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The Continuing Collapse
4:03 AM, May. 16, 2007
WELCOME TO THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE!
Home of the Anti-Shahada: There is no god called "Allah", and Mohammad, barbecue sauce be upon him, is his false prophet.
The biggest challenge in producing The Continuing Collapse is limiting each issue's length. Every day our highly trained education professionals kindly supply such a wealth of material that only the most rigorous discipline prevents me from inundating you with countless tales from the government school crypt.
So, just where do we begin this time?....I have it!
The Attack of the Rambo Teachers
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) -- Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong trip to a state park, said Scales Elementary School Assistant Principal Don Bartch, who led the trip....
But parents of the sixth-grade students were outraged. (Watch student recount incident, mother react
 ) "The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives, because they thought there was someone with a gun after them," said Brandy Cole, whose son went on the trip.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/13/faked.attack.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstoriesI'm sure many of those Tennessee parents thought that having educrats with spectacularly bad judgment was just a problem in those "Blue States".
Oregon Legislators Want to Open Government The Classroom to "Oldest Profession"
Occasionally folks are tempted to refer to the members of the teachers' goonions as "prostitutes". Most of us think that isn't very nice, but in "progressive" places such as Oregon it may soon be true.
The Oregon Senate has approved a bill allowing some women convicted of misdemeanor prostitution to be eligible for a state teaching license.
Supporter Sen. Margaret Carter, a Portland Democrat, invoked the gospel of redemption and forgiveness, and the sins of judgment. http://www.katu.com/news/7478032.html
Perhaps the liberals just want our daughters to have a more "diverse" group of role models.
This School District Will be Hearing From the Janitors' Union
Speaking of educrats with spectacularly bad judgment, here is an example from Iowa:
An incident two weeks ago in a boys' bathroom at Pleasant Hill Elementary left a mother scared for her son's health and concerned for her job.
Tina Holmes, a crossing guard at the school, said she has faced cold treatment from her co-workers after she complained about the disciplinary actions of a school official against her 8-year-old son. The chain of events began April 25, when Holmes said her son Ryan was called into a boys' bathroom by Kym Stein, the school's assistant principal. Holmes said someone had been urinating on the floor during the week, and in an effort to catch the perpetrator, Stein brought Ryan and 13 other boys into the bathroom and told them to clean it up with paper towels. "She went into the classroom, but no one would fess up to it," Holmes said. "So all the boys in the bathroom between 9 and 11 (a.m.) had to get on their hands and knees and clean it." http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070508/NEWS02/705080339/1004 "What Happens in Ms. Buford's Class Stays in Ms. Buford's Class"
In the judgment of one of Chicago's highly trained education professionals, the basics should be reading, writing, and movies about sodomite shepherds:
A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film "Brokeback Mountain" in class....
According to the lawsuit filed Friday in Cook County Circuit Court, the video was shown without permission from the students' parents and guardians... The lawsuit also names Ashburn Principal Jewel Diaz and a substitute teacher, referred to as "Ms. Buford."
The substitute asked a student to shut the classroom door at the West Side school, saying: "What happens in Ms. Buford's class stays in Ms. Buford's class," according to the lawsuit.
Normalizing Incest
In case you are wondering why the "change agents" in the schools are so interested in introducing children to "diverse" sexual "lifestyles", the goal is to eradicate from our culture all vestiges of Judeo-Christian norms relating to the family and to sex. Forcing acceptance of homosexual sodomy is just the beginning, as Jeff Jacoby notes:
WHEN THE BBC invited me onto one of its talk shows recently to talk about the day's hot topic -- legalizing adult incest -- I thought of Rick Santorum.
Back in 2003, as the Supreme Court was preparing to rule in Lawrence v. Texas, a case challenging the constitutionality of laws criminalizing homosexual sodomy, then-Senator Santorum caught holy hell for warning that if the law were struck down, there would be no avoiding the slippery slope.
"If the Supreme Court says you have the right to consensual sex within your home," he told a reporter, "then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."
50% of American High School Seniors Think that Sodom and Gomorrah Were Married
But..But... I thought that Christian children in government schools were "salt and light" - each one a little evangelist proclaiming the Gospel.
