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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Michigan Union: Teachers Still Have a Right to Benefits After Boning Teenagers

(WARNING: This item contains strong language, sexual perversity, an out-of-control labor union and sarcasm.) If the American people can agree on nothing else, can’t we all agree — black or white, male or female, rich or poor, gay or straight — that it’s a very bad thing for teachers to have sex with students? And […]

‘Teacher of the Year’ Learns a Tough Lesson: Always Take the Plea Bargain

Ethel Anderson, 31, was once voted “Teacher of the Year” in Riverside, Florida. You might have thought that when prosecutors offered her a 15-year-sentence, the former language arts teacher at Mango Elementary would have known it was the best she could hope for: A female teacher found guilty of having sex with a 12-year-old student […]

Were Vassar Students Who Perpetrated Hate Hoax Linked to Another Injustice?

In August, I mentioned Peter Yu, who was expelled from Vassar College in what K.C. Johnson called  “The Dubious Rape Trial at Vassar.” And last week, there was another Vassar story: “Hispanic Transgender Student Kicked Out After Faking College Hate Incident.” There may be a connection between these two incidents: Genesis Hernandez, a transgendered, minority student […]

Rocky Horror Elementary School

“Equal rights” sounds so wonderful. Who can be against equality? Yet as Richard Weaver warned us long ago, Ideas Have Consequences, and the sledgehammer logic of “equal rights” brutally dismantles every common-sense objection. Even the most obvious facts — e.g., boys and girls are different — must therefore be suppressed to conform with The Equality […]

Public Education News Updates

Colorado Springs, Nov. 22: A Widefield High School teacher accused of sexual assault apparently had the habit of talking to male students about homosexual sex, grabbing their nipples and touching their crotches in a way that several students referred to as “cup checking,” according to an arrest affidavit. Lee Edward Riddle, a 29-year-old German language […]

Perhaps It’s Time to Ask Again, ‘What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?’

The infamous ‘Group of 88’ ad in the Duke Chronicle, April 6, 2006. Michael W. Chapman at CNS News: When Crystal Mangum falsely accused several Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006, there were 160 major television news stories in the first five days after the players were arrested, but in 2013, when Mangum was […]

Hispanic Transgender Student Kicked Out After Faking College Hate Incident

How predictable was this? On Nov. 14, [Vassar College] sent a mass email to students advising them that Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT) had received at least six reports in the last few months of hateful and insensitive messages being scrawled and spray painted on student residences. Messages included “Avoid Being Bitches,” “Fuck Niggers,” and […]

Sex and Fear on Campus

Roxeanne Jones is female media executive who also happens to be the mother of a college-age son: It seems nearly every week, we hear news stories about sexual encounters at parties where everyone is drinking — and a young woman says she was raped, and a young man insists the encounter was consensual. Make no […]

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