Mississippi’s GLAAD BAAG Drama
Source: Fox News [03/12/10]

It’s safe to assume that Constance McMillen isn’t the most popular inmate of Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi. How, you ask did she garner that ignoble status? It was depressingly easy.

The first thing you need to know about our 18-year-old heroine is that she’s an out of the closet GLAAD BAAG. That fun fact reached critical mass, when Connie decided to attend the forthcoming prom, with her girlfriend - a fellow student. Making life thrilling for everyone concerned, Connie proclaimed that she would attend the prom wearing a tux.

Connie’s prom plans hit the first speed bump, when school officials brandished a ban on same-sex dates. They kicked the drama up several notches, after Connie responded with a non-negotiable ‘bite me’, and declared her intention of attending the prom, despite the same sex date ban. By this time, the ACLU was making menacing noises, so, declaring the matter an unnecessary distraction from their prime Educrap function, school officials hit Connie with their best shot. How? They cancelled the April 02, 2010 prom.

Game, set, match? Not exactly:

A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she faced some unhappy classmates after the Itawamba County School District said it wouldn't host the April 2 prom.

"Somebody said, 'Thanks for ruining my senior year."' McMillen said of her reluctant return Thursday to Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton.

The lawsuit seeks a court order for the school to hold the prom. It also asks that McMillen be allowed to escort her girlfriend, who is a fellow student, and wear a tuxedo, which the school said also violated policy. The district's decision Wednesday came after the ACLU demanded that officials change a policy banning same-sex prom dates because it said it violated students' rights. The ACLU said the district violated McMillen's free expression rights by not letting her wear a tux. (FOX)

Proving that there’s still intelligent life in Dixie, a New Orleans hotel owner named Sean Cummings has offered to host a prom at one of his properties. He’s even willing to provide free transportation, in addition to free accommodations. In a rational world, Connie and her classmates would tell school officials where to stick it and take the prom on the road to the Big Easy. It’s my idea of a win-win solution.

Why is a New Orleans prom win-win? It eliminates GLAAD BAAG activists, Elected Tormentors, and ACLU asshats, each of whom has their own axe to grind. It leaves the Mississippi cess-school ‘unsullied’, by a teenage Y-naut and her girlfriend. Best of all it prevents this ‘girls will be girls’ insanity from becoming LITERALLY, a federal case.

Everybody Panic, He’s Got A FINGER
Source: MLIVE [03/04/10]

When he headed for his kindergarten class at Jefferson Elementary in Iona (Michigan), 6 year old Mason Jammer didn’t know, that, before the sun went down over the western horizon, he’d be bagged and tagged as public enemy number one. How, you ask, did Mason manage that?

In these Zero Tolerance Zombie ravaged times, it was infuriatingly simple. He curled his hand in the shape of a gun and GASP, SHUDDER, CRINGE, pointed it at one of his classmates. Hit the deck he’s got a FINGER GUN. Call SWAT. Mobilize the National Guard. Send in the United States Marines. If all else fails, have the USAF carpet bomb this budding terrorist.

Okay. Okay! I’ll revoke the carpet bombing, unless we restrict it to the Zero Tolerance Zombies running Mason’s school:

‘...[W]hen Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter. They suspended Mason until Friday, saying the behavior made other students uncomfortable, said Erin Jammer, Mason's mother.

School officials allege Mason had displayed this kind of behavior for several months, despite numerous warnings.

"I do think it's too harsh for a six-year-old," said Jammer, who was previously warned that if Mason continued the practice he would be suspended. "He's six and he just likes to play."...’ (MLIVE)

Mason’s only ‘sin’ is being a typical young lad. As such, he’s not the one with a problem. The villains here, are the Zero Tolerance Zombies who want to turn Mason into a mincing, metrosexual, wimp whose primary defense mechanism is cringing and caterwauling. Don’t let them do THAT to you, Mason.

