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Soulless Teaching
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.18.08
In her article "Trans-Friendly Preschool" that appeared in the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, Laurel Dykstra advocates ideas and recommends activities that can only be described as ignorant, radical, subversive, cruel, and pernicious. No civil society, let alone those who claim to be followers of Christ, would countenance such evil being perpetrated on our most innocent.
Vote on State-Subsidized Homosexual High School Looms
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.13.08
Next week, the Chicago Board of Education will vote on the proposed Social Justice High School-Pride Campus that Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan has endorsed. Rumors are circulating that, despite Mayor Richard Daley’s explicit opposition to the school, the...
Social Justice or Educational Injustice
By Laurie Higgins   |   11.11.08
“Teachers should teach their subjects. They should not teach peace or war or freedom or obedience or diversity or uniformity or nationalism or antinationalism or any other agenda that might properly be taught by a political leader or a talk-show...
Intolerant “Progressive” Educators
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.30.08
“Propaganda Is To Democracy
What A Bludgeon Is To A Totalitarian State.”
~Noam Chomsky An alumnus of District 113, an affluent school district on the North Shore of Chicago, recently informed Illinois Family Institute that once again public money is...
ADF Brief Defends ‘Period of Silence’ in Illinois Schools
By David E. Smith   |   10.27.08
Brief filed by ADF attorneys and allied attorneys asks court to dismiss lawsuit, declare law constitutional. Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief in federal court Thursday in defense of an Illinois law allowing a “period...
Breaking News on Proposal for Controversial Homosexual High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.23.08
Chicago Sun Times reporter Fran Spielman writes that Mayor Daley has expressed his opposition to the Social Justice High School-Pride Campus (see article below). It looks like the tide may turn against this foolish proposal that would further harm teens...
A “Gay” High School for Chicago?
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.14.08
Next Wednesday, October 22nd, the Chicago Board of Education will consider a proposal for a “gay”-friendly high school for homosexual and gender-confused students. The proposal already has the recommendation of School CEO Arne Duncan. Despite the fact that 70 percent...
Annoyed Librarian Takes ALA to the Woodshed
By Laurie Higgins   |   10.08.08
On Oct. 3, 2008, the Washington Post covered the story of some high school students in Virginia who attempted to expose the “book banning” activities engaged in by their high school librarians who censor virtually all resources that express conservative...
American Library Association’s Book Banning Witch Hunt Should Begin At Home
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.26.08
For the past 26 years, the increasingly radical American Library Association (ALA) has celebrated a week dedicated to the myth of book banning and censorship in public libraries. In truth, the books that are supposedly ‘banned’ are readily available for...
Censorship and Public Schools — What is really being censored?
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.11.08
I recently attended a town hall meeting during which an impassioned public debate ensued regarding the very controversial decision of our public high school superintendent and school board to permit the exceedingly obscene, pro-homosexual play Angels in America: A Gay...
A Silent Disruption
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.07.08
A broad coalition of individuals and organizations is urging parents to oppose the Day of Silence (DOS), a political action sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), because it politicizes the classroom for ideological purposes.  The explicit...
Deerfield High School Offers Pornographic Literature to Students in English Classes
03.10.08
North Shore Student Advocacy has learned that Deerfield High School is offering the books Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Part One & Two) -- laced with graphic sexual content, including gay sex, pervasive expletives, religious denigration and mockery --- in English classes this spring.
“See You at the Pole” This Wednesday (Sept. 24th)
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.12.08
Now in its 18th year, “See you at the Pole” is an annual event to “bring students to their school flagpoles to intercede for their leaders, schools, and families, asking God to bring moral and spiritual awakening to their campuses...
Political Indoctrination Replaces Education in Wisconsin English Class
By Laurie Higgins   |   01.14.07
I’m speechless. I’m also beginning to understand how a homosexuality-affirming middle school was by default approved by the Milwaukee Board of Education. Wisconsin public schools are permitting radical ideologues to use public money to promote their subversive, unproven moral conclusions...
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