X Rated Font
Read this article (I’ve posted it in full here), and then I have a question:
MONROE, N.Y. - School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.
Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury School District in Orange County apologized last week after parents at Pine Tree Elementary School were given the spelling packet at an open house.
Administrators said the teacher did not use the font intentionally.
Monroe is about 45 miles northwest of New York City.
Why is it that a teacher has an X rated font on the school’s computer? Is it just me, or is this probably the wrong place to have downloaded, installed, and have been using the font for any reason, let alone in a third grade spelling packet. I mean, what word processing program randomly chooses a font rather than whatever the default or last font that was chosen.
I guess I don’t understand why the teacher, regardless of his intentions, was questioned as to why he even had that font installed, and why the teachers in this school didn’t question whether a person with that kind of font installed would be the right person to be entrusted with being the leader of a group of third graders. If anything, I would have expected him to lose his job or go to some kind of therapy or something, wouldn’t you?
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Follow Up: Debra LaFave - Media Darling
So, if it wasn’t enough that this woman took advantage of an underage boy, got out of prison time because his mother didn’t want him to have to take the witness stand, and has been able to only serve house arrest and probation time, now she’s been given the media spotlight on multiple “news” networks in our nation.
Dateline NBC and the Today show interviewed this troubled woman, putting her face on screens nationwide for all to see, for what reason? She knows:
She told Lauer she never thought she was committing rape when she had sex with the teen but realizes now she “made a really, really, really bad choice.” She acknowledges that the case got so much attention - when similar cases get little or none - because she is attractive.
“Sex sells,” she said.
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When Schools Silence God Talk
I lost my first and only run for Student Body Governor in High School over a matter that (I believe) had no bearing on my ability to fill the office. I lost the office because of a stand I took on homosexuality and why I took the stand I did. You see, in my high school, the issue was coming to the front of discussion and people were taking stands during our opening of the school day.
Being one of the few people with a testimony for God, and one of few people willing to get up front and say what I thought, I was gradually brought into the discussion. It had gone back and forth between two girls, and I came in near the end of the discussion, but this post isn’t about what I think about homosexuality, it’s about what I learned at the end of my presentation.
I had prewritten a statement, so I could mark my words well. I knew what I was going to say was unpopular, and the day I delivered it was the National Day of Prayer. So, I ended what I had to say with an appeal that we observe a moment of silence for the National Day of Prayer. During that time some coughed (intentionally) but most stayed silent.
Afterwards I was talking with a high school friend and he said that he had coughed because what I was doing was unconstitutional– it violated the separation of church and state. Read the rest of this page »
Woman Hosted Alcohol, Sex Parties for Teens
The problem here is that parents are getting way to busy and trusting those that cannot be trusted. Another example of this phenomenon: Patricia Hartwell.
Lexington County deputies have taken a woman into custody who they say hosted alcohol and sex parties for teenagers.
Deputies arrested 46-year-old Patricia Hartwell. She’s charged with six counts of transferring beer to a minor, five counts of transferring liquor to a minor and five counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Deputies say the parties were for students at White Knoll High School, and these parties happened regularly over a two-year period. Investigators say Hartwell encouraged boys and girls to have sex at her apartment, which is located near the school.
Sheriff James Metts says some of the teens involved were as young as 14 years old.
“It’s possible that hundreds of kids were involved,” Metts says.
Officers say in addition to alcohol and drugs, Hartwell provided birth control pills. Metts says the pills were given without the consent of parents.
Deputies say the investigation began August 14 when a parent said her daughter had gotten drunk and had her first sexual experience at one of these parties.
Now, I’m certainly willing to say that parents cannot monitor their childrens activities 24/7. That kind of life would not be something that either party would desire. What I am saying is that parents need to be a little more involved in where their children are, what they are doing, and whom they are doing it with. We no longer can trust teachers and other children’s parents (unfortunately) to provide a safe environment for our kids.
And it’s a problem that we have created ourselves. With the incidence of two parents working making it so that teens have more and more time that they are not under parental supervision in conjuction with the fact that they are being taught things that are powerful (sex, drugs, etc) in school when they’re not ready to handle it we’re playing with fire and bound to get burnt.
Teacher Arrested for Distributing Obscene Material
To prove that it’s not just the women taking advantage of their male students, a Chesapeake teacher is facing charges because he was showing pornographic images to his students. He had shown pornographic drawings to a 13 year old and 14 year old student and was found with Japanese adult drawings on his person.
It’s not enough that we get spam in our inboxes, myspace porn, and other things trying to ruin our adolecent’s innocence, we have to be concerned about what 8th grade teachers are bringing to school and who they are showing what. You see, the world is at war with decent morality.
I do not, for a second, buy into the idea that people are practicing this stuff only in their own bedrooms. Society may believe that they can separate what they are with the lights out and the doors shut from who they are in society, but they are grossly mislead. Who a person is in secret when no one is looking (their character) shines through in things that they say, they do, and what they are thinking about.
It is a short distance from what we think about and what we do. That’s why Christ made it a point after the sermon on the mount to intensify sins. He said that it was not enough not to commit adultry– but you had to not look on a woman to lust. It was not enough not to physically kill a person– you must not say that you hate them either.