School Assembly Lap Dance Aftershocks
Source: Winnipeg Free Press [03/02/10]

Unless you’re in a coma, or have shut down all sources of information, you know about the inspirational display which took place at a school spirit assembly at Churchill High School in Winnipeg, Canada. Thanks to a video shot on one of the attendee’s cell phone, we got to see two of the school’s teachers perform a lap dance routine in the center of the gymnasium. As lap dances go, this one -with its simulated oral sex - was, to say the least, memorable.

That happened two weeks ago, but the story is far from over. As expected, the two teachers have been suspended (a meaningless wrist-slap, since it’s a suspension ‘with pay’), but they aren’t the only ones who are in hot water over the incident. Thanks to the school district’s asinine Zero Tolerance policies, some of the cess-school’s inmates are also in very hot water:

Students who filmed two suspended teachers performing a lap dance at Churchill High School and posted the event online could face serious disciplinary action. The students appear to have violated Winnipeg School Division's zero-tolerance policies forbidding use of cellphone cameras and other devices in schools.

School board chairwoman Jackie Sneesby refused to rule out punishment for the students Monday. "We haven't finished the investigation. It (disciplining students) hasn't been discussed yet," Sneesby said in an interview. "It isn't anything we would do without thinking about it." (Winnipeg Free Press)

As far as I can tell, the students’ cardinal sin involves making it impossible to sweep the incident under the rug, after the lap dancs video made such a big splash in cyberspace.

Some Are More Equal Than others In Flori-DUH
Source: PIG News Wire [02/26/10]

Hannah Workman, a fifth grader in the Clay County (Flori-DUH) school system, is a young lady (she’s 11) who wants to make the most of her educational opportunities. A straight-A student, Hannah has racked up an impressive array of academic awards and honors. Far from satisfied, she wants to kick it up a notch, by entering the cess-school’s program for gifted students.

Is she good enough? You bet. Is she going to achieve her lofty goal? She should, if the Korrectniks will get the hell out of her way.

After securing parental permission, Hannah took the requisite qualifying tests, then waited, impatiently, for the results. When the results came in, it was a mixture of good news and bad news.

The results came in and [Hannah’s mother] Jennifer said Hannah scored exceptionally well. She said she was told that Hannah scored high enough for some students to get in, but not high enough for Hannah. "Because Hannah's daddy made a little more money than that and was considered middle class and a higher income, she would have to score a 130," Jennifer said. "I was mad, I didn't think that was fair," Hannah said.

According to the school district, there are different standards for different students. If a student gets a free or reduced lunch or speaks limited English, the grading scale is different. Hannah was so upset that she sat down and wrote a letter to the editor. It was printed the very next day in the Florida Times-Union.

"It's an insult. It's an insult to the low-income children that they're expected to score lower," Jennifer said. "They should have one set score where it doesn't matter how much money your family makes or if you have fare-reduced lunch, if you get that score, no matter what, you can get in," Hannah said. (WJAX)

Hannah deserves better than this, that’s a fact, but she’s unlikely to get the level academic playing field she deserves, in a government cess-school. The only way that Hannah - all the Hannahs - will get a level academic playing field with a single standard for all students would require taking education out of the government’s hands and turning education over to the marketplace.

A Facebook Fandango Twofer
Source: PIG News Wire [02/19/10]

Teacher Disses the Tome
Melissa Hussain blew her southern fried schoolmarm image to hell and gone, recently, but she didn’t do it in the Wake County (North Carolina) classroom, where she teaches Christianity and Southern culture. She saved her pointed prose for a Facebook posting:

Melissa Hussain, an eighth-grade teacher at West Lake Middle School in Apex, wrote on her Facebook page that it was a “hate crime” that students left a Bible on her desk and how she “was able to shame her kids” over the incident. Her Facebook page included comments from friends saying that the parents of Hussain’s students were “bigoted, stupid and uncaring.” (Fox Nation)

At first, Melissa was allowed to keep on teaching, but that changed, after Holy Roller howling reached critical mass. Eventually, school officials decided to dampen down the uproar, by suspending Melissa, with pay. Will she be back? Probably, but I doubt that she’ll be teaching a class about Cross Cultism on Wake County’s dime.

