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Substitute teacher brainwashes students with conspiracy theories

Imagine if your daughter or son came home from high school and said a teacher told them the terrorists who attacked our country on September 11, 2001 were not Muslim extremists.

That’s exactly what happened on Jan. 16, 2013 at Grosse Pointe North High School, outside Detroit, Mich., according to The Daily Caller.

Substitute teacher Jason Glicker led class that day, preaching to public school students his version of the Iran-Contra Affair, Pearl Harbor attacks, Jonestown Massacre, MKUltra and Operation Gladio.

One brazen student filmed Glicker, as he took questions from high school students in the class, bathing in the attention they gave him.

As Glicker continued into the nitty gritty of world politics, he unleashed a few reasons why he believed many conspiracy theories are reasonable truths.

The 9/11 hijackers were not Muslim extremists, Glicker explained, because Muslims abstain from drugs and do not date American women, which he said the terrorists were involved in prior to the attack.

His appalling comments evoked chuckles from a few students.

Glicker continued to, pressed by students, some gullible enough to believe anything a person of authority like a teacher would share.

School officials have not disclosed details about what class he was leading or why the regular teacher was not working.

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This week in the War on Workers: Teachers protest "data walls" that shame students

Over the past year, grade school students in the low-income city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, have faced having their names and standardized test scores posted in classrooms on “data walls,” for all their classmates to see. Horrible, right? But it shouldn’t be unexpected, as educational policy pushes standardized tests to the center of what goes on in schools, and as test scores are used for ever more punitive purposes. The story of how the data walls came to light is  particularly revealing, though.

Teachers and parents, outraged about the data walls, went to a school committee meeting to complain; at the meeting, the schools superintendent insisted that students’ names should never be used, and suggested that he’d be cracking down on individual teachers who were doing this bad thing. That contradicted testimony from a parent, Paula Burke, who said she’d directly requested that the superintendent “send a clear directive to ALL principals and teachers regarding the sharing of private student information,” but “This has not been done.” But it raised the very real possibility that teachers would be scapegoated for a practice to which they had first drawn attention. But then, Sarah Jaffe reports:

In response to his comments, the teachers released copies of a PowerPoint presentation given to teachers and paraprofessionals for kindergarten (yes, kindergarten) through third grade at Kelly Elementary School in Holyoke on October 11, 2013—at which Superintendent Paez delivered the welcoming remarks. The slides, provided to In These Times by teacher activists, clearly show sample data walls with students’ first names and in some cases, last initials.

Yes, the practice that the superintendent was all disapproving of in front of reporters and the school committee was drawn directly from a training he introduced. Whoopsies! But if teachers weren’t organized to fight back against practices that hurt their students and retaliation against themselves, this would be a different story. Already, the decks are stacked against teachers fighting back:

“The data walls really speak to a bigger problem,” Kaeppel says. The battle against data walls is just one fight in a broader war—everywhere, testing is replacing teaching time, and test scores are used to pressure students, to determine whether teachers can keep their jobs, and to rate schools as successes or as “failures,” with dire consequences. [Teacher Agustin] Morales points out that his students in Holyoke spend 27 days out of the 180-day school year taking standardized tests rather than learning. [...]

The constant exhaustion means that the union must prove to its members that a fight is worth the effort. That’s why [Educators for a Democratic Union, a progressive caucus within the Massachusetts Teachers Association] is trying to build solidarity through concrete victories—like the effort to fight the data walls in Holyoke. Kaeppel, who was one of [Barbara] Madeloni’s students at UMass, says that it seemed like a winnable fight to the Holyoke EDU members and their supporters from outside of the district, and has served to catalyze some parent support. Administrators, she says, assume that the lower-income parents in Holyoke are not involved with their kids’ schooling and won’t challenge school practices, but they got a surprise when parents and teachers spoke together at the school committee meeting.

But however outgunned by test-crazy politicians and billionaires, teachers and parents are there, in kids’ lives. The need to fight back is so obvious.

(Disclosure: My father is a member of EDU and has been involved in the campaign against Holyoke data walls. And background: I’ve written about Barbara Madeloni in the past.)

