Defending Indoctrination as 'Academic Freedom'.  Even at a leftist bastion such as USC, Professor Dekmejian can be considered an extremist.  In a mere twenty minutes of recorded classroom footage, Dekmejian repeatedly hurls insults at every Republican president since Reagan, claiming that they were "lazy" and that they "lied to the American people," while praising Jimmy Carter for "still going around doing good things."

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Bevy of Domestic Terrorists Teaching at College.  Controversy ensued when the news broke that Kathy Boudin, former member of the Weather Underground who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder, received the position of adjunct professor at Columbia University.  While it may be ironic that Boudin received a teaching position at a university she was plotted to bomb, she is not the only former domestic terrorist to receive such a position.

Homework Promotes Anti-American View of World War Two.  Bob and Sarah Fisher were checking their daughter's homework last week when a social studies assignment caught their attention — it criticized the United States for dropping the atomic bomb during World War Two.  "Both of our grandfathers were in World War Two and this worksheet makes it seem as if they were the bad guys," Fisher told Fox News.  The Fishers have a daughter in eighth grade at Victory Junior High School in New York.  They said the anti-American slant in the homework assignment was shocking.

Common Core GED textbook: "9/11 hijackers were poor Afghanis".  Adult basic education and GED programs, with about 800,000 students taking GED tests each year, serve a segment of society that escaped government schools, including many homeschoolers.  But the national propaganda effort called the Common Core Curriculum is spreading its tentacles to them.

Immigrants More Likely to Identify as Liberal, Put International Law Over Constitution.  A country whose educational institutions are less patriotic and more liberal will play a crucial role in the shaping of a less patriotic and more liberal population.  Immigrants who tend to get their identity more from education than national culture (tellingly immigrants are more likely to rank professors higher than soldiers, in contrast to native-born Americans) are more likely to lean left.

Duval [County] teacher tells 4th graders to give up [their] constitutional rights.  One Duval County parent tells WOKV his son doesn't even know what his constitutional rights are, so he's shocked a teacher told the ten-year-old to write a letter on his willingness to give them up.

School Crossword's Definition of 'Conservatism' Outrages Mom!  Tamra Varebrook's 8th-grade daughter came home recently with an assignment on liberalism versus conservatism that shocked and angered her because of how it characterized one of the political ideologies.  "I looked at it, and reading the description of 'conservatism' being that we are the party that wants to restrict all personal freedoms struck me as pretty much incorrect," she said.

USC Professor Rants in Class Against 'Stupid and Racist' Republicans.  The professor's name is Darry Sragow.  He openly endorses illegally suppressing Republican votes.

Video captures professor ranting against Republican Party.  A professor at the University of Southern California (USC) appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and "losers."  In a 15 min. video secretly captured by USC student Tyler Talgo, political science Professor Darry Sragow also appears to endorse the illegal suppression of Republican votes.

Johns Hopkins's and Planned Parenthood's troubling extremism.  We know Johns Hopkins University is devoted to diversity, because it says so.  Its "Diversity and Inclusion Statement," a classic of the genre, says the university is "committed to sharing values of diversity and inclusion ... by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of students."  Hopkins has an Office of Institutional Equity and a "Diversity Leadership Council" that defines "inclusion" as "active, thoughtful and ongoing engagement with each other."  Unless you are a member of Voice for Life (VFL), an antiabortion group.

Facing the Hardest Truth on Public Education.  Were public schools better twenty, forty, or sixty years ago?  Of course they were.  But it no more follows from this that public education is not such a bad idea than it follows from the fact that the welfare state of sixty years ago had not yet incorporated socialized medicine that socialism is not such a bad idea.  Today's extensions of progressive control over an ever-increasing range of our lives did not arise from nowhere; they were made possible by earlier, gradual insinuations of the concepts and moral perspectives of tyranny into the modern West's soul.

Tale of two terrorists.  Despite the misgivings of some, it is reported that Kathy Boudin urged the use of "anti-personnel bombs."  In other words, she wanted to kill people not just damage property.  Before they could act, her fellows were killed in the townhouse explosion.  The townhouse itself collapsed; Boudin fled.  She reappeared over a decade later driving the getaway car for the rag tag mix of Weathermen and Black Panthers who held up a Rockland County bank in 1981, murdering three in the process.