Student Disses A Teacher
In 2007, Katherine "Katie" Evans was a senior at a Flori-DUH cess-school - Pembroke Pines High School. For a variety of reasons, Katie had unresolved ‘issues’ with one of her teachers. Needing to vent, she set up a Facebook page, then unleashed all her pent up anger over the teacher in question. Among other things, she called the Educrat "the worst teacher I’ve ever met". No harm, no foul? Not exactly.

[I]nstead of other students expressing their dislike of the teacher, most defended the teacher and attacked Evans. A couple days later, Evans took the page down.

But after Principal Peter Bayer found out about it, he bumped Evan from her Advanced Placement classes, putting her in classes with less prestige, and suspended her for three days.

In late 2008, Evans filed suit against the principal, asking that the suspension be ruled unconstitutional and reversed, that the documents be removed from her file at the school and that she receive reimbursement for attorney fees. Evans, an honors student, was concerned that the suspension would tarnish her academic record and hurt her chances in graduate school and her career.

Bayer tried to get the case dismissed and asked for immunity against paying damages.

In a ruling on Friday, Magistrate Judge Barry Garber declined Bayer's request to toss the case and said the principal could be forced to pay up if Evans, now 19 and a journalism student at the University of Florida, is victorious.

"Evans' speech falls under the wide umbrella of protected speech," Garber wrote. "It was an opinion of a student about a teacher, that was published off-campus, did not cause any disruption on-campus, and was not lewd, vulgar, threatening, or advocating illegal or dangerous behavior."

The judge also noted that the principal suspended Evans two months after she had taken the page down. "In short, the potential spark of disruption had sputtered out, and all that remained was the opportunity to punish," Garber wrote.

The judge dismissed the student's request to force Bayer to purge the records of her suspension, but gave her the opportunity to amend her complaint and make the demand of the right parties. (Miami Herald)

The good news is that Free Speech might be off life support in Flori-DUH. The bad news is that Zero Tolerance Zombies still run Flori-DUH cess-schools. Win some. Lose some.

Common Sense Dead in Louisiana
Source: PIG News Wire [02/12/10]

It happened at a Louisiana High School - Maurepas High School - on the last school day before the Super Bowl. School officials stepped in a pile of unintended consequences crap, when they relaxed the school’s dress code, by allowing - encouraging - students to wear the New Orleans Saints’ black and gold colors to school. No harm, no foul? Not exactly.

For reasons that seemed spiffy to him, one student, Brandon Frost, decided to swim against the ‘Who Dat’ tide, by wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey to school. Was his go team go fashion statement an act of rebellion? Not really. A former denizen of Indianapolis, Brandon only moved to Louisiana, 3 years ago. Was his go team go fashion statement well received by his classmates and the relevant Educrats? His classmates didn’t have a chance to react, because the humor-challenged school administrators sent him home for violating the dress code which had been relaxed, temporarily, to allow black and gold. The Colts’ blue and white were still, they claimed, uncool for school.

As asinine as this already sounds, it got much worse, when the local infestation of the ACLU intruded, to kick the ‘thrills’ up several notches.

A Livingston Parish School Board member said Frost wasn't sent home, but was told he couldn't wear the blue jersey at school. Keith Martin, whose district includes Maurepas, said the school uniform had been relaxed only for black and gold.

He said he planned to ask school system attorneys whether that violated Frost's right to free speech, as the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana contends. State ACLU director Marjorie Esman sent a letter to Principal Steven Vampran, asking him to wipe Frost's record of any discipline stemming from the incident. (CBS)

Normally, I’d bitch-slap the Educrats and lay all the blame at their door, but, in this case, Brandon must share part of the blame. Why? On the day before this incident happened, Brandon asked Principal Vampran for permission to wear his Colts jersey and was told "no". Brandon had a similar discussion with at least one teacher and was warned him that he would get in trouble.

