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calendar   Thursday - February 24, 2011

football for the kiddies banned as too dangerous. future olympic spongeball champs now in training.

So here I am again with nothing to say because .... I can’t find the right words.  There’s quite a few I can think of but it would only reinforce the fact that my vocabulary is less then sufficient. I do tend to turn the air blue with frustration.

When I was a kid, I once broke my forearm at school. And btw ... it was set by a vet as we had no GP nearby. We were in farm country in the hills and the vet was at the bottom around the corner in a manor of speaking.  My mom didn’t sue either. In those far off days, I doubt anyone would have thought of it.

Ppl who read BMEWS on a regular basis and have for awhile, know that I’ve often posted stories about the ridiculous Health and Safety rules and regs here.
Haven’t presented one to you in awhile. Hasn’t been much.  Thought maybe the new govt. had done away with elf ‘n’ safety dept.
Guess not.
Take a look.


‘Elf and safety brigade slaps ban on footballs in the PLAYGROUND… because they’re too dangerous

By JAMES TOZER

For decades, the nation’s playgrounds have echoed with the thud of a firmly-struck football.

But children living in the streets where England football star Steven Gerrard grew up are being denied that innocent, wholesome pleasure - and it’s all in the name of health and safety.

Pupils at a primary school in Huyton, near Liverpool, have been banned from bringing modern synthetic or leather footballs into the playground and told to use balls made of sponge instead.

Teachers say the heavy balls are unsuitable for an enclosed space where young children may be playing, saying it risks injury.

However amid fears over Britain’s childhood obesity epidemic, as well as worries over where our next generation of sporting champions is going to come from, critics last night slammed the edict as an absurd over-reaction.

The rule was spelt out in this month’s newsletter sent out by Malvern Primary School in Huyton, a deprived area with Britain’s second worst obesity record.

The district has nevertheless long been regarded as a hotbed of footballing talent, having produced the likes of Liverpool captain Gerrard in addition to former Everton hero Peter Reid - now manager of Plymouth Argyle - and notorious Newcastle United player Joey Barton.

It informed parents: ‘Please can we request that only sponge balls are brought into school. This is to ensure the safety of all our pupils when on the playground.’

But Tam Fry, chairman of obesity prevention charity the Child Growth Foundation, said: ‘Children must be exposed to risk, otherwise how can they be expected to learn?

‘It may think it is protecting the children, but they could just as easily fall over playing with a sponge ball.

‘Policies like this mean our children are in danger of becoming cocooned cotton buds.’

Critics say it is just the latest obstacle created by political correctness to stand in the way of the exercise and life skills children can gain from taking part in sport.

Last summer a primary school in Devon banned playground football altogether, saying pupils were copying the cheating and fouling displayed at the World Cup.

Shortly afterwards, brothers Henry and Alex Worthington, 12 and 11, were threatened with antisocial behaviour orders by three police officers while having a kickabout in the cul-de-sac where they live in Timperley, Greater Manchester.

Mr Fry added: ‘We do have a litigation culture, but you can’t tell me Steven Gerrard did not play football in the playground - I bet he even fell over a few times.’

And Adrian Voce, director of Play England, which advises schools on safe, fun pastimes, pointed out that last year’s review on health and safety by Lord Young recommended a common sense approach to managing risk in children’s play-times.

‘Research tells us that children need to play adventurously and test themselves, yet many children don’t get the opportunity to do so in our risk-adverse society,’ he said.

‘Children must be allowed to encounter some risks for themselves as a natural part of their play and growing up.’

Knowsley, Huyton’s local district, has among the country’s worst GCSE results, and in 2004 was ranked behind only Hull in a league table of Britain’s fattest towns.

Malvern Primary School yesterday insisted the football crackdown was not new, saying the reminder had been issued after a parent complained that a child was nearly hurt.

It pointed out that its cramped playground was shared by pupils of all ages but stressed it was supportive of sport and backed the importance of physical exercise.

In a statement it added: ‘Malvern Primary School treats the health and safety of its pupils as a top priority and has for a long time had a policy of protecting children by recommending sponge balls in the playground before school starts and during breaks, especially as the playground accommodates children from the age of four to 11.’

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I was tempted to put the moonbats on this article till the thought struck me. What if they’re doing this to avoid any future lawsuits?  What if some little kid broke his arm on the playground or anywhere on school property?
OK so .... future sponge ball champs?