Sometimes dumb sounds cute: Sixty percent of Americans can't name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married.
Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, isn't laughing. Americans' deep ignorance of world religions — their own, their neighbors' or the combatants in Iraq, Darfur or Kashmir — is dangerous, he says.
Another triumph by our "youth ministries".
A Report From the Ritalin Nation
Here is one of the best recent articles on how psychiatric drug manufacturers, cash, and doctors intersect to promote the drugging of our children:
When Anya Bailey developed an eating disorder after her 12th birthday, her mother took her to a psychiatrist at the University of Minnesota who prescribed a powerful antipsychotic drug called Risperdal.
Created for schizophrenia, Risperdal is not approved to treat eating disorders, but increased appetite is a common side effect and doctors may prescribe drugs as they see fit. Anya gained weight but within two years developed a crippling knot in her back. She now receives regular injections of Botox to unclench her back muscles. She often awakens crying in pain.
The Public School Thunderdome
Mad Max would feel right at home in government schools today. Here is a small example from the undisciplined and and chaotic LA schools:
When it comes to discipline in Los Angeles schools nowadays, the hickory stick has given way to a metaphorical egg noodle.
The result is that behavior problems frustrate teachers and hinder motivated students in many L.A. schools. A recent California survey commissioned by the state's Department of Education found that teachers leave the profession primarily because of discipline issues —disruptive students and, occasionally, rude parents. Consider the following: A boy sexually harassed a girl at Marina del Rey Middle School last year, so his teacher reported his behavior to his mother. Mom's response? She burst into the classroom and gave everyone the finger. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-discipline7may07,0,3202287.story?coll=la-opinion-leftrail Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, a (female) student knocks out her (female) principal:
The anger seemed to come from nowhere.
When another student slammed a fruit cup on a cafeteria lunch table last fall, the young girl's rage began to build.
It grew in the cafeteria, as the 15-year-old lashed out at her fellow students, angry that some of the spilled fruit landed on her pants.
It grew in the main office of Ronald Reagan High School on Milwaukee's south side, where school staff had taken her to regroup.
In the office, a steady stream of profanities flowed from her mouth. Sensing a growing threat of violence, the school principal, Julia D'Amato, approached. Again and again, D'Amato told her:
"You have to calm down."
"You have to calm down."
But she was just getting started.
When authorities arrested the student for punching the principal twice, knocking her out, the incident became front-page news, a horrific example of random violence in the schools.
Unlike Wisconsin, in Houston knocking out the teacher is boys' work:
A Worthing High School teacher said Monday she is too scared — and too bruised on the left side of her face — to return to work after a student repeatedly punched her in class last week...
Vanesta Marshall, a home economics teacher at Worthing who is 5 feet 4 inches tall, said she remembers a ninth-grade male student punching her in the face two or three times before she blacked out Friday. The other students in the class counted seven or eight blows, she said.
The student became angry and started spouting profanity after Marshall scolded him for not bringing his notebook to class, she said. Marshall then escorted the student to school security, and when he returned, she asked him if he had paperwork allowing him to return.
He got angry again, she said, and lifted a chair. Then, Marshall said, she was walking to her desk to call security when the first blow fell. The punches kept coming, and several students tried to stop the teen.
"My class, they're the real heroes," Marshall said in a phone interview before her voice began to crack. "If they hadn't did what they did, I probably would still be in the hospital right now."
Marshall said she went to the hospital Friday afternoon and left early Saturday. By Monday, she said, she was starting to be able to open her left eye. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4803658.html
Don't Worry. Less than half of Houston's teachers are afraid to come to school. Of course, nobody is asking the children.
Finally, when not otherwise occupied with beating teachers and administrators, our little government school Mad Maxes have to make do with random assaults on other students. In Nevada the fun is enhanced by broadcasting beatings on YouTube.
Nicholas Cotton isn't the first student to get beaten up in school.
But what happened to the 16-year-old freshman at Green Valley High School last month has his mom questioning how school officials responded.
