Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Teacher Gets Job Back After Viewing Porn During School



In yet another ridiculous story about our public education system in America, a Wisconsin teacher who was viewing hard core pornography on his in-class computer during the school day is back on the job in a Wisconsin Middle School.  Back in 2008 Andrew Harris was teaching at Glacier Creek Middle School in the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District.  It was around this time that the school discovered that Mr. Harris was viewing and distributing porn by email while at school.  By 2010 their investigation was complete, and Mr. Harris was fired for his wildly inappropriate behavior. 


It was at this time that Mr. Harris, with support from the Wisconsin teacher’s union, sue the school district to get his job back. 

Well the union got their way and porn-loving Mr. Harris got his job back.  Not only that, he will receive back-pay of almost $200,000, this entire escapade has actually cost the school district almost $1 million to litigate!

There you have it – the Teachers Union’s once again proving that they are out to destroy education in America.


The district has now offered Mr. Harris a 7th grade science position at Kromrey Middle School.  Needless to say, the parents and students there are not happy.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Sexually Provocative Questions Asked of Middle Schoolers

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/15/imagine-if-you-found-a-sex-ed-poster-asking-this-provocative-question-at-your-daughters-middle-school/


(Image source: Screen grab via WDAF-TV)

Editor’s Note: The following story contains strong sexual themes that may offend some readers.
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A poster asking some Kansas middle school students a sexually provocative question has at least one parent up in arms.
“How do people express their sexual feelings,” the poster asks, before listing “touching each other’s genitals,” “anal sex” and “vaginal intercourse,” among other things.
After seeing the material posted at Hocker Grove Middle School in Shawnee, Kan., Mark Ellis thought it was likely posted by pranksters, WDAF-TV reported. He couldn’t believe school officials would actually expose his 13-year-old daughter to such a question.
However, after calling the school, Ellis learned the poster was teaching material and part of a health and science curriculum.
“Why would you put it in front of 13-year-old students?” he asked.
“Why would you put it in front of 13-year-old students?”
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“It upsets me,” Ellis continued, speaking with WDAF-TV. “And again, it goes back to who approved this? You know this had to pass through enough hands that someone should have said, ‘Wait a minute, these are 13-year-old kids, we do not need to be this in-depth with this sexual education type of program.’”
Nevertheless, school officials have defended the decision to use the material.
“The poster that you reference is actually part of our middle school health and science materials, and so it is a part of our district approved curriculum,” district spokeswoman Leigh Anne Neal told WDAF-TV. “However the item is meant to be part of a lesson, and so certainly as a standalone poster without the context of a teacher led discussion, I could see that there might be some cause for concern.”
“The curriculum it is a part of, it aligns with national standards around those topics, and it’s part of our curriculum in the school district,” she said.
Ellis, who is threatening to remove his daughter from the sexual education classes unless the poster is removed, doesn’t think the school’s arguments hold water.
“This has nothing to do with abstinence or sexual reproduction, actually, a lot of these things,” he said. “I would like to see that this particular portion of the curriculum is removed from the school.”

Monday, January 6, 2014

Immoral Teacher

Not only does this teacher lack common sense, morality, decency, and a sense of self-preservation, but she's teaching 7 & 8 year olds in the public school system.

Talk about reckless behavior.  Talk about a lack of respect for this teenager's parents (having sex in his home?).    And the kicker is that she's out on PAID leave.




JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -
A second-grade teacher at W.E. Cherry Elementary School in Orange Park was arrested Monday morning on the Westside after police interrupted her having sex with a teenage boy, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Kimberly Brody, 40, is charged with unlawful sexual activity on a victim 16 or 17 years old.
According to a police report, the boy was naked and Brody was half-naked when officers responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle in a cul-de-sac in the 7300 block of Westland Oaks Drive.
A spokesman for Clay County schools said Brody is on paid administrative leave.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Six Year Old Suspended

In this day and age one can't help but wonder what this six year old did to get booted out of school.  It's a crazy world we live in and well, you just never know what a little kid is capable of these days.  

The six year old in question apparently "sexually harrassed" a classmate.....by kissing her on the cheek.   

Seriously?  The adults running the schools in this country need to come down off the ledge and get a grip on reality.  

