Free Talk Live - public school

School yoga class draws protests from christians.

ianCredible — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:09:29 +0000

“They’re not just teaching physical poses, they’re teaching children how to think and how to make decisions,” Ms. Eady said.

And other amazing quotes from opponents from a COMPLETELY OPTIONAL school yoga program.

Student expelled for refusing to wear RFID tracking chip badge

phonon — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:14:03 +0000

Under the "Smart ID" program, ID badges have been issued with a tracking chip, which students must wear when attending school. The school badges, worn like a necklace, contain a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip and links to their social security number. This allows the school to track the student's location after leaving campus and for as long as the badge is on the student's person.

NC teacher's letter of resignation

ianCredible — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:38:51 +0000

This NC teacher wrote a scathing letter of resignation in which she blasts the public school system and gets pretty specific. For anyone that believes in choices in/of education it's a good read.

Teacher sends pics of her breasts to students, they are suspended

phonon — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:33:22 +0000

The class had been playing with a school iPad during a lesson when the topless pictures popped up on the screen. The teacher's iPhone is believed to have accidentally synched with the tablet device — and transferred all her naughty private snaps. Four pupils playing a game on the iPad clicked on the folder and got a surprise peek. Now THEY have been suspended and threatened with expulsion from Highland Middle School in Anderson, Indiana, US.

Teen electro-shock tortured for hours for not removing jacket

phonon — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:14:54 +0000

Footage played in court this week shows former student Andre McCollins, then a disabled 18-year-old, strapped to a table and screaming savagely in pain as faculty applied 31 individual jolts of electricity over the course of seven hours. He was ultimately hospitalized. Andre is shown seated at a desk inside a classroom as a staff member asks him several times to remove his coat. He stays still, apparently not responding or removing his coat, until he is given a shock. He screams and falls to the floor, yelling as he tries to hide under his desk.

Cop maces middle school kids for not going to class fast enough

phonon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:20:35 +0000

"Not knowing he was going to spray it I walked straight into it," Forney said.

Not only did she inhale it, but so did several other students. Three went to the hospital, and seventeen others left early.

"Everybody started hollering and we had people just gagging and throwing up and everything and I'm like what's going on?" Forney said.

Superintendent Jerry Payne confirmed a school resource officer did spray and said he did it to force students inside classrooms. Payne said the students took too long to get to class, so the officer pointed the spray toward the ground, not at students.

Bishop says Hitler and Mussolini would love our public school system

slayerboy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:26:46 +0000

Catholic bishop says 20th century dictators would have loved our current public school system.

Police Patrolling Public Schools

iupetre — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:35:18 +0000

More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?