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The Southern Poverty Law Center Infiltrates Public Education
Decades ago, summer was the time that necessitated increased parental vigilance. School was the safe place. But the times they have a’changed. Self-righteous “agents of change” stand ready at the schoolhouse door to mold other people’s children into ideological replicas of themselves. So now the school year has become the time that necessitates increased parental vigilance.
One organization that warrants particular attention is “Teaching Tolerance,” which is laughingly called an “educational project,” but is, in reality, the pernicious propaganda project of the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This is the organization that has listed the Illinois Family Institute, Family …
Florida Teacher Investigated for Criticizing Homosexuality
There’s troubling news coming out of Florida that provides evidence that the cultural movement to normalize homosexuality poses a serious threat to First Amendment speech and religious rights.
Mount Dora High School social studies teacher and winner of the 2010 “Teacher of the Year” award, Jerry Buell, wrote this on his private Facebook page during non-work time:
…I’m watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up.
If they want to call it a union, go ahead. But don’t insult a man and woman’s marriage by
ALA’s Ironic “Banned Books Week”
Several weeks ago, libraries across the country sanctimoniously participated in the ironic “educational” campaign: Banned Books Week, which should be called Disinformation Week.
The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association (ALA), which sponsors Banned Books Week, has a Library Bill of Rights that states the following:
Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of …
Moment of Silence Law Upheld!
On Friday, October 15, 2010, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the mandatory Illinois”Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act” passes constitutional muster.
Circuit Court Judges Kenneth F. Ripple and Daniel A. Manion overturned U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman’s previous judgment that Section I of the act violated both the Establishment and Due Process clauses of the Constitution.
In 2007, Section I of the decades old “Silent Reflection and Student Prayer Act” was amended to make the moment of silent reflection mandatory in public schools. This moment of silence, which was as brief as seven seconds in some …
Political Activism Trumps H.S. Basketball Trip
Another boneheaded and politically motivated decision by District 113 — the district for which I worked for a decade — has landed the Deerfield and Highland Parkcommunities in the news — yet again. It seems that ever since George Fornero assumed leadership, District 113 can’t stay out of the news. For those aware of the controversies he left in his wake in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this should come as no surprise.*
George Fornero and others he is reluctant to name have decided to cancel the Highland Park High School girls’ varsity basketball team’s tournament trip to Arizona citing the Arizona …
Thanksgiving As Seen Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory
There is a concerted effort on the part of proponents of “critical race theory” to erode respect for America through public education. Critical race theory, also known as “teaching for social justice” pervades departments of education all around the country. Unapologetic former Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, who is a professor of Education at University of Illinois at Chicago, is a central figure in the effort to use our taxes to promote critical race theory in public schools.
Ayers has disciples who you can often recognize by their job titles. In Seattle, WA in 2007, Caprice Hollins, the …
Scandalous Intolerance in District 113
It was suggested to me that I file a Freedom of Information Act request with the school district for which I worked for a decade and which my four children attended. It was suggested that I request documents that mentioned my name. Neither I nor my husband was prepared for what we read in district emails, which are, of course, public documents.
The district is District 113 which is composed of Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, IL and Highland Park High School (HPHS) in Highland Park, IL, both affluent Chicago suburbs. I worked full-time in the writing center and …