This Is Columbia University.  People who ask how it is possible that a convicted killer — a participant in a failed plot to blow up a social dance attended by 18-year-old draftees and their dates; a murderess who abetted the cold-blooded massacre of three law-enforcement officers, including the first African-American on the Nyack police force; a woman whose actions left nine children fatherless and who has shown no genuine remorse for that — should be hired as an adjunct professor at an elite school like Columbia University haven't been paying attention to what's happened to our educational system from kindergarten to the university level, which has long been under the academic thumb of a Left that is comfortable supporting Islamic supremacists and anti-American terrorists both at home and abroad.

Mom Claims 5th-Grade Son's Quiz Blames 9/11 Attacks On United States.  Kara Sands posted on her Facebook page earlier this month a quiz her fifth-grade son at Flour Bluff Intermediate School took after watching a video entitled "Remembering September 11th."  One of the questions on the quiz asked "Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?" with the correct answer being "Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere."  Sands called it "propaganda."

Department of Education "Kids Zone" Features Communist Quote from Mao.  This isn't a generic quote about education being a good thing.  It's actually a quote about the need for Communist indoctrination among Communist Party members.

Texas School Teaches 9-11 Hijackers Were "Freedom Fighters".  I'm beginning to wonder what in the world is going on in Texas!  First I told you how the public school system in Texas is being infiltrated with CSCOPE curriculum that teaches that the Founding Fathers, who were involved in the Boston Tea Party, were "terrorists."  Now, word is that in a Texas high school, students are told to refer to the Jihadists who hijacked planes on 9-11 to attack America should be referred to as "freedom fighters," not terrorists.  Students at Lumberton High School were not only told this nonsense, but they have also been told to stop referring to the Holocaust as Genocide.

Beating thy Enemy: The Education System.  [W]e have a hardcore leftist agenda that has been incorporated and deeply embedded into the national education canon, curricula, texts and teachers training programs.  The degree to which this indoctrination program is slanted in favor of the postmodern values of relativism, socialism and social justice and against the traditional Western Enlightenment values of individualism, objective truth, reason, logic and capitalism is stunning.  With teachers unions entrenched like a bad nail fungus and completely onboard with the social justice (nee anti-America) agenda, how do we unwind this Gordian knot?

Wisconsin Education Officials Want Students to Wear 'White Privilege' Wristbands.  The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction runs several programs that heavily emphasize racial issues in public schools, EAGnews.org has been finding.  Some feel that one of those programs — an Americorps operation called VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) — may go a bit overboard by encouraging white students to wear a white wristband "as a reminder about your (white) privilege."

Federal judge: Arizona can ban classes promoting 'racial resentment against 'whites.  A federal appeals judge has upheld most of a 2010 Arizona state law that prohibits school districts from offering coursework that endorses the overthrow of the United States government or stokes resentment toward a race or class of people. [...] The ruling stems from a case concerning a school district's intervention to forcibly alter coursework in a controversial Mexican-American studies program in Tucson schools.  The highly race-conscious program taught history, civics and literature from a pointedly Mexican-American vantage point.

Texas Student Disciplined for Refusing to Recite Mexican National Anthem, Lawsuit Says.  A Texas couple claims their daughter's school district tried to force her to sing the Mexican national anthem and recite that country's pledge of allegiance against her will — then punished her for standing her ground.  When the teen refused to participate, arguing it was against her beliefs as an American, she was eventually thrown out of the class and then given a failing grade for that day's assignment, the lawsuit says.

We Have Ted Cruz's List: Harvard Law Really Is Littered with Communists.  It turns out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was correct when he claimed Harvard Law School had significant numbers of what might reasonably be called "communists."  Anyone who knows the Ivy League knows the question shouldn't be, Who at Harvard is Marxist?  but Who at Harvard isn't Marxist?

American Student Punished for Refusing to Recite Mexican Pledge.  A Texas high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against her school and her teachers after she was punished for refusing to salute and recite the Mexican pledge of allegiance.  The Thomas More Law Center filed the suit on behalf of Brenda Brinsdon alleging the McAllen Independent School District violated the 15-year-old girl's constitutional rights when she was forced to recite the Mexican pledge and sing the Mexican national anthem.

The Editor says...
This is America.  Teach the kids about America.

