Kids these days. They write the darndest things. In crayon. With no prompting whatsoever by their teachers. The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child’s scrawl. “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional…
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Indoctrination By Crossword
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
Have you heard about this? It’s a crossword puzzle that was part of a school assignment that labeled conservatives as those who want to restrict personal freedoms. The last time I checked they weren’t the ones (at least most of…
Record Number Of Students Received Free Lunches In 2012
by Lonely Conservative • • 10 Comments
Who says there’s no free lunch? According to new data from the USDA, during the average school month in fiscal year 2012, 18.7 million students in U.S. high schools and grammar schools were given completely free lunches, courtesy of the…
American Schools To Start Teaching Climate Change Curriculum
by Lonely Conservative • • 28 Comments
The climate alarmists are going to have a new captive audience – America’s school children. New national science standards that make the teaching of global warming part of the public school curriculum are slated to be released this month, potentially…
Son Of Member Of Biden’s Gun Commission Convicted Of Plotting Columbine Style School Attack
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
Hmm. Maybe the national media has picked up on this and I missed it, but I found it at Nice Deb’s site. One of the members of Joe Biden’s gun commission has a son who was convicted of plotting to…
Well, What Do You Know, The NRA Just Endorsed Bill Clinton’s School Protection Plan
by Lonely Conservative • • 6 Comments
The other day Senator Barbara Boxer proposed turning our schools into mini police states patrolled by the National Guard. There was no outrage by the progressives or the media that I found. I also don’t recall much media outrage…
Shooting At Elementary School In Newtown, CT – Updated
by Lonely Conservative • • 18 Comments
Update: 11:32 PM: Various outlets have been reporting that the shooter, Adam Lanza, had some psychiatric issues. Accounts vary, some say he had autism, others just say he was kind of nuts. By all accounts, brother Ryan had not talked…
Obama Admin Caving On Lunch Menus
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
The Obama administration is walking back some of its rules for school lunches after the public outcry over the way kids were going hungry during the day. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told members of Congress in a letter Friday that…
GOP Reps Introduced the “No Hungry Kids Act” – Updated – Feds Say Snacks Are the Answer
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
What does it say about the state of affairs these days when Congressmen have to introduce legislation designed to stop the federal government from making our kids go hungry? That’s exactly where we are. Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Steve…
Michelle Obama Announces “Exciting” Changes to School Lunch Menus
by Lonely Conservative • • 12 Comments
The lunch menus at my kids’ schools are a little different this year. As usual there is a main dish and some sides listed on the menu, but then there’s this at the top of the page: “For a complete…
NYC Cut So Many Calories From School Lunches They No Longer Meet Requirements
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Michelle Obama must be so proud of the New York City bureaucrats. They have cut so many calories from school lunches that the meals no longer contain enough calories to meet basic nutritional requirements. Worried that children were losing the…
Coney Island Principal Bans ‘God Bless the USA’ from Kindergarten Moving Up Ceremony
by Lonely Conservative • • 20 Comments
Another school principal is in the news for being an enemy of free speech and American patriotism. This one is a Coney Island elementary school principal who has banned the song “God Bless the USA” from being sung during the…
Massachusetts Officials to Parents: It’s Your Fault We’re Banning Bake Sales
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
The Boston Herald reports that the state of Massachusetts is banning bakes sales, as well as yummy treats served at holiday parties and classroom birthday celebrations. The ban will go into effect on August 1, and will only apply during…
School Custodian Fired for Having Pro-Walker Sign in Car
by Lonely Conservative • • 9 Comments
Mary Taylor is a school custodian in Wisconsin who was fired for having a sign in her car that says “Stand with Walker,” in reference to the recall efforts against Governor Scott Walker. Taylor said that a number of cars…