Tuesday education news
posted Tuesday, June 28, 2005 :: 9:19 PM
Check back every Tuesday for the latest in education news. Speaking of the latest, I just have to say how much I like Number 2 Pencil for her daily documentation of what is going on in the loony public school system.
This week FrontPageMagazine.com outs the NEA’s anti-biblical and liberal agenda, while the Jewish World Review examines the interests of the adults
in the public school system: they compete with the interests of the
children who are supposed to be getting an education. In a related
story, California voters will this fall have an opportunity to diminish the effects of tenure, which serves to protect teacher jobs rather than quality education.
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting have approved a resolution
encouraging churches to investigate what impact the homo[s-x]ual agenda
is having on public schools. It is not small: “alternative” orientation
is presented as normal or healthy in [s-x] ed curriculum across the country, while gay activists continue to make inroads in para-educational organizations such as the NEA and the PTA.
On the school standards battlefront, one California school has recognized all of its students at a recent graduation – even those who flunked. Another California school board solved the problem of not enough students testing as gifted by tinkering with the identification process until one quarter of the students test in (5% is the national average).
And then there is always the ridiculous: from schools deciding it is too shameful to be named after a U.S. president, to students being forced to have their lunch period at 9:30 in the morning, to Mother’s Day being renamed “Parent’s Day” so as not the offend the vast number of “two father” families out there (hat tip: Glenn Beck).
Now for the good news! Here in the US, the Concerned Women for America applaud recent Congressional efforts
to restore a parent’s right to know when their children are given
contraceptives or prescriptions. And the monolithic teaching of
evolution in schools continues to be challenged – not in Kansas this time, but the Netherlands.
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