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A California elementary school teacher recently lauded for her "commitment to students, teaching, and lifelong learning" was arrested Tuesday on child sex abuse charges. KNSD reported that Jacqueline Ma, a sixth-grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary School, faces three felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child and three felony counts of oral copulation. According to District Superintendent Leighangela Brady, Ma was arrested at 8 a.m. on school grounds. The victim, allegedly exploited while under the age of 14, is reportedly no longer a student in the district. "We know that our entire school community is as stunned...

A “woke” teacher in New York allegedly “manipulated” a 5th grade girl into changing her gender without her parents’ knowledge or consent and caused her “suicidal ideation,” according to a lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that teacher Debra Rosenquist at the Terryville Road Elementary School in Terryville, New York, singled out then-9-year-old “A.V.” throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Allegedly, Rosenquist “forced” the young girl to go by male pronouns and a male name (“Leo”), the girl's parents allege. This went on for some time before A.V.’s parents were made aware.

Florida schools have removed more than 100 books that contain pornographic material during the 2022-2023 academic year in order to comply with state law, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. A survey of local school districts found that 153 of 175 books were removed the the district for including pornographic, violent or age-inappropriate content, according to a document obtained by the DCNF. The removed books included “This Book is Gay,” “Gender Queer,” “Let’s Talk About It” and “It’s Perfectly Normal,” all of which contain sexually explicit depictions according to snippets shared by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration. “This Book...

Democrats are constantly telling us how great public schools are and how much we must value school teachers. So what happens when a Democrat-controlled city has almost two dozen schools with zero students performing at grade level?FOX 45 News in Baltimore reports:23 Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math, per state test resultsBaltimore City is facing a devastating reality as the latest round of state test scores are released.Project Baltimore analyzed the results and found a shocking number of Baltimore City schools where not a single student is doing math at grade level. “We’re not living up to our...

Springfield, Ohio – A local news station, WHIO-TV, reported that a group of black children allegedly used violent force to make white students say “Black Lives Matter” against their will at Kenwood Elementary School last Friday. WHIO-TV confirmed, through a public records request, that Springfield police were called to the school Monday morning to look into the racist students’ actions. The police say they are investigating whether this was a hate crime and are working with prosecutors to determine whether to bring charges. During the racist incident, several white students were punched in the head by black counterparts for...

Audits of 12 school districts has state Auditor General Timothy DeFoor believing school boards are playing a “shell game” with taxpayer funds by moving money into reserve accounts to allow them to make a case for raising property tax rates. State laws limit how much school districts can raise property taxes and sets limits on those increases but allows for exceptions to be granted in one of two ways: ask voters’ permission through a referendum or ask the state Department of Education for a referendum exception. “These 12 districts collectively raised taxes 37 times during the four years we reviewed...

Tuesday I [i.e., John Sexton] wrote a story highlighting the fact that the number of Virginia high schools who failed to inform students about their merit awards had risen to 13. Two days later the number has risen to 17. The count just keeps growing. Marshall High School Principal Jeremy Litz just sent parents an email, telling them that “it has come to light that Marshall High School students designated as Commended Students this past fall were notified later than we would have hoped.” This brings to 17 the number of high schools in Fairfax County, Loudoun County and Prince...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is providing $125 million for electrical parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country’s electrical system, the U.S. international development aid chief said Wednesday.The U.S. Agency for International Development plans to use the money to procure backup power for Kyiv’s water and district-heating systems. The funding also will help replenish supplies of gas turbines, transformers and other vital power equipment.

New conservative Christian majority leads way on board’s 3-2 vote to prohibit critical race theory The teaching of critical race theory was banned in Temecula Valley schools after an emotional marathon meeting that drew hundreds to a Tuesday night, Dec. 13, session in a packed high school theater. Led by a new conservative Christian board majority seated at the beginning of the meeting, the school board’s 3-2 vote to prohibit such lessons came early Wednesday, Dec. 14. “A lot has been said tonight,” said newly elected trustee Joseph Komrosky, who proposed the resolution. “I’m here to keep a campaign promise....

