This report comes courtesy of the American Family Association. They are using it as a political move to promote voucher programs. I think they should also encourage parents to flood public school boards across the nation with demands that pro-homosexual efforts NOT be promoted by their school system.

The bottom line is, if your highly paid school system superintendents and the ELECTED school boards heard a response from YOU, like Congress did over their efforts to promote amnesty for illegal aliens, those school systems would REJECT the efforts of the NEA (National Education Association) on their own.

I’m all for vouchers and all for you being able to get as much money for your child to attend a private school as is spent in the public school system for your child. However, right now not enough private schools exists to even accommodate all parents who would WANT to send their kids to another school if not for the current financial burden. So getting a good system of educational competition going will take time, even if you were given money for 100% of private school expenses right now. You’ve got to keep the public schools in check as best you can, for the sake of others and society in general, even if you can get your own kids out.

Just like other political offices, everywhere I’ve lived school board members are ELECTED to their position by VOTERS. Now instead of always looking to see what the Federal government will do about something, it’s time to look at the boxes near the end of your ballot and let school board members know you’re watching them. They pick the superintendents, that set the tone for entire school systems.

You’ve let state and federal government know you endorse one man and one woman. Now it’s time to let your local public education leaders hear it.

Tell them to keep heathen values out of your school system.

First of all, being a school choice proponent, I don’t like that people are forced to send their kids to a specific school by government mandate or usually pay extra out of pocket to go somewhere else. We all know some parents do lie to have their children go to a different school. While it’s not right to lie about this sort of thing, I can’t say I want any parent who is doing such to be sentenced to time in prison over it. In the case of Geanine Echols, she was not lying, a jury has confirmed it, but the mere fact this became a court case with potential prison time is simply insane.

Watch the video report if you can.

Given this whole mess was a total waste of taxpayer funds. Treating a mother who was not guilty like a criminal. I hope voters remember this DA’s actions come election time.

The video report mentions that the mother has also purchased a condo in the school district.

Pray that the moral community of the UK is able to stop this madness and help them stop it if you can!

Hat tip Alliance Alert.

And for you here in the USA, remember that Ultra Liberal US Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama favors starting sex education in kindergarten.

On March 1, 2007, Philadelphia public school teacher Joseph Smith was assaulted by a student. This is not unusual. According to Bill O’Reilly, a recent survey showed that 56% of Philadelphia school teachers don’t feel safe at school and 42% of TEACHERS were victims of crime on school grounds.

I’ve Youtubed the interview between Smith and O’Reilly.

O’Reilly asked Smith if the school system was out of control. Smith said it is not out of control, as in the school administration is not out of control, but he said there are bad parents making the job terribly hard for teachers. Remember this, when you see people crying about the quality of education in inner city schools. Usually, they don’t tell you about all the mess a teacher there has to deal with. There are always claims that they need “better” teachers. What teacher in their right mind with enough leverage to work elsewhere would willingly work under such conditions? Most of you reading this would not work in an environment where most of your co-workers and maybe you yourself did not feel safe. I’ve pointed out before how teachers with the most experience and opportunities to leave such conditions RUN and I don’t blame a single one that leaves.

Smith was assaulted by an 8th grade student and the student only received a 10 day suspension. He was hit with a telephone across his head by a female student, that left his eye swollen shut! They should have tossed her out of school. She’s forfeited her access to a publicly funded education. Her parents should have to pay, out of their own pockets for her to be educated at a night school.

The rules in Philadelphia mandate that all kids, even special needs remain in “general population” and never be separated from other kids. So the kid that assaulted him was able to go back to regular classes.

There have been almost 500 teacher assaults in Philadelphia this year alone, SO FAR!!!

Folks, some children are going to have to be left behind. Kids beating up teachers should not be put back in the regular classroom setting and should be separated, as an example for others. Their parents should have to fund their education from that point forward.

I’m no fan of state sponsored gambling but…

When I first moved to Georgia, I was surprised to find they had a deal where kids with a B-average (3.0) could get a free ride through college. Now that I live in Tennessee, I see they have taken up state sponsored gambling (lottery) and are offering the same. All kids need to do once in college is keep that B-average in order to keep the full scholarship ride going. This is all still a bit shocking to me, because when I was in college in Maryland we never had such. We actually had to work to pay for tuition, if we didn’t have money for college. Imagine that! Which instilled discipline and a great respect for the education we were working for. (Yes I worked while in undergrad and graduate school too.) The free ride in Tennessee has obviously failed to inspire many students to work hard to keep their grades up.

