11-Year-Old’s Mom Gets Upset About Middle School’s Online Dating Site
You’ve got to admit this could get kind of creepy: ELWOOD, Ind. – Most parents agree that matchmaking Web sites and surveys are games mainly adults should play, but some say Elwood Community Schools has been getting students in on the action. Parent Michelle Everett says her 11-year-daughter recently brought home a survey from school. […]
News From Southern Appalachia
When Instapundit featured the headline, “Knoxville girl wins regional spelling bee,” I sort of figured the Knoxville girl in question might be named Reynolds. But in fact the winner was Ameena Iqbal, a fifth-grader at Blue Grass Elementary School in West Knoxville, who edged out Nithya Kanagasegar, an eighth-grader at Homestead Elementary School in Crossville. […]
Call it ‘The McCain Plan’
The New York Times reports: Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college. My daughter was home-schooled through 9th grade, entered a Christian academy as a 14-year-old […]
Killer Socialist Professor Update
Harvard-educated murderer Amy Bishop displayed her enlightened, sophisticated academic temperament: In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, asked for a booster seat for one of her children, and learned the last seat had gone to another mother. Bishop, according to a police report, strode over to […]
Reinhold Neibuhr Was a Subversive Pinko (and Other Conservative Insights)
One of the more amusing tendencies of certain “conservative intellectuals” — the scare-quotes are necessaary, if you know the type of people I have in mind — is their habit of name-checking famous (dead) conservatives in pursuit of arguments about the unworthiness of famous (living) conservatives. Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter will say something that […]
‘Almost Never’ Is Once Too Often
“Certainly, there are lots of socialists on college faculties across the land. Happily, they almost never engage in killing sprees.” — James Joyner, Outside the Beltway UPDATE: The plot thickens: The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of […]
Professor Is Denied Tenure, Opens Fire in University Faculty Meeting, 3 Dead
Unusual and tragic violence: HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville faculty shot and killed three co-workers on campus. Sources close to the investigation identify the suspect as Dr. Amy Bishop. Police also have the alleged shooter’s husband in custody. He has not been formally charged with anything. University spokesman […]
Why Aren’t You Home-Schooling Yet?
Pamela Geller reports exclusively on how high school students are being recruited and indoctrinated by Obama’s Organizing for America in an “internship program is geared towards the 2010 elections.” That’s just one report from Massillon, Ohio, but it’s everywhere now. When Howard Zinn became a good Commie this week, comments pointed out that Zinn’s Marxist history is now standard […]
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