"When My STUDENTS Bring Up SexED I Get Excited" (Elementary School Teacher) S8xuality is Now the Only Topic for KIDS in Elementary Schools When the Woke Zealots Are in Charge. My Class is Exclusively Designed for KIDS of COLOR (Teacher

...the latest insanity from the "woke" left brings us to Virginia, where state Democrats want to change the child abuse laws to include parents who use improper pronouns, among other things. It's being proposed in the upcoming session of the legislature (via WJLA): Virginia parents could face a felony or misdemeanor charge if they do not affirm their child’s sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a state lawmaker with plans to introduce the legislation in Virginia's upcoming legislative session. Right now, parents’ rights and LGBTQ protections are a big focus in Virginia. Thousands of students in Virginia have walked...

Last Friday, as Madeline highlighted, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) updated Virginia's policies on transgender students and pronouns, emphasizing parental involvement. This was a significant change from the previous administration of Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat. Despite such an update, it appears that the main culprits, Alexandria City Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools, don't show an intention of complying. As Madeline also covered, Fairfax County, the largest school district in Virginia, was training teachers to transition students without parental consent, which certainly earned the ire of Youngkin.

ROCK HILL, S.C. (WBTV) - A gun was found in a student’s car at Rock Hill High School on Wednesday, the York County Sheriff’s Office said. This comes after two guns had already been found at schools within the district this academic year, with all three now being discovered within the past three days. Deputies searched the student’s vehicle after receiving a tip. The student was confronted and took off running. Deputies are still attempting to track down that student. ”We will be more proactive in addressing safety and security in all of our schools,” Rock Hill Schools district spokesperson...

By allowing children to read the book, school administrators are "opening them up to sexual predators" and "to grooming," Will Witt said. Parents of Hillsborough County Public Schools students in Tampa, Florida, are voicing their outrage after at least one sexually explicit book was made available to students, including a book in a middle school library that features instructions for gay sex and hookup apps. The book also includes a cartoon of a naked man under the section "Boy-on-Boy Sex."

Civil Rights The panel reversed the district court’s denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction sought by a derecognized student club, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and directed the district court to enter an order reinstating the Fellowship as a student club within the San Jose Unified School District. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes (“FCA”) requires students serving in leadership roles to abide by a Statement of Faith, which includes the belief that sexual relations should be limited within the context of a marriage between a man and a woman. The San Jose Unified School District (the “School District”)...

These UCLA students don’t know what the capital of the United States is. This is proof that getting into college is way too easy. No wonder why so many college students think that borrowing money doesn’t entail paying it back.This new video from James Klug is called, “BRUTAL: Gen Z Fails To Answer The EASIEST Questions.”He asks adults the following questions. They don’t know the answers:What’s the capital of the United States?How many stars are on the United States flag?What ocean is on the east side of the United States?What country is the Queen of England from?What was Adolf Hitler’s...

For a very long time in America, academics were complicated: Schools offered multiple subjects for which challenging assignments and tough tests were the norm. Concerning sex, however, things were simple: There were boys and girls and XX/XY chromosomes — a small point of fact among many things covered in biology class. As for sexual activity, it wasn’t spoken about to children.Now, education appears to have flipped: Sex has been upstaged by “gender identity,” and it’s considerably complex. Moreover, all manner of carnal activity is promoted in class. Academics, by contrast, have been simplified — if the nation’s tanking test scores...

A volley of policy proposals has been put up for debate at the annual conference of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, including one that called for the organization to support making masks and COVID-19 vaccines mandatory in public schools. About 6,000 delegates of the National Education Association (NEA), who collectively represent more than 3 million employees in public education, convened in Chicago from July 3–6. It’s the first time they’ve assembled in person to debate on issues and set policy agenda since the start of the pandemic. Prior to 2022, anyone could use the NEA website to track the status...

A Washington state school board director who owns a sex shop is making headlines after announcing she will teach sex education classes for children as young as 9 on topics such as "sexual anatomy for pleasure" and "safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities."

It's a run-down former saloon. Working guys come here for cheap grub. The evening special is roast pork with apple sauce and mashed potatoes. About 5:20, two tough, contemptuous men show up to wait for something. They don't care what anybody might guess about their plans or who else might walk in. The two men are professional killers, one of them armed with a sawed-off shotgun. They are casual about insulting regular people and bossing them around. One killer goes in the back, the kitchen, and ties up the cook and another fellow who happens to be there. The mood...