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3 California students charged with racially bullying black roommate

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• The three are accused of using racial epithets and posting Confederate flag, Hitler photos

(CNN) — Three San Jose State University students in California have been charged with racially bullying their black roommate by clamping a bicycle lock around his neck and decorating their four-bedroom suite with a Confederate flag, Nazi symbols, photos of Adolf Hitler and a white board with a racial epithet, prosecutors said Thursday.

The three students — Logan Beaschler, 18, of Bakersfield; Joseph Bomgardner, 19, of Clovis; and Colin Warren, 18, of Woodacre — are charged with misdemeanor hate crime and battery, the Santa Clara district attorney’s office said.

Neither the three students nor their attorneys could be immediately reached for comment.

Beaschler was booked in the Santa Clara County Jail on Thursday, with bail set at $ 15,000.

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The defendants face a maximum sentence of one year in county jail if convicted, prosecutors said.

The 17-year-old roommate who was the alleged victim wasn’t named by prosecutors. He suffered a minor injury when he fought off the bike lock around his neck, prosecutors said.

“I can’t believe in the year 2013 that we’re talking about an African-American student being treated this way,” District Attorney Jeffrey F. Rosen told CNN. “We’re taking this case very seriously.”

The defendants are accused of nicknaming their black roommate “Three-Fifths,” an apparent reference to a U.S. constitutional provision that counted slaves as “three-fifths of all other persons,” prosecutors said.

When the African-American student objected to that name, the three roommates in the campus housing began calling him “Fraction,” the prosecutor’s office said.

The alleged harassment began in August and lasted through October, prosecutors said.

Are we too quick to cry ‘bully’?

San Jose State’s president, Mohammad Qayoumi, said in a letter to the student body Thursday that the three students have been suspended.

“Let me be clear: I am outraged and saddened by these allegations. They are utterly inconsistent with our long cherished history of tolerance, respect for diversity and personal civility,” Qayoumi’s letter said.

Members of the alleged victim’s family released a statement saying they were “deeply disturbed by the horrific behaviors that have taken place against our son.”

“Our immediate focus is his protection,” the family said. “We have taken a stand on this matter. Our response prompted the community to be alerted of the appalling conduct of the students involved.”

A total of eight men were living in the four-bedroom suite, but the remaining four students turned their back on the racial harassment, the prosecutor said.

“The other four were aware of this (but) … did not stand up” and allowed the harassment, Rosen said.

Parents saw the Confederate flag in the dorm suite and “the N-word scrawled on a white board,” Rosen said.

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At least one of the defendants tried to downplay the harassment, and the three defendants then wrote a note to the African-American roommate, asking him to join their group, Rosen said.

But the black roommate objected to the harassment and sometimes “barricaded” himself in his room, Rosen said.

“The young man in this case was terrorized. It was difficult for him to study,” Rosen said. “He told them not to do this to him.”

Qayoumi said the university police immediately began investigating the allegations “the day our housing staff learned of the situation.”

The same day the investigation began, two of the roommates were moved to other residence halls and placed in single rooms.

“A third suite-mate, originally believed to be a bystander, was identified yesterday as an offender. We regret he was not removed from the victim’s suite before today,” Qayoumi said.

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CNN’s Joseph Netto contributed to this report.

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Alabama Punishes Students for Exiting Football Blowouts Early

After Alabama head coach Nick Saban complained about students leaving home games early, Alabama suspended the block-seating privileges of 20 popular student organizations. 

This means for the annual rivalry game between Tennessee played in the Third Saturday in October, any student “can sit anywhere in the student section.”

Alabama lists “early departures and excessive tardiness as ‘unacceptable behavior’ under its block-seating guidelines,” and  ”another violation could result in a suspension for the rest of the season.”

“I’ve talked about players playing for 60 minutes in the game and competing for 60 minutes in the game,” Saban told Al.com last week. “And, in some kind of way, everybody that choses to go to the game should stay there and support the team for the game.”

He added, “Maybe if you’re not interested in doing that, you should let someone else go who would really like to go because I have a lot of people who want to go.”

In Alabama’s four home games this year, Alabama has defeated Colorado State 31-6, Ole Miss 25-0, Georgia State 45-3, and Arkansas 52-0. 

