Cuomo’s Idea To Let Teachers Decide When To Yank Guns From People’s Homes Is Dumb
I want kids who need help to get it. But I’m not sure how using teachers as informants can actually protect students in a way that’s sensible, positive, or helpful.
Indiana Teacher: I Was Forced To Resign Because I Won’t Pretend Boys Can Be Girls
An Indiana orchestra teacher says public school administrators gave him three options at the end of this school year: refer to students as the opposite sex, resign, or be fired.
What Some Teachers Think About Carrying Guns Doesn’t Match Historical Reality
Before 1995, states let teachers carry concealed handguns at school. Research was unable to find a single instance when faculty improperly used a permitted handgun at school.
The Numbers Say ‘Being Fired For Being Gay’ Almost Never Happens
Unfortunately, LGBT media aren’t always straightforward in reporting incidents between gay people and their employers, making an objective evaluation difficult.
Why Teachers Only Get A Fifth Of The Money Taxpayers Spend On Their Schools
Until people are ready to accept a school that simply teaches its students and nothing more, they will have the multiplex that continues to expand.
What Oklahoma’s Teachers Union Agitation Really Looks Like On The Ground
A large chunk of teachers appears to have no interest in educating themselves about spending, but seem instead content to parrot false union talking points.
Fire All Striking Teachers And Send Their Paychecks To Students’ Parents
The striking teachers — and politicians caving to them — lack a rudimentary knowledge of the real reasons teacher salaries aren’t as high as they want and their school books and materials are old and scant.
PolitiFact’s Double Standard Makes Oklahoma Teachers Look Poorer Than They Really Are
So-called fact-checking outfit PolitiFact is fine with considering cost-of-living differences in California or New York, just not in Oklahoma.
School Choice Provides Hope To Millions Of American Children
National School Choice Week provides the perfect chance for Americans to ‘pay it forward’ by supporting the gift of a quality education for all American children.
How Common Core Taught Me Bureaucrats Will Always Win Unless We Slash Big Government
My state, Oklahoma, was one of the first and only to repeal Common Core. It took years of work, and ultimately accomplished just about nothing.
Report: Public School Bloat Depressing Teacher Pay, Wasted $805 Billion Since 1992
The more levels of government that interfere with a school, the more waste, fraud, and abuse its leaders can get away with because it’s not clear who is responsible for what.
Why DeVos Should Rescind Obama’s Ban On Disciplining Minority Kids In School
Increasing evidence supports the common sense intuition that when you tie teachers’ hands on maintaining order, bad things will happen to kids.
11 Problems With Teachers Shutting Down Schools For The Women’s Strike
My feminist problematic buzzer just went nuts. I know, it’s always doing that, but this time the alarms are extra-loud.
Why Pay Full Pensions To Unions That Bankrupted Taxpayers Pockets And Kids’ Minds?
The cumulative debt for all public pension systems is at $5.599 trillion, or $46,884 per household. Most is for teachers, whose unions have for years resisted improvements for kids.
K-12 Teachers Infantilize Students After Trump’s Win
It’s not just college students and professors ignoring ethics and common courtesy to disavow Donald Trump to students. It’s also K-12 teachers.
Schools Ditch Academics For Emotional Manipulation
Under such a system teachers become essentially therapists, and students become essentially patients.
How A War Hero Launched A War On Bad Math Instruction
John Saxon retired from the military in 1970 and began teaching college students. When they couldn’t do basic math, he wrote them a curriculum that millions of children use today.
Video: Union Officials Volunteer To Shield Abusive Teacher
A new video project from guerrilla filmmaker James O’Keefe proves just how ideologically inconsistent many who discuss the campus rape phenomena are.
Schools Shouldn’t Exercise Students Like Animals
One way to attack Western civilization is to change the learning environment from a quiet, contemplative one to a busy, communal one.
How The Transgender Pronoun Mandate Makes Teaching More Dangerous
For a teacher, every day is a day you could lose your job because you said the wrong thing accidentally. The new federal transgender ‘guidelines’ make that worse.
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