A. W. Tozer suggests that if you were to monitor what you think about when you can choose what to think about, therein lies your treasure. That would be the thing that you worship and would point to how your decisions were made and what your actions would be. We as a culture are headed down a slippery slope when we think that people can compartmentalize well enough to keep the distractions and sins out of one area of our life when they permeate and dominate another.
College: Big Name or Generic Brand
As our schools turn out less educated product– more “repeat after me” than critical thinking– our colleges have had to change as well. Not only have their entry requirements changed due to the fact that political correctness has run amok, but they’ve also started weighing achievements in a community, or the hard luck case you came from. This certainly cannot be the same as what these colleges used to be.
There was a time in the mid 1900s that it was believed that men and women could not get a high paying job if they did not have a college education. This led to all the promises made by politicians to get people into college, which led to a bigger population that wasn’t the best and brightest, which did get more people a college degree but watered down what one means. It’s hard not to find someone with a two or four Year degree now, and what a person with that degree can expect has vastly changed. That, and the fact that people like Bill Gates can make a huge corporation without having a college degree shatters the myth that one cannot make it without the degree.
Enter Vox Day’s comments in regards to colleges being no more than brand names for those who value those kinds of things. He comments that in his professional experience it mattered more what one truly learns and knows than what a degree was in or what institution it came from.
For me, I was doing my day job during the summers as a temporary employee two years before graduating. The company knew I would get my degree in the field, and offered me the job before completion without even considering my college transcript. (They may have been able to do better!) I chose a different route than two of my college buddies. I went into the workforce, they got their Masters. We all have different life experiences because of the choices.
So, of how much value is a college degree? What is the comparitive ROI (Return On Investment) of a degree from different places– since some companies believe that it’s fine just to have the degree? Is it worth it?
Parents vs. Teachers
The next time you watch a video or see an ad in the news regarding homeschooling having a negative impact on their kids, I’d like you to remember something.
For every parent that abuses the homeschooling as a means of treating their kids poorly, how many teachers have sexually or physically abused their kids? How many families are impacted by the abuse of a teacher?
So far, we’ve covered here on this site teachers that pose topless and call it art, that have sex with other teachers in the classrooms, that have flings with children and are then still try to pick them up on paroll, and other atrocities.
We’ve seen that the public schools are grounds for sex gone wild. Schools are not shocked at mass statutory rape, it occurs in the auditorium and people do nothing about it, it starts in 6th or 7th grade, and the list goes on.
Now I know that I’m taking bad examples, and it “never would happen in my school,” but it is happening at schools across the nation. Just like someone could say “we don’t know what’s really going on in the homes of these homeschooling families– we don’t really know what’s going on in the classrooms and after hours, especially when parents aren’t home.
Parents have fallen into the trap, and it’s a complex one. It starts when we believe that we need that second job, and we’re comfortable with it because mem will only be out of the house for a couple of hours longer than junior will be out of school. It started when Mom thought it was more rewarding to have that career and have time away (even though she naturally didn’t want to) from that child. It continues as we let others whose views we do not select teach our children morals and values that are not our own in the name of choice– since people believe they have the moral capacity to make those kinds of value judgements.
Hello!? God gave children to parents, not government, for a reason.
Charter Schools? Count the Cost.
What is a charter school? It’s a form of public school education that can be done in the comfort of your own home with certain regulations. A contract is signed with your local school district, county board of education or the state. This contract is called a “charter.”
I must confess, after three years of homeschooling that the idea of charter school is a bit appealing. Our taxes pay for them, leaving pretty much printer ink and paper as the only other expenses. And the ultimate bait: a free computer!
Here’s the caveat taken directly from the California Charter Schools Association site:
“Can charter schools teach religion? No. Charter schools must be nonsectarian in their programs, admission policies, employment practices, and all other operations.”
Okay, but you’re a Christian family, and you’ll supplement the curriculum with faith based materials, right? Wrong. You signed a contract, and even including religious content in your English or history program would be a statutory violation. Even if you are willing to risk it, I want no part of a program that could label me illegal and unethical for incorporating my faith into my family’s education. In fact, the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) will not allow its members to participate in public school options such as charter schools.
Anyone considering homeschooling needs to think seriously about joining HSLDA. Even if you are blessed to teach in a state with relaxed homeschooling rules. The cost to join is minimal and you have at your back a host of legal defense should you be attacked by the powers that be. Yes, it happens. All the time.
Here are just a few more things to consider regarding charter schools:
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Is two hours a week enough time for your child to invest in music and art? That’s all a charter school wants you to log, and believe me, they will keep you so busy with the other subjects that a rigorous musical education would have stiff competition.
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Could you teach homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle? This could soon become a universal requirement for public schools/charter schools.
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How would you feel if your child was required to meet with your regulator alone?
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I’ll leave you with this true story from a California mother. She tried to withdraw her child from their charter school and was thereafter hounded by child welfare services demanding that she return her child to public school.
The freedom of homeschooling is at stake. With all the wonderful faith based curriculums out there, please think twice about signing on the government’s dotted line.
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