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 02/24/2011 at 03:50 PM   
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calendar   Tuesday - February 22, 2011

Moron Wisconsin




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No, I don’t believe in unions. Thanks for asking. And the unions that I don’t believe in the most are the ones that “represent” government workers. Excuse me, you buncha tax leeches, but you work for us. All of you. Work. For all of us. And we’re a much bigger union than you are.

Hey Wisconsin: Fire them all and hire new teachers across the board, from the ranks of your state unemployed. Find anyone with a college degree and give them a 60 day course in teaching. Take the top 70% of those people and put them them to work. At half the current average pay. And a 5 year open ended contract, with performance analysis caveats. Which means the new teachers get canned if they don’t do a good job, but if they do do a good job you can negotiate to keep them after the 5 years is up. For the newly hired, it means a guarantee of 5 years of work, if they don’t mess up. What more can you ask in this economy? Raises and benes? Sure, give them family health coverage for which they contribute $200/mo. 5 tier review after 90 days, 6 months, 1 year, and each year after. 5-3-1-0% raise at annual marks. 10-7-4-2% raise at 6 month mark*.

* for those of you fortunate enough to have never been exposed to the corporate practice of “quartiling” or “quintiling”, it’s a performance review where you get rated into one of several slots along a Bell curve. The biggest raises go to the best performing people. The lowest quintile or quartile? They get fired if they’re still in that category in 90 days. The folks in the “you almost suck” category get nothing for a raise, but they still have a job. You’d want to do a new version of this horror, because the usual corporate one has massive latent history. Which means that once you’re “3rd quartile” once you’re 3rd quartile forever, no matter what. So it sucks.

In theory, a top notch unemployed person under my plan could come in, become a teacher, start out at 50% current average pay ($53,000 IIRC that current ave is $106K), go to $58,300 at 6 mo, $61215 at 1 yr, $64275 yr 2, $67489 yr 3, $70864 yr 4, and $74407 yr 5. And they’d have 5 solid years being an ace teacher at that point, which should be a very good bargaining position. And the state would have saved nearly $200,000 on that one salary in the 5 year period compared to the current union pay average. Plus the health benefit contribution of $12,000 the employee made during that time. You would have to design in a top level where the pay flatlines though. No 3rd grade teacher job on the planet is worth more than ... say $85,000. And I think that’s rather generous.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/22/2011 at 02:33 PM   
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calendar   Tuesday - February 08, 2011

AH, THE WONDERFUL ADVANTAGES OF SOCIALISM WHERE ALL IS EQUAL.

Nothing wrong with helping out kids who can qualify with good grades who need help. But this does not read that way, unless I misunderstood something.
Oh well, never mind.  Commissar will see to things so that comrade students of the oppressed proletariat will be made equal even if they aren’t.


Nick Clegg orders universities to lower entrance requirements - but only for poorer students

By JAMES CHAPMAN

Deputy PM declares class war on ‘instruments of social segregation’

Nick Clegg is to make an explosive attack on British universities as ‘instruments of social segregation’ as he orders them to stop taking so many middle-class students.

The Deputy Prime Minister will this week insist that top institutions must ‘throw open their doors’ and lower their entrance requirements for the less well-off.

It could mean top institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge, that usually ask for three As at A-level, accepting disadvantaged students with only Bs and Cs.

Universities that want to charge tuition fees of £6,000 or more will be forced to sign up to ‘access agreements’, ensuring they admit more students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The move will prompt fears that bright pupils from good schools or middle-class homes could lose out on sought-after places.

Cambridge University today revealed it is planning to charge students the maximum £9,000 in tuition fees from next year.

Poorer students would be offered reductions of up to £3,000 per year, plus bursaries of up to £1,625.

Mr Clegg will on Thursday write to the Office of Fair Access – the body set up by Labour to police university admissions – setting out the new system.

Institutions are expected to be allowed to draw up their own methods of broadening their intake.

But critics fear teenagers from comprehensives will increasingly be given easier A-level offers than candidates from fee-paying schools.

One headmaster suggested to the Times that universities that usually ask for three As at A-level from candidates could accept disadvantaged pupils with Bs and Cs.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 02/08/2011 at 12:41 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - February 02, 2011

Tiger Mom Say Study Harder

Here’s a link over to Burning Hot, where Scott has the best of the Tiger Mom supermotivators on display. And the Asian Dads ones too, who I’m guessing have a reputation for pinching the pennies until they scream.