Title IX for our boys.  Large urban school districts are losing students at an alarming pace.  They're going to charter schools, to online schools and to home-schooling.  But now there's another reason for parents to think about moving their children out of public schools — the boys.  It seems that teachers — overwhelmingly female — just might be prejudiced against boys and it's hurting their grades.  Stereotyped as "naughty," boys quickly learn that they are thought of as dumber and more trouble than girls.  And that has consequences.

Midtown teacher includes questions about slavery in elementary school math homework.  A furor over slavery has erupted at a Midtown elementary school, after a teacher handed out math homework that include questions asking kids to tally the killing and beating of slaves.  The shocking questions were given to at least one class of 9-year-olds at PS 59 in Manhattan — which included the kids of United Nations personnel.  The inflammatory queries were only uncovered after a student teacher was asked to hand them out to a second class.

Teacher Reportedly Refused to Grade Student Reports on Guns.  An English teacher at Denton High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area allegedly refused to grade two student reports because they discussed guns.  MyFoxDFW.com reports that the teacher, Dewey Christian, told his students to write a report on anything they wanted.

Wisc. University Stands By Campaign To Teach Diversity By Writing 'Unfair' On White Students' Faces.  The University of Wisconsin Duluth-Superior is standing by a controversial campaign launched in 2012 to increase public awareness about racial favoritism by writing "unfair" on students' faces along with a variety of grievances supposedly shared by minorities against Caucasians.  The university released a statement last week defending the project and saying that the campaign is prepare to enter its second phase.

Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry Grathwohl.  If people dedicated to the complete destruction of the United States as a constitutional republic became power-players in the public school establishment, would you expect them to build an education system that fostered and preserved the tenets of republican citizenship as understood by America's founders?  Would you continue to support the public schools, and send your children there?

College: Fire professor who forced students to vote for Obama.  A tenured professor who forced her students to sign pledges that they would vote for President Barack Obama last November should be fired, the college's president recommended.  Sharon Sweet, an associate professor of mathematics at Brevard Community College in Florida, is guilty of electioneering, harassment, and incompetence, according to a three-month investigation into her classroom behavior leading up to the November election.

Professor Blocks Students From Using Fox News as Source for Assignment.  Students and parents at West Liberty University in West Virginia are expressing concern and even outrage over an assignment handed out by professor Stephanie Wolf in which she told her students which sources they couldn't use in their research.  While The New York Times, The Huffington Post and others were given the clear, The Onion and Fox News were the two outlets she said were off limits.

Indoctrinating Children: 'Palestine Solidarity' in the Classroom.  Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman is an anti-Israel activist and English professor who has taught at Boise State University, al-Quds University, the American University of Beirut, and other universities in the Middle East.  In The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), she has assembled a guidebook for American high school teachers on how to teach the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Students Told to Stop 'USA!' Chant, Take Off American Flag Bandanas.  Four California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting "U.S.A! U.S.A!" and wearing American flag bandanas during a basketball game.  While their punishment has since been rescinded, school administrators said "the incident is far from over."  Oxnard Union School District superintendent Gabe Soumakian told Fox News Radio that "we need to pursue this further" and "work with teachers and students and the community about the concept of cultural proficiency."

20 Reasons America Is Becoming An Increasingly Nonfunctional Society.  [#15]  Schools have moved away from teaching reading, writing, history, morality, and patriotism for the benefit of the students to pushing self-esteem and liberal indoctrination for the benefit of the teachers' unions and salaries of professors.

What Our Society Has Become.  The United States Constitution, and its concepts of limited government, State sovereignty, liberty, and a political system governed by the people is being tossed aside as nothing more than an archaic obstacle to progress.  Federalized, our schools have become indoctrination centers that spit out compliant citizens hailing that central government is the new god of the new age.  Television programs, all the way down to the cute little yellow feathered Street for toddlers, reinforces the mental programming of the youngsters, and the news media and entertainment industry reinforce the teachings not only for the children, but to ensure the proper re-education of the older folks that might still remember what America was like when it was still truly free.

Texas Lawmakers Blast 'Anti-American', 'Anti-Christian' Curriculum.  Texas lawmakers are putting educators on the hot seat after public school curriculum surfaced that promoted Islam and socialism while deconstructing American values and patriotism.  School children were exposed to lessons that labeled the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism.  They were also instructed to create flags for socialist and communist countries.  And they were also given in-depth lessons in the Islamic faith that included classroom readings from the Koran.

