Teacher Accused of Urging Students to Fail Test Resigns

Photo Credit: Candie_N (Welcome Spring)An Ohio teacher accused of instructing her gifted students to fail an exam has reportedly resigned.

Heather Campbell, 39, was in her second year teaching fifth and sixth grade students at Waggoner Road Junior High School, the Columbus Dispatch reports. District investigators said Campbell encouraged student to fail a science pretest by drawing pictures of a cat or rock or to answer the question using texting shorthand such as LOL.

The investigation was launched in September after a parent called the school when her child said Campbell asked the class to “do poorly” on the pretest. Of the 68 tests, 54 were considered “not sufficient attempts,” mostly because students scribbled or drew pictures in the short-answer response questions, the newspaper reports.

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AFL-CIO Teacher Union Head Randi Weingarten: ‘Women Actually Have to Work to Feed Their Families’

Photo Credit: CNSNews.com/Penny StarrRandi Weingarten, feminist, lesbian and head of the American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO labor union, said at a press conference Tuesday that the poor economy in the U.S. and lower wages for females is forcing women to work.

“We have a war in this country, and it happens when you are in sometimes the worst of the economic issues,” Weingarten said at the Feminist Majority’s Women, Money, and Power Summit in Washington, D.C. “We have huge income inequality where women actually have to work to feed their families.

“Forget about taking a vacation,” Weingarten said. “But just to put shelter up and to feed families.”

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‘I Felt That God Was With Me,’ Says Hero Who Saved SUV Driver, Wife From Bikers Helmet Brawl (+video)

Photo Credit: SCREEN GRAB VIA NY1Father of 10, Sergio Consuegra, saved the life of SUV driver Alexian Lien, 33, and his family in a wild biker confrontation in Manhattan, N.Y., two Sundays ago.

A churchgoing father of 10 has emerged as the only undisputed hero in the aftermath of a wild high-speed brawl between a group of bikers and a wealthy SUV driver along the West Side Highway in Manhattan, N.Y., two Sundays ago after it was revealed that he saved the driver and his wife from the bikers’ fury.

The father, Sergio Consuegra, told NY1 that he was on his way to church in Washington Heights when he came across the group of bikers beating Manhattan executive Alexian Lien, 33, after a confrontation and four mile high-speed chase along the West Side Highway that had left a biker from the group, Edwin Mieses Jr., 32, with a crushed spine.

He explained that what he saw and the “intense danger” that he felt forced him to intervene to stop the beating. “I say to them, ‘that’s it guys. Let it go, man. Let it go. That’s it. Just go, man. That’s it,'” Consuegra said. “So we stood at each other, looking at each other’s faces, and somehow, they stopped right in front of me.”

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Ohio School District Agrees to Keep Portrait of Jesus off Wall, Pay $95G Fine

Photo Credit: APAn Ohio school district has agreed to keep a portrait of Jesus Christ off school property and pay a $95,000 fine in the face of legal pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Jackson City School District, located in Jackson, reached a deal on Friday after the ACLU, along with the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, sued the district in February, citing “unconstitutional” actions and charging that students and visitors to the school “will continue to suffer permanent, severe and irreparable harm and injury,” according to the lawsuit.

The picture had been hanging in Jackson’s high school since 1947 as part of a “Hall of Honor” display meant to highlight famous historical figures.

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Rev. Billy Graham Prepares ‘Perhaps … My Last Message’

Photo Credit: David BerkowitzAs he puts the finishing touches on what he says could be “my last message,” 94-year-old evangelist Rev. Billy Graham warns that the U.S. domestic surveillance program involving the NSA poses a serious threat to Americans’ religious liberty.

Graham is about to debut a new book and a video series that continue his life-long mission of preaching the gospel. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, he says that Americans have always fought for liberty, and states: “Our country is turning away from what has made it so great …” The “pastor to presidents” also offers a pointed response to President Barack Obama’s “hope and change” slogan, and sees signs of impending Armageddon because America “cannot go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.”

Newsmax: Since your first crusade in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1947, traditional moral standards in America have changed radically, with attacks on traditional marriage and abortion and divorce. In an increasingly secular world, can even non-believers find ‘hope’ – to borrow a word from your book title?