Nicholas was assaulted in a classroom just before the start of his late-period algebra class on April 13. The incident was recorded by another student on a cell phone camera and then broadcast on the popular YouTube.com Web site. The video showed a student whose face could not be seen pummeling Nicholas on the back of his head, neck and back.
Nicholas said the attack was unprovoked and done by a classmate to whom he had never spoken...
"I was surprised, shocked that it was happening," he said.
Nicholas said he "relived what happened in the classroom" when he learned that video footage was posted on the video-sharing Web site...
But she is also upset by the way Green Valley administrators handled the situation. Karen Cotton said Principal Jeff Horn told her the school couldn't protect her son after the alleged attacker returned to the school after a week's suspension...
Karen Cotton also said Horn tried to dissuade her from pursuing charges with Green Valley's campus police...
Karen Cotton said she unsuccessfully tried to press charges against the attacker twice after the assault. Both times, she said, she was told by school officials that police officers at the school were busy.
Mohammedans Waging Jihad Against the Curriculum in British Schools (and it's happening here, too)
John Leo reports from "Jolly Olde Englande":
Some British schools are dropping lessons on the Holocaust and the Crusades, seeking to avoid antagonizing Muslim students. A Historical Association report, funded by the department for education and skills, said teachers feared confronting “anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils.” Some teachers also “deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades” because “a balanced school treatment would have challenged teaching in some local mosques.”...
Some British Muslims object to the Red Cross as a symbol, as well as the cross of St. Andrew in the Union Jack, since Crusaders wore the emblem. The Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding said it is time for England to produce a new flag and adopt a patron saint “not identified with our bloody past and one we can all identify with.”
Britain usually outpaces the U.S. in the politically correct sweepstakes. Out of deference to Muslim pupils, the “Three Little Pigs” children’s story has become the “Three Little Puppies.” In many English schools, “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” is now “Baa, Baa, Rainbow Sheep,” which makes no sense, but supposedly spares the feelings of sensitive black pupils. In some of the same schools, Snow White and the seven dwarfs have morphed into Snow White and the seven gnomes. The advantage here: gnomes aren’t really known for shortness, and, as fictional creatures, they’re in a poor position to complain that the story exploits them. http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-04-04jl.html
Our British cousins are also showing us what can be achieved with a full commitment to advanced ideas about sex education:
British authorities promote sex education programmes that would make a sailor blush - and achieve record rates of disease and pregnancy.... http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/how_not_to_teach_children_about_sex/More School Reform Follies
I must admit, every time I see one of our Christian "leaders" pump his fist in the air and exhort parents to "take back" the public schools, my immediate reaction is to say "Don't be stupid." But I restrain myself...usually.
Here is a story from Arkansas, home of the Clinton education miracle, in which a superintendent genuinely trying to fix a very broken system is getting sandbagged by the usual suspects. From the Washington Times, here is the reality of "school reform":
"Fifty years after the epic desegregation struggle at Central High School, the school district here is still riven by racial conflict, casting a pall on this year's ambitious commemorative efforts.
"In the latest clash, white parents pack school board meetings to support the embattled superintendent, Roy Brooks, who is black. The blacks among the school board members look on grimly, determined to use their new majority to oust him." So much for the chances of a fair and impartial hearing for Mr. Brooks, the hard-driving school superintendent who came here three years ago with the avowed aim of making this the best-performing urban school district in the country. So he has been slicing away at a bloated bureaucracy, sifting resources to the classroom, trying to raise academic standards and in general educating kids instead of just going through the same old motions. All that has shaken up the dead wood and stirred up those who miss the status mediocre quo, notably the teachers' unions. When the union-backed members of the school board became a 4-3 majority after last fall's elections, it was only a matter of time before Mr. Brooks would have to fight for his job. Because when a man comes to town with a dream, it doesn't take long for the killers of the dream to appear, too. This isn't really a fight over race but over power. It's a fight over what education ought to be about: learning or political patronage. Waiting for Godot/Waiting for Vouchers
The education establishment again demonstrates that any meaningful voucher program is not likely to happen any time soon and that if you are waiting for vouchers to get your children out of government school, you have decided to offer them up as a living sacrifice to the Moloch of government schools.
