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Fights at School (1 Comment)Posted in: Commentary by SoulRiser @ 9:28 PM

I found out today that people search Google for "school fights" over 300k times a month. This means that people enjoy watching high school students beating the crap out of each other for no good reason. This is sad.
So, in the hopes that some of the people searching for "school fights" will stumble upon [...]

Psalms banned, but witchcraft OK (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 5:06 PM

Supreme Court endorses 'hostility' toward Christianity
A lower court's "hostility" towards Christianity will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court today refused to intervene in a school district's censorship of a kindergartener's choice of literature for a class reading.
"By refusing to hear Mrs. Busch's case, the U.S. Supreme Court has endorsed the kind of hostility toward religion [...]

January 30, 2010:

17-year old Breaks Record and Climbs All 7 Summits (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 5:03 PM

He could just go to high school and be a normal senior. Or he could climb mountains.
Johnny Collinson isn’t your normal high schooler. His friends might be fretting about the SATs and finding a date for Friday night, but he’s had his eyes on a bigger prize: Climbing the seven summits—the highest peaks on each [...]

January 29, 2010:

Lawsuit Charges NYC Police With Criminalizing Kids (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 5:02 PM

NYPD personnel assigned to New York City’s public schools have repeatedly violated students’ civil rights through wrongful arrests and the excessive use of force, according to a class action federal lawsuit filed today by the New York Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
The landmark lawsuit [...]

January 28, 2010:

How schooling damages people, and how we can fix it (No Comments)Posted in: Resources by SoulRiser @ 7:53 PM

This is a collection of links to articles written by Shaun Kerry, M.D. (Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology), and other people. These lists were found on world-prosperity.org.
Our government spends more than 550 billion dollars per year on education, yet home schooled children - who have markedly fewer financial resources - continue to outperform [...]

Productivity Slaves (2 Comments)Posted in: Commentary by SoulRiser @ 3:26 PM

by Cassi Clausen
My son is now 9 months old. His days consist of waking up, eating, playing, napping, playing more, eating more, bath and bedtime. He’s not being very productive, is he? Well, at least that’s how many would react if he were, say, 9 years old. And, to be honest, I sometimes feel this [...]

January 27, 2010:

School bus driver Martha Thompson gets jail time for drunken driving with kids onboard (1 Comment)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 10:41 PM

A drunk school bus driver’s wild and dangerous ride has ended with her in jail.
Martha Thompson of upstate Almond, N.Y. was sentenced Monday to 90 days in jail and six months of home monitoring for the May 8, 2009 incident driving school kids while intoxicated.
Video from the Alfred-Almond school district bus shows several teenage girls [...]

California School District Bans Dictionary Over Phrase "Oral Sex" (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 6:59 PM

A Menifee, California, school district has banned the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Because the book contains the words "oral sex." The school district is now "forming a committee to review whether dictionaries containing the definitions for sexual terms should be permanently banned." Of course they are.
The district will no doubt consider more age-appropriate dictionaries as replacements. Hopefully [...]

January 26, 2010:

Boy's science project prompts school evacuation (No Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 9:37 PM

Fire officials said a San Diego middle school was evacuated when a student's science project was mistaken for a bomb. Fire-Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said a vice principal's concerns prompted the evacuation of Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School Friday afternoon. Luque said an arson team took photos and x-rays of the empty plastic bottle with [...]

Boy forced to kill his hamster as punishment for bad grades (3 Comments)Posted in: News by SoulRiser @ 8:27 PM

Police have arrested a Georgia woman who they say forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for earning a bad grade.
Meriwether County sheriff Steve Whitlock told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday night that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing. The teacher reported it to the Division of [...]

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