I agree with Ms. Thomas 100%. My word, they’ve already received a free ride and most of them can’t even keep their grades up as it is. Lowering the bar is not going to inspire them to work harder, to raise the overall level of intelligence in this state. This is the kind of proposal that will unfortunately put TN behind instead of ahead.

While I was in undergrad, I earned academic scholarships and had to keep my grades up to keep getting them. Given I was working to pay my way, the partial scholarships helped and the fact the bar was never lowered inspired me to keep my grades up. Not getting a full free ride, I had to contribute from money made off the sweat of my own brow, so I knew how to work for the money and appreciate any given. (And yes I finished undergrad and graduate school with greater than a B-average.)

Instead of lowering the bar, why don’t the lame legislators use the money to give vouchers to parents of children in grade school? Oh but you won’t see the narrow minded legislators pushing for that. And such an idea certainly won’t come from the Democratic governor.

One of the reasons kids keep losing their scholarships, is because the bar is already too low to begin with. Look at the requirements to get the scholarship in the first place. A B-average (3.0) is not mandatory to begin with, it’s optional. If they don’t have a B-average, all they need is a 21 ACT or 980 SAT score. I can’t speak about the ACT because I don’t know much about it, but I do know that a 980 SAT score is a piece of cake! So you have kids, who in some cases are not even B-average students to begin with getting a scholarship that is above their proven level of aptitude. Then everyone cries when they can’t keep up a good average in college.

It would have made more sense for the B-average to be mandatory, with an even higher SAT requirement. Assuming an ACT score of 21 is the equivalent to an SAT 980, the ACT requirement should also be raised. The scholarship money should go to those who have proven they are ready to excel at the college level. Let everyone else WORK to make money to pay for their education.

Instead of lowering the bar, the state should be working to keep the bar high and use the excess funds to help other children and families that could put the money to good use. Don’t go throwing good money after kids who have already failed to meet the requirements.

Herman Badillo was the first ever US Congressman elected who was born in Puerto Rico. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He has written a book titled “One Nation One Standard - An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups”. After fighting in Congress as a Liberal, he’s doing sometime other Liberals in Congress fail to do. That is to actually look at the effect of Liberal policies and admit they don’t work. In particular he’s addressing the issue of Hispanics’ terrible education performance.

Badillo admits bi-lingual education is failing.

Sure we can say Hispanics have a great work ethic, however that actually applies mainly to first generation immigrants. Their children are not doing well in school. The work ethic is not being reflected in American classrooms. When it comes to good work ethic, most first generation immigrants have it. We just happen to be seeing a lot of Hispanic immigrants.

For clarification’s sake, given some people tend to treat legal and illegal immigrants the same, I must say that my words in this post are not for illegal immigrants. They are law breakers from the moment they enter America illegally and usually their next step is to steal the identity of a legal citizen. Law breakers get no credit from me for being hard working law breakers.

Badillo is sounding the call for Hispanics to start working harder to excel, or they will be a permanent underclass. He’s kind of doing a Bill Cosby, minus all the sex scandal stuff. So you know he’s doing something I feel is a good thing. He once pressed for bi-lingual education in schools, but now sees it is not working.

I have a link to video of his appearance on FoxNews today below. That video starts with him talking about how he proposed bi-lingual education, but it has failed and been abused. He now feels that everyone should be held to the same standard. Now that’s what I call the American way! You can also see other recent video of Badillo’s media tour here.

He says the Hispanic kids need to work to do better in school, or they won’t be able to get a job or get ahead. Hispanics are the largest minority group and Badillo says they have the highest drop out rate and the lowest percentage going to college. That forecast spells doom my friends. Everyone should be praising Badillo for his efforts, but as usual Liberals are all upset.

When speaking of the need for kids to finish school with skills to get a job, Badillo said:

You have to be able once you graduate and hopefully the kids will graduate to get a job…and too many of the Hispanic children end up without even having a High School diploma…

It’s really sad when someone has to speak of people in their own racial group like that. Personally I know his pain and could easily replace most of his words where he says “Hispanic” with “Black”. Although Blacks are obviously doing better in school at the moment, it’s sad to know they have much more work to do in order to excel in America.

Badillo says he wrote the book to bring national attention to the issue. And it’s an issue everyone can learn from. Regardless of someone’s race, we all must press for children to value education and gain skills necessary to take care of themselves and their future children. And speaking of children’s future children, sadly some kids are doing things they should not be doing until marriage and they already have kids. But that relates to another Liberal issue of how they wish to throw condoms at immorality. An issue I’ll reserve for some other post.

