“For many of today’s children, the time they spend in forced schooling environments is both cruel and hazardous to their health. Gone are the oppressive factories, but in their place are oppressive schools. Where is the outrage?”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/factory-like-schools-are-the-child-labor-crisis-of-today/
“One morning she walked her kids to the bus stop and she was approached by an official from the Claremont school district and a police officer. In very intimidating fashion, they began questioning her about whether or not her children had been vaccinated. When she refused to answer and started recording the interaction they walked away, but that wasn’t the end of it. Later she called the police department and explained what was going on, and she was told that she could be arrested for refusing to vaccinate her children.”
“An astonishing 50% of millennials with student loans are willing to give up their right to vote in the next two presidential elections to have their debt forgiven, but far fewer would give up texting.”
Read more: https://www.credible.com/blog/survey-millennials-student-loan-debt-forgiveness/
“Students who said they were disappointed with President Trump’s tax plan changed their tune on the actual details after being told they were ideas from Sen. Bernie Sanders. The students were all for small business tax cuts when told it was a policy being pushed by the former Democrat presidential candidate. One female student even mentioned her family’s small business as a likely beneficiary.”
“Buyers of Lennar’s homes could receive a payment of up to $13,000 toward their student loans, as much as 3% of the home’s purchase price, from its subsidiary, Eagle Home Mortgage. The nation’s collective student debt stands at an all-time high of $1.34 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”
“We can pretend that the Constitution is still our governing document. However, the reality we must come to terms with is that in the America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned. Here is what it means to live under the Constitution today.”
“Middle-school student Zachary Bowlin didn’t bring a gun to school. He didn’t say the word gun. He didn’t do anything wrong, or dangerous, to merit a 10-day suspension from Edgewood Middle School in Trenton, Ohio. Bowlin ‘liked’ a picture of a gun on Instagram. That’s it. He didn’t do this during school hours, with school resources, or on school property.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/08/this-kid-was-suspended-for-10-days-becau
“Meet Isaac Morehouse, founder of the apprenticeship program, the Praxis, built on the belief that college degrees are less valuable than work experience. He tells Tucker how he helps people who don’t go to college with apprenticeships.”
“California Assemblymember Marc Levine (D) intends to introduce legislation to change school curricula to include the role of Russian hacking in the 2016 presidential election. ‘Students need to understand how [President] Trump’s policies are colored by the way he rose to power,’ said Levine. He says he will introduce the ‘Pravda Act of 2017’ within the next few weeks. ‘We have a duty to history to make it remember the Kremlin’s decision to hand pick a candidate,’ said Levine.”
“Bob Luddy was tired of trying to convince North Carolina educrats to improve the state’s public schools, so he built his own network of low-cost private schools that the government can’t meddle with.”