It's doubtful but not impossible that Utah will have a functioning school voucher program by fall after the Utah Board of Education on Thursday opted to seek legal counsel before adopting rules to set up the program. Upset by the delay, voucher supporters expect a lawsuit....
http://www.sltrib.com/education/ci_5815558 Government School Failure is Everywhere, and Yet We Give the System More Money
California managed to delay until 2006 requiring its high school seniors to pass an exit exam to graduate. In order to keep the cash rolling in and to keep parents placated, California's highly trained education professionals announced that in 2006 "91% passed the exit exam!!!". As the LA Times points out, they were lying. Only 78% passed:
California education officials put forth artificially positive results on the number of students who passed the state's controversial high school exit exam last year, according to a recent UCLA study.
The analysis also concluded that about 50,000 fewer students statewide earned diplomas last year compared to previous years, raising the prospect that the exit exam requirement is pressuring students to drop out. The decline in graduation rates was most pronounced in poor, heavily minority areas, the study found. "We've constructed a system that sets in place incentives for disinformation," said John Rogers, the study's author and co-director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access. "People who are making education decisions in this state need to think about how this policy is really playing out." http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-exam8may08,1,4092083.story?coll=la-news-learning&ctrack=2&cset=true If you read the prior story, you saw that the California Superintendent of Schools tried to discredit the finding by John Rogers, a UCLA researcher, that the state was lying about exit exam results.
Well, the 2006 graduation data were subsequently released, and it turns out that Rogers was wrong - the situation was even worse than he reported. One third of California seniors did not graduate - a ten year low:
California's high school graduation rate dropped to a 10-year low last year as a third of the Class of 2006 left without a diploma, according to state Department of Education numbers posted Friday.
Statewide, the graduation rate was 67 percent of the 423,289 seniors in 2006. That is down from 71 percent in 2005.
That 4 percentage point decline works out to an additional 21,000 students who did not don a cap and gown.
The official graduation rate was released four days after UCLA researcher John Rogers published a report predicting about 50,000 fewer graduates in the class of 2006.
The state's numbers are not what he would have expected, Rogers said. "But they affirm the fact that there's a significant drop-off in graduates."
The significant decline came as the state required a test of basic skills, known as the exit exam, for graduation for the first time.
Nonetheless, the decline comes after more than a decade of expensive changes in the classroom -- class-size reduction, higher standards, additional teacher training and more.
I hope you noticed the comment about the decline occurring despite "expensive changes" in the California schools. If you give them more "school reform" money, perhaps they can drive the graduation rate even lower.
In Texas, 16% percent of students can't graduate because they can't pass an exit exam on which identifying "hisself" as a mistake is considered a hard question:
Sixteen percent of Texas high school seniors — or about 40,200 members of the Class of 2007 — won't receive their diplomas this month because they still haven't passed all four portions of the TAKS test, according to preliminary figures released Friday.
That's a 27 percent increase from last year, when roughly 32,000 seniors failed at least one portion of the high-stakes exam.
"It's heartbreaking. It's sad," said Texas Education Agency spokeswoman DeEtta Culbertson. "Those students need to keep their eye on the fact that they can take the test in July to get their diploma."
The currently sitting Texas legislature is in the process of giving the highly talented folks who achieved these results even more money.
As foregoing stories from California and Texas show, education policy in "Red states" and education policy "Blue States" are completely different....Yep, completely different.
Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest, Christine "Fraudoire", the non-elected governor of Washington State, at least knows how to avoid embarrassment - delay the exit exam until you are likely to be out of office:
Gov. Christine Gregoire today delayed until 2013 a requirement that students pass the math and science portions of a high-stakes exam in order to graduate from high school.
She also vetoed large sections of the bill overhauling the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) exam.
Gregoire said she would have preferred to delay the math and science WASL graduation requirement only until 2012.
She cut the sections of the WASL overhaul bill that would have established end-of-course exams, regional appeals, a special exemption for students learning English as a second language, and the clause declaring an emergency.
Gregoire said her actions should not be interpreted as a move away from high standards.
