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20/20 Stupid in America

ABC News

by John Stossel

January 13, 2006

Education reformers like Kevin Chavous have a message for these parents: If you only knew. Even though people in the suburbs might think their schools are great, Chavous says, "They're not. That's the thing and the test scores show that."

Chavous and many other education professionals say Americans don't know that their public schools, on the whole, just aren't that good. Because without competition, parents don't know what their kids might have had. And while many people say, "We need to spend more money on our schools," there actually isn't a link between spending and student achievement.

2-year-olds prepare for school with new program in Palm Beach County

wptv.com

by Kevin D. Thompson

February 10, 2011

Like many 2-year-olds, when Silvia Matute is home, she enjoys watching television.

Starting Tuesday, Silvia, along with 11 other students, will begin attending school at Highland Elementary in Lake Worth. As part of its child development program with the Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, Highland is offering a class for 2-year-olds, marking the first time the county's school district has served that age group in a public school.

2 Reasons Smart People Don't Get Hired

businessinsider.com

June 12, 2014

Here's why your smartest friends probably have the biggest gaps on their resumes, despite having loads of relevant experience and pedigree educations.

Despite having "loads of relevant experience, lots of personality, and even pedigree educations," there's a good chance that your most brilliant, overachieving friends and acquaintances are those who have suffered the longest periods of unemployment, says Maurice Ewing, PhD, chief executive and founder of Conquer, in a recent LinkedIn post. Seems illogical, right?

2 LA students lose fingers during tug-of-war

CNS News

February 2, 2013

Authorities in Southern California say a boy and a girl had fingers torn off during a game of tug-of-war at their high school.

Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Miguel Garcia told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that doctors will try to reattach the fingers belonging to two South El Monte High School students. School district official Edward Zuniga declined to identify the students, but the Tribune reports the girl is a senior on the soccer team and the boy is a football player.

2 adults dead in murder-suicide at Calif. school

CNS News

September 28, 2011

An apparent murder-suicide that left a man and a woman dead forced the lockdown of a Southern California high school on Wednesday, authorities said. No students were injured.

The shooting occurred about 10:40 a.m. after a school resource officer who works for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department heard what he thought was a gunshot coming from the parking lot at Patriot High School in Jurupa, said sheriff's spokeswoman Courtney Donowho. The school was immediately placed on a lockdown as sheriff's investigators searched the campus.

1st Amendment Does Not Guarantee Freedom From Religion

Personal Liberty Alerts

by Bob Livingston

December 5, 2012

Educators in a North Carolina school district and a (so-called) 1st Amendment "expert" have problems with comprehension.

At West Marion Elementary School, a first grader was asked to write a poem about veterans for the school's Veteran's Day program. The girl, whose identity has not been revealed in the media, wrote one about her two grandfathers' service in Vietnam. In it she wrote, "He prayed to God for peace, he prayed to God for strength." A parent objected to the use of the word "God." So after a discussion between school Principal Desarae Kirkpatrick, Vice Principal Nakia Carson and McDowell County School Superintendent Gerri Martin, the girl was banned from reading her poem in the program.

18 Signs Life In U.S. Public Schools Now Equivalent To Life In U.S. Prisons

infowars.com

June 1, 2011

In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid.

Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now essentially equivalent to life in U.S. prisons. Most parents don't realize this, but our students have very few rights when they are in school. Our public school students are being watched, tracked, recorded, searched and controlled like never before. Back when I was in high school, it was unheard of for a police officer to come to school, but today our public school students are being handcuffed and arrested in staggering numbers. When I was young we would joke that going to school was like going to prison, but today that is actually true. The following are 18 signs that life in our public schools is now very similar to life in our prisons...

18 heads found at airport were sent for cremation

CNS News

January 15, 2013

Authorities at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have held up a shipment of 18 human heads sent from Rome and bound for a facility in the U.S. where they would be used in anatomical research.

A spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, Mary Paleologos (PEHL'-ee-oh-loh-gohs), says the heads were properly preserved, wrapped and tagged as human specimens and there is no suggestion of foul play. It was not immediately clear why customs officials had held up the shipment.

16-year-old 'very grave' after suicide attempt at Castle High School

Evansville Courier & Press

August 21, 2006

A 16-year-old Castle High School junior attempted suicide on the school's parking lot early today, shooting himself in the head with a small caliber handgun that he had inside a sport utility vehicle, according to Warrick Sheriff Marvin Heilman.

Heilman identified the student as Blake Sales, and the sheriff said he didn't yet know who owned the gun or how Sales came to have it today. The student's condition, Heilman said, is "very grave."

16 Trillion and what do you get, another day older...

thirdrailers.com

by Porter Monroe

June 28, 2012

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