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A former “Teacher of the Year” has pleaded guilty to having an “ongoing relationship” with one of her female students starting when the girl was just 15. Brandyn Martin Hargrove was convicted on Wednesday of 12 criminal counts connected to her sexual assault of the ex-student while she was a teacher at Brazoswood High School in Clute, Texas. The formerly-decorated educator was sentenced to 10 years of probation and a 10-year probated sentence, meaning she won’t face any time in prison, despite grooming her student and having a sexual relationship with the minor, which continued until the girl turned 17,...

One international student after another told the University of Central Missouri this summer that they couldn’t get a visa, and many struggled to even land an interview for one. Even though demand was just as high as ever, half as many new international graduate students showed up for fall classes compared to last year. The decline represents a hit to the bottom line for Central Missouri, a small public university that operates close to its margins with an endowment of only $65 million. International students typically account for nearly a quarter of its tuition revenue. “We aren’t able to subsidize...

The friends' phones revealed that around six hours into their hike someone tried to ring the emergency services 77 times. Between 5 and 11 April, Kremers' iPhone was turned on multiple times but the correct PIN code was never entered again - hinting that she was not the one handling the phone.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is pushing a repeal of the Gun-Free School Zones Act (1990) in order to make it easier for law-abiding teachers, faculty, and others, to be armed to fend off would-be attackers on school campuses. The Gun-Free School Zones Act was put in place by President George H.W. Bush (R), barring the possession of a firearm in a “school zone” and thereby creating myriad gun-free soft targets in places filled with defenseless children, teachers, and school staff. Massie wants to see the Gun-Free School Zones Act repealed as a way of removing the soft target moniker from...

As students file back into classrooms and march onto athletic fields this fall, K-12 schools in blue states across the nation continue to violate President Donald Trump’s executive orders halting the dangerous trans agenda in schools. If anyone in America still doubts how insidious this reality-denying movement is, they should look to Annunciation Catholic Church School in Minneapolis where trans-identified male gunman Robin (formerly Robert) Westman mowed down innocent schoolchildren in a hail of bullets on Wednesday, killing two (ages 8 and 10) and injuring 17 others before cowardly taking his own life. Nor is Westman the first transgender criminal...

President Donald Trump’s administration this week told 40 states to eliminate parts of lessons that focus on LGBTQ+ issues from federally funded sexual education materials or that they will lose funding. The move is the latest in a line of efforts since Trump returned to the White House in January to recognize people as only male or female and to eliminate what he calls “gender ideology.” “Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas,” Acting Assistant Health and Human Service Secretary Andrew Gradison said in a statement. ...

In June, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Texas to end access to in-state tuition for students without legal status, arguing the Texas Dream Act discriminated against U.S. citizens. Within hours, the state conceded. KUT News is using Mariel's first name only because of privacy concerns over her immigration status. Mariel had been set to graduate from UT Austin next spring with two degrees, one in biology and another in Spanish. She would be a step closer to becoming a doctor. “That was the one thing that I felt like I had, [it] was my education. That’s the one thing...

Run Time 54 m. / " started noticing something was off in home appraisals,” says Mitch Vexler, whistleblower and expert on property valuations. He tells Daniela Cambone: “They were inflating property values to jack up taxes, and that was feeding into trillions in school bond debt that I believe will spiral.” On the scope of the problem, Vexler is blunt: “We’re talking about $5.1 trillion in school bonds that are based on these inflated appraisals. That’s massive—this is a ticking time bomb for local governments and taxpayers alike.” He warns of consequences for the bond market: “School districts are relying...

A mother whose 9-year-old daughter encountered a naked male trans-identified sex offender in a school locker room spoke out at a Virginia school board meeting last week. Jen McDougal was among several parents who spoke during the Arlington County School Board meeting last Thursday. The mother said that a year had passed since her family stopped registering for swim lessons at Washington Liberty High School in Arlington after an incident involving her then-9-year-old daughter. "Last September, my daughter and I walked into the locker room, and a biological male who identifies as transgender and who also happened to be a...

