Cleared of Charges, Honor Student Goes to Space Camp - ABC News
The student who was expelled and arrested because of her idiotic school said her science experiment was a weapon.
Will, a lot of people got on the web and crowed sourced a trip for her to space camp! Glad people are looking out for her and I hope she has lots of fun and positive memories.
China Bans 7 Topics in University Classrooms
In an effort to curb Western influence, China’s leaders have reportedly banned the discussion of seven subjects in university classrooms, including press freedom, universal values, and the historical mistakes of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese professors and political analysts said a recent directive from Beijing to universities indicated an awareness among the country’s leaders that the government is losing its ideological grip over students and younger faculty members.
» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)
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Are 85% of College Students Wasting Their Money?
21.6 million.
That’s the number of U.S. students who began their fall semester of college in 2012, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
According to Penelope Trunk, however, that number should be closer to 3.24 million.
Trunk, founder of Brazen Careerist, wrote on LinkedIn recently that she believes 85% of college students are wasting their time and money in pursuit of a degree.
“Trunk believes that individuals who are not really great at school or who have not been accepted into a top ten school should “just go to work.” She goes on to express that most individuals should instead focus on internships and teaching themselves the skills necessary to be successful in the workplace. And while internships are largely the bane of every college student’s existence (working for free at a time when you’re unbelievably strapped for cash?), Trunk argues that these internships should start earlier in life. Beginning internships in high school while your parents are still footing the cost of your living expenses gives young people an upper hand when they actually reach college age, since they’ll have experience in an industry they’d like to pursue. At this point, they can continue working in the industry and receive payment for it while their college counterparts are putting off experience in exchange for a diploma.
Trunk’s theoretical solution would have other effects on the market as well, though.
If 85% of college-aged individuals decided not to pursue higher education, we would no doubt see colleges and universities that fail, declare bankruptcy, or have to re-capitalized. What we would also see, though, is an increase in market solutions to secondary education affordability. Just as App Academy is now allowing students to attend school for free, in exchange for a piece of their first year’s salary, the market would come up with any number of solutions for providing the education necessary to sustain an industry.
A drop in the number of students choosing to attend college would also affect the price of college itself. As schools scramble to avoid being shut down, they would need to compete for students, meaning they would have to reduce their price tag, restoring us to a more free-market approach at education, similar to what existed in the U.S. before the federal government began dumping out student loans to whoever asked.”
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Support Police. Beat Yourself Up: This is Zero Tolerance in effect…
Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children – Police state madness – more and more children being arrested for trivial things….fueling the school to prison pipeline, mass incarceration…Zero Tolerance in full effect.
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.
#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.
#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.
#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.
#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.
#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.
#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.
#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.
#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.
#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.
#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….
“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old”.
#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.
#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.
#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.
#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.
#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.
HERE ARE THE LINKS:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/texas-student-sa rah-bustamantes-12-arrested-for-spraying-perfume/13250/
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=150 77292
Check out this video on YouTube:<br/><br/>http://youtu.be/wk2b_twCCdw
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/nc-high-school-senior-suspended-charged-possesion-small-knife-lunchbox/#
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html
http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Mateo-pays-family-of-boy-pepper-sprayed-by -cop-2384518.php
http://django.medianewsgroup.com/mobile/interstitial/?r=http%3A%2F%2F www.middletownpress.com%2Farti cles%2F2011%2F06%2F14%2Fnews%2 Fdoc4df7b12331ec9768149316.txt %3Fmobredir%3Dfalse&d=iphone
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/02/charlton-library-sends-police-to-collect-overd ue-books-from-5-year-old/ — with Your Son or Daughter next
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- In Texas, Police in Schools Criminalize 300,000 Students Each Year (alternet.org)
- More and More Children Being Arrested For Trivial Things… (revivalandreformation.wordpress.com)
- Texas Student Sarah Bustamantes, 12, Arrested for Spraying Perfume (hispanicallyspeakingnews.com)
Poor Richard's News: 4th grader embarrasses New York City's DOE with hidden camera documentary about their dishonest lunch program
I love this kid. He has the smarts to become a great investigative journalist.
Zachary Maxwell is his name, and he’s a whiz. He decided to document the dishonesty of New York City’s Department of Education about their school lunch program. His findings are both disgusting and hilarious.
Here’s a clip from his film:
from Zachary’s website:
Zachary is a fourth grader at a large New York City public elementary school. Each day he reads the Department of Education lunch menu online to see what is being served. The menu describes delicious and nutritious cuisine that reads as if it came from the finest restaurants. However, when Zachary gets to school, he finds a very different reality. Armed with a concealed video camera and a healthy dose of rebellious courage, Zachary embarks on a six month covert mission to collect video footage of his lunch and expose the truth about the City’s school food service program.
This short documentary provides a fun and spirited insider’s perspective on the elementary school lunch room.
Zachary, I hope that you read this. What you’ve documented here is big government corruption, and it won’t be the last time you see it in your lifetime. See, government always promises to make things better, and sometimes they even use famous celebrities to sell their ideas to the public. It always sounds nice… Yummy gourmet school lunches! Free healthcare for everybody! Shovel ready jobs!
In the end, the results are always the same: greater cost to the taxpayer and results that are just as bad as (if not worse than) what things were before.
