Look at the way the way that the students are looking at “IT”!

This isn’t hard. This is just the far left continuing to try and create chaos where there is none and destroying young lives as they do;

In its simplest terms, the First Amendment is the right to freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and to petition the government. It prevents the government from making laws that limit these rights, which means you have the freedom to believe and practice any religion, express your opinions, gather with others peacefully, and ask the government for changes. Continue reading →

Some female high school students in Anaheim, California, recently held a protest against their school for allowing biological males into their bathrooms.

A good number of Esperanza High School students carried signs depicting their opposition of the policy early this month, reported California Family Council (CFC). Led by junior Lesley Ledesma, they staged a walkout after finding out the school administration is allowing a biological male to use the girls restroom.

Sophia Lorey, outreach coordinator of the CFC, said Ledesma wanted to point out the injustice of the school policy and what California is forcing on girls. Continue reading →

An investigative reporter says a registered sex offender corresponded with a Virginia school board member about what he deemed “offensive treatment” while using women’s locker rooms.

Through public records requests, Kendall Tietz says Arlington Public Schools provided Defending Education documents about Richard “Riki” Cox, a tier III sex offender who reportedly visited a number of female private spaces in 2024.

He has admitted to using the women’s locker rooms at Arlington’s Washington Liberty High School, Wakefield High School, and Barcroft Sports and Fitness Center, as well as in Fairfax County Planet Fitness locations and Fairfax County’s Oakmont Rec Center, Audrey Moore Rec, and Franconia Rec Center. Continue reading →

Public schools depend on a degree of consensus from parents and taxpayers regarding the basics of what their students are being taught. This trust is especially important in these chaotic times when many parents across the country have discovered that their schools are teaching children in a way contrary to their family and religious values by indoctrinating them with creepy views on gender and sexuality. Continue reading →

But wait there’s more… It was not just Ritalin and Adderall being prescribed for so-called learning and behavior disorder but also Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) were becoming popular. I was on the Colorado State Board of Education when the Columbine massacre happened. One of my fellow board member’s daughter went to Columbine and was hiding from Eric and Dylin (the shooters) in the library closet. She had phoned her dad as it was happening.

This massacre ripped our hearts out. I felt obligated to do some research which revealed that in school shootings, before Columbine, every shooter I could get information on was already receiving some form of psychological counseling and was on one or more psychiatric drug. Eric Harris was prescribed Luvox (fluvoxamine) for depression and was in counseling as part of a juvenile diversion program. Toxicology reports confirmed Luvox in his system at the time of the shooting. His counseling involved a psychiatrist who prescribed the medication. Continue reading →

A national effort to compensate Americans affected by prolonged pandemic-era public school closures and other education policy failures is long overdue.

Five years ago, public schools across the United States closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other large school districts were locked out of classrooms for 18 months. These prolonged public school closures harmed a generation of children. According to University of Arkansas professor of education policy Harry Anthony Patrinos, school closures in developed countries reduced students’ lifetime earnings by $21,000. Continue reading →

The Department of Education has operated as a costly experiment in federal overreach for too long – expanding bureaucratic layers, weakening local control, and spending billions without improving academic outcomes.

The department was intended to ensure access to equal educational opportunity for all students, supplement educational efforts at the state level, and serve as a research organization to provide guidance and best practices to policymakers. Instead, it has created red tape, enforced radical ideologies through one-size-fits-all mandates, and drained critical resources from classrooms with bloated administrative processes and procedures. Continue reading →

The analysis cites crowded classrooms, low graduation rates and inadequate funding

Get your children OUT of the System – NOW

Arizona’s public education system has maintained its dead-last ranking in a survey of all 50 states for the second year in a row.

The rankings, released last week by Consumer Affairs, a product information and research company, scored states by evaluating graduation rates, standardized test scores, funding levels, class size, quality of higher education and safety.