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School Apologizes for Propagandizing Students to Love Obama

“He’s not a king. He’s the president. He serves us.”

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A Wisconsin school is accused of employing 1940s-style German propaganda tactics after it played a video of celebrities proselytizing an intense love for the state, and in particular the Obama Administration, at a school assembly.

During the Hudson School District’s Peace One Day event – an occasion meant to build peace awareness and promote the notion of global unity – the school played a YouTube video from Oprah Winfrey’s “I Pledge” campaign launched soon after President Obama took office.

The video shows actors Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Alyssa Milano, P Diddy and Cameron Diaz, to name a few, pledging to make the world a better place through the adjustment of certain behaviors.

But it was the video’s overarching political thrust that had parents, students and faculty upset.

At one point in the video, Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis says, “I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama,” and at the end of the video, Demi Moore states, “I pledge to be a servant to our president…”

“It looks a little bit 1940s Germany,” one person told a KMSP reporter during a man-on-the-street interview.

The reporter explained to another person that “in other words, we pledge to our country, to our flag, but we don’t pledge our allegiance to the man, the president. It’s like, he’s not a king. He’s the president. He serves us.”

After outrage, the school was forced to issue some apologies saying the district is non-partisan and didn’t mean to promote allegiance to Obama.

In a lengthy written notice, the school’s superintendent said the video was “a mistake” and said they wouldn’t be using it again.

“The reason the video was used was to show students small ways to make a difference in their communities,” the school’s apology says. “Unfortunately, the video also had a political slant. The district is non-partisan and does not endorse the political messages found in this video.”

According to KMSP, the principal also made an intercom announcement to the school apologizing “for any part of the video that was offensive.”

“The video conveyed a message that people serve the presidency when in fact our elected officials serve the people. We respect the Office of the President of the United States but like all of our other elected officials, that office serves each of us as well,” the school’s principal, Dan Koch, reportedly announced.

In the past, we have documented how Obama’s image in the mind of children has been elevated to a “messianic” cult-like status, promulgated through public schools used as indoctrination facilities.

Watch the videos below to see how public schools have in the past encouraged the wholesale idol worship of Obama.

In this video, a school teacher [out of frame] encourages children to praise Obama with a song.

The next video features Illinois schoolchildren creepily chanting, “Yes we can,” followed by an accurate comparison to the Hitler Youth brigades.

Many may recognize the next video from 2008, in which a Missouri schoolteacher was found to be organizing some sort of student militant Obama youth group. Together they choreographed a routine where each student announced that “because of Obama” they could achieve certain things in life. They then sound off on Obama’s economic and healthcare policies.

This last video we found particularly disturbing as it features teenagers from a school in – of all places – Toronto, Canada, rendering a painful remix version of our beloved leader’s inauguration speech in his honor.

This article was posted: Monday, September 30, 2013 at 12:35 pm

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School Apologizes for Propagandizing Students to Love Obama

School Apologizes for Propagandizing Students to Love Obama

“He’s not a king. He’s the president. He serves us.”

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
Sept. 30, 2013

A Wisconsin school is accused of employing 1940s-style German propaganda tactics after it played a video of celebrities proselytizing an intense love for the state, and in particular the Obama Administration, at a school assembly.

During the Hudson School District’s Peace One Day event – an occasion meant to build peace awareness and promote the notion of global unity – the school played a YouTube video from Oprah Winfrey’s “I Pledge” campaign launched soon after President Obama took office.

The video shows actors Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Alyssa Milano, P Diddy and Cameron Diaz, to name a few, pledging to make the world a better place through the adjustment of certain behaviors.

But it was the video’s overarching political thrust that had parents, students and faculty upset.

At one point in the video, Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis says, “I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama,” and at the end of the video, Demi Moore states, “I pledge to be a servant to our president…”

“It looks a little bit 1940s Germany,” one person told a KMSP reporter during a man-on-the-street interview.

The reporter explained to another person that “in other words, we pledge to our country, to our flag, but we don’t pledge our allegiance to the man, the president. It’s like, he’s not a king. He’s the president. He serves us.”

After outrage, the school was forced to issue some apologies saying the district is non-partisan and didn’t mean to promote allegiance to Obama.

