Lone Bomber, Not Mafia, Sought for Italy School Attack
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SNIPPET: "Dinapoli said police already had a facial composite picture of the suspect they believe was behind the attack which killed 16-year-old Melissa Bassi." SNIPPET: "He said investigators had acquired "significant" video evidence that suggested one man had set off the device which exploded as pupils were getting off a bus for the start of lessons on Saturday morning. The footage showed a man of about 50-55 years of age activating a remote control to detonate a rudimentary bomb made of three gas canisters hidden in a container outside the school gates, he said."
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
VIDEO: Mafia Horror In Southern Italy: Bomb At School Named For Anti-Mafia Hero Kills Two Students
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A bomb at a vocational school in the port city of Brindisi on the Adriatic coast in Southern Italy has killed two students and injured another five as classes were preparing to start this morning as reported by David Batty for The Guardian. The school was named in honor of the wife of anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone after both were slain almost exactly twenty years ago as reported by Nick Squires for The Telegraph: "the prosecutor, his wife and their three bodyguards were killed on May 23 1992, when the Sicilian Mafia planted half a tonne of explosives on the...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Title IX for Thee but Not for a He
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You would think that after decades of Title IX enforcement, sex discrimination in school sports would be a thing of the past. But this isn’t the case in Suffolk County, New York, where a skilled student-athlete is being denied the right to compete in sports based solely on sex. The child is 13-year-old Keeling Pilaro, who for the last two years has been a member of Southampton High School girls’ field hockey team. He tried out for it and was allowed to play because there are no boys’ field hockey teams anywhere in the county. So what’s the problem now?...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Obama’s Sordid High School Past
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While the Washington Post has been diligently digging into relatively innocent high school pranks by Mitt Romney, they’ve spent the last few years diligently ignoring President Obama’s far more controversial high school days. Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in Dreams From My Father; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
New Federal Regulations Call For Healthier School Lunches
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PHILADELPHIA - New federal regulations require healthier lunches in schools next year. USDA undersecretary Audrey Rowe lunched on chicken salad yesterday with kids at the Roberto Clemente Middle School. Rowe was in town to highlight new school lunch nutrition standards that take effect in the fall. “We will be expanding on the amount of fruits and vegetables offered to the children. Obviously, even though the products are going to be prepackaged, they’re going to be healthier.” With the new requirements, comes a modest 6-cent-per meal increase in federal reimbursements.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Colo. boy, 6, suspended for reciting 'Sexy' lyric
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AURORA, Colo. (AP) - A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl "I'm sexy and I know it," a line from a popular song. D'Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accused of sexual harassment and disrupting other students, according to a letter the school district sent to his mother after he was sent home Wednesday.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Report Favoring Restraint, Seclusion Stirs Backlash
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Disability advocates are on the offensive after a national group representing school administrators issued a report supporting the use of restraint and seclusion in schools.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Four vehicle crash includes Seguin ISD school bus 9 children injured
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Nine kids were injured when a school bus got tangled up in a four-vehicle crash on State Highway 123 near Foxtrotter Road on Friday morning. (Seguin) -- Nine Seguin ISD students were injured in a multiple vehicle accident this morning on State Highway 123 near Foxtrotter Road. State troopers say the crash involved the school bus, a gravel hauling 18-wheeler and two passenger vehicles. The accident produced a fire and severe damage to all of the vehicle. SISD Public Information Officer Sean Hoffmann confirmed the injuries during an interview this morning on radio station KWED. "There was indeed a Seguin...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Teacher Upset She Can't Retire at 47
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Terri List says she would tell her students not to become a teacher in Michigan. Why? One of the reasons is because the Saginaw Township Community School District English teacher won’t be able to retire at age 47 as she has hoped. List was highlighted by the Michigan Education Association as one of the critics of Senate Bill 1040, which would require public school employees to contribute at least 5 percent of their compensation to their retirement plan. The MEA reported on its website: "Saginaw Township teacher Terry (sic) List had hoped to retire in the next three years when...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Students Sign Petition To 'Redistribute' GPAs
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"Apparently, many students don't like the idea of redistribution - but, only when it applies to their grades. Redistribution of their GPAs (grade point averages) to poorer students, they say, is unfair. But, those with lower grades don’t seem to mind benefiting from the hard work of their “greedy” high-achieving classmates."
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Triple Lutz Report-Why Johnny Can't Read In Buffalo New York--Episode 182
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www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents Teachers in Buffalo New York are up in arms. The State has mandated teachers receive evaluations in order for the schools to receive additional funding. The Teachers' Union has defied the State and refuses to allow evaluations. This all comes to you compliments of a debt based monetary system, which acts to perpetuate corrupt government schemes and ensures that union members get to line their pockets at retirement time, sometimes after just 25 years or less. New York will be completely insolvent in a very short time and will have to rely upon the Federal government to print...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Sweden’s New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: HenA country tries to banish gender.