Arizona scored among the worst on all of those metrics except for higher education. The Grand Canyon State was ranked dead last for public school funding, 49th for student performance and 47th for school safety. The state’s colleges and universities fared comparatively better, ranking 35th in the nation. Continue reading →

Our society today is geared towards the quick fix. With the barrage of drug commercials there is a pill for every symptom. If you can’t sit still pop a pill. Big Pharma’s partnership with government agencies including public education is responsible for the drastic increase of children being put on dangerous drugs.

It’s been 25 years since my last opinion piece covering ADHD, ADD and prescription medications like Ritalin and Adderall. I thought I would never write another piece on this specific issue, but things have evolved since 1999. When I learned Illinois Governor Pritzker signed into law a new bill making it mandatory for yearly psychological exams on schoolchildren starting in 3rd grade, I had to write again on this issue. Continue reading →

Underscoring academic – 40 percent of fourth grade children now lack basic reading skills

I was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far better education.

However, this headmistress reported such alarm and concern were not as present in newer parents. In fact, those with children born during Covid seemed oblivious to the many education problems unmasked during the pandemic and were happily trotting their children toward their first years in the same old forms of substandard education. Continue reading →

Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean “tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most will be false positives.”

If politicians want to help kids, they must recognize how government schools systematically undermine students’ mental health. Continue reading →

NOTE: Considering the words of Plato above – just what in the hell has happened? ~ Editor

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the gold standard exam for comparing student achievement over the years. Continue reading →

The results reflect an 8 percentage-point decline since 2024 and one point lower than the previous record lows recorded in 2000 and 2023.

The lowest number of Americans in more than two decades said they are satisfied with K–12 education in the United States, according to a Walton Family Foundation-Gallup poll released on Sept. 16.

The results reflect the lowest satisfaction level in K–12 education since Gallup first conducted the poll in 1999. Continue reading →

A strategist working to restore schools from harmful agendas isn’t surprised that federal spending didn’t improve kids’ math and reading scores.

12th graders’ scores dropped to their lowest level in more than 20 years, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills.

The assessments were the first since the pandemic, and the Associated Press says they “reflect a downward drift across grade levels and subject areas.” Continue reading →

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I was asked to teach a course to new analysts on Wall Street. The large amount of material to cover and the limited amount of time allotted during their 30-day training period were absurd. But what was even more absurd was that there was no cell phone ban.

Here were these wiz kids who had just gotten their shot at the major leagues. They thought they had the world in their hands. What they had in their hands was a cell phone. I might just as well have been speaking in outer space, an airless place where sound does not travel. Continue reading →

August 4, 2023 ~ Not one incoming eighth-grade student at LeBron James’ I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, has passed a state math test in over three years, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. Students have not passed the state’s math test since the third grade, per the report.

The inaugural class was in the third grade in the 2018-19 school year. In addition to disappointing math test scores, only 8% of I Promise students tested proficient in English. As sixth graders in the 2021-22 school year, the inaugural class scored a 0% in mathematics and 3.1% in English language arts.

The 2022-23 report cards will be released in the coming months. Akron Public Schools administrators have already confirmed the class was at 0% in seventh-grade math as well. Equally important, grades have declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading →

          Tribute to the Teachers ~ Alexandra Nechita, 1995

The predictable consequences of the right wing’s war on public schools are being felt as educators leave their communities – and their profession.

When Rosalyn Sandri returned to teach English at her high school alma mater, she never imagined it would end in a forced resignation. Only three years after stepping into her Texas classroom, she walked out of it for the last time. She’d never see her students again.

“They didn’t even let me say goodbye,” she said.

The week before her dismissal had been unremarkable – long days spent grading essays and assigning homework. In September 2024, Sandri, 33, had started publicly transitioning as a transgender woman, something she said her fellow teachers and students welcomed kindly. She shared her journey on TikTok, including one video documenting the euphoria of being called “ma’am” for the first time. Continue reading →