Posts Tagged ‘education’

Schools Gone Wild

A kindergarten student in Ionia, Michigan was suspended from school for daring to commit a grave offense.  What was this offense?  Did he beat another child with a club?  Did he shove a sharp stick through another student’s chest in a bizarre vampire-staking ritual?  Was he the kindergarten pusher, carrying a load of illicit narcotics [...]

Cheat on a Test, Go to Hell!

It just goes to show you that even in educational circles, people can be damn stupid.
A college professor in Murfreesboro, TN, convinced that at least one of his MBA students was cheating on exams, has required that his students sign a pledge that if any of them cheated, they agreed to spend an eternity in [...]

Want an “A” in Texas? Be a Creationist!

It seems those crazy creationists in Texas are at it again, although I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised.  After failing every attempt so far to force creationism into schools, after the state refused to recognize the Institute for Creation Research’s desire to issue scientific degrees, they’re trying yet another tactic.
Now they want to make sure [...]

This is how we need to teach science!

Physicist Brian Greene does a phenomenal job of explaining exactly why current science education fails so often and what we, as a society, as a culture, need to do in order to instill a love of science in our children.
Why can’t we have teachers at all levels of the educational scale that are really excited [...]

Religious school “witch hunts” in the UK?

Christina Odone argues that the government in the UK is threatening to remove the autonomy of private religious schools and it bothers her.  In “Faith Schools Betrayed”, she argues that religious schools are inclusive and provide services to students that would otherwise miss out.  She goes so far as to suggest that they benefit Muslim [...]

When Did Our Kids Become Wimps?

Yesterday when I was out running a quick errand, I heard a bunch of whiny liberal asshats on the radio pleading that we needed to pass some law against kids calling other kids names at school.  It was disgusting to hear them complain about the worst thing we have in schools today isn’t guns, it [...]


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