History Revised, Teachers Sacked:

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Events, Politics, Real History, Shera Crossan

In a matter of days last week in Austin, the majority of the 15-member board, insisting they were only trying to offset liberal bias in textbooks, questioned Darwin’s theory of evolution and the constitutional principle of separation of church and state; debated hip-hop and genocide in Darfur; deleted Albert Einstein and Thomas Alva Edison from [...]

School Calanders to add one Jewish and one Muslim holiday

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Feedback, Religion

The Burlington School Board has voted to add two holidays to future school calendars to give students time off on Jewish and Muslim holy days, but board members say the changes won’t lengthen the school year. The board approved the chances Tuesday by an 8-1 vote.
Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr as a feast to end the holy month [...]

‘Okay’ For Teachers To Join Racist Groups

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan

Teachers should not be banned from joining organizations which promote racism and intolerance, an independent review has suggested.
It said barring them from membership of non-proscribed groups or political parties would be a “disproportionate response” and a “profound political act”.
Report author Maurice Smith aded it would be like “taking a very large sledgehammer to crack a [...]

Prom Cancelled At Miss. HS

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Events, Shera Crossan

A northern Mississippi school district will not be hosting a high school prom this spring after a lesbian student asked to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.  The Itawamba County school district’s board decided Wednesday to drop the prom because of what it called recent distractions but without specifically mentioning the girl’s request, [...]

Teachers Must Log Playground Taunts for Government Database

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Opinion

Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school ‘hate registers’ over everyday playground insults.  Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.
Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic [...]

Malema on a racist tirade

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Race, Shera Crossan, South Afrika

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema went on a racist tirade yesterday, calling for white people to be shot and accused them of being rapists.

Malema led students at the University of Johannesburg in a song saying: “Shoot the boere, they are rapists.”
He also reminded his audience that while they should forgive [...]

Quebec woman barred from course for second time. . .

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Feedback, Immigration, Religion

The Egyptian immigrant made headlines last week when it was revealed provincial Immigration Department officials expelled her from a government-sponsored French class several months ago after she refused to take off her niqab.
Known only as Naema in Quebec media, she had since enrolled in another government-sponsored French class, this time at a community centre for [...]

DPS ’school board’ leader can’t write

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Top Stories

A product of Detroit Public Schools now leads the school board that’s trying to raise worst-in-the-nation literacy scores.  Otis Mathis can’t write, reveals Detroit News columnist Laura Berman. The board president’s e-mails are notoriously garbled:
Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row [...]

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin,

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Opinion, Religion, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn’t taken a friend’s advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old’s biology lessons.
Mule’s precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth’s excitement turn to confusion when they reached the [...]

Islamists Protest Against U.S. Freedom of Speech at U.C. Irvine

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Free Speech, Immigration

This speaker did not condemn the violence, the embassy-burnings, the deaths, which appeared to be intended to threaten the free world with violence unless we abandoned our free speech. Instead, she considered the cartoon riots a useful thing that should persuade the free world to abandon free speech; her view was that free speech should [...]

Wait One Cotton Picking Moment!

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Feedback, Race

thank you hamm 

University of Missouri police yesterday arrested two white male students suspected of dropping cotton balls in front of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on campus.
Zachary Tucker, 21, and Sean Fitzgerald, 19, were arrested about 7:30 p.m., each on suspicion of one count of tampering in the second degree, a Class D felony enhanced [...]

3 White Teachers Removed From Class Over Black Hero Choices

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Opinion, Race, Shera Crossan

Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade have been removed from their classrooms,
Children from other classes at the school displayed photos of more appropriate black role models, such as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman and President Barack [...]

Que. Government Boots Niqab Wearing Woman From Classroom

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Feedback, Immigration, Religion

thank you Jeff
MONTREAL – After months of balancing a woman’s religious beliefs with her desire to learn French, the Quebec government stepped into her classroom to offer an ultimatum: take off the niqab or drop the course.
The woman opted to keep her Islamic face-covering and has filed a human-rights complaint against the government.
In a [...]