In case you haven’t been following the Tiger Mom story - it was on the cover of lefty Time Magazine last week - it’s the meme about Asian moms who push their kids really hard. One of them wrote a book about it, and she’s got rather a negative opinion about the American school system. Soccer moms everywhere are all worked up. I gather that Asian parents have high expectations for their children, and labor under the assumption that the kids have both the ability to achieve, and the drive to succeed, as long as the parents set high standards. Really high standards. Like “Get straight A’s in everything or I’ll burn all your toys”. Yet somehow the kids survive, and excel in school. Whether they have any imagination or freethinking ability is up for debate.

It’s the polar opposite to the coddling crap that goes on in US schools and households today. But it’s fun to have fun with Tiger Moms. Let the beatings begin!


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/02/2011 at 03:00 PM   
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calendar   Saturday - January 29, 2011

Mom Got Schooled

Fake Your Address

Send Your Kids To A Better School

Go To Jail



Ohio mother convicted of felony because she said her kids lived with their father so that they could attend a better, safer public school. Now she’s a felon, and her career as an aspiring teacher is over.


Kelley Williams-Bolar, a 40-year-old mother of two, was convicted of a felony last week and sent to jail for 10 days. Her crime? Falsifying records so her kids could attend a safer school in the district where her father lives.

Uh-oh! Sounds like two little girls were trying to get a free education off the back of hard-working tax payers, and if that’s not worth a felony charge, I don’t know what is. Williams-Bolar, according to the prosecution, lives in subsidized housing in Akron, Ohio, and not with her father in Copley Township—as she claimed on several official school forms when she enrolled her two daughters. The Copley schools are, it seems, better and safer than the schools in Akron. (They are also whiter. Williams-Bolar is black. But obviously race has nothing to do with this case!)

The school district grew suspicious enough about the Williams-Bolar kids to, apparently, hire a private detective, who filmed Williams-Bolar dropping her children off at a bus stop near her parents’ house.

According to the presiding judge, Patricia Cosgrove, who spoke with The Akron Beacon-Journal, “the state would not move, would not budge, and offer Ms. Williams-Bolar to plead to a misdemeanor,” despite several pretrial hearings.

Williams-Bolar, a teaching assistant, is working towards a teaching degree, but her felony conviction will likely derail that.

Looks like the father and grandfather are also in a bit of trouble over this. Williams-Bolar was released early from jail and is now making a big fuss and demanding complete exoneration.

A whole bushel of links on the story can be found here.

Interesting situation. A black woman wants her kids out of the lousy and dangerous local black school, so she says they live with the other parent, who has an address in the better, whiter school district. Both districts are within the city of Akron, so it isn’t like neither parent was paying school taxes into the city system. Or were they? I would assume Mom is on some level of public assistance, since she lives in subsidized housing, but she works at least part-time. Does the father work? He lives elsewhere, with his father, but everyone still seems to be on speaking terms. Are they married? Were they ever married? Is he working but living with his father only so that she and the girls can get rent free housing? Did the Copley Township schools only push this case to court because she’s black? (a dozen cases a year like this come up, but none ever go to trial, much less conviction). Had Williams-Bolar tried for a waiver before this, or did she just decide to falsify things from the get-go?

If you try to make things better for your children by following the rules and get nowhere, is it Ok to bend or break the rules to get what you want? This case is a victimless crime, isn’t it?

Or perhaps the whole thing is a big miscarriage of justice. According to one article I read,

The effect of divorce on a student’s residence also is a factor for districts. A child in joint custody with parents in different districts has a right to go to either, said Russell Chaboudy, superintendent of Coventry school.

Any $2 lawyer could get “divorce” interpreted as “living separately” considering how rare actual marriage is these days. If Chaboudy is paraphrasing actual law, then this case may have been really poorly handled if certain legal priorities exist. By which I mean the “divorce” rule overrides the “actual residency of the child” rule, which it certainly could if parental custody was exactly 50-50.

I read several articles about the case, but not all of them, and it does not look like she is overtly playing the race card. That in itself is interesting, because a quick look at the other dozen cases per year that come up would point out any racial bias, and you’ve got to wonder about it, since the Copley school board hired a private detective to make their case, which is something they’ve never done before. And with all the other cases clogging up the court system, and plea bargains buzzing around like mayflies, the prosecutors were 100% unwilling to make any kind of deal on this case? So maybe she ought to be playing it for all it’s worth. Or maybe it’s in play just by having her picture in the paper. Or maybe, just for once, race is merely coincidental to the case.

