Day of Silence Metastasizes
By Laurie Higgins   |   04.11.16
The upcoming National Day of Silence (DOS) On Friday, April 15, organized and promoted by the extreme leftist Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), urges students to refuse to speak for an entire school day including during class. The...
Common Core: the Trojan Horse for Federalized Education Control
By   |   04.01.16
Education in America was originally the province of parents and churches. "Homeschooling" was the norm from colonial times through the mid-1800's, and a classic education was the model.
What Changed This Teacher’s Mind About Home Schooling
02.23.16
A 10-year-old girl lies in bed with a fever of 104 and a flaming rash on her head and neck. But instead of driving her to the emergency room or even calling a physician, her parents pray at her bedside for a cure. Most states still consider such "treatment" by the parents as a religious right protected by the First Amendment, even though it is perceived by most physicians and lawyers, as well as the American Medical Association, as parental neglect or even abuse.
Parents Putting the Foot Down Against Multi Gender Locker Rooms
By Monte Larrick   |   02.16.16
While education officials around the state go through hoops to make school restrooms and locker rooms multi-gender; concerned parents say the drive against, privacy and safety must be blocked. That’s why parents are supporting a new bill in the legislature...
Lawmakers Look to Protect Student Privacy in High School Locker Rooms
By Monte Larrick   |   02.11.16
With distinctions between male and female students increasingly under attack by the Left, a suburban Chicago lawmaker is fighting back with legislation that would prohibit students in public schools from using restrooms and locker rooms designated for the opposite sex…...
Surprise, Parents! Co-Ed Restroom in North Shore High School
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.10.16
A couple of months ago, Deerfield High School (DHS) in Deerfield, Illinois quietly changed a multi-stall girls restroom to a co-ed restroom. Worse still the administration has not notified either parents or students. Rumors are circulating that the administration chose...
The Left is Pushing Hard Against Privacy Bills
By Laurie Higgins   |   02.04.16
The Leftist effort to sever objective immutable sex differences from both meaning and cultural recognition and to promote the fiction that one’s sex can change marches on. Within hours of the filing of the Pupil Physical Privacy Act (HB 4474)...
D211 Transgender Debate Reveals a Crisis of More Than One Kind of Leadership
01.26.16
Written by Teri Paulson Well, it’s official: Our girls are now getting undressed in the presence of a boy (with complete male genitalia) in the girls’ locker room at William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois. The overwhelming majority of...
Save Us from the Tyranny of ‘Settled’ Science
01.19.16
In classrooms across the country, high school students are taught the scientific method. It consists of constructing a doubtful hypothesis and designing a series of experiments to test the hypothesis with the observable facts. After a number of tests prove positive. The student can then take the facts and reach a conclusion. When a conclusion is constantly verified, it is enshrined in what might be called “established” science.
Illinois School Board Reaffirms Invasion of Girl’s Privacy
By Monte Larrick   |   12.16.15
School Board officials in Township High School District 211 — which includes Palatine, Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates — have implemented a controversial and dangerous policy to allow male gender confused student access to a girls’ locker room at a high...
Attacks on Prayer From Anti-Christian Foundation
By   |   12.15.15
There’s an enormous misunderstanding regarding the U.S. Constitution as it relates to religion and it’s causing all sorts of trouble for folks that just want to pray. The misunderstanding is being intentionally propagated by an atheist group that wants to...
Perversity Harms Children and Perverts Education
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.07.15
In our world of normalized perversion, erotic love is severed from sexual differentiation, marriage is severed from sexual differentiation, sex is severed from marriage, sex is severed from procreation, procreation is severed from marriage, and people are severed from their...
District 211 Enraged by Alleged Bad Faith of OCR
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.05.15
Perhaps I owe an apology to District 211. While District 211 is guilty of egregiously poor judgment in allowing gender-dysphoric students to use opposite-sex restrooms and in agreeing to allow a gender-dysphoric boy into the girls’ locker room to use...
An HIV/AIDS Prevention Message American Youths Need to Hear
12.04.15
Charlie Sheen’s HIV diagnosis comes as a great surprise to Hollywood and the rest of the nation. Sheen says that the news of his infection was “a mule-kick to my soul.” Indeed. The news is particularly startling because HIV in the U.S. is an extremely rare disease even among those who like Charlie Sheen are notoriously promiscuous.
District 211 Leadership: Incompetent, Dishonest or Both?
By Laurie Higgins   |   12.04.15
ACLU attorney John Knight who represents the gender-dysphoric boy in the lawsuit against District 211 has issued this statement about the agreement reached between the district and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)—a clarification that should deeply trouble District 211...
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