Bottom line: School officials should have cut Brandon some slack. The ACLU should stay the hell out of it. Brandon needs to learn that, "no" means "no".

Educrap Roundup
Source: PIG News Wire [02/05/10]

Founding Fathers Expelled From North Carolina Cess-Schools
If you think neo-Marxist, government cess-school, indoctrination is strictly a Blue State malady, get over it. It’s alive an well, deep in the heart of Dixie. In fact, based on a story from the Fox News web site, it’s no shit THRIVING.

Under the new rules of Educrap engagement, the following items have been expunged from the high school curriculum: The Declaration of Independence, Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, The Revolutionary War, The United States Constitution, The War of 1812, Abraham Lincoln, The Civil War, Reconstruction...every scrap of American History prior to 1877. If you think that’s bad, hold onto your hat because World History - ALL OF IT - has been flushed down the crapper and replaced by a terminally Korrect steaming turd named ‘global studies’ which brainwashes inmates on bullshit like Global Warming.

State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."

As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward. (Fox)

If this shit is happening in North Carolina, I don’t want to think about the steaming pile of Educrap turds pooped out in Libertard infested pest holes like Mexifornia, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington.

Blatant Neo-Marxist Indoctrination In Ohio
A rabid Libertard moonbat with teaching credentials was bold as brass about the indoctrination it perpetrated while ‘teaching’ a government class:

The government teacher at Perry High School in Massillon, Ohio, handed out forms recruiting students to intern for Organizing for America, a grassroots organization with direct ties to the Democratic National Committee and the successor organization for Obama for America.

Included on the forms was a suggested reading list that included Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and Organizing for America's mission to build on the "movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change."

No Republican equivalent was offered to the students, according to Perry schools' Superintendent John Richard. (Fox)

Was this steaming Libertard load fired? Nope. Suspended? Nope. Reprimanded? I doubt it. He, she, heshe or it is still on the job, and, therefore, free to brainwash Perry High School inmates with this Marxist bullshit. As far as school Principal Don Gregoire is concerned, the teacher’s primary sin seems to be getting caught spewing Obamunist propaganda:

"We apologize that your son or daughter was given this information without approval," Gregoire wrote. "This error in following Board Policy has been addressed and has been clearly communicated to staff."

The bad news is that the teacher, the principal, and the superintendent are still gainfully employed Educrats. The good news is that the ‘fire these Commie bastards’ blowback is memorable. How memorable? One enraged rational adult opined the Superintendent Richard should apply for a job in Cuba.

Thanks to the egregiously leftist Educrats, Marxism has taken root in American schools. As far as I can tell, there’s only one cure: forcibly remove education from the Nanny State’s clutches and put it where it always belonged, in the marketplace.

Big Apple Overkill
Our heroine’s name is Alexa Gonzales, but to the pinheads running Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, Queens, this wenchlet is public enemy number one. In fact, Alexa is such a menace to society, she was handcuffed, then forcibly removed from school.

What, you ask, is Alexa’s crime? Drug dealing? Nope. Bringing deadly weapons to school? Nope. Kicking a classmate’s ass? Nope, and you’re not even warm.

A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.

Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said. "I love my friends Abby and Faith," the girl wrote, adding the phrases "Lex was here. 2/1/10" and a smiley face.

But instead of simply cleaning off the doodles after class, Alexa landed in some adult-sized trouble for using her lime-green magic marker. She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours, she and her mother said.

"I started crying, like, a lot," said Alexa. "I made two little doodles. ... It could be easily erased. To put handcuffs on me is unnecessary." Alexa, who had a stellar attendance record, hasn't been back to school since, adding, "I just thought I'd get a detention. I thought maybe I would have to clean [the desk]."

