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Ah, the wit and wisdom of Joy Behar.
She has called homeschooled children “demented.”
She has called me a “selfish bitch.”
She has called Sarah Palin “dumb” and “not coherent.”
Last week, the genius View co-host seriously suggested that “Black Friday” is RAAAACIST.
It was left to economics professor Whoopi Goldberg to explain what “in the black” means.
You can [...]

Reason number 99,997,678 to homeschool your kids, via the SFChronicle:
There was a time when teachers would freak at the sound of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” or “Stone Free.” Now the San Francisco school district wants them to get in the spirit.
“Remember the first time you heard Jimi Hendrix?” reads the cover of the district’s new [...]

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! My syndicated column today expresses appreciation for those who live that time-tested virtue: Self-reliance. The reader whose life I write about today is Jen. She’s also a blogger and you can find her Double Nickel Farm site here.
Have a great day.
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Giving thanks for self-reliant Americans
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Bigot.

“Disconcerting.”

This is ghastly. If you are a parent with elementary schoolchildren, you will hit the roof. A teacher in Cumberland County, N.C. near Fort Bragg (NOTE: she is no longer in Asheville) was caught on tape by Finnish documentarians making a film about Barack Obama’s supporters. The teacher, Diantha Harris, uses the classroom as a [...]

Last week, I noted the public school propaganda war on traditional marriage — in the form of a first-grader field trip to a wedding of two lesbian teachers opposed to Proposition 8. That’s the ballot measure to protect marriage.
CTA, the far Left teachers’ union in California, has now donated $1 million to defeat the proposition. [...]

15 pages devoted to The One in a kids’ textbook used in the Racine, WI schools.
Will they be required to learn the goose steps and children’s anthem, too?
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Commenter BrianNY on the Obama Alphabet:
A is for ACORN
B is for Barack
C is for Community Activist…

“Teachable moment.”

A victory, for now.

Parental control.

Bad taste.

“We are regulating the fun out of normal childhood activity.”

“Homeschooling parents should be treated as heroes – not hunted down or harassed by their own government.”

“Keep going. Infect me. I don’t care. I don’t care.”

“Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children.”

Hurry up and answer in 15 seconds or the schoolmarm will rap your knuckles.

“One nation, part of one planet…”

1) Scaring the hell out of elementary school kids with an unannounced faux gun-attack in Tennessee.
2) Forcing 8th graders to sit and watch “Brokeback Mountain” in Chicago.
No wonder homeschooling is so popular.

L.A. burning
Wow, time passes quickly. Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots. Time magazine has a retrospective and profiles of the key figures, from Rodney King to Daryl Gates to Reginald Denny and the LAPD officers.
Thug Damian Williams, caught on tape beating Denny to a bloody pulp, is in jail for [...]

“D” is for dhimmitude at Burlington Township High School, where a mock terrorism drill had students preparing for an attack by armed Christian gunmen dubbed “the New Crusaders.”
It’s the topic of my syndicated column today. I note that the Burlington Township drill was very similar to another jihad-apologist terrorism drill in Michigan blogged on this [...]

Monday is national illegal alien day. (List of events here.) Some schools are suspending students who walk out, but not here in the People’s Republic of Montgomery County, Md. They’re going to earn school credit for skipping school* and protesting enforcement of our immigration laws (via WaPo):
The Montgomery County schools’ decision to grant students community [...]

The latest government education outrage from Alabama:
Christy Jackson does not want a teacher showing her 13-year-old son a video calling the president of the United States an a—hole during class. Nor does she believe her son should be shown Internet videos — which are barred to students by school system controls —that use obscenities.
But that [...]

If whiny kids grow up to be conservatives, how do you explain the sniveling psychosis on the Left side of the blogosphere , where unhinged haters are so threatened by conservative Washington Post blogger Ben Domenech (my former book editor) that they have resorted to attacking his education and his homeschooling parents. A sample (profanity [...]

Jay Bennish, the ranting World Geography teacher, is back in class today–and, it appears, thumbing his nose at critics.
Previous coverage here.
FYI, I’ll be on Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor tonight to talk about the case (approx. 825-830pm EST).
Update 8:50 pm: Video clip here.
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Meanwhile, a teacher loses her job for showing her class a video [...]

Haleigh Poutre, 11
The latest on Haleigh Poutre: Gov. Mitt Romney has announced an independent investigation into the state’s abominable handling of the case.
Here’s Romney’s full statement (via the Boston Globe):
“One cannot look at the life of Haleigh Poutre without being overwhelmed with sadness. My heart goes out to her.
“Now I ask the question, what could [...]

Two audio links for your listening enjoyment…
1) I had the great pleasure of speaking with Instapundit and Mrs. Instapundit (Dr. Helen) for their inaugural podcast. Listen to the whole thing. (Helen’s chicken lemon soup recipe, which I mentioned, is here.) Their second guest, Internet musician/mom/web designer Audra Coldiron, is a fascinating interviewee who shares thoughts [...]

Very cool:
A 16-year-old California boy won a premier high school science competition Monday for his innovative approach to an old math problem that could help in the design of airplane wings. Michael Viscardi, a senior from San Diego, won a $100,000 college scholarship, the top individual prize in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science [...]

Reason number 95,385 to keep your kids out of government schools (via the Boston Globe):
BENNINGTON, Vt. –The school superintendent whose district includes Mount Anthony Union High School has labeled “inappropriate” and “irresponsible” an English teacher’s use of liberal statements in a vocabulary quiz.
“I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but [...]

If you’ve got kids in the public schools, you might want to double-check and make sure they don’t ditch classes tomorrow. As I noted yesterday, anti-war extremists are holding a nationwide protest tomorrow to moan about President Bush’s re-election one year ago. (So much for Moving On.) As part of the festivities, peace organizers are [...]