For years, I have felt that the USA’s public education system is in decline. I compare what was required of high school graduates from 100, 50, 20, and 13 years ago, and I despair. Now, Ted Nugent provides us with another symptom and a possible cause:

What we discovered on one such meeting at a Michigan grade school was rather eye-opening, to say ( Read more... )

VA. School Bans All Touching

Summary: Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia has banned all physical contact between students. This article came about because a student was punished for putting his arm around his girlfriend’s shoulders. The school administrators reasoning is that the students don’t know the difference between appropriate and ( Read more... )

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In the Houston area, a senior in high school has been removed from his school and banned from participating in graduation ceremonies because he made a computer game map of his school and had a hammer in his bedroom. This is ridiculous. He has done nothing that thousands (if not millions) of kids have done before. Some ( Read more... )

Teen Arrested For Creative Writing Essay

Summary: Teen is told not to censor his writing and write about whatever he wants. He writes about a violent and sexual dream he had. The teacher turns the boy in for counseling and the school has him arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct.  What was the disorderly conduct? Upsetting his creative writing ( Read more... )

Originally published at Gun Totin' Hippies. You can comment here or there.

One of the blogs I read is The LawDog Files. He has a commentary on the mass murder at Virginia Tech that I completely agree with:

despite the senseless death and the smug arrogance that allowed the death to happen - there is news that sickens me to the very core.

There are ( Read more... )