"She's been throwing up," said her mom, Moraima Tamacho, 49, an accountant, who lives with her daughter in Kew Gardens. "The whole situation has been a nightmare." (NY Daily News)

Faced with impressive blowback, cess-school officials, and the badge packers, belatedly, admit that arresting, then handcuffing, Alexa was just a tad Draconian. Unhappily, despite this unscheduled baby step toward sanity, Alexa’s punishment is, in my assessment, excessive. The ongoing suspension, and 8 hours of community service are overkill. The essay on what she learned from the experience seems much more reasonable.

Book Banned By Mexifornia School
Source: Guardian [01/25/10]

The ususal Morality Nazi suspects got their knickers knotted and set their hair on fire, when they found out that a certain book with its unacceptably salacious subject matter was a fixture in some Menifee Union school district 4th and 5th grade classrooms. Shocked, shocked, I tell you, they demanded its immediate removal. They would not tolerate this book and its graphic description of a certain sexual act anywhere near these eager young Enquiring minds.

What is this book? You’re going to be thrilled, when you find out.

Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for "oral sex". Merriam Webster's 10th edition, which has been used for the past few years in fourth and fifth grade classrooms (for children aged nine to 10) in Menifee Union school district, has been pulled from shelves over fears that the "sexually graphic" entry is "just not age appropriate", according to the area's local paper.

The dictionary's online definition of the term is "oral stimulation of the genitals". "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper. (Guardian)

The bad news is that the relevant Educrats are mulling a permanent ban. The good news is that there is at least one rational adult left in Mexifornia:

"It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground," [the father of a Menifee student] Jason Rogers told local press. "You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina?"

Banning the Merriam Webster dictionary? Wow. That’s off the scale asinine, by any meaningful standard.

Missing Letters Spell Prankish Fun In Mexas
Source: Houston Chronicle [01/20/10]

By now, most of you know the nursery rhyme where the fork runs away with the spoon. But, how many of you heard about the ‘C’ which ran off with the ‘L’, leaving smirking ‘ASS’ flapping in a Mexas breeze?

Up to a point, it was business as usual, when more than 600 seniors from Cypress Ridge High School (Mexas) posed for the class photo. The devilish detail that makes this story PIG-worthy is the fact that some seniors wore special T-shirts which, when assembled in the proper order, spelled out ‘C L A S S O F 2 0 1 0'. No harm, no foul? At first, until the ‘C’ and ‘L’ went missing for a second photo which spelled out ‘A S S O F 2 0 1 0'.

Here in the PIGdom, we salute these high school hijinks, but those Educrat killjoys were far from amused:

Administrators at Cy-Ridge cited the school's code of conduct and suspended the three students for three days. The penalty began Tuesday.

Senior Austin Knight says “C and L ran off” and it's not the fault of the other three students, who also were fined $135. The money will help pay the cost of retouching the photo.

Senior Raymond Carrigan says the students were “ignorant and disrespectful.” (Houston Chronicle)

If Raymond thinks that is "ignorant and disrespectful", I can tell you a few things about him. He leads a sheltered life. He needs a humor transplant. He has never walked on the wild side with a trip to PIG’s Dumpster Diving page.

Run! Hide! He’s Got A...
Source: Fox [01/16/10]

An 11-year-old San Diego lad put the officials running Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in an evacuation-spawning panic, when he brought ‘it’ to school. Admittedly, ‘it’ was only a thing of beauty in his eager young eyes, but that’s no reason to call in the bomb squad:

Authorities say a San Diego middle school was evacuated when a student's science project was mistaken for a bomb.

A Fire-Rescue spokesman says a concerned vice principal prompted the evacuation of Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School yesterday afternoon. He says an arson team took photos and X-rays of the empty plastic bottle with wires and determined it was harmless.

