Free Republic

Young Americans are seriously lacking in knowledge of what the July 4 holiday means, a new video released by Campus Reform reveals. But they are fully capable of "bleating about how the country is racist," a report on the video explains. See the man-in-the-street interviews done by Campus Reform: But it was at Summit News that the criticism was leveled. "Young Americans displayed a complete lack of knowledge about the 4th July holiday, instead bleating about how the country is racist," the commentary said. "When asked what the holiday commemorates and other details concerning the Declaration of Independence, most of...

Ever since I became a parent and faced the options for educating our daughters, I’ve become increasingly antagonistic toward public schools. Since our daughters are currently 20 and 22 years old and out on their own, that’s a long time to be disillusioned by our nation’s educational system. To modify an old saying, we didn’t leave public education; public education left us. Unfortunately, over the past two decades, schools have only gotten worse and we’ve never, ever regretted the decision to homeschool our girls. I feel sorry for young parents these days who face similar decisions. If anything, schools have...

Colleges are almost wholly staffed by liberals with a few conservatives sprinkled in. Conservatives have been blocked frequently from speaking on campus. That is intentionally keeping alternative views from the students. The reason students, Democrats and most reporters don’t seem to have any critical thinking ability is because they have been taught that to get along they must go along.

(CNSNews.com) - The Chicago Public Schools this year are mandating that the district’s kindergarten classes include sex education, fulfilling a proposal President Barack Obama supported in 2003 when he served in the Illinois state senate and later defended when he ran for president in the 2008 election cycle. At a Planned Parenthood convention at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2007, a teenage girl who said she worked as a sex-education “peer educator” in the D.C. public schools asked then-U.S. Sen. Obama what he would do to encourage the teaching of “medically accurate, age-appropriate, and responsible sex...

Pro-decency MassResistance takes the lid off this community devilment trashcan. MassResistance's constituency is outraged, properly so, at the pit dug by those determined to level healthy family life. http://www.massresistance.org/index.html