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/11/colorado-school-district-flooded-with-calls-after-6-year-old-suspension-over/?intcmp=latestnews


The principal at the Colorado school where a 6-year-old was suspended Monday for planting a kiss on a classmate's cheek said the allegations on the student's record will be changed from "sexual harassment" to "misconduct."
Tammy DeWolfe, the principal at the Lincoln School of Science and Technology in Canon City, said the school has been working with Hunter Yelton's family to resolve the issue stemming from the incident.
Yelton was initially accused of sexual harassment that Canon City school officials wanted on his school record. A School District RE-1 official said the repeat offenses meet the school policy definition of sexual harassment and they hope the tough standards will force the boy to change his behavior.
"They sent me to the office, fair and square. I did something wrong and I feel sorry," Yelton, told KRDO-TV. The school’s voicemail box is full and they have not returned calls.
Yelton's mother, Jennifer Saunders, told the station, "I'm going to stand up and fight for him because that's not the case, that's not what happened at all."
The boy's mother said her son was suspended once before for kissing the girl and had disciplinary problems, but the girl did not object to being kissed. She told the station that the two children like each other. The girl, however, told Fox News she just wanted Yelton to "knock it off."
In the meantime, the Cannon City School District has been inundated with phone calls in defense of the boy. A woman who answered the phone at district office said the office is "very busy," dealing with some callers who are being hateful. The woman did not provide her name.
The Colorado Department of Education said it does not have jurisdiction in local control issues and will not comment on the issue. Local elected school boards and administrators set their own rules, it said.

Middle School Lockdown for Guns

I can't help but notice the timing of this student bringing a gun to school as we come up on the anniversary of the Connecticut tragedy from last December.

http://www.examiner.com/article/lake-zurich-middle-school-south-on-lockdown-after-weapon-incident


After a student allegedly brought weapons to Lake Zurich’s Middle School South in the northwest of Chicago suburban town of Lake Zurich, Illinois on Tuesday, the school was put on a “code red” hard lockdown, according to WGN-News on Tuesday. Besides the Lake Zurich’s Middle School South being put on lockdown, the Isaac Fox Elementary School which is located nearby was put on lockdown as well.
Students’ parents received a call from the Lake Zurich School District office asserting that the student who had brought the weapons to school had been apprehended. They were also told that the weapons had not been used.
The school’s web site says that the situation is “All Clear” and that the lockdown at both schools has been lifted. It also says that the students at South Middle School are resuming normal classroom activities. Additionally, all after-school activities have been cancelled for Tuesday.
Lake Zurich is located approximately 37 miles from downtown Chicago, located in the southwestern portion of Lake County.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Boys Raping Boys

Iit's all the rage now in American high schools....


http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/01/this-week-in-anal-hazing-in-american-high-schools/

As The Daily Caller reported in June, anal hazing has apparently become some kind of bizarre ritual in American high schools. In the past year, there have been more than a dozen hazing incidents around the country involving at least 40 high school boys who have been sodomized by other boys using foreign objects or their fingers.  This week brought two fresh stories which follow the primary pattern: older male high school athletes decided it would be a good idea to sexually assault younger male high school athletes.

In the Boston area, police arrested three members of the boys junior varsity soccer team at Somerville High School for allegedly assaulting freshmen team members at a sports camp in over the summer, reports The Boston  Globe. The team had gone to a place called Camp Lenox in southwestern Massachusetts for team-building purposes in preparation for the upcoming fall season.  All three students who were arrested are juniors. One, Galileo Mondol, is 17 years old. The other two are 16 and remain unidentified.  The trio allegedly went into a freshman cabin at the camp and sexually assaulted three students. 

“The incident goes far beyond hazing. This is rape,” Joseph A. Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, told The Globe. “All of us, frankly, are horrified at these allegations,” added school district superintendent Tony Pierantozzi.  Head boys soccer coach George Scarpelli admitted that the situation is a difficult one.  “I have good boys and they’re standing very strong together,” he said.

There were 165 student-athletes at the camp including boys soccer players, girls soccer players and football players. There were 19 adult supervisors. Mondol, who will be tried as an adult, faces a raft of charges including aggravated rape of a child under the age of 16, indecent assault and battery, and witness intimidation. The two unnamed 16-year-olds face comparable juvenile charges.  The 17-year-old soccer player’s attorney proclaimed denied the criminal charges.  “My client emphatically maintains his innocence,” said William Korman, Mondol’s lawyer. “We are pleading not guilty Tuesday because he is not guilty.”