He says the 11-year-old was trying to build a motion detector with instructions he found on the Internet and parts he bought online. His parents helped him buy the parts. They say they didn't realize the experiment looked threatening. (Fox)

Hopefully, our young scientist won’t take this over-reaction too personally. Buck up, lab coat Sparky, true genius is rarely appreciated by its contemporaries.

Insufferable Educrat Arrogance
Source: Golden Oinks [01/15/10]

A New Jersey mother, quite rightly, got pissed, when she learned that some sweaty-palmed asshat had pulled down her 13 year old daughter’s sweatpants, in front of other inmates at Hasbrouck Heights Middle School. Determined to get some answers, Cindy Schwalb decided to seek them at a school board seminar on bullying.

Cindy went, seeking answers, but by the time she departed the meeting, all she got out of it was a disorderly conduct charge, for cussing out an Educrat:

Schwalb says she became enraged when the district superintendent starting asking her questions, including one about whether her daughter was wearing a thong. Superintendent Joseph Luongo says it was a fair question, "I had to find out what body parts were actually revealed."

She later cursed out school principal Edward Bocar in a hallway. Schwalb calmed down and apologized and left the building without further incident. Still, the district filed a complaint against Schwalb. Detective Sgt. Joseph Rinke, who also sits on the school board, filed the report. School officials said the meeting wasn't the place for Schwalb to express her concerns. (MYFOXNY)

The Free State of PIG salutes Cindy Schwalb for her passionate defense of her daughter. She deserves some answers, not this bullshit disorderly conduct charge.

Beserkely’s Blatant Racism
Source: Steaming Loads [01/08/10]

In Beserkeley (Mexifornia), the Libertard moonbats, who infest the city in large numbers, are boldly going where only a RACIST asshole would go. Unable to suitably educate the properly-hyphenated, the usual suspects have decided to throw more money at the problem, by scuttling classes which - in their race card blinded eyes - are expendable, because they favor whitey:

Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students. The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High's School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley's dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.

Science teachers were understandably horrified by the proposal. "The majority of the science department believes that this major policy decision affecting the entire student body, the faculty, and the community has been made without any notification, without a hearing," said Mardi Sicular-Mertens, the senior member of Berkeley High School's science department, at last week's school board meeting. (East Bay Express, emphasis added)

Coming soon to a cess-school near you? You better believe it, today Mexifornia, tomorrow Amerika, Sparky.

A Peppermint Flavored Panty Twister
Source: PIG News Wire [12/31/09]

I’m shocked and dismayed to report that an Empire State middle school wenchlet just got busted by the relevant Educrats in the Commack School District, for bringing a banned substance to school and - GASP, SHUDDER - distributing it to her fellow cess-school inmates. Has this 10 year old wenchlet no shame? Has she fallen so deeply in to a life of crime that she’s dealing drugs at school? Not exactly.

Fact: The substance is ‘technically’ a drug, but, since it’s sold, unregulated, over the counter, it’s not THAT kind of drug.

Fact: The label on the bottle does warn that it should be kept out of the reach of children.

Final Fact: It’s peppermint oil. That’s right, our wenchlet was suspended by Zero Tolerance Zombie asshats for peppermint oil.

The Buffalo News shares these peppermint flavored particulars:

The Commack School District said in a statement on its Web Site that the oil is "an unregulated over-the-counter drug."

The girl's mother, Corrine Morton-Greiner, said on Thursday that the implication that her daughter Sara was bringing an illicit substance to school was "infuriating." Morton-Greiner asked school officials to apologize and to revoke her daughter's suspension.

Commack Superintendent James Feltman said Sara's actions violated the school district's code of conduct when she brought the oil to school on Monday.

If peppermint oil is as bad as it gets in the Commack cess-schools, these Educrats should pull their heads out of their butts and breathe the fresh air of objective, ‘nothing to see here so move along’, reality, for a change.

Suspended for peppermint oil? Hol-y crap!