They May Be Taxing You Out of You Home, But They are Doing it for the Children
No one knows how to be financially irresponsible like a government employee. More on the collapsing Detroit schools:
The Detroit Board of Education wants the state to pay off $200 million in debt incurred during its takeover by the state, and the district could ask city voters to show their support for the idea....The takeover ended in December 2005. During that period DPS piled up a $48-million debt and worked around a shortfall of $150 million....Officials are trying to figure out a way to avoid a $118-million budget shortfall for next year.
But Detroit finances are overshadowed by Michigan's problems. Gov. Jennifer Granholm has threatened to take up to $122 per student from each school district next month to plug the state's $700-million budget hole...
Of course, engineering a financial collapse while having billions of dollars at your disposal is not easy, but where there is a will there is a way. In Michigan, for example, 102 hours of work gets you lifetime health benefits:
Paulette Strong loved the 102 hours she worked as a school aide last year. She enjoyed being around children. The staff "treated her like a queen."
And the benefits were pretty good, too.
For those 102 hours of work, Strong will get most of her medical bills paid by taxpayers for the rest of her life.
A loophole in Michigan's school retirement policy allows the 60-year-old grandmother from Remus and hundreds of former school employees like her to earn lifetime health care at deeply discounted rates -- a perk worth an estimated $150,000 per retiree -- for returning to work for the equivalent of 13 days.
That works out to about $1,470/hr. for being a school aide...uh, plus $6.50/hr in wages.
In Texas, dear old Mr. Chips takes advantage of similar kind of loophole (but you only have to work one day instead of 13):
How would you like to work for just one day and earn thousands of dollars for it afterwards? Perhaps that sounds like an infomercial on cable TV at three in the morning. Or maybe it sounds like another FOX TV “reality show.” In fact, it is the experience of more than a few Texas schoolteachers... http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA552_Social_Security_Scandal.html
From the "We have to have more money (sniff, sniff) because we don't even have textbooks for the children (blubber, blubber), or equipment (boo hoo), or buildings in decent repair (waa, waaa)" department.
The Pontiac school board president is calling for Superintendent Mildred Mason to step down, after finding cases of new unused textbooks, and vacant and disheveled school district buildings.
Board President Letyna Roberts made the comments after touring district properties with community group leaders, newly elected board members and other concerned residents....
During Thursday's tour of school properties, Bloomfield Hills/Woodward Estates Neighborhood Association president Velma Stephens was appalled.
"Oh my goodness," she said, gazing at a room-length shelving unit stacked with educational materials. "Oh my, my. This is not right..."
A tour of Perdue Academy and Washington Middle School Q both of which were closed after the 2005-06 school year Q revealed not only unused textbooks, but dozens of cases of used library and literature books. Microscopes, science education kits, chemistry course supplies, teacher resource kits, food preparation and serving appliances, office supplies, cleaning supplies, television sets, dated computers and musical instruments including pianos, electronic keyboards, xylophones and violins were also left behind.
"I think this all should have been catalogued and cleared out of here a lot sooner than this," said Pontiac Board of Education trustee-elect Robert Bass.
Tour participants were shocked to find the basement cafeteria at Perdue Academy host to abandoned food, dead mice, scattered vermin droppings and a pungent odor emanating from the kitchen and freezer areas.
Trustee Christopher Northcross expressed disbelief while touring the Fairlawn Center property, which he said the district bought in good repair from the State of Michigan three years ago. Today, its glass- and debris-scattered halls, copperpilfered heating units, ramshackled ceilings and disjointed doors appear to have become the thoroughly vandalized home of vagrants.
As tour participants entered the facility's kitchen, they found clothing scattered over the floors and an electric oven left on to heat the room. It appeared that unwelcome tenants had also used the building's pool as a staging area for bonfires.
These are the people on whose behalf you are being taxed out of your homes, but it is, as they say, all for the children.
Though Roberts had toured the facilities earlier in the week and found both stacks and cases of new English, math, science and geography books left unused, Roberts' continuing frustration was evident Thursday.
"This just brought me to my knees," she explained. "My son is a graduate of Pontiac schools and couldn't bring books home because there wasn't enough to go around. I know that is still a concern now, and here all these books sit."...
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