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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 01/29/2011 at 09:02 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - January 20, 2011

Time To Ramp Up Production

Hillerich & Bradsby, the company behind the Louisville Slugger brand of baseball bats, turns out about 1 million bats per year. If they turned production over tomorrow and made nothing but ClueBats, they’d never be able to make enough. Case in point ... here we go again ...



Oklahoma First Grader suspended for making finger guns at school

No, not guns that shoot fingers. He stuck out his thumb and index finger and went “pow pow pow”. Like every little boy on earth does. And got thrown out of school for it.

A seven-year-old child was suspended from his elementary school after making a seemingly harmless gesture many see everyday. Meet the little boy and see exactly what he did.
Patrick Riley was simply trying to distract himself during an assembly at his school. The first grade student formed a gun with his hand and pretended to shoot the wall with a fellow student. That’s when he was asked to go home.

‘Him and a little girl were just getting bored at an assembly and doing some target practice at the wall,’ Lydia Fox, Patrick’s mother, explained.

The school disagreed with Fox’s interpretation and issued a statement regarding Patrick’s misbehavior.

‘A student has repeatedly used his hands to simulate a gun and act as if is shooting fellow students,’ Parkview Elementary clarified.

Fox says the principal told her the boy would be placed in in-school suspension for the rest of that day and threatened a longer suspension if it happened again.

Midwest City-Del City Schools spokeswoman Stacey Boyer confirmed the incident and says the district’s policy is to “address the disruption of the learning environment.” Boyer says Fox’s son “has repeatedly used his hands to simulate a gun.”

Fox said her son, Patrick Riley, who is in first grade at Parkview Elementary, was asked to go home after he formed a gun with his hand and started to pretend he was shooting at a wall.

School leaders said Riley was misbehaving during the assembly. Fox said she was outraged at the reason why her son was suspended.

“One of the things I’ve always been able to brag about Oklahoma is that common sense still rules here. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can say that anymore,” Fox said.
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Parkview Elementary said Riley was not suspended anymore.

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3 shifts a day still couldn’t make ClueBats fast enough


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 01/20/2011 at 06:42 PM   
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calendar   Monday - November 29, 2010

school daze and teacher seductiuon? make that abduction. abduction without seduction?

This article is interesting more for what it doesn’t tell us.

These days the reports of female teachers seducing young boys is becoming so common it isn’t even shocking anymore. Or surprising.
And btw ... I really do question the “seduction” part of the stories I have seen, recalling that boys that age are already primed for seduction.
There’s not much to seduce and I think the use of the word “child” as the Mail does here is totally without reason. Child?  In today’s world?
With all the images already out there in movies, DVDs, posters, computers and lets not forget advertising and oh yeah, how about MTV? No,no.
The ‘C’ word here is uncalled for and misleading. 

But back to this article .... apparently there is no charge of seduction.  It’s abduction. Which leaves unanswered - abduction for what reason if not sex?

The five charges of sexual activity with the youngster were not put to the defendant and she will not now face prosecution on those counts.

Doesn’t that appear odd to you?  Here the story.

Ballet teacher who had been accused of having sex with underage pupil admits abducting 15-year-old boy

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 4:47 PM on 29th November 2010

Sarah Pirie, pictured, admitted taking the teenager away from his legal guardians.

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A ballet teacher who had been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy today confessed to abducting the youngster.

Sarah Pirie, 27, admitted taking the child away from his legal guardians on May 22 last year, Preston Crown Court heard.

Pirie, whose current address is Marner, Luxembourg, had originally also been charged with five counts of sexual activity with the same boy between March and June of last year.

Pirie had pleaded not guilty to all charges and was due to undergo a three week trial starting today.

But after discussions between prosecution and defence barristers, only the single charge of child abduction was put to the defendant, to which she pleaded guilty.

The five charges of sexual activity with the youngster were not put to the defendant and she will not now face prosecution on those counts.

The court heard the prosecution’s case depended on the ‘quality and credibility’ of the youngster’s evidence and it would be ‘inappropriate to maintain the allegations in respect of the other counts’.

Michael Lavery, prosecuting, added: ‘In this case the crown came to the view that there is no realistic prospect of a conviction.’

No more details were given in open court and the circumstances relating to the child abduction charge were not explained.