Texas Middle School Students Being Asked To Design Flags For A New Socialist Nation".  You know America is changing when leftists have even infiltrated Texas schools.

'We Are Undocumented And Unafraid, Because This Is What We Learned In School'.  On Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show this morning [2/2/2013], Cristina Jiménez, leader of United We Dream, an organization that advocates on behalf of illegal immigrant youth, declared "we are undocumented and unafraid, because this is what we learned in school."  In American schools of today, dominated by government employee unions, she's likely only too accurate about what's being taught.

Loyola Students: Professor Required Us to Attend Van Jones Lecture.  An event this past Wednesday [1/23/2013] at Loyola University Chicago featuring former Obama administration official Van Jones strayed far from the marketed title of "2013 MLK Celebration," instead encouraging students to embrace a "new patriotism" and the "ugly-unequal founding" of America.

Pallor Games.  "A Wisconsin high school is under fire after parents discovered that the 'American Diversity' class taught students that minorities had historically been oppressed by white people," reports London's Daily Mail. [...] The parents aren't objecting to their children being taught historical facts about, say, slavery and Jim Crow, but rather to the curriculum's tendentious view of contemporary America.

Superintendent seeking termination of teacher accused of stomping on American flag in class.  The superintendent of a school district that has received national attention because of a teacher's controversial lesson plan has decided to recommend that teacher be terminated after allegedly throwing down the American flag and stomping on it in front of his classes.

South Carolina teacher on leave for stomping on American flag in front of class.  A high school teacher in South Carolina is under investigation and has been placed on long-term administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students.  Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., reprised the unpatriotic deed in three classes over the course of one day, reports local NBC affiliate WIS.

S.C. teacher quits after stomping flag.  A South Carolina high school English teacher who stomped on a U.S. flag said Friday [3/29/2013] he has resigned effective the end of the school year.

Update:
Chapin teacher got $85,000 in flag stomping deal.  Lexington-Richland 5 paid former Chapin High teacher Scott Compton $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge, part of a settlement that led to his resignation after he stomped on an American flag during a class lesson.

The Role of 'Educators'.  John Dewey saw the role of the teacher, not as a transmitter of a society's culture to the young, but as an agent of change — someone strategically placed, with an opportunity to condition students to want a different kind of society.  A century later, we are seeing schools across America indoctrinating students to believe in all sorts of politically correct notions.  The history that is taught in too many of our schools is a history that emphasizes everything that has gone bad, or can be made to look bad, in America — and that gives little, if any, attention to the great achievements of this country.

Every Idea Is an Incitement.  After I got tenure, I left the political Left and became a conservative Republican.  I know you've never had a conservative professor before and you are probably wondering what to expect.  In a nutshell, you can expect to hear the truth about a number of things for the very first time in your college career.  And that means you can probably expect to be offended from time to time.

Unmitigated propaganda in the New York Times:
Let's Give Up on the Constitution.  As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is.

The Editor says...
The writer of the article immediately above is identified by the New York Times as "a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University," which tells us a lot about the potential for anti-American indoctrination at Georgetown.  He never gets around to his alternatives to the Constitution, but apparently he would prefer that the America-hating Marxist, Barack H. Obama, be pronounced America's not-so-benevolent dictator, bypassing the ballot box.  The whole article sounds like sedition to me.

Subverting the Constitution.  Louis Michael Seidman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, is no fringe figure.  He is a pillar of the left wing legal establishment, graduate of Harvard Law, former clerk for Thurgood Marshall, and notable figure in the Leftist "critical legal theory" movement. [...] Seidman has taken to the pages of the daily bible of the progressive establishment, the New York Times, to lend respectability to a movement to subvert the Constitution, and turn to an undefined system which inevitably means the loss of our safeguards against tyranny.  All expressed in superficially reassuring prose.

Hey! Let's have a 'Burn the Constitution Day!'  I don't believe the Constitution is holy writ nor do I think that the Founders had all the answers for today's America.  But all public officials and members of the military swear fealty to our founding document for a reason; it is the most visible, the most tangible representation of our sovereignty as a nation.  We don't have kings, or castles, or ancient ruins to which we can point and say our sovereignty lies within.  It is the Constitution that unites us as a people.  And positing the notion that we should just throw it away is outrageously stupid and disquietingly radical.

