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Dad Arrested for Protesting Graphic-Sex Book Loses Case

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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by a parent who contended he was wrongfully arrested at a school board meeting where he was protesting a class assignment given to his ninth-grade daughter to read a book containing graphic descriptions of “rough sex” between teens.

As WND reported, William Baer was arrested and handcuffed May 5, 2014, at the meeting in Gilford, New Hampshire, where he and other parents were confronting school board members about the assignment to the ninth-grade English honors class, arguing they had not been given prior notice.

Baer was admonished repeatedly by a board member that he had violated a “two-minute rule” the school board had imposed on parents attending the meeting regarding the book “Nineteen Minutes.” Baer spoke beyond the time limit and sat down but then exchanged words with a parent who approved of the book.

In a summary judgment Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr., dismissed Baer’s suit seeking damages for wrongful arrest against Gilford, New Hampshire, police officer, Lt. James Leach, ruling Leach had probable cause to arrest Baer for disorderly conduct.

“The government school wrongly gave inappropriately graphic material to my 14-year-old daughter without providing required notice,” Baer said in an email to WND. (Read more from “Dad Arrested for Protesting Graphic-Sex Book Loses Case” HERE)

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A 7th Grade Teacher Just Taught Something That Has Parents Outraged

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A teacher in the Ocean View School district [California] forced her seventh-grade class to sing a song about Islam that implied Allah was the only god.

The teacher used the melody of the song “This Is My Fight Song,” written by Rachel Platten, and altered the original lyrics to fit Islam . . .

Susan Negron, the mother of one of the students, discovered what the teacher had done when her son brought home drawings in a notebook including a stick-figure man saying, “Believe in Allah! There is no other god” and a copy of the lyrics, according to the Orange County Register.

Outraged, Susan’s mother Nichole posted pictures on a Huntington Beach community Facebook page on Tuesday, and later addressed the Oceanview School Board. Susan reportedly said, “I believe that by singing this song, the children feel comfortable believing that maybe Allah is the only god, and maybe that they should start following him. And that I’m not OK with.” (Read more from “A 7th Grade Teacher Just Taught Something That Has Parents Outraged” HERE)

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‘Love Note’ Lands Fourth Grade Student in Principal’s Office

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Many of us remember passing a love note to our first crush, but for one Hillsborough fourth grader, a note had school administrators using phrases like “sexual harassment” . . .

“[He told his crush] how she wears the same uniform and how her eyes sparkled like diamonds,” his mother said.

But soon, she says other students found out about the note and started teasing her son about wanting to see the little girl naked.

“That’s when the principal proceeded to tell me that it wasn’t appropriate that he was writing the note and that if he writes another note, they are going to file sexual harassment charges on my 9-year-old,” the mom said.

Hillsborough school district said they did not threaten to involve authorities. But they did say the boy wrote more than one note and that the notes were unwanted, so that borders on harassment. (Read more from “‘Love Note’ Lands Fourth Grade Student in Principal’s Office” HERE)

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Great Moments in Public Education: Teacher Shows Nudist Show in Class… to Second Graders

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At least in Florida, they fire teachers for this kind of nonsense. In Los Angeles or New York, the school district would pay to have them binge-watch the reality show in case they get to run a classroom again. This time, a substitute teacher has been “banned” from working in the Collier County public school district for showing a class clips from a reality television show called “Naked and Afraid” . . .

Collier County Public Schools has banned a substitute teacher for showing a partially nude reality show to second graders.

Hours after the substitute showed Naked and Afraid in a computer lab class, she was told to go home. The incident is under investigation and the teacher is banned from working at every school in the district. …

That would be an interesting explanation, to be sure. What possible explanation could there be? The district refused to identify the teacher, so we may never get her side of the story, as WINK reporter Christina Lusby hoped to do. Any valid explanation would likely involve stupidity, chemical influence, or both … which may be another reason that the district would prefer to keep the press from finding the teacher. They might have to answer questions about their hiring practices. (Read more from “Great Moments in Public Education: Teacher Shows Nudist Show in Class… to Second Graders” HERE)

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Feds Force High School Girls to Undress Next to ‘Confused’ NAKED BOYS

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On Monday, the federal government declared itself fit for the madhouse by mandating that a Chicago high school allow a full biological male into the girls’ locker room for all purposes, including nudity. This biological male, the feds determined, was different because he thinks he is a female.

The feds have ruled that the presence of a twig-and-berries in the girls’ locker room has been mandated by Title IX of the Civil Rights Act. Yes, ladies and gents and non-cisgenders: it turns out that the battle against sexism enshrined in the ill-written Title IX was actually intended to force underage young women to look at the penises and testicles of mentally ill boys . . .

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights spent almost two years checking out the Township High School District 211 because of the transgender “girl.” He filed a complaint with the feds in 2013 after the school refused “unrestricted access” to the girls’ locker room. The district eventually agreed to allow the boy into the girls’ room so long as he used a privacy curtain while disrobing.

That wasn’t good enough. The feds determined that this still constituted discrimination. Why? As John Knight, director of the alphabet-soup LGBT and AIDS Project at the ACLU, stated, this was “blatant discrimination.” He explained (well, we think it’s a he, unless he identifies differently today):

It’s not voluntary; it’s mandatory for her. It’s one thing to say to all the girls, “You can choose if you want some extra privacy,” but it’s another thing to say, “You, and you alone, must use them.” That sends a pretty strong signal to her that she’s not accepted and the district does not see her as a girl.