All the charges related to a time when Pirie, originally from Dundee, worked as a ballet teacher and choreographer in the north west of England.

Pirie, who has no previous convictions, was given bail until sentencing on January 7 on condition she does not approach the youngster again and co-operates with probation for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.

Judge Michael Byrne told the defendant: ‘You should understand this, because it is most important, the fact that I’m ordering a pre-sentence report in no way indicates the nature of the final sentence. All options will be available to me when I deal with this.’

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/29/2010 at 04:01 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - November 24, 2010

law and disorder and student protests make their point by attacking police and causing damage

The video below is from a week ago. There are more protests in other cities today. Students?  Well, not exactly all. But, there were some very good photos of a few in the hardcopy editions. Interesting. One of the so called students is the head of a student union and she’s a 37 year old marxist.
Another interesting thing .... some of the students aren’t even Brits .... and an awful lot of the ppl causing damage and committing assault, are kids from middle class families, many who live in expensive homes, the offspring of parents who are very far from being poor.

What this is all about is the increase in college tuitions. A very,very large increase. I think it’s going from £3,000 to £9,000. I’m certain about the 9.
That is a large increase all at once.  However .... the govt. is allowing an increase in the amount earned by students after graduating, before any loans must be paid back.  Example ....

Under the old system, they would start paying back once they earned £15,000 a year.  Now ... that figure has been increased to £21,000.  So no paybacks until they start earning £21,000.  And they have 30 years as I understand it. 

Some of the young involved in these “protests” are as young as 13 or 14.  Seems to me they’re being a bit premature.  While it’s true not all are violent, the ones who are, are not really concerned with fairness and cost.  They are mostly left led and out for fun. Fun means attacking cops who unfortunately are not allowed to shoot the bastards dead. Fun means damaging property and setting fires.

One of last weeks agitators is actually a youngish lecturer at a college, who said the violent ones were brilliant and publicly encourages more of the same.

(note to Drew. heads up for mail on that sent today via snail)

This we have rights thing has been carried to such extremes, that it seems protests which may be honest at the start are ALWAYS, always taken over by the fringe group of pleasure seeking criminals with no jobs anyway, and are led happily and with great enthusiasm by the far left.
If there really were any justice, or anyone with the real desire to right things, these folks would be made an example of. But no luck there so look for more of the same in the future.

Almost forgot to mention it and just reminded by wife.  Just to make things even worse .....

A FRENCH STUDENT UNION HAS SENT OVER A CONTINGENT IN SUPPORT OF THE PROTESTERS.
whatcha think of them apples bmews readers?

Video from the BBC


Police officer ‘has his arm broken’ and another is knocked out as latest tuition fees protest turns ugly in Whitehall

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:44 PM on 24th November 2010

* Demonstrators smash into police van and steal uniforms
* Two officers injured as they clash with protesters
* Territorial Support Group rushed in to bolster police lines

* More protests in Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow

Police officers appeared to be seriously injured today as angry demonstrators protesting against the hike in tuition fees again brought chaos to the streets.

Around 10,000 students and protesters flooded London for a new demonstration just a fortnight after anarchists unleashed mayhem at the Tory Party headquarters.

Scotland Yard, determined not to be caught on the hop a second time, ensured hundreds of officers were on duty and quickly reinforced numbers as flashpoints developed.

Two officers so far have been taken to hospital, one with a broken arm and another with a leg injury. Shocking footage outside the Foreign Office showed another being dragged to safety, apparently knocked out cold.

Huge crowds had attempted to break the security cordon outside the building but the line of police was quickly bolstered to ensure the barricades were not breached, unlike a fortnight ago.

The Territorial Support Group, who are more highly-training in public order containment, were then rushed in after protesters tried to batter their way to Downing Street using a barrier.

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Many are also protesting because they want FREE tuition.  See photos at the link and more story.

Please see this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmudJafnQh0

And by all means, see this:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11829102


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/24/2010 at 11:00 AM   
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calendar   Monday - November 22, 2010

JEWS AGAIN SUFFER THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGOUS FRAUD …..

Nu? So what else is new?  We all know Jews poison wells and even invented the common cold. Right?