See and hear Herman Badillo tell it like it is using the link below.
Former Congressman Herman Badillo on FoxNews talking about Hispanics and education - WMV Video (Size: 3.92 MB)
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Well this one found by Dennis over at Fire & Hammer is just too ridiculous. The fact that any administrator took the complaint beyond laughing it out of their office is simply insane.

Dennis also has a thought provoking post where he ask: Have Christians Already Lost The War On Christmas?

Dennis has been putting out some good stuff for a full year now.

So I figure I’ll start doing some video related blogging too. Hope you enjoy!

Today on FoxNews had on Judge Andrew Napolitano. He explained perfectly how the US Supreme Court’s Brown versus Board of Education ruling has been twisted and abused to condone government enforced racial segregation today in the name of “diversity”. Now anybody of the wrong race is kept out of a school if they “over represent” a certain skin tone. I like the way the judge explained it and showed how Liberal judges have abused the issue of race and schools.

The bottom line is that race should not be used at all when deciding who goes to a school or who should not go.

See the video using the link below.
Judge Andrew Napolitano on Race and Schools - WMV Video (Size: 1.70 MB)
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So I was watching this video over at FoxNews.com and I must say, from what I saw I totally agree with the people supporting “The Village” idea.

Basically some Black Los Angeles public school teachers, who are feed up with seeing Black kids at the bottom of the barrel, are offering them various forms of mentoring in their spare time. I think this is a great idea. I used to mentor kids back when I had none of my own and I always encourage young, single, upwardly mobile Black men to do the same. With a 50% Black High school drop out rate in many areas, those Black kids need some help! I’m all for helping everybody’s kids, but heck we’ve got to be honest in saying Black folks especially have a problem and it’s good when other Blacks can help them out. Given a Black mentor can relate to a Black child easily on a cultural level. Any mentor is good, but with kids you’ve got to get people who can reach them best if they are having problems and sometimes a Black mentor can help them better themselves, by connecting with them on the cultural level.

You think I started talking against the thug culture here? I’ve been warning kids about it as a mentor in various programs since the early 90’s. Although as I’ve said, my time goes to my own kids for now.

So from what I saw in that FoxNews video and I don’t know a single thing else about the program, I like it.

But some people, like former Executive Director of the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission, Joe R. Hicks, who is now VP of the group Community Advocates, Inc. (a pro-”diversity” group) does not like it. He’s upset this program, being carried out in spare time is offering special mentoring services to Black kids. I’m totally against making any “all Black” school that only Blacks would attend instead of another public/private high school. But a simple mentoring program is fine by me. I hope it spreads and more than just teachers should be willing to volunteer their time, to inspire these Black kids to stop things like the abnormally high out of wedlock birth rate, dropout rate, the rest of the idiot thug culture and that trashy music that goes with it. As the video shows, the program is proving successful. I think Mr. Hicks’ time with the City Human Relations Commission has left him wanting to balk against anything that is race specific, simply because it’s race specific.

I usually bash things like efforts to only shop at Black businesses, because I consider quality and want Black businesses to compete in the open marketplace and the ones who do the best to survive with the rest. I’m usually not a fan of race specific efforts that only do something because it’s “Black”. But with the condition we see many Black kids are in, we see they have problems, so why not be willing to offer them that additional help?

For example, I think Hebrew schools are a great idea. I mean the ones some Jewish kids attend after their regular school day. Jews teaching their children about all they’ve endured and their culture is a beautiful thing and I’m sure it helps them strive to do well. I think “The Village” works along those lines and is obviously helping Black kids do better. This is not some type of “segregation” as some claim it is. As I’ve pointed out, there are real examples of modern day segregation in schools that is a bad idea.

I think those decrying “The Village” need to hush.

Another Tennessee school district (Wilson County) may get Bible classes in public schools.

The Bible curriculum being proposed was originally developed by the National Council on the Bible Curriculum in Public Schools.

Phil Valentine covered this on his show yesterday and added some additional thoughts.

I think this is a good thing. Given churches started many of America’s schools, I see no problem with a school district wanting to teach the Bible. They also used to be able to start the day with a prayer. And the founding fathers didn’t have a problem with Christian schools doing that in the past. We need to bring that back too. How come today’s Civil Libertarians that claim to embrace the US Constitution never mention that states used to have the freedom to do much more with faith than they do now? States had the liberty to actually endorse or reject a faith. It was the Federal government that was prohibited from doing such, not the states. But then again states used to be able to stop people from killing babies in the womb, but that’s another issue for another post.

Hear Phil Valentine using the audio link below.
Phil Valentine on the Bible and the Wilson County, TN proposal - ASF Audio
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Related post: Georgia’s State Senate OKs School Bible Courses