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Quote of the Day

“Far too many Catholic bishops and priests– perhaps even a majority– are doing a lousy job of shepherding their flocks and saving souls.”  Judie Brown
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58188
 

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I guess these guys never heard that the saying….”Respect the dead”…
 
The Kingwood teenager’s story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
Yet, Kevin Wade Jones Jr., 17, appeared almost indifferent as he relayed the bizarre [...]

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You Go SISTER!

Sister Kathy Avery won’t put up with swearing on the playground at her school, and she’s not above repeating the offending language to make sure everyone understands which words she won’t tolerate.The principal of St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic School had students stay after a Mass last month and informed the fifth- through eighth-graders that [...]

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Teacher convention con

This time each year virtually every school in New Jersey shuts down for at least two days so a fraction of the state’s 176,735 public school teachers can go to Atlantic City for the annual New Jersey Education Association convention.
This has to rank among the biggest scams perpetrated on the public. Name one other profession [...]

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I have heard of Pajama Day, Dress Down Day, Funny Hat Day but I have never heard of this garbage!
California Middle School Cancels Cross-Dressing Day
A northern California middle school has canceled a cross-dressing or “gender switch” day following parent complaints.
Sixth- through eighth-graders at Adams Middle School in Brentwood were encouraged to wear attire of the [...]

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Hugging Friends gets you Detention

The height of public school lunacy.
Of course, she could have walked down to the school nurse’s office and gotten all the birth control she wanted—-but to hug somebody, das ist verboten!!!

Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter

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As per the University of Delaware a racist is;  A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. ‘The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By [...]

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It looks like this is a step towards getting Arnold’s (CA-Gov.) SB 777 Bill overturned ( is compulsory instruction that teaches homosexuality, bisexuality and trans-sexuality in a positive light.) or at least allow people that find this type of behaviour immoral to voice their view points!
A Christian student was successful in his appeal on Friday, when he was granted [...]

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I wonder if Oprah will discuss her schools problems on her show? It would seem that things are not as rosey as she would like people to believe :)    
It must have seemed like a great idea at the time. Oprah Winfrey, the world’s most famous talkshow host, wanted to do something that would make a [...]

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David Chadwell believes boys and girls can get through the awkward middle school years better when they’re separated, learning in classrooms tailored to the learning styles of each gender
As the country’s first and only statewide coordinator of single-gender education, Chadwell is helping to make South Carolina a leader among public schools that offer such programs. [...]

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Finding Trans-Intolerance

It is a common argument among those promoting the homosexual agenda that any sexual behavior should be allowed provided it does not harm another. Those holding to traditional morality based on natural law should not be concerned since it does not affect them. Everything should be handled in a spirit of “tolerance.”
Such “tolerance” is [...]

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Free Rice

Came across this website… FREERICE
If you are looking to improve your vocabulary and in the process do something to help the hungry people of the world this is a site to check out!

About FreeRice
FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.
FreeRice has two goals:

Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end [...]

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Coming to a school near you….
In December of 2006, the U.S. Department of Education sent guidelines to all public schools in our country explaining that they could now teach about religion in their classes. This should not be surprising since the federal curriculum standards for civics, history and geography for more than a decade have [...]

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As sad and disgusting as this is, does this really surprise anybody anymore?

Every school has rules governing teacher behavior. Every state has laws against child abuse, and many specifically outlaw teachers’ taking sexual liberties with students. Every district has administrators who watch out for sexual misconduct by teachers.
Yet people like Chad Maughan stay in the [...]

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Providing birth control to 6th, 7th and 8th graders? 
There is so much wrong with this idea, but I will let you come to your own conclusions!   
Student health officials say a broad contraceptive program is ‘totally needed.’
Students who have parental permission to be treated at King
Middle School’s health center would be able to get birth control
prescriptions [...]

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Governor Schwarzenegger has signed into the law the highly controversial SB 777 (Kuehl) that will permit transgender students to enter the locker rooms and restrooms of the gender with which they identify.
Under the guise of preventing discrimination and bias against homosexuals, transgenders and other sexual variants, SB 777 will force innocent school children to accept [...]

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BREAKING NEWS

Do you know what the secret is to get kids in public schools to perform as well as those in private schools?
Let me let you in on the secret…PARENTAL INVOLVMENT! Who would of thought? Something as simple as having parents play an “active” role in their childrens education could actually make a difference?!

Tutors. Learning camps. [...]

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What? No special rights for lesbian students who break the school rules? I wonder what this world is coming to when you deny rights to lesbian students who knowingly break the rules?!? Shame on you
School was sued after notifying parents of hallway kissing incident.
When a couple was caught kissing in the halls of California’s Santiago [...]

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A to Catholic Mom 
Apparently, too many parents have abdicated their job as role model. So much so that Senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin have introduced legislation to make federal money available to schools that need to teach their students how to behave.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), and [...]

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Home Schooling

Home schooling catching on across N.J.More families are taking their children’s academic destiny into their own hands. Literally.
Consider the Orso family, who last month began home schooling their two children, ages 7 and 11.
“I don’t want to say schools aren’t doing their job, because they are,” said Bernadette Orso of Hillsdale, who taught public school [...]

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