Rev. Billy Graham: Absolutely non-believers can find hope, because all people have sinned and come short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). But the Bible also tells us that God our Savior desires all people to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4 NKJV). Real hope is found only in the God of hope. To demonstrate this to mankind, He sent His only Son to earth to bring redemption to people’s souls. God stands by ready to grant salvation to all who believe in Him. ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His only [Son], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life’ (John 3:16 NKJV). Do not miss the importance of this wonderful phrase ‘in Him.’ When we step into an airplane, fasten our seatbelts and the wheels leave the runway, we have placed our physical being and our complete faith not only in the aircraft, but in the pilot and crew. When we receive salvation offered to us by Jesus Christ, we are committing our entire being—our physical, emotional, and spiritual life — to Him because we put our faith in Him — in everything He has said, done, and promised.

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Brryan Jackson, AIDS Patient Injected With HIV By His Father As Infant, Forgives Father

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Photo Credit: Opposing Views

Over 20 years ago, St. Louis resident Brian Stewart injected his infant son with HIV-tainted blood.

When his unfathomably evil act came to light, Stewart was sentenced to life in prison and called “the worst kind of criminal” by the presiding judge. When asked why he would inject his son with the deadly virus, Stewart said he wanted to kill his son in order to avoid paying child support.

The infant, now 22-year old Brryan Jackson, contracted full-blown AIDS by the age of five. Doctors gave him five months to live.

“Anyone in my condition would die in three months, they gave me five,” Jackson said.

The side effects from his medicine were terrible – Brryan lost 70% of his hearing from his treatments. As a five-year-old child, Brryan was taking 23 different pills, two IV bags, and three injections daily.

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Joel Osteen: God Accepts Everyone Including Homosexuals (+video)

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God “absolutely” approves of everyone — including homosexuals — declared one of America’s most well-known evangelical pastors.

The Houston megapastor and best-selling author Joel Osteen, whose followers include the likes of Cher and Oprah Winfrey, is hitting the talk-show circuit to promote his new book, “Break Out! 5 Keys to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life.”

Osteen, the very visible face of Lakewood Church in Houston since 1999, talked to the Huffington Post about his thoughts on prayer, the pope and the homosexual lifestyle.

HuffPo Live host Josh Zepps quoted from Osteen’s new book: “It doesn’t matter who likes you or who doesn’t like you, all that matters is God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.”

Zepps followed up by asking if that included homosexuals

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IVF Babies ‘Are a Third More Likely to Develop Childhood Cancer’

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Children born as a result of IVF are a third more likely to get cancer, a major study found.

Scientists said those born after fertility treatments were 33 per cent more likely to have childhood cancer.

They were 65 per cent more likely to develop leukaemia and 88 per cent more likely to develop cancers of the brain and central nervous system.

The study suggests fertility treatment may change the way certain genes function when they are passed from parent to child in a process known as ‘genomic imprinting’.

These faults in genes are linked to childhood cancers, the Danish researchers said.

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Parents Warned about Porn in School

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President Obama already has declared June to be homosexual “Pride” month, but “gay” activists now are designating October “LGBT History Month.”

The move has prompted a pro-family organization in California to issue a warning to parents across the United States about the possibility their children would be confronted with explicit pornography in their public schools this month.

Teachers, they explain, could introduce material that promotes homosexuality.

The homosexual-rights group Equality Forum, which is promoting LGBT History Month, is profiling various homosexuals and lesbians for each day of the month, including some whose work can accurately be described as triple-X rated.

Many schools plan to incorporate LGBT History Month into lessons.

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Elizabeth Smart Opens up to Meredith Vieira Telling how her Captors Viewed her as a ‘Slave and an Object’ (+video)

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Elizabeth Smart is revealing the anguish she felt during her kidnapping as she promotes her upcoming memoir.

Smart, who is now 25-years-old, sat down for an interview with Meredith Vieira about the nine-month ordeal that began when she was taken from her home in the middle of the night on March 12, 2003.

‘To her I was a slave and to him I was an object,’ Smart said of her captors during a clip of the NBC interview.

The then-14-year-old Smart was taken by Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Ileen Barzee who then hid her in the woods and raped her on an almost daily basis before she was found nine months later.

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