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Knots.

Comical.

Schooled.

Readin’, Writin’, Analyzin’ trends in contraceptive practices and the availability of abortion…

Backlash?

Public school follies.

Educational malpractice.

Obstruction.

Are all hate crimes equal or not?

Hoax crime.

“One nation, part of one planet…”

Political correctness is killing us, part 999,999.

“Boundaries education.”

Facing jail for “party boy” dancing.

#1 Life is not fair. Get used to it.

“It’s the right thing to do.”

The dumbing down and wimpification of the West continues.

My syndicated column this week…

What is your most lofty aspiration? Death for the sake of Allah!”
That is the charming verse kindergarteners in a Hamas classroom chanted last week during their graduation ceremony. The girls dressed in butterfly costumes. The boys donned camouflage, black masks, green bandanas and toy semi-automatic rifles. The video aired by the [...]

Ready to gag? Check out this nursery school video from NYC, in which three-year-old toddlers are used as props for an anti-war protest at a local politician’s office. The video is at NYPress politics blog:

That green construction-paper thingie that looks like it’s about to devour the two little boys is a “Tree of Peace.” The [...]

But you wouldn’t know it from the MSM coverage.
Last night: Spelling words of the day

In last week’s installment of Great Moments in Public Education, we saw one teacher foisting Brokeback Mountain on students in one classroom and another school faking a surprise gun attack on sixth-graders. This week, it’s Sex, Drugs, and CYA at a public school in Boulder, Colorado (hat tip: Linda) The Denver Post reports on a [...]

Here’s the latest on that Great Moment in Public Education I linked to yesterday: Two of the public educators who thought it would be peachy to scare the bejeebers out of elementary kids on an overnight field trip by faking an unannounced gun attack in the dark have been suspended…but only until the end of [...]

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.

No, not fragging advocate, research con artist, and academic fraud Ward Churchill. He’s still collecting a CU paycheck. But a conservative Christian professor has been let go. David Harsanyi’s asking questions.

Parents, beware of Missouri State University’s School of Social Work. Via KY3:
The president of Missouri State University made public a negative review of the school’s School of Social Work on Thursday. President Mike Nietzel says it’s one of the most damning review of an academic program that he’s every seen.
Nietzel requested the review by an [...]

Here’s an update to the whitewashing of jihad at Burlington Township High School. The district has released a statement about its mock terrorism drill, arguing that it really didn’t mean Christian terrorists when it used “right wing fundamentalists” to portray the hostage-takers:
Burlington Township
851 Old York Road
P.O. Box 340
Burlington Township, NJ 08016
April 4, 2007…On Thursday, March [...]

“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 [...]

Cox & Forkum, which you should be reading every day, has the cartoon of the week:

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More letters to Yale from my mailbox:
From Yale alum Larry Levin to Yale president Richard Levin (no relation):
Dear Mr. Levin:
I am a Yale graduate, class of 1975. I am deeply offended that Yale has chosen to admit a Taliban [...]

Here’s Hillary Clinton going bananas over school vouchers, via FNC’s Hannity and Colmes:

Download and watch the video (Windows Media file).
Hillary screeches that providing inner-city and poor students with more choice in education will lead to a a “school of the Church of the White Supremacist ” and a “School of the Jihad.”
Transcript:
CLINTON: Suppose that you [...]

Via Ann Althouse and others comes news from the San Francisco Chronicle of yet another disturbing 9th Circuit court ruling:
A Contra Costa County school was educating seventh-graders about Islam, not indoctrinating them, in role-playing sessions in which students used Muslim names and recited language from prayers, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit [...]