Georgetown Law professor: Scrap 'archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil' Constitution.  Georgetown Law professor Louis Michael Seidman writes that the time has come to scrap the Constitution.  In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation's foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America's troubles.

Moving from an Emboldened Left in 2012 to a Legal Insurrection in 2013.  During my lifetime, there has always been an undercurrent of collusion between our public school systems and anti-America, anti-freedom philosophies.  But they are now emboldened to profess the alliance in the open.

Professor: I Want NRA Vice President's "Head on a Stick".  Campus Reform has reported that University of Rhode Island Professor Erik Loomis has called for NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre's "head on a stick" during a rant on his Twitter page.  Loomis also called the NRA a terrorist organization.

American Schools Replace Great Fiction With Government Propaganda.  Forty-six states have surrendered control of school curricula to the federal government under the remarkably successful and sweeping "Race to the Top" challenge.  By entering the challenge — with no promising of winning the money — states agreed to replace local school district curricula with federally mandated subjects and standards:  the common core state standards.  The process took less than two years, and ensures that the federal government will dictate every aspect of a child's learning forever.

A New Low From The California Federation Of Teachers: Urine Indoctrination.  If anything raises questions about the fitness of the California Federation of Teachers to be around kids, just look at its new video pushing class warfare doctrine by graphically depicting "the rich" urinating on the poor.  The angry, hate-filled cartoon video was placed right up top on the California Federation of Teachers' website, where children could see it, if it's not already being shown in classrooms.

96 percent of Ivy League professors' donations went to Obama.  Ivy League educators overwhelmingly supported President Obama with their campaign donations in the presidential election, reinforcing the suspicions of critics who say their bias also shows up in the classroom.  Some 96 percent of faculty and staffers at the eight universities who donated wrote their checks to Obama, and at Brown University, just one professor contributed to Mitt Romney's bid, according to a study by student political advocacy group Campus Reform.  In all, the employees of the prestigious schools sent more than $1.2 million to President Obama and just $114,166 for Romney's campaign — a ratio of more than 10-to-1.

Thanksgiving Celebrates Our 'Original Sin,' 'Views Virtually Identical To Nazis,' Journalism Prof Preaches.  Forget all that turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, today should be a day of fasting and atonement for American "sin."  That's according to Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin.  Jensen, known for his hard-left politics, also calls Thanksgiving a "white-supremacist holiday."

Emulating Dictators.  As if Obama's "Youth Brigade" wasn't bad enough last election season, now a pro-Obama song ad has been released by advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners titled, "Future Children Project, Re-electing President Obama."  Through the song's lyrics, they are using children to promote Obama's un-American, un-Constitutional agendas such as global warming, homosexuality, animal rights, welfare, green energy, government control of education, and a disdain for parents.

Guns, Guns, Guns.  If people are just grown-up animals, more articulate versions of the creatures who eat each other's young, and sometimes their own young, there is as much use in wondering about the nature of evil as there is in trying to understand why a killer whale kills. [...] But evil just can't be controlled.  Not with the sort of zero tolerance policies that confuse object with subject, which ban pocket knives and finger shootings to prevent real shootings.  That brand of control isn't authority, it's authority in panic mode believing that if it imposes total zero tolerance control then there will be no more school shootings.

Washington bureaucrats use force to suffocate liberty.  [Scroll down]  The Department of Education and the Department of Justice combined last week on instructions to the University of Montana to implement a breathtakingly broad speech code that is certain to violate thousands of students' First Amendment rights.  Preventing sexual harassment on campus is the pretext for the policy, which the government says is its blueprint for codes to be adopted by all colleges and universities.  Harassment is explicitly defined as including speech that isn't necessarily offensive to an "objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation."  In other words, it's sufficient that the listener is offended, regardless of intent or the particular facts of a given situation.

Feds to Students: You Can't Say That.  The first paragraph declares that the Montana findings should serve as a "blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country."  After outlining the specifics of the case, the letter states that only a stunningly broad definition of sexual harassment — "unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature" — will now satisfy federal statutory requirements.  This explicitly includes "verbal conduct," otherwise known as speech.