(Read more from “Feds Force High School Girls to Undress Next to ‘Confused’ NAKED BOYS” HERE)

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Disturbing: Female Teacher Sends 2,400 Texts to 11-Year-Old Girl Begging Her to Do This

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A former teacher has admitted trying to tempt an 11-year-old girl in her class to run away with her, it was reported.

Geraldine Alcorn became obsessed with the child and exchanged over 2,400 text messages in the space of two weeks early last year, police reportedly said . . .

Alcorn was caught when the girl’s mother found the text messages on her daughter’s iPhone.

She also found a ring binder with notes which read “Things Ms. Alcorn and I can do,” “What we can do” and “When we can do it”, WPXI reported.

Police said she left gifts and letters in the girl’s desk and locker when she cleared out her things from Beechwood Elementary School days later. (Read more from “Disturbing: Female Teacher Sends 2,400 Texts to 11-Year-Old Girl Begging Her to Do This” HERE)

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Michigan Third Grader Writes Letter to Bully Who Picked on Friend and Spit on Him

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A Michigan third grader chose to use words over violence after standing up for a friend of his who was being bullied.

Nicolas Neesley, 8, was on the playground of Jennings Elementary School in Quincy when his friend was getting pushed around by a fifth grader, his mom Shamayne Neesley told ABC News today. Nicolas got involved and asked the boys “if the fight was necessary” before being “spit at” and “called a name” . . .

“He came home and told his father and I what happened and asked if he should be friends with the kid,” Shamayne Neesley said. “It was bugging Nic that the kid did not want to be friends with him.”

She told Nicolas to give it some time before trying to befriend the older kid, so he waited until Oct. 5, anti-bullying day at school, when the fifth grader wore black instead of the suggested color blue that supports anti-bullying.

Nicolas decided to write the letter that night to encourage a friendship, his mother said.

Photo Credit: ABC News

(Read more from “Michigan Third Grader Writes Letter to Bully Who Picked on Friend and Spit on Him” HERE)

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TN Bill Would Ban Teaching ‘Religious Doctrine’ Until High School

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No Tennessee public school course could include anything deemed “religious doctrine” unless the course is taught in 10th, 11th or 12th grade if a newly proposed bill becomes law.

The bill from Rep. Sheila Butt, R-Columbia, comes on the heels of complaints from some parents in several communities as to what their children are learning in middle school about Islam.

“I think that probably the teaching that is going on right now in seventh, eighth grade is not age appropriate,” Butt said Friday afternoon. “They are not able to discern a lot of times whether its indoctrination or whether they’re learning about what a religion teaches.”

Parents in Williamson County, Maury County and several other areas have complained about information contained in courses related to world history. Some, like U.S. Rep Diane Black, R-Tenn., argue the teachings border on indoctrination.

Tennessee education officials and teachers recently argued courses were appropriate and based on secular fact during a discussion of the curriculum with The Tennessean. They acknowledged students might learn the Five Pillars of Islam or read from religious texts, but that information is used to provide historical context about the influence the religion had on regions of the world. (Read more from “TN Bill Would Ban Teaching ‘Religious Doctrine’ Until High School” HERE)

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This ‘Offensive’ T-Shirt Sent Home an 8th Grader From School

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A Gresham, Oregon school – Dexter McCarty Middle School – sent home an 8th grader because he was wearing a t-shirt that featured the “Battlefield Cross” memorial used for fallen military members. That actual reason was that the t-shirt had a gun on it . . .

The principle had given Alan an ultimatum- change his clothes or leave school. He refused to change his clothes, so they called his father and he left the school.

The school stated that it was “inappropriate” to have a t-shirt with a gun on it in a “school setting.” Their decision came a few days after a major shooting at an Oregon Community College. But was it based on irrational fear of guns, or something else?

Alan Holmes’ brother is in the U.S. Marine Corps. Wearing the shirt was a source of patriotic pride for the 8th grader. He plans to do some research into the memorial used by our troops to remember fallen military members.

Alan Holmes is not the only one – schools across the nation have been ratcheting down on kids and college students for wearing any sort of t-shirt with a patriotic theme, whether it’s for supporting our troops or an American flag. (Read more from “This ‘Offensive’ T-Shirt Sent Home an 8th Grader From School” HERE)

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Middle School Student’s Parents Furious Over Islam School Unit

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pillarsMaury County (Tennessee) Director of Schools Chris Marczak has asked parents concerned about a seventh grade social studies class on the history of Islam to discuss their questions in a Sept. 17 meeting with district teachers and administrators.

“If we are truly going to Grow Maury County together, then we need to openly talk and discuss about what we want to emphasize in our county,” Marczak said in a noon Thursday statement to district parents . . .

The issue arose over new state-mandated standards on middle school social studies about early American history. The standards were developed two years ago and implemented in the 2014-2015 school year.

A Spring Hill Middle School parent complained after seeing a school project her daughter had created featuring the Shahada, or Five Pillars of Faith in Islam: prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage and creed.

The creed pillar is known in Arabic as “Shahada,” and in transcribing it students were instructed to write, “Allah is the only God,” said parent Brandee Porterfield. (Read more from “Middle School Student’s Parents Furious Over Islam School Unit” HERE)

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