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To those who feel gender equality or gender neutrality ought to be intrinsic to a modern society, it probably makes sense to argue for instilling such values at an early age. The Green Party has even suggested placing "gender pedagogues" in every preschool in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, who can act as watchdogs. But of course toddlers cannot weigh arguments for and against linguistic interventions and they do not conceive of or analyze gender roles in the way that adults do. Ironically, in the effort to free Swedish children from so-called normative behavior, gender-neutral proponents are also subjecting them to...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Bridgeport Boy Brings Heroin For Show and Tell
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BRIDGEPORT — The stepfather of a 5-year-old boy who brought 50 packets of heroin to show-and-tell was arrested after going to the school in search of the drugs, police say. The student went to kindergarten Monday with his stepfather's jacket and pulled out the drugs in 10 small plastic bags when it came time for his presentation to the class, Bridgeport police told the Connecticut Post (http://bit.ly/HYhtzj ). The teacher grabbed the bags away from the boy, and the principal called police. The boy's stepfather, Santos Roman, 35, was arrested after arriving at the school. Roman was searching the school...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Union says average teacher with a master's degree makes less than $12k a year after deductions
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The Michigan Education Association’s newest strategy is to portray their teachers as underpaid while hoping no one is paying attention to the figures they are using to make their case, says one education policy expert. “Clearly, their facts are not straight,” said Michael Van Beek, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. It started when Steve Cook, the MEA’s president, said in a Detroit News op-ed that one teacher who contacted him was in his second year of teaching with a master’s degree and made $31,000 a year. Michigan Capitol Confidential looked at the contracts of the...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Virginia Elementary School Teacher Tells Students “Republicans Are Stupid”…
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We’re so stupid that we find it abhorrent when a teacher pushes liberal propaganda on unsuspecting students. Via Daily Caller: A Virginia elementary school teacher told her students that “Republicans are stupid” and “they don’t care about anyone but wealthy people and businesses.” Kristin Martin said this to her 6th grade class as Republican voters were filing into the halls of Powell Elementary School in Fairfax County to vote on Super Tuesday. “It all started when this disabled kid came in and named all the Republicans candidates for Super Tuesday,” one student told The Daily Caller. “She [Martin] said to...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Officials: 6 dead in Christian school shooting(CA)
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OAKLAND, Calif. — A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California Monday, killing at least six people and wounding three more, authorities said. Police say they have a suspect in custody.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
(Vanity) My 8-yr old got an F on assignment for not knowing "Human Rights" and "Tolerance"
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I was checking my 8-yr old son's classwork assignment grades. He was so demoralized that he was getting C, D and F on many assignments. I was shocked and delved deeper. Turns out he is assiged a letter grade on these assignments even though he is "making progress" getting up to 70 or even 80 percent of the questions right. Worse, he was assigned an F grade on an assignment because he did not get the meaning for terms "Human Rights" and "Tolerance". WTF is an 8-yr old supposed to know this shtuff? Damn....I am seriously considering pulling him out...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
More Threats Against Toulouse Jewish Day School
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The Toulouse Jewish day school terrorized by an Al-Qaeda jihadist has received anti-Semitic phone calls and emails following the attack. The Toulouse Jewish day school terrorized by a radical Islamic jihadist has received a wave of anti-Semitic phone calls and emails following the attack. Last week Mohammed Merah murdered Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, a teacher, his two young sons Aryeh and Gavriel, and the young daughter of the principal of the Otzar HaTorah day school. In the previous week, Merah had also shot to death three French paratroopers, all Muslims of North African descent. Merah told French media and police during...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Video Of Fight Between Masked Man & Long Reach High School Student Goes Viral Online
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COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — A man wearing a ski mask storms onto a Howard County school campus and attacks a student, and the whole thing is caught on tape. Meghan McCorkell has more on the video that’s gone viral. That video has now been viewed by more than half a million people. Steps from the school’s front door, a masked man attacked a student as staffers rushed to break up the fight. The shocking fight happened in seconds. A man in blue wearing a ski mask swung at a Long Reach High School student. In one punch, the 16-year-old football...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
Homework at Virginia school: Do some opposition research on Republicans but not on Obama
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The bad news: This is a brazen bit of political indoctrination. The good news: The class is now more or less qualified for work in America's mainstream media. If you';re going to push your politics on kids, at least teach them a trade.He may or may not have also told them to send their research to Obama's campaign. Another useful journalistic skill --- learning to coordinate with Democrats for professional gain and the advancement of the cause. In a world of high Hopenchange unemployment, shouldn't we congratulate this guy for looking out for his students' bottom line? “This assignment was...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 05:17:10 AM
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