All Filled Up & No Place To Go
Source: Fox [12/22/09]

When Jennifer Weiler needs to sit down and relieve herself, she’s far from thrilled by the limitations placed on her by the Eggheads running a Vermont Ivory Tower. How pissed - pun unintentional - is she over Green Mountain College’s bathroom policy? It’s off the scale.

Nineteen year old Jennifer is coping, more or less, with the Ivory Tower’s co-ed dorms, but she’s far from thrilled spitless over the dearth of single-sex bathrooms in her co-ed residence hall.

Jennifer Weiler, 19, a first-year student from Sandgate, contends that the college’s failure to designate separate bathrooms for males and females violates state-adopted building and plumbing codes that the Department of Public Safety is charged with enforcing. DPS is listed as the defendant in the civil complaint, filed Monday in Washington County Superior Court.

So far, the DPS dipsticks are invoking a devilish details defense. They tacitly admit that Jennifer is right about the code, then point out that the fine print grandfathers in ‘existing buildings in which the plumbing hasn’t been changed or altered’. That devilish detail applies to Jennifer’s dorm, a fact which might explain why, to date, nobody in a position of authority at Green Mountain College wants to discuss Jennifer’s complaints.

What A Hoot!
Source: Yahoo News [12/17/09]

The ubiquitous high school field trip strayed into the PIG News ‘hot wow’ bull’s-eye, this week, when an Arizona Educrat took the 40 high school students to a local eatery, after the choir members performed in downtown Phoenix. So what? So plenty, because choir director Mary Segall took her hungry singers to - TA DA - Hooters a decision which landed her in administrative leave limbo.

Needless to say, certain Educrats had ‘issues’ with Mary’s choice of eateries:

Paradise Valley school district spokeswoman Judi Willis says choir director Mary Segall accompanied the students to a performance in downtown Phoenix last week, and during the outing, they ate lunch at Hooters. Willis says Segall explained that the restaurant, known for its waitresses' somewhat revealing attire, was the only place that could accommodate a group of that size. But district officials believe there were other options for lunch in the area. (Yahoo News)

PIG News suspects that there’s more to this story than - PUN ALERT - meets the eye. We’re more than a tad intrigued by the fact that Mary Segall plans to retire in January. Was this Hooters visit her way of telling the school district "Bite Me"?

Banned In Old Bridge
Source: Fox [12/16/09]

According to the principal of Madison Park Elementary School in Old Bridge, N.J., one of the school’s teachers ‘made a mistake’, when she black flagged 3rd grader, Mariah’s choice of quiet time reading material. The book in question, the Bible, is not, never was, deemed uncool for school during quiet time, school officials insist.

According to Mariah’s mother, Michelle Jordat, telling her baby girl that she couldn’t read her Bible during quiet time was an injustice which upset and confused Mariah. How mad is mommy? Mad enough to go shyster shopping.

And what, you ask, does PIGster J, our Professor of Piety, have to say about this? Plenty:

I almost smote my computer when I read “..and is considering talking to an attorney” in this article.

An attorney? The teacher got over-zealous, the school straightened it out and you want to litigate? Even as a Christian, I’m shaking my head saying “Oh, GIVE ME A BREAK!” I’d have gone to the school, explained the appropriate reasons as to why this should never, ever happen again, and then left them suitably nervous and worried. But litigate? For crying out loud.

And while we’re at it? Whatever happened to kids saying “No way!” to nonsense like that? Are parents no longer infusing their children with balls, or what?

In our opinion, PIGster J nailed it on this one. That’s why he’s our Professor of Piety and you’re not.

A Brit Cess-School Stinker
Source: Daily Mail [12/11/09]

When Korrectniks spout off about equality, don’t get all choked up about it. For them "equality" translates as follows: Punishing excellence/achievement while rewarding failure in order to produce a one-size-fits-all level of mediocrity. This bastardized ‘equality’ is especially popular among Educrats who view gifted students with suspicion and hostility.

