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Here is an education story from Indianapolis. The most shocking item in the story is that a middle school still offers shop class. Oh yeah, and there were some sixth graders that had sex during class with the teacher present…

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6180780&nav=9Tai

Excerpt from the story…

School district: Sixth graders had sex in class

Sandra Chapman/13 Investigates

Indianapolis – For months it’s been a well-kept secret. But now Warren Township Schools confirm a disturbing case of sex in the classroom. The illicit activity has parents concerned and a district at a loss for words.

Shop class gives students a chance to learn outside of the book. But at Warren Township’s Raymond Park Middle School, two students engaged in illicit acts in view of goggled eyes.

13 Investigates was tipped off by a disturbed resident who writes:

“…during school hours in a classroom with an experienced teacher present, two sixth graders completed the act of intercourse…at least ten students were witnesses. No disciplinary actions were taken against the teacher… All teachers were told to keep quiet.”

Isn’t public education great?

Today there are couple of news stories about educators in trouble.

Allenna Ward, a 23 year old female middle school teacher from Clinton, South Carolina, has been arrested for having sex with five 14 and 15 year old boys. I will refrain from joking about the irony of a town named Clinton. The encounters took place at school, a motel, behind a restaurant, and in a park. This is obviously a very progressive health education program. http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=47442

John Acerra, a middle school principal from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has been arrested for selling crystal methamphetamine to an undercover DEA agent. He was selling the drugs from his office at school. So much for a drug free school zone. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2912316

Conventional wisdom (from Hollywood and standup comedians), says that priests are all lecherous pedophiles. I didn’t see any articles today about priests in handcuffs. When was the last time that you thought about your child’s safety in public schools?

Teachers at Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle, Washington are teaching socialism with Legos. This will make your head explode….

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=022107C
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excerpt from the article…

Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.

A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of “Rethinking Schools” magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.

According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate “Legotown,” but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore “the inequities of private ownership.” According to the teachers, “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.”

The children were allegedly incorporating into Legotown “their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys.” These assumptions “mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive.”

They claimed as their role shaping the children’s “social and political understandings of ownership and economic equity … from a perspective of social justice.

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“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists. Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.”

John D. Dewey (1859 – 1952)
“father of progressive education”