Seriously, this kinda thing is maddening when you think about it.  The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is, among other things, getting some attention in a program being aired tonight.  Hard to believe sometimes that something so fraudulent and proven to be so, is being taught in muslim schools here in the UK. Or perhaps not so hard to believe considering it’s source. It isn’t bad enough I guess that so many are very liberal and very left and add to the enmity many already feel.  Now the damn protocols are being given life, if they ever ended, to open young minds who will absorb everything theyare told. And will believe.
It’ll never end. And worst of it is, there are plenty of liberal minded left wing Jews who stupidly help the very ppl who want to do away with them, and think of the many very conservative and right wings Jews as Fascists.  Of course, anybody Jew or not who doesn’t agree with left wing thought is a Nazi.  Right?

Now having said all that, I’m not certain I disapprove of some aspects of Sharia law. The treatment of thieves is appealing, I think. 

Sharia lessons for pupils aged six: BBC uncovers ‘weekend schools’ that teach pupils how to hack off thieves’ hands
By James Slack
· Pupils asked to list the ‘reprehensible’ qualities of Jews
· Around 5,000 children attend a network of 40 schools
· Diagrams show children how to hack off hands and feet

So-called ‘weekend schools’ for Muslim pupils as young as six also teach that the penalty for gay sex is execution and that ‘Zionists’ are plotting to take over the world for the Jews.
One set textbook challenges youngsters to list the ‘reprehensible’ qualities of Jews.
Another for six-year-olds asks them to answer what happens to someone who dies who is not a believer in Islam. The answer being looked for is ‘hellfire’.
A BBC Panorama investigation, to be screened tonight, identified a network of more than 40 weekend schools teaching around 5,000 children, from age six to 18.

The schools – which offer the hardline Saudi National Curriculum – are run under the umbrella of ‘Saudi Students Clubs and Schools in the UK and Ireland’.
They are not state-funded, and do not use Government buildings. They are able to exploit a loophole which means weekend schools are not inspected by Ofsted.
Last night, experts at the Policy Exchange think-tank warned that similar extremists could seek to exploit the Government’s policy of giving greater freedoms from state control to free schools and academies.

Clear message: Education Secretary Michael Gove has said he would not tolerate anti-Semitism and homophobia in English schools
They call for the establishment of a due diligence unit to check whether those applying to open the schools have an extremist background.
There are diagrams showing children where cuts must be made. One passage says: ‘The specified punishment of the thief is cutting off his right hand at the wrist. Then it is cauterised to prevent him from bleeding to death.’

The text books for 15-year-olds revive the so-called ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, which teach that Zionists want to establish world domination for Jews.
The Saudi text books instruct pupils: ‘The Jews have tried to deny them (the Protocols) but there are many proofs of their veracity and their origin among the elders of Zion.’

The text books say the ‘main goal’ of the ‘Zionist movement’ is ‘for the Jews to have control over the world and its resources’ which, the book allege, Zionists seek to achieve partly by ‘inciting rancour and rivalry among the great powers so that they fight one another.’
Panorama separately claimed some Muslim private schools have expressed extreme sentiments on their school websites.

These include: ‘We need to defend our children from the forces of evil’, and ‘our children are exposed to a culture that is in opposition to almost everything Islam stands for’.

If they’re worried about western exposure on their children, then what in heaven’s name are they doing here in the west? Go away dick heads. Leave.
Nobody but the left will miss you. Go where you belong to begin with.  Ah right.  Little if any financial benefits. Talk outta turn and perhaps more then a hand might be lost.  Arranged weddings even under duress, filth and ignorance and dark age mentality. Go. You’ll fit right in seamlessly.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 11/22/2010 at 07:50 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - November 18, 2010

moonbat of the year?  I give up. Things just keep getting so pc they all win top prize.

So I guess now I join the pc brigade awarding all of em the top prize for moonbattery , thus leaving no one a loser. Which of course isn’t planned. Just works out that way. I keep reading things in the papers that stagger the imagination, the Brits would say “Barking Mad” and they’d be correct.
Like this story in the morning paper for example.

Do you remember your school days when asked a question and we all threw up our hands if we thought we knew the answer?  Well, apparently it’s been discovered that the kids who don’t raise their hands cos they just don’t know (or maybe are shy?) might feel left out of things.
So how do you address that problem?  Oh. You never knew it was a problem?  Well, it just became one.

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School bans children from putting their hands up


A school is to ban pupils from putting up their hands when they know an answer in class – because it “alienates” less intelligent children.

11:14AM GMT 17 Nov 2010

Children at Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, will now have to wait to be asked questions in class, rather than putting themselves forward.

