During the same congressional hearing that featured Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, lawmakers also heard from an American teenager named Jamie Margolin of Washington state.
She used the same type of doomsday rhetoric we’ve heard from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. According to Margolin, some of her peers are wondering why they should even...
Citing concerns about student mental health, a high school in Ohio decided to do away with valedictorian and salutatorians.
“The class of 2020 at Mason High School will not have a valedictorian or salutatorian and will move to the Latin Honors System in an effort to reduce stress and anxiety among...
Good for these parents for speaking up about this.
11 Alive News reports:
Map replacing Israel with Palestine angers parents at Fulton County school
A map depicting Israel as Palestine has left some Fulton County parents upset about a middle school multicultural night.
The idea of the event was to have families come and share...
Like millions of Catholics this past Wednesday, I attended Mass and began the season of Lent by having an ash cross marked on my forehead.
One student who also observed Ash Wednesday and went to school with an ash cross was forced to wash it off by a teacher, despite pleas from...
A group of students at Perry High School in Arizona claim they were disrespected by school staff and even told to leave campus over their pro-Trump gear. The school was in the midst of a spirit week aimed at celebrating the USA.
Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, is backing a campaign to “decolonize” the British curriculum by getting more women and ethnic minorities to join the faculties instead of “male, pale, and stale” professors,...
If I’d never send my children to political rallies, it’s partly because I expect something like the Covington boys pile-on to be the outcome. I protect my kids from political ephemera and encourage them to read the great works of fiction.
In the minds of deep blue America, if some children can...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order to end Common Core standards in the schools. From WPTV:
“One of things we would constantly hear about on the campaign trail is frustration from parents with Common Core and the testing,” said Gov. DeSantis at a news conference at Ida S. Baker High...
Newly surfaced video of then San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris features the 2020 Democratic hopeful chuckling her way through a story about using law enforcement to combat school truancy.
She actually smiles as she describes threatening to jail parents if they don’t get their children to school.
Newly sworn in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently visited Georgetown Prep, where he was welcomed with open arms. It’s a feel-good story, which provides a stark contrast to the circus that played out in recent months.
The Atlantic wrote an article about teenagers protesting in-class presentations after a tweet went viral that said “stop forcing students to present in front of the class and give them a choice not to.” Students said this experience can be traumatic and permanently scar them.
As someone with severe anxiety, I understand...
You never hear stories like this over left wing t-shirts such as the ones featuring Che Guevara.
The Daily Mail reports:
California high school student is kicked out of history class for wearing an NRA T-Shirt
A sophomore in Nor...
Last month, we featured a video Professor Jordan Peterson did for Prager University about how “dangerous people” are teaching your children. In some of his recent interviews, he has expanded that idea and explained more about the thinking behind it.
The left is determined to move their higher education talking points into the realm of K-12.
Campus Reform reports:
Future teachers offered Master’s in ‘social justice’ curriculum
Loyola University Maryland recently announced that it will offer a Master’s degree program with a focus on “Curriculum and Instruction for Social Justice” for aspiring K-12 teachers.
According...
A student from Oregon named Addison Barnes sued his high school after being suspended for wearing a Trump-themed t-shirt featuring the words “Border Wall Construction Co.” The school just settled with him for a cool $25,000.
The city of Waltham, Massachusetts needs to build a new high school. They have set their sights on a large piece of land owned by the Stigmatine Fathers and Brothers, a Catholic order which has owned the property for nearly a century.
In several posts we have described how biased teaching materials about the Arab-Israeli conflict and the history and practice of Islam were used for years in the curriculum of two public high schools in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts:
