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5-year-olds forced to learn about AIDS - New York City introduces mandatory lesson plan

World Net Daily (NY)

March 21, 2006

New York City's Department of Education began a new curriculum yesterday that teaches 5-year-olds about AIDS and HIV. Parents are given the option of removing their children from the lessons but must educate them on the subject at home.

The children will not be taught AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease until sex education classes, which usually begin in the fourth grade. Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights insists, however, that fact makes little difference. "If they were truly interested in protecting kids from diseases, they would start by teaching them about such things as food poisoning," he said.

Lawsuit challenges Christmas-music ban

World Net Daily (NJ)

December 16, 2005

A parent is challenging a New Jersey school district's ban on Christmas music with a lawsuit that has reached a federal appeals court.

Michael Stratechuk, who has two children enrolled in the South Orange-Maplewood School District, filed a brief yesterday in the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, asserting the school district's ban on religious music conveys the impermissible, government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion in violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

Professor: Exterminate white people

World Net Daily (NC)

October 21, 2005

A visiting professor at North Carolina State University says the solution to the problems faced by many blacks is the extermination of "white people off the face of the planet."

Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies at the Raleigh school last spring, told a panel at Howard University Law School Oct. 14 this action must be taken "because white people want to kill us," the Carolina Journal reported.

Mom accused of neglect for teaching own kids

World Net Daily (MO)

October 15, 2007

A Missouri public school is taking a mother to court for withdrawing her son and daughter from the school and teaching them at home, after an apparent threat to the daughter's life at the school.

The case involves Moberly, Mo., mother Anita Nicoli, who withdrew her daughter and a son from Moberly Middle School recently after what she has described as a two-year campaign of intimidation by other students.

District allows boy in girls' restrooms

World Net Daily (ME)

by Bob Unruh

January 4, 2008

A school district following Maine's Human Rights Law and providing special accommodations to a 10-year-old with gender identification" issues is being accused of discrimination by a man whose grandson is being denied those same accommodations.

Paul Melanson found out his grandson's school was allowing another boy to use the girl's restroom, and decided that wasn't right. He told his grandson to follow the other boy into the girl's restroom whenever he saw the other boy doing it, and when he did, the boy was confronted by school officials and warned against such behavior, and the grandfather was confronted by police.

Chicago mayor wants 6-day school week

World Net Daily (IL)

November 20, 2005

Inspired by a trip to Communist China, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley says he wants the city's public schools to move to a six-day school week.

Children, he says, need more time in the classroom, a longer school year and earlier exposure to foreign languages to compete in the global market.

Cross-dressing day sparks school exodus

World Net Daily (IA)

by Bob Unruh

November 28, 2007

A public school's "gender-bender" cross-dressing event, where boys were supposed to dress as girls and girls as boys, has prompted at least dozens, perhaps hundreds, of students to flee the tax-supported institutions in Iowa.

State officials in Des Moines confirmed to WND that at least 80 children whose parents were alarmed by the "Gender-Bender Day" during homecoming week at the city's East High School have moved their children from the various districts in the area into homeschooling plans. Several parents told WND that the number could be in the hundreds.

Parents losing custody for homeschooling kids

World Net Daily (Germany)

by Bob Unruh

May 15, 2008

A German couple already being threatened with jail time because they have been homeschooling their children.

They say their nation has taken a turn for the worse, with a new federal law that gives family courts the authority to take custody of children "as soon as there is a suspicion of child abuse," which is how that nation's courts have defined homeschooling.

Homeschool student disappears from psych ward

World Net Daily (Germany)

by Bob Unruh

February 13, 2007

The case involving a 15-year-old homeschool student in Germany who suddenly was snatched from her home by a SWAT team of police officers and sent to a psychiatric ward for her "school phobia" suddenly has taken a turn for the worse.

Officials who work in support of homeschoolers in Germany, even though it is illegal there, notified WND that Melissa Busekros, in a "new escalation," was moved from the psychiatric hospital where she had been held for more than a week "to an unknown place."

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.

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