The radical new plans come after teachers at the school worked alongside teaching guru Professor Dylan Wiliam – who claims that asking children to put their hands up alienates other pupils.

Teachers will now be picking pupils at random to answer questions – to stop brighter and more outgoing children from answering too many questions.

Lynne Jones, assistant principal of the school said: “It means there’s no hiding place for children in a lesson, there’s no opt out.”

Teachers at the school will also stop grading pupils’ work as part of the radical new teaching methods.

Professor Wiliam, from London’s Institute of Education, has even advised teachers to write comments about pupils’ work on separate pieces of paper – and make them guess which comment is meant for their work.

Professor Wiliam claims that if work is graded, pupils don’t bother reading the comments left by teachers – and has instructed teachers to stop giving pupils an overall mark on every piece of work – instead grading them for effort every six weeks.

He said: “Teachers could write the comments on strips of paper instead of on the essays. They could then get a group of pupils to match up the comments to their essays.

School head teacher, Mark Stanyer, said: “What we are trying to achieve is to get pupils to think for themselves.”

I suppose the grading thing they speak of here might be okay but the hands thing is silly. If the same kids keep trying to answer questions, doesn’t a teacher always have the option to call on any kid he or she wants to?

The wife has an observation re. liberalism in schools.  I hadn’t given it a lot of thought but she wonders if anyone hasn’t clued into the fact that as schools get more and more liberal, anti social behavior increases.  I think she has a valid point there.

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calendar   Friday - October 29, 2010

Find The Real Boobs

Boobs in boob jobs getting boob jobs that are paid for by other boobs with jobs

which means

Buffalo NY teachers had $9 million worth of cosmetic surgery last year

at the public’s expense


Aren’t teacher’s unions wonderful?


Buffalo teachers left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $9 million worth of cosmetic surgery last year, according to the state-appointed authority overseeing public school finances.

The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority found that last year’s costs for elective procedures such as chemical peels and other skin treatments were up $8 million over 2004’s $1 million tab for cosmetic surgery.

The procedures, provided under the teachers’ union contract, accounted for 9 percent of the district’s total spending on health benefits for employees and retirees, The Buffalo News reported Thursday.

About 10,000 school employees are eligible for the benefit. District officials said teachers or their dependents accounted for 90 percent of the approximately 500 people who received cosmetic surgery last year.

Barbara J. Smith, the district’s chief financial officer, said those 500 people represent less than 2 percent of those covered by health insurance through the district—a figure she estimated works out to an average of nearly $18,000 in elective procedures last year per employee who used the benefit.

The president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation said the union has agreed to give up the benefit in the next contract and said teachers may be simply rushing to use the benefit while they can.

Somebody tell me why elective cosmetic surgery was EVER in their health plan to being with. Talk about your “Cadillac care plans”! Horry clap. And this bennie was extended to all family members and retirees.

Sheesh. Your kid can’t read, but his teacher sure has a nice perky rack!

Throw them out. To hell with renegotiating a contract. Fire them all and start over. Union free. No unions for teachers, cops, firefighters, postal workers, or anyone else who works for the government.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/29/2010 at 12:00 PM   
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calendar   Monday - October 25, 2010

Head teacher says schoolchildren do not need books …. ok, then what?  answer > Wikipedia.

At some point last week, or maybe the one before, I posted a stupid school story. I can’t even remember now exactly what was at issue, except I assigned it a Moonbat I’m sure.

Well, now it’s the turn of my own country and frankly I don’t get it.  No books?  How’s that work? This I think deserves a Moonbat or two. See what you make of it.
Is it only me or does this not make any sense?  And what’s this person doing in a school anyway?  Read on and see an example of his academic brilliance.
Maybe someone should have shared a book with him. 

batbat


Head teacher says schoolchildren do not need books and recommends Wikipedia

The head teacher of a school in New York is facing calls to resign after he sent out an error-strewn letter claiming that children did not need books, while he also recommended Wikipedia.

By Jon Swaine in New York

Andrew Buck, the principal of The Middle School for Art and Philosophy, Brooklyn, wrote to his teachers to defend the school’s policy of not providing textbooks, which had been criticised by some parents.

His memo contained so many spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and non-sequiturs that a concerned member of staff passed it on to parents, who began handing out copies at the school gates.

