UN Accuses Massachusetts Special Education School of Torture

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Jul 062010

Teachers and administrators at a school in Massachusetts torture students into obedience through electric shocks, the United Nations charges.

And school officials admit that’s true. They just don’t see why it’s a problem.
They claim the alternative would be to drug students into stupors and ship them off to institutions. Hurting them with electricity, they insist, is more humane.

It’s against the law to do this to a terrorist.

Typical leftists thought, torture to enforce compliance is acceptable.

UN Accuses Massachusetts Special Education School of Torture – ParentDish.

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Florida Senators Discuss Psych Drugs on Kids #1

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Apr 122010

Children on widely used psychiatric drugs can quickly gain an alarming amount of weight; many pack on nearly 20 pounds and become obese within just 11 weeks, a study found.

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Betrayed by the UFT

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Apr 082010

The United Federation of Teachers and its president, Michael Mulgrew, recently sent a clear and ugly message to its members who

teach in charter schools and to potential members when it refused to fight against the state’s freezing of charter funding for the second straight year.Because costs rise each year, such a freeze is tantamount to a huge funding cut.We are proud, lifelong union members who believe in the ideals of unionization. We believe in unions for public-school educators; we believe in teacher voice. The Renaissance Charter School, where we work, was founded by teachers and has always been deeply committed to developing teachers as professionals and leaders.Help with your resume? That’s all UFT Prez Mike Mulgrew has for members who work at charters.Help with your resume? That’s all UFT Prez Mike Mulgrew has for members who work at charters.But we know a double standard when we see it. And the UFT is enforcing such a standard, at the expense of charter teachers across the state — including those in the union.

via Betrayed by the UFT – NYPOST.com.

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Central Falls Rhode Island Fires Every High School Teacher

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Feb 182010

Teacher salaries at the high school average $72-78k. Apparently 50% of the students at the school are failing all of their classes, and the graduation rate is also under 50%. In an effort to turn the school around, the superintendent requested some changes be made whereby the school day would be slightly extended, teachers would perform some extra tutoring, etc.

The union balked and refused the terms, so now she is firing the entire teaching staff of the high school and replacing them. This is yet another example of unions digging their own graves by refusing to negotiate or accept reasonable terms. Sentiment is on the side of the superintendent, at least among the folks I have discussed the issue with.

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A political test for teachers

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Dec 282009

When a child doesn’t finish his homework, who’s at fault? The Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group in the University of Minnesota‘s teacher-education program wants every teacher blaming things like “white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity and internalized oppression.” Those who don’t, these professors believe, are unfit to be teachers.

via A political test for teachers – NYPOST.com – Mozilla Firefox.

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Applied Moral Relativism

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Nov 282009

In the dark halls of denial and confusion once known as the learning and planning centers of great public and private institutions across this great land, it is believed—altogether incorrectly—that Moral Relativism has no victims, only beneficiaries.

We have recently seen a jihadist in the US military commit heinous unspeakable crimes of murder and treason at Fort Hood, Texas. He was allowed to commit treason and murder because those in positions of authority allowed him to do it preferring to avoid the appearance of a negative opinion and concern about jihad (and necessarily the “religion of peace/Islam” from which jihad comes) and treason to protecting the lives and security of American service men and women. This is a disastrous failure on the part of many Americans in positions of grave responsibility. This horror must be laid entirely at the feet of the failed philosophy of Moral Relativism and its ugly sibling multiculturalism. Most horrific of all is the fact that this appalling crime at Fort Hood was so readily preventable.
SIOA » Blog Archive » Applied Moral Relativism (28 November 2009)

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Family Literacy Can Solve Many of Nation’s Problems

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Oct 122009

Illiteracy affects one in seven U.S. adults. And those 30 million adults are a big reason why 33 percent of fourth-graders are unable to read at grade level. In turn, the work force is ill-equipped to compete in a 21st century economy, and communities are at risk. The problem affects multiple generations, that’s why it needs a multi-generation solution – family literacy.

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It's Sputnik, Stupid! - Forbes.com

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Oct 112009

Is it too late for the U.S. to catch up with other countries in math and science education?

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