Please take this lesson about government to heart, Zachary. Think about it: if your parents didn’t have to pay higher taxes for you to get these “delicious, nutritious school lunches,” they could afford to pack an incredible lunch for you to take to school every day. Sadly, as things are right now, if you bring your own lunch, you’re actually paying twice! And that’s how big government always works. Always.
Mexico: Border schools adjust to influx of English-speaking students
Elementary students at Lamberto Hernández School in this northern Mexican city were long gone by the time teachers sat down recently to learn about the growing population of English-speaking students in their classrooms.
At the teacher training workshop, facilitator Laura Guadalupe Zatarain asked the educators in English to fill out a simple form written in German. The teachers looked at her, puzzled.
“This gives you an idea how these children feel when we start speaking too fast and they have trouble understanding,” Ms. Zatarain says, switching to Spanish. “Especially about a subject like math, or history, or President Benito Juárez, someone they have never heard about.”
State education officials point to Lamberto Hernández, a school named after a late educator from the region, as a model for working to create an environment that embraces students and parents arriving from the United States with little or no knowledge about Mexico’s school system. Thousands of school children have arrived in Mexican schools from the US in the past several years amid a record number of deportations and a foundering US economy. [Read The Christian Science Monitor’s story on US-educated kids adjusting to school in Mexico.]
“The school’s response has been excellent,” says Jesús Eduardo Ramírez Cordoba, who oversees international affairs for the state’s Secretariat of Education and Culture (SEC).
Lamberto Hernández School principal Hugo Efrén Molina says his hope is to turn the school into a magnet for those students arriving from the US. In addition to offering professional development to teachers, plans are underway to extend school hours and build a cafeteria, which students who attended US campuses sorely miss. The school only has a snack bar.
Feds Push Insane New Speech Codes! (by ReasonTV)
Can you say think police. 1984 is here, and strong in our schools. All based on what you may say. Big Brother is the biggest bully on campus.
Technoccult: Teen Girl Charged With Felony For Science Experiment Gone Wrong
Klint Finley
Koa Beck writes:
Given all the data that is out there regarding young girls and STEM fields, ladies who demonstrate an interest in science should be culturally supported. A quick peruse of certain popular culture guarantees that they certainly won’t be getting that support elsewhere. Yet when 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot, who reportedly “got good grades” and had “a perfect behavior record” had a science experiment go awry, she was slapped with felony charges. Way to support our young girls in the sciences.
Wtsp.com reports that the teen was arrested and charged with possession/discharge of a weapon on school property and discharging a destructive device. At seven a.m. that morning at Bartow High School, Kiera allegedly mixed some “household chemicals” in an eight-ounce water bottle. The top reportedly popped off creating a “small explosion” complete with smoke. No one was hurt, according to reports.
In addition to her criminal charges, she has since been expelled from Bartow High School. It remains unclear whether there was any malice in the experiment. But even the young lady’s school principal, as well as her peers, believe that she didn’t possess any vicious motives:
Full Story: Mommyish: Teen Girl With A Penchant For Science Is Slapped With Felony Charges After Her Experiment Explodes
There’s no clarity as to what she was actually trying to accomplish, or exactly how big the explosion was. I can understand people being on edge after recent shooting and the Boston bombing, but the charges seem trumped up for a simple accident. There could be more to this than meets the eye, but it feels a lot like another example of the criminalization of curiosity.
Here’s the news clip:
See also:
Criminalizing science: chemistry student arrested for home lab
Students in ‘Weird Science’ Halloween party arrested under anti-terror laws
Drone Artists/Hackers Detained Held in London on Suspicion of Terrorism
Principal suspends teen for Instagramming her mug shot
In Georgia, a school principal is not happy to see her mugshot on Instagram. She allegedly tries to get a police officer to arrest the teen responsible. The police officer refuses.
Teacher Suspended for Showing Gardening Tools to Class
Doug Bartlett, a veteran teacher with an upstanding record of 17 years, has filed a lawsuit against the school district of Chicago for suspending him without pay after giving a lesson on gardening tools to his second grade students.
Military grooms new officers for war in cyberspace
Once viewed as an obscure and even nerdy pursuit, cyber is now seen as one of the hottest fields in warfare — “a great career field in the future,” said Ryan Zacher, a junior at the Air Force Academy outside Colorado Springs, Colo., who switched from aeronautical engineering to computer science.
Last year the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., began requiring freshmen to take a semester on cybersecurity, and it is adding a second required cyber course for juniors next year.
The school offered a major in cyber operations for the first time this year to the freshman class, and 33 midshipmen, or about 3 percent of the freshmen, signed up for it. Another 79 are majoring in computer engineering, information technology or computer science, bringing majors with a computer emphasis to about 10 percent of the class.
“There’s a great deal of interest, much more than we could possibly, initially, entertain,” said the academy’s superintendent, Vice Adm. Michael Miller.
» via Yahoo! News
Student kicked out for being anti-nazi! (by AdamKokesh)
Academic Cesspools by Walter E Williams
What we see on college campuses represents a dereliction of duty by boards of trustees, which bear the ultimate responsibility. Wealthy donors who care about the fraud of higher education should recognize that there’s nothing like the sound of pocketbooks snapping shut to open the closed minds of college administrators.
Read This if You Still Think Teachers Unions, Educrats Care About Kids
On Sunday, The Washington Post ran a house editorial that should shame not just all the education bureaucrats and rank-and-file teachers in the District