**Update at bottom of article** Mary Grace Westman has retained a criminal defense attorney. Mary Grace Westman, the mother of the transgender Minneapolis mass shooter and child killer Robin Westman appears to have fled and is not cooperating with police.

https://babylonbee.com/news/schrdingers-neighbors-say-thought-experiment-very-interesting-but-they-would-really-just-like-a-straight-answer-on-where-their-cat-isVIENNA, AUSTRIA — Neighbors of physicist Erwin Schrödinger agreed that his thought experiment about the indeterminate nature of their cat being alive was super interesting and all, but asked if he could please tell them where their cat is. "I think Erwin is great, he's so smart and always telling us about the amazing experiments he's working on, but he asked to borrow our cat a while back and I'm a bit concerned what happened next," said neighbor Fritz Weinberger. "We'd really like to know where Herr Shnitzel-Muncher ended up." Schrödinger reportedly asked to borrow the large tabby cat to...

BREAKING: An undercover investigation by @AccuracyInMedia caught a @north_alabama administrator ADMITTING that they are SECRETLY continuing their DEI program by changing the titles of staff and departments. "Each [department] did have a DEI director, but that's been since changed to like 'multicultural...' So technically we are not 'DEI'" "Even if their DEI office was a person of one, that person didn't get fired. They just got moved... Nothing's changed." They need to be defunded and investigated immediately @usedgov @EDSecMCMahon

Robert “Robin” Westman, a man who identified as a woman, attacked Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis today, killing two and wounding 17 others. The two fatalities were children with 14 of the 17 wounded also being school kids. Three adults were also injured. Westman penned an alleged manifesto and posted a video before the attack. His mother reportedly used to work at the school before retiring in 2021. Some of the writings were written in Cyrillic, but New York Post reporter Diane Nerozzi translated some of the pages (via NY Post): Transgender Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman spoke of murdering “filthy...

"The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack."Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized.In a letter dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed “school safety in nonpublic schools,” Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic...

Two children were killed when a gunman opened fire through church windows during a Mass attended by schoolchildren at a Minneapolis Catholic Church Wednesday morning, Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed at a press conference. Breitbart News reported on the shooting as details began to emerge, noting that an unknown number of people had been shot. The shooting occurred just before 8:30 a.m. During the press conference, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) was emotional and said, “This kind of act of evil should never happen.” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said a shooting was reported at Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church....

Catholic grade school attacked. At least 20 injured.

A California school district has enacted a new rule for young girls who are uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with biological males pretending to be girls, requiring the girls to file a mental health accommodation request.The Temecula Valley Unified School District TVUSD has reportedly enacted a rule that tells female students who feel uncomfortable sharing bathroom space with biological males must file a mental health accommodation request under federal law if they want privacy.The move has prompted outrage from parents and others who say that the rule treats those girls who object to sharing private space with biological males as the...

A disgraced California elementary school teacher was sentenced to more than two centuries in prison last Friday after authorities unravelled the decades-long sexual abuse he committed against many of his own students. Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, served as the head of the audio-visual club at Del Paso Heights Elementary School for 23 years before he was axed when the stomach-turning abuse was revealed. Wilson wound up curating a mountain of evidence against himself, including sick photographs and videos he captured of himself committing sex acts on his female students, often as young as 6 or 7 years old. Thanks to...

President Trump said his administration will welcome more Chinese students than ever into the United States to enroll in higher education as trade talks press on with Beijing. Trump announced Monday that he plans to open the floodgates to another 600,000 Chinese college students, though it’s unclear when. There are currently around 270,000 Chinese students enrolled in US universities. “I hear so many stories that we’re not going to allow their students,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’re going to allow their students to come in. It’s very important, 600,000 students. It’s very important. But we’re going to...

George Mason University’s efforts to diversify its workforce violate a civil rights law intended to end segregation, according to the Trump administration.Following a roughly six-week-long investigation of GMU’s hiring practices, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has found that the Northern Virginia-based university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race in public education.To resolve the alleged violation, the department has proposed an agreement that would require Mason President Gregory Washington to issue a statement and “personal apology … for promoting unlawful discriminatory practices in hiring, promotion, and...