Letter Speaks Truth About Noose At UCSD

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Feedback, Hidden Crimes, Race

The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation.
In a letter published Monday on the front page of the UC San Diego student newspaper, the Guardian, the student wrote that the incident was [...]

Thought criminal Ernst Zundel is released from a German dungeon

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Free Speech, Israel & Jewish Issues, Opinion

1. Ernst  Zundel is out of prison after seven years

2. Persecuted German home schoolers granted asylum in the U.S.
Michael Hoffman’s note: Mr. Zundel is under a gag and his freedom of speech severely curtailed, so it is not accurate to say he is “free.” He has, rather, been released from a German dungeon. By “coincidence,” [...]

Compton Cookout,UCSD-Jiggaboo Jones vs Prof. Widener

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Education, Feedback, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

People have Called Jiggaboo Jones a Sell Out, Jiggaboo Jones gets to challenge the Professor who started the incident into a race riot. The truth is let free when the Professor denies making the incident as large as it was. The Professor is caught red handed in a political grab for power over control of [...]

‘beewolves’ used and found antibiotics first, study shows

Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Health, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan

A humble wasp learned how to use sophisticated antibiotics millions of years before the invention of penicillin, research has shown.
Digger wasps of the family Philanthus, also known as “beewolves”, harness beneficial bacteria to manufacture a cocktail of drugs that protect its larvae from infection.
Scientists who made the discovery believe it could assist the development of [...]

NAACP Condemns Off-Campus ‘Compton Cookout’

Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Israel & Jewish Issues, Race, Shera Crossan

The University of California, San Diego’s student-run television station was shut down over racially offensive language, which was used on a program in which an off-campus party held by fraternity members mocking Black History Month was being discussed,  UCSD students who operate an alternative newspaper known as The Koala used the racially offensive language [...]

Massive head of pharaoh unearthed. .

Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Real History, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan

The head of Amenhotep III, which alone is about the height of a person, was found in the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor.
The Egyptian-European expedition under the guidance of German-Armenian archaeologist Hourig Sourouzian has been excavating the temple near the famous seated colossi of Memnon for the last [...]

Sponsor Tells White Dance Team it Must Share First Place

Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Education, Race

Five days after taking first place in the Sprite Step Off Finals in Atlanta last weekend, the women of Zeta Tau Alpha’s Epsilon Chapter from the University of Arkansas learned they would be sharing the spotlight. On Thursday, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company, which sponsors the college step dancing competition, announced that because of a scoring discrepancy [...]

Racism Problem At Marysville High School?

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Education, Race, Shera Crossan

Tears stream down Marilyn Taylor’s face as she talks about the six years she has spent in Marysville since moving from Kentucky.  “We moved here in 2004 in March. A little boy walked up to my daughter and said, ‘I’m going to hang you from a tree,‘“ Taylor said.

Taylor is African-American. Her daughter DaNeshia Isbell [...]

Real History or Hollywood History

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Arts/Entertainment, Education, Feedback, Israel & Jewish Issues, Real History

‘God forbid these poor kids actually learned something about real history. Schindler’s List, are you kidding me. This is a great movie about real history and what happened to the jews and how one man and his family made a difference and saved 1000’s of jews from the gas chambers.
These are not horror movies such [...]

A Little Bump and Grind at Churchill HS

Posted on 24. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Education, Events, Israel & Jewish Issues, Shera Crossan

The video, taken last Wednesday during a well-attended pep rally for Grade 9 through 12 students at Churchill High School, shows students giggling, gasping and screaming as a female teacher receives a strip club-style lap dance from a male teacher.  By Thursday afternoon, students were spreading a minute-long video of the dance among each other [...]

Godgive Zulu charged in sexual assault at high school

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Hidden Crimes, Race

thank you senji
GREENSBORO — A 17-year-old  student was charged Thursday in a reported sexual assault that occurred Jan. 20  at Page High School.
Godgive Zulu  of 218-C Berryman St., is charged with attempted first-degree sexual offense, attempted first-degree kidnapping, felony conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and two counts of sexual battery, according to [...]