In a lengthy written notice, the school’s superintendent said the video was “a mistake” and said they wouldn’t be using it again.

“The reason the video was used was to show students small ways to make a difference in their communities,” the school’s apology says. “Unfortunately, the video also had a political slant. The district is non-partisan and does not endorse the political messages found in this video.”

According to KMSP, the principal also made an intercom announcement to the school apologizing “for any part of the video that was offensive.”

“The video conveyed a message that people serve the presidency when in fact our elected officials serve the people. We respect the Office of the President of the United States but like all of our other elected officials, that office serves each of us as well,” the school’s principal, Dan Koch, reportedly announced.

In the past, we have documented how Obama’s image in the mind of children has been elevated to a “messianic” cult-like status, promulgated through public schools used as indoctrination facilities.

Watch the videos below to see how public schools have in the past encouraged the wholesale idol worship of Obama.

In this video, a school teacher [out of frame] encourages children to praise Obama with a song.

The next video features Illinois schoolchildren creepily chanting, “Yes we can,” followed by an accurate comparison to the Hitler Youth brigades.

Many may recognize the next video from 2008, in which a Missouri schoolteacher was found to be organizing some sort of student militant Obama youth group. Together they choreographed a routine where each student announced that “because of Obama” they could achieve certain things in life. They then sound off on Obama’s economic and healthcare policies.

This last video we found particularly disturbing as it features teenagers from a school in – of all places – Toronto, Canada, rendering a painful remix version of our beloved leader’s inauguration speech in his honor.

This article was posted: Monday, September 30, 2013 at 12:35 pm

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Islamist gunmen murder 50 students at Nigerian college

The Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram is suspected in a terrorist attack at a rural college that killed at least 50 students – many of them murdered while sleeping.

Reuters:

Suspected Islamist militants stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early on Sunday, witnesses said.

State police commissioner Sanusi Rufai said he suspected Boko Haram was behind the attack but gave no details.

The bodies were brought from the college, which is in Gujba, a rural area 30 miles (50km) south of Damaturu and around 130 miles from Nigerian borders with Cameroon and Niger.

The gunmen, thought to be members of rebel sect Boko Haram, attacked one hostel, took some students outside before killing them and shot others trying to flee, people at the scene told Reuters.

“They started gathering students into groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto the next group and killed them. It was so terrible,” said one surviving student Idris, who would only give his first name.

“They came with guns around 1 a.m. (2400 GMT) and went directly to the male hostel and opened fire on them … The college is in the bush so the other students were running around helplessly as guns went off and some of them were shot down,” said Ahmed Gujunba, a taxi driver who lives by the college.

Boko Haram, which wants to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has intensified attacks on civilians in recent weeks in revenge for a military offensive against its insurgency.

Several schools, seen as the focus of Western-style education and culture, have been targeted.

Boko Haram and spin-off Islamist groups like the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru have become the biggest security threat in Africa’s second largest economy and top oil exporter.

Western governments are increasingly worried about the threat posed by Islamist groups across Africa, from Mali and Algeria in the Sahara, to Kenya in the east, where Somalia’s al-Shabaab fighters killed at least 67 people in an attack on a Nairobi shopping mall a week ago.

Bodies were recovered from dormitories, classrooms and outside in the undergrowth on Sunday, a member of staff at the college told Reuters, asking not to be named.

A Reuters witness counted 40 bloody corpses piled on the floor at the main hospital in Yobe state capital Damaturu on Sunday, mostly of young men believed to be students.

Is the rise of al-Shabab and Boko Haram attributable to our emphasis on core al-Qaeda groups in Pakistan and Iraq? Some analysts think that we could have assisted the Kenyans and Nigerians with tamping down these groups before they became as well armed and numerous as they are today if we had looked at  Islamist terrorism as a global problem rather than a concentrating on major al-Qaeda affiliates in a few countries.

For the moment, the African terrorist groups appear content to murder people close to home. But as they grow, they may become more ambitious and begin to threaten American interests directly. Assisting African states in dealing with these groups should be on the front burner of our foreign policy agenda.

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Islamist gunmen murder 50 students at Nigerian college