A self-proclaimed bisexual male teacher in New York has invited his seventh-grade students and their parents to witness his commitment ceremony to another man.
The New York Times reports 32-year-old Chance Nalley gave slips of paper to his entire seventh-grade...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.26.09
It’s almost amusing to hear yet another public school administrator defend student exposure to radical ideas by appealing to the importance of “critical thinking.” Naperville Unit District 203 Superintendent Alan Leis waxes noble and enthusiastic about the pedagogical importance of...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.18.09
Yesterday, I shared that I was going to discuss a letter sent by Deerfield High School English teacher Jeff Berger-White to his students regarding a vulgar, polemical play about homosexuality that he was going to teach. Because of a community...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.17.09
Parents and other taxpayers shouldn’t have to worry about the content of resources, activities, classroom comments, or all-school emails. Unfortunately, because of the disproportionate number of teachers who hold liberal or radical socio-political views and who believe it is their...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.11.09
Yesterday, I posted Part I of my response to a troubling email that was sent to the entire faculty of Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL by an English teacher. There were two central reasons that I decided to write...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.09.09
As a result of my article about Stevenson High School’s dance for students who identify as homosexual, an English teacher sent an email to the entire Stevenson faculty denouncing Illinois Family Institute.
Her email exposes the presumptuous attitude many public...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.04.09
The Illinois Family Institute is part of a national coalition of pro-family organizations urging parents to call their children out of school on April 17. This is the day designated for this year’s Day of Silence when students and/or teachers...
03.04.09
ADF attorneys inform public official that new policy prohibiting prayer over PA systems at private schools is on shaky ground.
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys urged the Illinois High School Association in a letter sent Wednesday to terminate its policy banning...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.04.09
On January 22, 2009, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman ruled that the following Illinois law is unconstitutional:
(105 ILCS 20/1) Sec. 1. In each public school classroom the teacher in charge shall observe a brief period of silence with...
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Laurie Higgins
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03.03.09
Yet another bone-headed decision at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL. A few weeks ago, it was the student newspaper article on debauchery — I mean, “hooking up,”– which was approved by the newspaper sponsor Barbara Thill. And...
02.26.09
by John Piper – DesiringGod.org
J. Gresham Machen saw in 1933 what many are trying to say today about the need for private education.
The only way in which a state-controlled school can be kept even relatively healthy is through...
Why is religion taboo in American schools? Christian attorney John Whitehead addresses that question.
“God has become THE four-letter word in most public schools in the United States,” says Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute. And he explains in a...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.18.09
The Chicago Archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools (OCS) has distributed its “Year in Review” Report 2009 detailing its accomplishments, data and progress in three focus areas: Catholic Identity, Academic Excellence and School Vitality.
93,286 elementary and secondary students attend Catholic...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.17.09
Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL has found itself in the midst of a mini-tempest as a result of a recent article in the student newspaper, the Statesman, on the topic of hooking-up. For the uninitiated, hooking up...
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Laurie Higgins
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02.09.09
An elementary school in — where else — Massachusetts, sent a letter to parents in August 2008 informing them that “Our night custodian has informed us of his decision to change his gender and, as we begin the school year,...