Federal government mandates unconstitutional speech codes at colleges and universities nationwide.  In a shocking affront to the United States Constitution, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education have joined together to mandate that virtually every college and university in the United States establish unconstitutional speech codes that violate the First Amendment and decades of legal precedent.

Say Anything Sexual That Offends Anyone on Campus, You Must Be Punished or School Can Lose Federal Funding.  The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is alarmed today at a letter from the Departments of Justice and Education to the University of Montana.

School Cancels Santorum Speech over Marriage Views.  A Michigan high school canceled a speech by former Sen. Rick Santorum after teachers became outraged over his opposition to gay marriage and threatened to stage protests and a possible work stoppage.  Santorum had been invited to deliver a upcoming speech on leadership by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Gross Pointe South High School.  But the speech was canceled on Monday [4/8/2013] after the school district's superintendent heard from angry teachers.

Intolerant Liberals at Macalester College.  If liberal academics were as open and tolerant as they claim to be, there would be a major soul-searching.  But of course, they are, as Bassem El-Remesh discovered, phonies, who mask their own intolerance in the Orwellian language of political correctness.

How Free Speech Died on Campus.  At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt.  At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran.  Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America:  the modern university [...]

School Lets Dems Register Students to Vote, But Not GOP.  Florida Republicans are outraged after a school district allowed a pro-Obama organization to conduct student voter registration drives and deliver speeches to classes — but denied the Romney campaign similar opportunities.  Pasco County Schools confirmed to Fox News that volunteers from Organizing For America were given access to as many as a half dozen high school and middle school campuses.

Philly Student Told to Lose Romney T-Shirt or Get Out.  No one made an issue of Samantha's political T-shirt until she got to geometry class.  "The teacher told me to get out of the classroom, I said no," Samantha said.  "She told me to take off my shirt and said that she has another one if I need one.  And then the teacher asked me... 'are your parents Republican?'  I said, 'I don't know.'  She said that's like her wearing a KKK shirt."

The Editor says...
It sounds to me as if the geometry teacher was equating Mitt Romney with the KKK.  Sounds like "hate speech" to me.

Romney T-shirt episode offers 'teachable moment' — for parents and teachers.  What happened to Samantha Pawlucy, also known as Romney Girl, most likely feeds into every conservative Pennsylvanian's perception of our city as a cesspool of Democratic liberals.  At her public school a week ago Friday, the Port Richmond sophomore says she was dissed on dress-down day because she had the temerity to wear a Romney/Ryan T-shirt, embracing the minority group our city least tolerates:  Republicans.  Geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon told Samantha that Charles Carroll High — a model of diversity with an enrollment that's one-third black, one-third white, and a third Latino — was a "Democratic" school.

Pro-Romney Student Bullied by Union Teacher, Gets No Support from Union.  The government sector unions that have funneled millions of dollars this election cycle to left leaning groups and candidates, have "no plans" to help a pro-Mitt Romney student who says she was victimized by a union member teacher for her political views and now fears for her life.  Samantha Pawlucy, a sophmore at Charles Carroll High School in Philadelphia, told local media outlets her geometry teacher, Lynette Gaymon, tried to throw her out of class for wearing a Romney/Ryan t-shirt and demanded Pawlucy take it off and now she is afraid to return to school for fear of being attacked.

Student in Romney t-shirt flap won't return to Carroll.  The next time Samantha Pawlucy returns to school, her father said, it won't be Charles Carroll High.  Pawlucy is at the center of controversy for accusing her math teacher of publicly humiliating her for wearing a Romney/Ryan t-shirt to school Sept. 28.  Her father, Richard, said her return to school Tuesday [10/9/2012] was so uncomfortable that the three high-school children in his home will not return to Carroll.

GOP candidate to protest school where teacher criticized student's Romney shirt.  Supporters of Samantha Pawlucy, the Port Richmond teen ridiculed by a teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney shirt, plan to bombard her school with patriotism Tuesday [10/9/2012].

Update:
Teacher who called Romney t-shirt 'KKK garb' under investigation.  The public school teacher who bullied a student wearing a pro-Romney t-shirt is being investigated, according to a spokesperson for the school district.  "We are in the midst of our process, the due process, of investigating," said Fernando Gallard, chief of communications for the School District of Philadelphia, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.  "We expect the process to be done within a couple of weeks or so."