Meanwhile, in the furthest exurbs of Chicago, five members of the football and basketball teams at Plano High School face several criminal charges after months of alleged anal hazing.  Over a period of eight months, the five Plano players allegedly assaulted three teammates in a locker room at the high school, reports ABC 7 Chicago.

“They were accosted by members of the sports team, they were held down and were sexually assaulted,” Eric Weis, Kendall County State’s Attorney, told the station.  The assaults involved digital penetration, according to The Beacon-News. One of the five jocks sexually assaulted the victims. The other four held them down. At least sometimes, the crimes occurred on the victims’ birthdays.  Prosecutors suspect that other victims are out there who have not stepped forward.  The five football players face charges including criminal sexual assault, aggravated battery and unlawful restraint. All of them are under 17, and will be charged as juveniles. All five of the students charged with crimes no longer attend Plano High.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Gender Identity Bill

http://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2013/07/21/gender-identity-bill-carries-risk-of-personal-pain-n1645075?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl


Democratic California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has written a bill that would require public schools in his state to allow students to choose which bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams match their gender identity. Both the Assembly and state Senate have passed Assembly Bill 1266. It now sits on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. If the governor allows the bill to become law, then public school administrators won't be able to assign transgender third-graders to use a separate bathroom or play on the team of their biological gender -- even if their motive is to protect a vulnerable child.

"Separate but equal," Ammiano's senior legislative assistant, Wendy Hill, told me, already is against the law. Indeed, the new bill wouldn't really change anything; it would "just (clarify) what current law already states."

Ammiano never has been known for his tolerance toward dissenting opinions. When the late KGO talk show host Pete Wilson voiced his discomfort about a child born to be raised by a gay San Francisco supervisor and a lesbian partner in 2006, Ammiano, then a San Francisco supervisor, demanded that Wilson resign. (Wilson had said, "A child is not an experiment." Ammiano accused Wilson of homophobia and "trying to dehumanize a week-old baby.")

So it's no surprise that he'd be pushing for a bill that would sanctify the sensitivity of transgender children while steamrolling the feelings of girls who might not want biological boys in their locker rooms or on their soccer teams. (No worries, Hill told me. Those girls could ask for special accommodations if they didn't want to share facilities with a biologically male girl.)

AB 1266 also would ride roughshod over parental sensibilities and educator discretion, as some parents don't think that enrolling their kids in kindergarten must entail a talk about transgender equality.  AB 1266 would direct schools to ignore biology and let children decide how they want to self-identify. No student, including elementary-school pupils, would need his or her parents' permission to change gender identity.

Some critics have suggested that boys might use the law as a means to wend their way into the girls' locker room or to a starring position in sports. I don't think so.  But I do wonder whether it is in children's interest to let kindergartners and first-graders decide that they really aren't male or female and that they're going to switch gender identity. Is it truly responsible to encourage kids to cross the gender Rubicon before they've learned how to read?  Hill informed me that children are declaring themselves as transgender early on these days -- often before they enter kindergarten.

What if they change their minds? Have there been studies that explore whether children who change gender identity are glad as adults that they did so? "I don't know that there's been a study of people changing their minds," she answered.  And: "Transgender is not a decision that allows you to change your mind or not change your mind."  That sounds like politics, not science. Maybe she's right. Maybe all the boys and girls who think they're girls and boys are right; maybe by declaring themselves early, they will avoid unnecessary heartache.

Maybe this is the golden age of transsexualism.  Or maybe Sacramento is rushing to pass legislation that pushes confused children to make life-changing decisions that they're not mature enough to make -- and cannot erase.  Maybe it is a big mistake, as Republican state Sen. Jean Fuller warned, to pass a bill that takes away from educators' "appropriate discretion" to make decisions that protect young children and teenagers. "High-school students are not known for their maturity," Fuller noted.  No doubt Ammiano wrote this bill to protect transgender children from the torment of growing up feeling freakish and unwelcome. He apparently believes that it is wrong for kids to agonize privately about their sexuality, so he's pushing a bill that would make a student's gender issues very public, possibly before some students truly know who they are.

Sadly, supporters seem to believe that if the law requires that transgender students have access to the locker rooms and sports teams of their choosing, all their problems will melt away. An Equality California press release announces that the bill's passage would "ensure the success and well-being of transgender students." It never seems to occur to Ammiano and company that for some children, this bill could open the door to a world of pain.