Category: education

Debbie Squires Michigan Education Testimony: Parents Don‘t Know What’s Best

~ Pharmer

It’s Baaaaaack. The Blaze says that Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principal’s Association Associate Director, Debbie Squire’s testimony was pulled from YouTube. Apparently she upset people when she said that educators know what’s best for their kids with respect to schooling, and that parents don’t. This came in the context of speaking out against a new school choice program. See for yourself:

Measuring this up against the difficulty that educators are having with teaching a basic curriculum, What do you think? Should more of education be privatized?

The original article at The Blaze is here.

Megadeth Frontman Backs Rick Santorum

~ Pharmer

Megadeth frontman backs Rick Santorum – POLITICO.com.

Dave Mustaine says: Anyone but Obama.    “I’m just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican,” he said. “I can’t bear to watch what’s happened to our great country. Everybody’s got their head in the sand. Everybody in the industry is like, ‘Oh, Obama’s doing such a great job. …’ I don’t think so. Not from what I see.”

What caused Mustaine  to take a good look at Santorum?   That time out he took  during the Florida primary campaign, to take care of his daughter, Bella, when she was sick.   The veteran rocker  prefers Santorum’s style of campaigning over the others:  more issues and less strident attacks on the other primary candidates.

Mustaine has some interesting things to say about his own long career, and the state of the music and recording industry in his interview at musicradar.com . Fellow  rockers  will want to take a look.

So the Frat Boys and Jocks Can Buy Plan-B For Their “Dates”

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Shippensburg University To Offer Plan B Contraception From Vending Machine « CBS Philly.

You know….. those “Dates”, where several guys take advantage of a single intoxicated girl ( often of questionable age)? Now the guys can put a couple of different drugs into her drink and GET ER DONE!!!! Classy Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania will have Plan B One-Step in the health center vending machine, for the sake of privacy. Shippensburg is now the no-tell motel, and it vends the date-rape drug.

Parents might wish to check the plan B policies of universities and colleges before sending their kids out of town for school. The policy reflects an attitude towards how the female students, and underage females in the vicinity are to be utilized.

Shippensburg issued a statement dated 2/7/12  regarding their policy of vending Plan B.

Nearly Half of Public Schools Fail the “No Child Left Behind” Standards

~ Pharmer

Worst of the pack are the schools of Washington DC and the State of Missouri.   While the public school teachers now make twice the hourly wage+benefits as the average private sector employee, ( 59 bucks vs 28 bucks), the schools  are increasingly producing poor results.   Tax payers should be concerned about return on investment.   Admittedly the teachers are handcuffed by political correctness and  fear of their unions, and in some areas  this renumeration is actually  COMBAT pay.

The teachers  would be making six figures if they worked year round, making them a juicy target for class envy.   Expect a new round of protests:  Occupy Public Schools!

 

 

 

 

Kicking Someone in the Groin is Sexual Harrassment?

~ Pharmer

First-grader accused of sexual harassment – Metro – The Boston Globe.

Why do administrators of Tynan Elementary school classify a kick or punch in the groin as sexual harassment?  It seems entirely unrelated to sex, but maybe these people like the stuff that hurts.

The story?  Seven year old Mark Curran says that a another kid on the school  bus, had choked him, and stole his gloves.   He claims to have kicked the kid in the groin in response to the choking, because he couldn’t breathe.

Whether or not the  story is exactly as told,   Mark has a letter from the school saying that he violated codes of discipline related to sexual harassment and endangering the physical safety of another student, because of that strike to the groin.

Most schools,  including those Pharmer’s  kids attend, will punish those who defend themselves from assault.   The desired response is to take a beating, and then tell the administrators.   This of course ensures further beatings, since the administrators do not have the ability to provide protection.

Kids who are forced  to defend themselves need to make the effort really worth the punishment which will ensue.

Do your kids a favor and find a good Karate school for them.  Start early.  Pharmer’s kids have been at it for a decade or more.   So far,  their school years have been pretty peaceful.

Penn State – Further Into the Dumpster

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Jerry Sandusky Rumored to Have Been ‘Pimping Out Young Boys to Rich Donors,’ Says Mark Madden – College Football – NESN.com.

Pharmer supposes that all sorts of rumors will be flying, including the one headlined above.

This rumor  is not implausible because the Board of Trustees has seen fit to boot Joe Paterno immediately, as well as the University president Graham Spanier, who had been in place for 16 years.

Student unrest (rioting) has ensued, involving students on each side of the issue of firing Joe Paterno.

Expect much more to come out of this Penn State scandal as the digging continues.

April 2011 article asking why Sandusky retired so early.

DA who did not charge Sandusky after the 1998 incident disappeared in 2005

Remember Michael Mann, Climate Gate, and Research Fraud? Penn State found no trouble with him.

11/13: HS Football player says Sandusky paid a visit to recruit him last spring.

Voice Analysis Software Indicates Cain Tells the Truth, Bialek Lies

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Software Analyzing Voice Recognition Says Herman Cain Telling Truth of His Innocence | Video | TheBlaze.com.

It appears that a person can get a lie detector test without making any effort.  Herman Cain has just had one, courtesy of private investigator TJ Ward, who applied his software voice analysis to the recent press conference.  His software rates Cain’s speech as low risk, which means he’s likely telling the truth.

When Sharon Bialek described sexual impositions in her meeting with Cain, the software rated her as high risk.  Ward said that she is likely not lying about having met him, but is lying  what what happened.

Law enforcement uses similar voice analysis  software with a very high degree of success in detecting lies.

Comments at this story on the Blaze were amusing, with one person suggesting that applying the equipment  set the test equipment on fire.

Meanwhile,  Ann Coulter has a column, worth reading, which details the David Axelrod actions to wipe out Obama’s political opponents in Chicago.   Remember, Sharon has a residential kind of connection with Axelrod at the very least.

She notes that the allegations against Cain all stem from time with the National Restaurant Association, and no other time of his long business career.   The NRA period is Cain’s closest brush with the Chicago cesspool.

With poor Perry showing some really bad performance at the debates (order of magnitude  worse than neophyte- Pharmer’s first appearance on national television),  Cain is the current top tier conservative.  This will inspire further false allegations and attacks from the left.  They fear him even more than they fear Palin.

New Jersey School officials apologize for kinky summer reading list

~ Pharmer

Risque summer reading selections have parents upset, school officials scrapping books in Monroe Township | NJ.com.

New Jersey school officials are apologizing for their kinky summer reading list for the high school and middle school students.

Some parents found out what was in the books and protested.  Seems that graphic business of  the gay orgy (Tweek: Growing up on Methamphetamine)  and lesbian sex  (Norwegian Wood) was a bit too much for their tastes, even if it was only an effort to entice their kids to read.

Non Productive Federal Department of Education

~ Pharmer

Fed. Gov‘t SWAT Team Busts Down Man’s Door Over Estranged Wife’s Student Loans | The Blaze.

Here’s another example of non-productive activity from your federal government, this time, the Department of Education.  It issued a warrant pursuant to collecting a student loan in Stockton, California.  The trouble is that they screwed up… and had the Swat team destroy the doorway of the loan recipient’s estranged husband and his three children.

Not able to correctly distinguish between the husband and wife, even by sex, they held  Mr. Kenneth Wright in a police car for hours, and no doubt, this and the search of his home was extremely disconcerting to the three young children.

Note:  The Stockton Police Dept. wished to emphasize that they did not exhibit nor take part in this degree of incompetence.

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