Nothing Old Fashioned About Resepct or Good Manors

Posted on 21. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Opinion, Shera Crossan

In addition to the three R’s, boys at one Arizona public high school have spent the past year learning to open doors for girls, pull out chairs for their female classmates and stand when a girl enters a room.

Incorporating etiquette lessons into the classroom was the brainchild of Cord Ivanyi, a Latin teacher at Gilbert [...]

UCSD Frat Hosts “Compton Cookout” in Honor of BHM

Posted on 20. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Education, Events, Race, Shera Crossan

UC San Diego frat boys who last weekend thought it would be funny to throw a little bash they dubbed the “Compton Cookout.”

Here’s the dress code for the party, according to the invite:
For girls: For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks-Ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear [...]

Lawmakers to rewrite NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan

Senior House Republicans and Democrats plan to announce Thursday that they will team up to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law, a rare show of bipartisanship in the polarized Congress.
Last month, the Obama administration launched talks with lawmakers on an overhaul of the 2002 law, which mandated an expansion of standardized testing and [...]

Education Professor Lectures How To Talk Like Black People

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Education, Nathaniel Bacon, Race

Some people call them “wiggers” but I just call them “idiots.” I used to wonder where they learned to be so racially condescending—–presuming that dressing and “talking black” was a cool thing to do. But now I suspect that many of them have taken a course under Maurice Martinez, an education professor at UNC-Wilmington.
Maurice devotes [...]

U.S. schoolbook glorifies communists

Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Israel & Jewish Issues, Politics, Shera Crossan

A book for high-school students glorifies communists, socialists and at least one activist who has called for “resistance” against the U.S. government, WND has learned.
The work, “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” has been used in schools across the U.S., according to its author. The book, however, does not inform readers of the extremist backgrounds of [...]

Facebook, Teacher, Opinion, Protected

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Free Speech, Opinion, Shera Crossan

The score is 2-1 in favor of the First Amendment when it comes to three federal rulings this month on the limits of students’ online, off-campus speech.

The latest ruling, which supports the student, concerned a former Florida high senior who was reprimanded for “cyberbullying” a teacher on Facebook. Katherine Evans, now 20, was suspended two [...]

Charter schools aren’t racist tool

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Immigration, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

A recent study by education researchers at UCLA purports to discover that charter schoolsare violating the tenets of the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
They are re-segregating the nation’s youth, according to the study, and reinserting “inequality of education for students of color in schools with lower achievement and graduation rates.” Charters, of all things, are [...]

A Window on the Warping of Whites: The Swarthmore College Alumni Magazine

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Nathaniel Bacon in Education, Israel & Jewish Issues, Nathaniel Bacon, Race

AS A LONELY STATE-SCHOOL GRAD IN A FAMILY OF SMARTIES, I get to read alumni magazines from more prestigious places: Stanford, Columbia, Northwestern, Swarthmore. High-powered and hard-left is the typical formula, but the October 2009 edition of Swarthmore’s was such a jaw-dropper, I must share.
The cover, as you can see, is an artsy photographic depiction [...]

Public Schools Pay To Be Called Racist’s

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Hidden Crimes, Race, Shera Crossan

Remember Public Schools Are Paid With Your Tax Dollar!

We are bombarded with the constant cry that public schools need more money. Yet we see what they waste the money they have on. Professional race hustler Glen Singleton charges over $100k to come to public schools and call everyone a “racist.”
Singleton arrives at schools, and [...]

…father loses Manitoba custody battle

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Manitoba Child and Family Services’ controversial decision to seize the children two years ago.
The Court of Queen’s Bench decision came down Thursday, granting Child and Family Services “permanent guardianship” of the children.
“What is clear from all of the evidence is that these two children have been exposed to a whole constellation of parental inadequacies,” Court [...]

Suspect in death of UNC student seeks to bar death penalty

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Hidden Crimes, Race, Shera Crossan

— Defense attorneys for Demario Atwater, one of two suspects accused of murdering UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson, have asked a federal judge to dismiss federal kidnapping and carjacking charges against the 23-year-old Durham man.
The lawyers also have asked the judge to rule out the possibility of the death penalty in the case, [...]