A Brit cabal, Ofsted, was gobsmacked, when a recent study showed the royal shafting that gifted students are getting from Brit Educrats:

As many as three-quarters of state schools are failing to push their brightest pupils because teachers are reluctant to promote 'elitism', an Ofsted study says today.

Many teachers are not convinced of the importance of providing more challenging tasks for their gifted and talented pupils.

Bright youngsters told inspectors they were forced to ask for harder work. Others were resentful at being dragooned into 'mentoring' weaker pupils.

In nearly three-quarters of 26 schools studied, pupils designated as being academically gifted or talented in sport or the arts were 'not a priority', Ofsted found.

Teachers feared that a focus on the brightest pupils would 'undermine the school's efforts to improve the attainment and progress of all other groups of pupils'. (Daily Mail)

I love that fetid dose of Eduspeak: undermine a cess-school’s efforts to improve the attainment and progress of all other groups of pupils. What a load of pretentious bullshit. They need to call it what it is: Educrat imposed, universal, mediocrity and misery.

Parting shot: If you wonder how asinine this gets, I have the answer. According to another study, conducted by two Eggheads from Buckingham University, schools specializing in science education were - I am NOT making this up - ‘barred from selecting pupils according to their ability in science’.

Another Day, More Connecticut Crap
Source: Fox [12/05/09]

More Connecticut crap? You better believe it, Constitution State Sparky. This one isn’t quite as noxious as our recent story about a wide spot on a Connecticut road where yellow ribbon hating Elected Tormentors claim these tributes to our deployed troops give trees crotch rot. It’s not THAT big a stinker, but it’s stinky enough to merit a PIGish bitch-slap.

The scene of this 'tis the season' crime is Walsh Elementary School in Waterury (Connecticut, DUH), where the Grinch in chief is school principal, Eric "The Asshole" Brown. This year, Eric has, once again, gone terminally Grinchy, by banning "all religious festivities and many decorations from the classroom". I’d love to tell you that this is a new stinker from this pile of Educrat crap, but I can’t. Grinch Eric pooped out this bull crap, 5 years ago, when the Waterbury Public Schools first deposited this steaming load on Walsh Elementary.

Spouting drivel about ‘inclusiveness’ - Korrectnik for universal, one-size-fits-all-misery - Eric, and a much bigger turd higher up the Educraper poop chute, seem determined to defend the indefensible:

Brown, who declined comment through a spokeswoman to FoxNews.com on Friday, explained to The Republican-American newspaper that state law mandates that a public school cannot knowingly exclude children. "This is not a church," Brown told the paper. "It's a school and it's a public school. I have to do things that include every child. So what we do is celebrate winter."

In a statement, Waterbury Public Schools Superintendent David Snead defended Brown, calling the issue of religious celebrations "especially difficult" in December and reminding all staff at the district's schools that holidays festivities can proceed but without religious overtones. "This a constitutional issue — separation of church and state — and is not up to individual discussion," Snead's statement read. "The issue of religious celebrations is especially difficult during the month of December." (Fox)

On the surface, this sounds good, until you shovel aside the self-serving bullshit. A closer look at Waterbury Public Schools reveals that, despite David Snead’s separation of church and state hot air, ‘many of Waterbury’s 20 elementary schools Christmas ornaments and allow Christmas parties’. He tries to finesse this fun fact with more self-serving hot air:

"It is possible to acknowledge and teach about each holiday as it approaches, provided there is a balance and equality in the approach, with no one religion receiving any special consideration. As long as the line is not crossed between 'teaching' about a holiday and 'endorsing' the religion, this is acceptable, but no public school should promote any religious observance." (Fox)

When I run that one through Hambo’s vaunted bullshit detector, it translates Snead’s bloviating as follows: "Yes, I know that Erik Brown is raving asshole who is the poster punk for Grinchiness, but he’s our raving asshole, so I suggest that you get over it." In other words, the tykes who are unlucky enough to attend Walsh Elementary are screwed, and nobody has the nads to do anything about it.

 

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