Socialist Education

Santa Claus is way too controversial to have a place in the classroom this Christmas — that is, according Oregon’s Hillsboro School District.  The school district decided not to feature St. Nick because he’s just too closely linked to “religious-themed decorations.”  “We will not be holding a door decorating contest this year,” read a memo from the school district. “You may still ...

A new website is asking students and others to “expose and document” professors who “discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”  The site, called Professor Watchlist, is not without precedent — predecessors include the now-defunct NoIndoctrination.org, which logged accounts of alleged bias in the classroom. There’s also David Horowitz’s 2006 book, The Professors: ...

Americans looking for a way to keep their kids busy after a day of heavy book-learnin’ will soon have a new alternative: After School Satan Clubs.  The Satanic Temple, which labels itself as “an atheistic religious organization that uses the symbol of Satan to inspire civil justice,” will soon be petitioning public schools across the U.S. to allow them to ...

Once upon a time, people looked at colleges and universities as places of brilliance. Stupid people needed to find somewhere else to be, because college was for the intelligent.  College professors, in particular, had gravitas when it came to matters requiring intelligence. After all, they were viewed as having something to teach the brilliant students.  In reality, colleges are overrun ...

Oregon State University reportedly plans to force all students to take a “social justice training” beginning in the fall of 2016.  “This training initiative is intended to provide all students entering Oregon State University an orientation to concepts of diversity, inclusion and social justice and help empower all OSU students to contribute to an inclusive university community,” states the description ...

Educators at a North Carolina public school district have been ordered to avoid using gender-specific pronouns when addressing pupils, according to a recently published training manual.  A slideshow presentation, entitled “Supporting Transgender Students,” provides guidance for the upcoming school year to K-12 teachers of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, directing them how to properly handle students with gender identity issues.  “Transgendered,” ...

There are many things children cannot do at certain Australian schools.  One school outlawed hugging. Another prohibited singing Christmas carols. Another has removed the word “black” from “ba ba black sheep.” And now — clapping has been banned.  Elanora Heights Public School, a primary school in Sydney, is instructing students to “punch the air, pull excited faces and wriggle about ...

The Sun reports of a top British thinker who claims young women are in the grip of a “hysteria” which has made them unable to cope with being offended.  Claire Fox, head of a thinktank called the Institute of Ideas, has penned a coruscating critique of “Generation Snowflake”, the name given to a growing group of youngsters who “believe it’s their right to ...

Under new health education learning standards, Washington state schools will teach transgender expression to kindergartners. The new standards include sexual health as a “core idea” of K-12 education.  The Daily Caller explains, “While some aspects of sexual health aren’t taught K-12 (HIV prevention begins in fourth grade), one component of sexual health titled ‘Self-Identity’ begins in kindergarten, where students will be ...

A Louisiana state Democrat doesn’t want schoolchildren to get anywhere near the Declaration of Independence because it’s racist and unfair.  State Rep. Barbara Norton opposes a new bill that would mandate schoolchildren in grades four, five and six to recite a portion of the historic document in the first class of each day. HB 1035 was presented by Republican state Rep. ...

Managing Microaggressions” is the latest event to hit the University of Virginia, where students can learn how not to poke fun at people’s food or clothing choices and can share the most traumatic human rights abuses they’ve experienced on campus.  Rob Shimshock at CampusReform reports on the latest insanity. Among the worst microagressions one can experience, according to students, is simply being “American.”   After all, didn’t you know the ...

Students in Delta, Colorado-area middle schools and high schools will be provided handouts of atheist and satanic literature on April 1, in a bid to pacify parents outraged after the school district handed out free Gideon Bibles to students in December.  That Gideons-sponsored event violated the separation of church and state, said parents, who demanded they be permitted to furnish nonreligious ...