within a decade we might well see elementary, secondary, and universities become more about learning and less about...
10.13.09
A longtime champion of homeschooling rights around the globe, Home School Legal Defense AssociationSenior Counsel and Director of State and International Relations Christopher J. Klicka was called home by his Lord on October 12, 2009, at age 48, following a...
IFI Update: Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings Warns that Schools Promote Heterosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.08.09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=–tEY8gwrlQ In this video clip, “Safe Schools Czar” and pederast-protector Kevin Jennings frets over the “aggressive” promotion of heterosexuality that takes place in public schools through the teaching of Romeo and Juliet. Jennings makes the disingenuous claim that parents are...
IFI Update: Help Oust Kevin Jennings — “School Safety Czar”
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.30.09
The indefensible decision of Arne Duncan to appoint radical homosexual activist and founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Kevin Jennings to the position of Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools...
Chicago Tribune’s Julia Keller Endorses ALA’s Banned Books Week
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.28.09
I was disappointed to read Julia Keller‘s article “Don’t read that: The secret lives of book banners” in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Julia Keller is the erudite literary critic for the Trib whose reviews of books are delightful, fresh, and insightful...
Homosexual Agenda Advanced Under “Safe Schools” Banner
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.14.09
H.R. 2262, “The Safe Schools Improvement Act,” was introduced in May, and in June it was referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. This bill would “amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to...
More on “Safe Schools” Legislation
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.11.09
There’s yet more troubling information about H.R. 2262, the proposed amendment to the Safe and Drug-FreeSchools and Communities Act. According to the pro-homosexual website Change.org, “H.R. 2262 would require schools that receive Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act funding...
State Forces School to Let Boy Use Girls’ Room
By David E. Smith   |   09.10.09
When a sexual orientation law in Mainewas passed in 2005, it was the most radical of its kind ever. The law not only protected homosexuals from discrimination, it also prohibited discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” and “gender expression.”...
Challenge Day at Naperville Central High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.07.09
I wrote an article last week about Challenge Day which took place from Aug. 31-Sept. 3 at O’Fallon Township High School in southern IL. The four-day event cost thousands of dollars with much of the funding evidently coming from the...
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