Mr Buck, who is paid $130,000 (£83,000) a year, wrote: “Text books are the soup de jour, the *sine qua non*, the nut and bolts of teaching and learning in high school and college so to speak.” However, he added, “just because student have a text book, doesn’t mean she or she will be able to read it Additionally students can’t use a text book to learn how to learn from a textbook.

“Are text books necessary? No. Are text books important? Yes. Can a teacher sufficiently teach a course without them? Yes, but conditionally.”

Mr Buck went on to say that not being able to answer questions in his own school textbooks made him feel “dumb and inadequate” when he was a boy.

“Personal experience aside, which surfaces a concern about the potential adverse affects of textbooks to students learning, let’s return to the essential question of learning and how it is best achieved,” he wrote.

After listing the names of educational theorists whose work, he said, would back up his claims, Mr Buck wrote: “Check out Wikipedia if you want to learn more about learning theory”.

Pupils at the school, where only one in eight 14-year-olds passed state reading exams last year, are given no textbooks for some classes and have to share in others. The school has no library.

Paulette Brown, a nursing assistant with a daughter at the school, told local reporters: “Our principal denies us books and then he sends this nonsense. You can’t understand what he’s saying in the letter. He has to go.”

Mr Buck, a former official in the local education department, has led the school since its foundation in 2007. He was found to be the least trusted principal in Brooklyn by a New York teachers union survey the following year.

He said in an emailed statement: “I often correspond with teachers on educational issues to enhance communications and generate discussion. If any parent has concerns, I am available to speak with them.”

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/25/2010 at 11:08 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - October 23, 2010

teacher is banned for being useless … no kidding.  read all about it …

Fine but what does this say about the morons who allowed him into the system to begin with? And he was in the job for 13 years?

This is an example of Labour throwing money at a problem and then saying, it has to work cos we gave it all this money.  Maybe if we throw more money at the education problem, it’ll get better. Right. 

Wanna bet somewhere down the line we’ll read about a race complaint?


The first teacher banned for life for being useless

By Sarah Harris and Arthur Marti

A teacher who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work has become the first to be banned for life from the classroom due to incompetence.

Nisar Ahmed will never reach ‘requisite standards’ of teaching and cannot work in state schools again, a panel ruled.

The General Teaching Council for England found the 46-year-old guilty of serious professional incompetence and said there was a risk that pupils would be seriously disadvantaged if he was ever allowed to return to lessons.

Mr Ahmed was head of business studies at the John O’Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to January 2009.

He had taught for a total of 13 years at schools across the South-East.

His management of lessons was ‘invariably’ below standard, the GTC disciplinary panel was told.

The school, which has more than 450 pupils, aged 11 to 18, gave Mr Ahmed ‘extensive formal and informal’ support for more than a year but he failed to improve.

Just 13 teachers have been banned from the profession for fixed periods for incompetence since 2000.

Mr Ahmed is the first to receive a prohibition order without time limit.

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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 10/23/2010 at 07:09 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - October 21, 2010

teacher too sexy say a few misfits ….

Well, seems some folks in Milan are either jealous or ugly or both. I see some humor in this altho I bet the teacher in question didn’t.

Some folks aren’t happy unless they can find something to make em miserable. Take a look.

Angry parents withdrew pupil from prestigious Milan school because teacher ‘was too sexy’

By Nick Pisa
Last updated at 3:10 PM on 21st October 2010

A former beauty queen has sparked fury among parents at an Italian school who claims she is too attractive to be a teacher.

Ileana Tacconelli, 28, who has three degrees, has caused a storm after it emerged she was a former model and racy photographs and video footage of her were posted on the internet.

As a result, one set of angry parents withdrew their daughter from the Catholic School in Milan.

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Miss Tacconelli, dubbed la maestra sexy in Italy, has three degrees and has worked at the San Carlo Catholic School in Milan for three years

But others - particularly fathers of students at the prestigious San Carlo Catholic High School - and the headteacher have stood by Miss Tacconelli.

The row erupted after one mother complained to the headteacher Father Aldo Geranzani claiming she was ‘too attractive and a distraction’.

Video of her acting in a comic sketch dressed in tight fitting hot pants and a bra then surfaced on the internet, as well as photographs of her posing in an American police uniform.

The former Miss Abruzzo - a beauty contest for a region of central Italy - was entered into the national contest but failed to win and went on to gain her teaching qualifications at university.

The story made the front page of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s family-owned newspaper, complete with an editorial explaining that the footage of her was more slapstick than soft porn as had been claimed.

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