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Laurie Higgins
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11.16.09
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...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.28.09
I was disappointed to read Julia Keller‘s article “Don’t read that: The secret lives of book banners” in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune. Julia Keller is the erudite literary critic for the Trib whose reviews of books are delightful, fresh, and insightful...
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Laurie Higgins
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09.14.09
H.R. 2262, “The Safe Schools Improvement Act,” was introduced in May, and in June it was referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. This bill would “amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.20.09
District 204 parents really should spend some time perusing Neuqua Valley math teacher, Hemant Mehta‘s website to determine whether he is the kind of man with whom they want their children to spend a school year. He absolutely has a...
By
Laurie Higgins
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08.17.09
Last week, I wrote an article forewarning IFI readers to avoid the “Bean” in Millennium Park on Saturday, August 15 at 1:00 p.m. because the “Great Nationwide Homosexual Kiss-In” was going to take place there. I never suggested banning the...
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Laurie Higgins
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08.12.09
In the fall of 2008, I wrote two articles describing how absurdly imbalanced public high school book collections are on the topic of homosexuality. I mentioned in those two articles that DeerfieldHigh Schoolhad approximately 65 books that espouse liberal views...
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Laurie Higgins
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06.30.09
According to the Chicago Free Press, on Monday, June 22 openly homosexual CEO of Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Ron Huberman, met with homosexual teens and community activists from a group called Gender Just who are “demanding” that Huberman “immediately commit...
By
Laurie Higgins
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04.16.09
Once again another academic frets over the rare occasion of a school district acquiescing to the concerns of taxpayers who are tired of funding the efforts of “social justice” teachers to use public money to advance their particular socio-political ideology....
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Laurie Higgins
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02.02.09
This week Illinoisans were greeted with the news that the new CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Ron Huberman, self-identifies as homosexual. Mayor Richard Daley’s choice as head of the third largest school district in the nation, one that serves more...
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Laurie Higgins
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10.23.08
Chicago Sun Times reporter Fran Spielman writes that Mayor Daley has expressed his opposition to the Social Justice High School-Pride Campus (see article below).
It looks like the tide may turn against this foolish proposal that would further harm teens...
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Laurie Higgins
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10.14.08
Next Wednesday, October 22nd, the Chicago Board of Education will consider a proposal for a “gay”-friendly high school for homosexual and gender-confused students. The proposal already has the recommendation of School CEO Arne Duncan.
Despite the fact that 70 percent...
By
Laurie Higgins
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10.08.08
On Oct. 3, 2008, the Washington Post covered the story of some high school students in Virginia who attempted to expose the “book banning” activities engaged in by their high school librarians who censor virtually all resources that express conservative...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.26.08
For the past 26 years, the increasingly radical American Library Association (ALA) has celebrated a week dedicated to the myth of book banning and censorship in public libraries. In truth, the books that are supposedly ‘banned’ are readily available for...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.26.08
For the past 26 years, the increasingly radical American Library Association (ALA) has celebrated a week dedicated to the myth of book banning and censorship in public libraries. In truth, the books that are supposedly ‘banned’ are readily available for...