Another update:
Philly teen who says she was mocked by teacher for wearing Romney T-shirt sues school district.  The family of a Philadelphia teenager who says she was mocked by her geometry teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt to class has sued the teacher and the school district.

School suspends student for wearing NRA shirt, then has him arrested.  The Lefties may have lost the fight for gun control in D.C., but now they're apparently taking the fight to targets that are more their speed:  8th graders.

Prof at public univ under investigation for allegedly forcing students to make anti-gun posters.  A professor at a public university in Texas is under investigation from school administrators for allegedly forcing students in her graphic design class to create anti-gun posters for a personal anti-gun campaign she had launched.  Midwestern State University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Betty Stewart confirmed to Campus Reform Friday [4/5/2013] the school has launched an investigation into professor Jennifer Yucus' conduct after a student filed an official complaint on Thursday [4/4/2013].

Public university art students forced to design anti-gun propaganda.  An assistant professor of art and graphic design at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas is under investigation for allegedly forcing graphic design students to create anti-gun artwork for her own personal crusade against firearms.  Campus Reform broke the story and confirmed that officials at the public, taxpayer-supported school launched an investigation after receiving a student's official complaint last week.

School: Americans Don't Have Right to Bear Arms.  The father of a Connecticut child is furious after discovering that his son's school is teaching students that Americans don't have a Second Amendment right to bear arms.  "I am appalled," said Steven Boibeaux, of Bristol.  "It sounds to me like they are trying to indoctrinate our kids."

Schools Teaching Americans Do NOT Have A Right To Bear Arms.  Connecticut school is teaching students that Americans don't have a right to bear arms.  Did the Liberal Marxist Teachers Unions repeal the second amendment without telling us?

Maryland father appeals son's controversial pastry 'gun' suspension.  The father of a 7-year-old Maryland boy who was suspended for shaping a pastry into a gun has filed a formal appeal of his son's punishment.  William "B.J." Welch is asking officials at Park Elementary School in Baltimore to remove the offense from the second-grader's records, according to the Washington Post.

Maryland lawmaker introduces bill after pastry 'gun' suspension.  A Maryland lawmaker has introduced legislation after a 7-year-old boy in his district was suspended for shaping a pastry into what his teacher thought looked like a gun.  The Star Democrat reports that Republican Sen. J.B. Jennings introduced a bill that would prohibit schools from suspending students for seemingly harmless childish acts, such as playing games with fingers pointed like guns or chewing food into the shape of a firearm.

The Editor says...
Scroll down for the background on this story, where you see the words "breakfast pastry."  In a saner world, with intelligent professionals in charge of the public schools, and fewer lawyers waiting to pounce, incidents like this would never happen.  A little kid should be permitted to chew on any corner of his food without worrying about the resulting shape.  By exposing these stories to the light of day, and openly mocking the officials who make decisions based on irrational fear, perhaps "zero tolerance" can be slowed down.  I doubt if it will ever be halted completely, because the primary purpose of the public schools now appears to be instilling a fear and hatred of guns.  The government that wants to disarm the teeming masses must start by indoctrinating the school children.

Much more about this story, and many others like it, on the Zero Tolerance page.

The Big Lie Department.  [Scroll down]  Any poll respondent under the age of 40 is 90% likely to have been inundated with "America bad" notions during his grammar and secondary school years.  More, the percent of persons who hold "America bad" views varies directly with population density and inversely with distance from the ocean.  We're in the middle of a giant sorting process: one protracted over time and determined by moral and political values.  Polls such as the one referenced [earlier in this article] reflect that.  More to the point, they reflect the terrible power the Left's control over formal education has bequeathed them in the political sphere.

Paterson principal is under scrutiny for alleged Thanksgiving announcement.  School officials said Thursday that they were investigating a complaint that a high school principal made an inappropriate announcement before Thanksgiving break. [...] A purported recording of the announcement has been emailed among teachers and was sent to The Record and Herald News.  In the recording, a man can be heard saying: "We must very, very, very, very understanding to our Native Americans, who lost and sacrificed because of the scalping that took place on Thanksgiving.  They were invited to a dinner, and then their lives were taken from them."