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• Blaze Poll: Who Is the Most Trustworthy Person In America?

  May 10, 2013 at 1:27pm

  It goes to show you just how messed up things are when God and Jesus don’t make the list, but the cream of the crop of superficiality shines.

• ‘Just Get Up and Teach Them Instead of Handing Them a Frickin’ Packet, Yo’: Student’s Rant to Teacher Goes Viral

  May 10, 2013 at 12:20pm

  In reply to BlackCrow.

  So where do you place parents in this equation? I agree that teaching to the test is wrong; however, you have to have parents to make this happen, and data shows that kids from stable, 2-parent households do better scholastically than their poverty-stricken counterparts. Also, research these outside organizations that you want to write up these tests. Most of these are responsible for the Common Core standards that are being pushed on states. Thankfully, Texas said no.

• ‘Just Get Up and Teach Them Instead of Handing Them a Frickin’ Packet, Yo’: Student’s Rant to Teacher Goes Viral

  May 10, 2013 at 12:16pm

  Being that I’m leaving the teaching profession after 10 years, I have no qualms about laying everything out that is wrong with education, that especially can be observed in my own district (not Duncanville, but a similar suburban district). If Duncanville is the typical Texas school, then all instruction is geared toward preparing for the dreaded standardized tests–STAAR–as well as the end-of-course (EOC) exams for high school. If Duncanville is the typical large suburban school district, then they are heavily bureaucratic with little to no responsibility for planning left to an individual classroom teacher. They have effectively become the educational form of the Borg from Star Trek. You have district curriculum coordinators that oversee secondary and elementary curriculum for each core subject. Under the coordinators, you have a bevvy of district “coaches” that oversee two or three schools. In each school, you may have had department chairs for the entire school and then team leaders for each grade levels, OR a school “coach” for each core content area that oversees planning for each team, as well as vertical integration of content. The teacher may or may not retain any individuality once integrated into the system–”your uniqueness will come to service us,” that kind of BS. I have also heard of districts who have lessons mapped out for an entire school year according to grade level and content, thus reducing the teacher to a mere mouthpiece. Teaching? Hec

• ‘Throw the Desk!’: Wild Vid Shows Violent Brawl Between Calif. Teacher and Middle School Girl

  May 1, 2013 at 1:38pm

  How about we bring back corporal punishment? Teachers and whatever admin that still has testicular fortitude have no effect on the serial offenders anymore.

• Texas Schools Reportedly Cancel Gun Safety Visits Because They’re Part of the NRA

  May 1, 2013 at 1:34pm

  It’s because of crap like this that I’m not returning to the classroom next school year. I’ve taught for 10 years and I can no longer reconcile my personal beliefs with what is being asked of me professionally. Common sense is a foreign language, and students really are getting dumber each year. Seeing this coming from my area in Texas just plain sickens me. As an avid hunter, I’ve often thought about getting my certification as a hunter safety instructor, and more recently, as an NRA-certified instructor. You don’t see many women doing either, and with the number of teachers (and women in general) wanting to obtain a firearm, I see a possible second career for me.

• These Videos Reportedly Show al-Qaeda-Linked and Hamas Terror Trainees as Young as 5-Years-Old Firing Pistols and AK-47s

  April 29, 2013 at 1:26pm

  Okay, so in Switzerland–a nation with one of the lowest crime rates in the world– every kid is probably proficient with a K31 rifle by the time they reach 12. We’re indoctrinating kids and saying that guns are bad when we ought to be educating them in the use and safety thereof.

• MSNBC Host Responds to Criticism of ‘Kids Belong to Whole Communities’ Promo With This Bible Verse

  April 9, 2013 at 5:29pm

  Somebody probably already posted this, but…

  “The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
  -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

• Conn. Father’s Stunning Claim: Son’s School Is Teaching That Americans Don’t Have the Right to Bear Arms

  April 9, 2013 at 1:41pm

  The most important rule of filing a lawsuit is sue everybody…teacher, school district, publishing company. Apparently 2 landmark Supreme Court rulings on the right to bear arms means diddly-squat to some teachers. It’s because of crap like this that I’m bailing on the classroom after 10 years of being surrounding by progressives and other sheep.

• Company With Ties to the Federal Gov’t Designs Unsettling Targets for Law Enforcement Community

  February 20, 2013 at 10:07am

  I didn’t scroll through all the comments, but I’m sure some of us noticed that those targets were not in the least thuggish or gangbanger-looking…dare I say, somewhat white?

• So Why Have Military Helicopters Been Flying Over Miami? We Explain, Plus See the Videos

  January 28, 2013 at 10:26pm

  They were in Houston today, supposedly for a “multi-agency training exercise.” Anyone else calling BS on their intentions?