Girls’ Rights Matter: 150 Students Walk Out Over Trans Teen Using Girl’s Locker Room
Posted: September 2, 2015 Filed under: Education, Health and Social Issues, Politics | Tags: Academic term, Bathroom, Changing room, High school, Hillsboro, Hillsboro High School (Oregon), KTVI, Missouri, Progressivism, propaganda, Protest, St. Louis, Transgender Leave a comment
HILLSBORO, Mo. (CBS St. Louis) – Over 150 Missouri high school students voiced their displeasure about a transgender teen using the girls’ locker room by walking out of class.
“It’s going to end up in court…You have the administrative agencies – OSHA, EEOC, and the Department of Education clashing with the courts. Most of the times … the court, when the issue gets there, will not enforce those guidelines.”
— St. Louis attorney Timm Schowalter
“Boys need to have their own locker room. Girls need to have their own locker room, and if somebody has mixed feelings where they are, they need to have their own also.”
— protester Jeff Childs
“I’m sorry, Lila, but you’re not a girl. Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceiving you. While I feel sorry for a young, confused kid who’s becoming yet another pawn in the Left’s war on decency, I’m deeply heartened that more than 100 of his classmates took a stand for basic biology. Not every Millennial is a sexual revolutionary.”
— David French
Students at Hillsboro High School staged a two-hour walkout Monday over 17-year-old Lila Perry, a student who has identified as a female since she was 13, using the girls’ locker room during gym class.
“The school offered Perry a gender-neutral bathroom, which she turned down. All students have a right, under Title 9, to access the bathroom of their choice.’”
Family members of high school students were also holding a protest. Read the rest of this entry »
Former High School Teacher Michelle Yeh Accused of Having Sex with Underage Students, Taking One to Disneyland
Posted: August 11, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Academic term, California, Crime Stoppers, l substitute teacher was charged Tuesday with sex crimes involving multiple underage male students, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Unified School District, Michelle Yeh, one of whom she a, San Pedro High School, Sexual abuse 1 Comment
Yeh was charged with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under 16, two counts of oral copulation of a minor under 16, and two counts of lewd act on a child 15 years of age.
LOS ANGELES — A former San Pedro High School substitute teacher was charged Tuesday with sex crimes involving multiple underage male students, one of whom she allegedly took to Disneyland, KTLA reported. 
The news station said Michelle Yeh, 28, was set to be arraigned Wednesday in Long Beach, Calif., on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.
Yeh became a “permanent substitute” teacher at the Los Angeles Unified School District campus in February, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Police said last month that she was a science teacher who had “arranged private meetings” with her students at the end of the school year.
She bought gifts for students while pursuing relationships with them, taking one alleged victim to Disneyland and meeting another at a hotel, the DA’s office said.
In connection with two male victims, Yeh was charged with four counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under 16, two counts of oral copulation of a minor under 16, and two counts of lewd act on a child 15 years of age, the DA’s office said. Read the rest of this entry »
London, We Have A Problem: Why British Pollsters Were So Dreadfully, Terribly Wrong
Posted: May 13, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Academic term, al Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Ayelet Shaked, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Coalition government, Israel, Knesset, Likud, Prime Minister of Israel, United States 2 Comments
Michael Barone writes: “The world may have a polling problem.” That’s the headline on a blogpost by Nate Silver, the wunderkind founder of the fivethirthyeight.com website. It was posted on 9:54 Eastern Time the night of May 7, as the counting in the British election was continuing in the small hours of May 8 UK Time.
“Polling provides useful information, but information whose reliability is often ephemeral and increasingly, it seems, limited.”
That was an hour after the result in the constituency of Nuneaton made it clear that all the pre-election polls were wrong. Nuneaton, in the Midlands just east of Birmingham, was number 28 on a list of 42 marginal two-party contests. Projections based on pre-election polls were that Labour would win 35 of these 42 seats. Instead Conservatives won 34 of them.
Nationally, the pre-election polls predicted that Conservatives would win about 280 seats, barely ahead of Labour and far short of a 326-seat majority. The exit poll pegged them at 316. They ended up winning 331.
“Readers may have noticed that all these errors seem to come from one ideological direction. In nations where the dominant media lean left–the New York Times and the old-line TV networks here, the BBC in Britain, Ha’aretz in Israel–opinion on the right has been understated in the polls.”
Something similar happened in 1992, when pre-election polls showed the two parties tied but Conservatives won by a 7.5-point margin. The most common explanation, advanced by Conservative analyst Rob Hayward: “shy Tories” were unwilling to tell pollsters they favored the Conservative party.
“Evidently, some people don’t want to identify themselves as troglodytes to telephone interviewers or even on robocalls.”
British pollsters made adjustments then but, as Hayward notes, they didn’t work this year. Internal party polls apparently did better. American pollster Stanley Greenberg, working for Labour and using a longer questionnaire, found the party’s numbers sagging. Australian consultant Lynton Crosby, running Conservatives’ campaign, assured party leaders they would win 300 seats. Read the rest of this entry »
Atrocity and Silence: Where are the Voices?
Posted: August 29, 2014 Filed under: History, Religion, War Room | Tags: Academic term, Alma mater, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Catholic University of America, Donald Wuerl, Mass, Washington Leave a comment“Atrocities happen because there are people who commit them and because there are people who simply choose to remain silent.”
From This is no ordinary opening of an academic year, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., said toward the end of Mass for my alma mater’s academic year. “Atrocities happen because there are people who commit them and because there are people who simply choose to remain silent,” he said at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, adjacent to the Catholic University of America. Read the rest of this entry »
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official
Posted: November 21, 2013 Filed under: Education | Tags: Academic term, Courageous Conversation, Peanut butter, Peanut butter and jelly sandwich, Portland Tribune, Tribune, White privilege 2 Comments
Nathan Harden reports: Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?
That’s right.
Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune:
“Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year,” the Tribune said.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” Gutierrez asked. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
…The Tribune noted that the school started the new year with “intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives,” to help educators understand their own “white privilege,” in order to “change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance.””Last Wednesday, the first day of the school year for staff, for example, the first item of business for teachers at Scott School was to have a Courageous Conversation — to examine a news article and discuss the ‘white privilege’ it conveys,” the Tribune added.
