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Abusing homeschoolers

World Net Daily

by Vox Day

November 22, 2004

The number of confirmed sexual abuses committed by educational personnel represents almost a quarter of the total cases of all abuses accurately reported by educational personnel.

Teachers simply don't make for very reliable reporters. Educational personnel were the single most likely group to make unsubstantiated claims of child abuse. Their 179,098 unsubstantiated claims represented 17.1 percent of all such claims

According to the dictionary, "literally" now also means "figuratively"

salon.com

by Dana Coleman

August 22, 2013

Thanks in part to the overuse of "literally," Merriam-Webster says the word can now mean its exact opposite. Huh?

Much has been made of the use, misuse and overuse of the word "literally." Literally, of course, means something that is actually true: "Literally every pair of shoes I own was ruined when my apartment flooded." When we use words not in their normal literal meaning but in a way that makes a description more impressive or interesting, the correct word, of course, is "figuratively."

Achtung! Germany drags homeschool kids to class

World Net Daily (Germany)

by Bob Unruh

October 25, 2006

A Nazi-era law requiring all children to attend public school, to avoid "the emergence of parallel societies based on separate philosophical convictions" that could be taught by parents at home, apparently is triggering a Nazi-like response from police.

The word comes from Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit, or Network for Freedom in Education, which confirmed that children in a family in Bissingen, in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, have been forcibly hauled to a public school.

Acid dumped by school workers

LA Daily News

by Dana Bartholomew

May 11, 2006

LAKE BALBOA - Workers at a Los Angeles Unified School District administration building dumped hazardous waste into a trash bin destined for Sunshine Canyon Landfill, officials acknowledged Wednesday.

Bottles of corrosive hydrochloric acid were tossed into a bin at District 1 headquarters, along with other chemicals from leftover science kits. The trash also included computer gear and dozens of brand-new stopwatches, scientific materials and environmental textbooks that included chapters on "comparing garbage" and "investigating sanitary landfills."

ACLU lawsuits: Metro transit police officers assaulted D.C. teens, made up charges

washingtonpost.com

by Luz Lazo

May 8, 2013

Civil rights lawyers filed two lawsuits Wednesday alleging that Metro Transit Police officers assaulted two teenagers in separate incidents in the District and then fabricated charges to justify arresting them.

The suits, filed by the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the students' parents, allege that the officers used excessive force in confronting the teenagers and then tried to cover up the misconduct. One of the lawsuits alleges that Officers Tierra Wood and L. McCoy put a 14-year-old boy in a chokehold, punched him several times in the torso and subdued him with pepper spray.

ACLU: 3 Indiana girls expelled over Facebook jokes

CNS News

by Charles Wilson

April 25, 2012

Three eighth-graders from northwest Indiana who say they were expelled after joking on Facebook about which of their classmates they would like to kill asked a federal judge Wednesday to order the district to allow them to return to school.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit on behalf of the three 14-year-old girls in federal court in Hammond, claiming that Griffith Public Schools violated the students' free-speech rights. The girls were suspended and later expelled in January for the remainder of the school year after a classmate's mother alerted officials at Griffith Middle School to the girls' Facebook posts, the lawsuit says. The suit says school officials told the girls they had violated school policy against bullying, harassment and intimidation.

ACLU: Conn. school wrong to outlaw anti-gay shirt

CNS News

June 5, 2012

The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday said a Connecticut high school violated a student's rights to free expression by asking him to remove a T-shirt with an anti-gay message.

Seth Groody, a junior at Wolcott High School, wore the shirt bearing a rainbow with a slash through it on April 20, which had been designated by the school as a day of awareness of harassment toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. The other side showed two stick figures - a male and a female - holding hands above the message "Excessive Speech Day," according to the ACLU of Connecticut. The group said that the student told them he removed the shirt under protest on school officials' orders.

ACLU: Facebook-Politico Relationship Presents a Privacy Concern

Big Journalism

by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

February 2, 2012

Conservatives should understandably have concerns about Politico's upcoming reporting since most Facebook users are young and supportive of Barack Obama - in fact Facebook's own CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been rumored to be an Obama fan, too.

Two weeks ago Big Government reported that Facebook and Politico created a new partnership to reveal users' public private messages-if and when they relate to their feelings about a political candidate-will be fed through a 'sentiment analysis tool' and potentially reported on Politico.

ACORN Fined Maximum in Nevada Voter Fraud Scheme

The American Spectator

by Matthew Vadum

August 10, 2011

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was fined the maximum of $5,000 in Las Vegas today for its role in a massive voter fraud conspiracy.

Judge Donald Mosley said if an individual, as opposed to a corporation, had been before him, he would have handed down a 10-year prison sentence. "And I wouldn't have thought twice about it," he said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Mosley criticized ACORN for making a "mockery" of America's electoral process. "This isn't a banana republic," he said.

Across Nation, Storm Victims Crowd Schools

The New York Times [Requires free subscription]

by Sam Dillion

September 7, 2005

Experts said the movement of students from storm-ravaged areas could become the largest student resettlement in the nation's history.

School districts from Maine to Washington State were enrolling thousands of students from New Orleans and other devastated Gulf Coast districts yesterday in what experts said could become the largest student resettlement in the nation's history. Students displaced by Hurricane Katrina were led to their first-grade classroom yesterday at East Houston Intermediate School. Schools welcoming the displaced students must not only provide classrooms, teachers and textbooks, but under the terms of President Bush's education law must also almost immediately begin to raise their scholastic achievement unless some provisions of that law are waived.

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