Education

Judge Threatens To Jail Defense Attorney During Sentencing Hearing For Georgia Teachers – VIDEO

Judge Threatens To Jail Defense Attorney During Sentencing Hearing For Georgia Teachers – VIDEO

Courtroom proceedings heated up in Georgia during the sentencing hearing for ten former Atlanta public school educators who were convicted earlier this month on an assortment of racketeering charges in one of the nation’s largest test-cheating scandals. When one defense attorney got loud, Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter fired back saying “there were thousands of […]

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]

Tea Party Idiot Ted Cruz Pleads For Repeal Of Federal Law That Doesn’t Exist

Tea Party Idiot Ted Cruz Pleads For Repeal Of Federal Law That Doesn’t Exist

Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz is well-known for fighting lost causes, such as last year when he accidentally saved the day for President Obama’s presidential actions on immigration (although Republicans and Tea Partyers continue their hand at battling them). For some reason, Cruz seems to have a passion for making a fool of himself on […]

Proposed Bill Bans AP History, Requires Study of 10 Commandments, 3 Reagan Speeches

Proposed Bill Bans AP History, Requires Study of 10 Commandments, 3 Reagan Speeches

Lawmakers in Oklahoma are considering a bill that would ban Advanced Placement History courses while requiring student to study a long list of “foundational documents,” that includes “objects of historic significance” such as the Ten Commandments. The list also includes documents “related to the history, heritage and foundation of the United States,” that includes three […]