Damn It, Geico, You're Interfering With the Indoctrination!

"Teachers in Vernon, Conn., say a Geico car insurance TV commercial featuring a camel yelling "Hump Day" is contributing to disruptive classroom behavior."

Boys at Vernon Center Middle School are constantly quoting the ad, WFSB-TV, Hartford, Conn., reported.

"Everybody's walking around in the hallways and saying its hump day in that weird voice," said Brooke Lewis, a student at the school. "Sometimes it's the counting down to when it is."

Other students say they have been called to the principal's office for quoting the commercial, as teachers find using the phrase to be disruptive.

While We're On the Subject of Nostalgia...

...how many of you who grew up in the 1960's and 1970's remember Words In Color?

I learned to read using that method. It helped me immeasurably.

Shut Up, Peasant!

See the violence inherent in the system.

Even In South Carolina....

...there's leftist pukes ready, willing and able to indoctrinate your kids with your tax dollars:

A high school teacher in South Carolina is under investigation and has been placed on long-term administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students.

Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., reprised the unpatriotic deed in three classes over the course of one day, reports local NBC affiliate WIS.

According to FITSNews, a South Carolina-based conservative news and entertain website, people in the Chapin High community describe Compton a “good teacher” who is “very liberal” and “wears it on his sleeve in the classroom.”

h/t The Daily Caller.

And Yet Another Modest Proposal

Since there are at least 1,544,634 felons in the USA but only 960,000 farmers, I propose that the Future Farmers of America be renamed the Future Felons of America, and instead of the FFA's blue corduroy jacket, that Future Felons be issued orange jailhouse jumpsuits.

Future Felons, instead of going on field trips to farms and ranches, could instead go to the local state prison to learn crime tips first hand - - often from their very own daddies!

And, while I'm thinking about it, might as well rename the Future Homemakers of America, as well. Again, we'll just keep the same initials, and call them the Future Ho's of America.

Jonathan Swift ain't got nothin' on me.

Teachers' Union To Defend Cheating Atlanta Teachers

Well, they say there is honor amongst 'em, you know.

UK Education Summarized In Three Words

"Teachers give up making boys read long books."

Teachers give up. It just doesn't get any clearer than that, does it?

Whole Lot Erasin' Goin' On

In some Washington DC schools where low standardized test scores are endangering teacher jobs because of the No Child Left Behind Act, there's a whole lot of erasing being done on those tests.

*nudge nudge wink wink* Say no more!

Damn That Stubborn Achievement Gap...

...it doesn't seem to go away no matter what we do.

It's a First Amendment Case...

...because she's a member of the Church of Body Modification.

Something else that probably needs to be nipped in the bud, also.

*laughs*

Sheepskin Made of Naugahyde

At the University of Baltimore, they're offering a class on zombies.

Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics. As an alternative to a final research paper they may write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks.

Yah, that'll help you out in the real world.

Meanwhile, Up In New York...

...where school kids are suspended for wearing rosaries to school...

Methinks I smell a jackboot...

UK Schools: So Busy Babysitting That No Time Is Left For Education

"Under Labour, classes in personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) have been introduced, covering subjects such as sex education, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, racism, bullying, managing finances and healthy eating. New-style lessons in citizenship have also been put on the National Curriculum."

The result is that the kids can't distinguish between Nelson and Cromwell.

Another cautionary tale from the Old Country.

Well, That's One Way To Narrow The Ol' Achievement Gap

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, African-American elementary school students were taken on a field trip to meet a "rocket scientist" while white children were left behind in class.

That's sort of similar to narrowing the beauty gap by throwing acid in the faces of beautiful people, if you ask me...

h/t Instapundit.

Ooo Aaaah Oooo Aaaah Aaaah!

A female UK teacher on trial for having sex with a student claimed in her defense that the boy forced his way into her bedroom, where he made noises of sexual gratification, apparently to frame her for the crime.

Lady, you're making yourself into a laughingstock with that defense. Just admit you had a craving for some veal and be done with it, ok?

Here's a pic of our veal-eating teacher:

Likes Veal.

update: She was acquitted at trial. Maybe not a veal-eater after all?

Teacher To Students: You Are NOT To Take This Assignment Home

We wouldn't want your parents to see it, now would we?



Yah, they might be tempted to come to school and horsewhip you, Mrs. Goebbels Geerdes.

h/t Hot Air Headlines.

Yah, But A Man's Got To Know His Limitations

Teachers in UK are being advised to to emulate Clint Eastwood's character "Dirty Harry" to establish control in the classroom.

So I guess we're going to have a generation of UK schoolteachers staring coldly at students and whispering Go ahead...make my day!

I doubt that it will go down in teaching history as one of the finer moments.

A Couple of Words Missing, Maybe?

Please read this article about a "religious conflict" between a Wake County, NC, teacher and her students, then tell me if you think a couple of very important words are missing that would make the story understandable. As it stands, the story is incomplete, possibly for reasons of political correctness.

I'll chime in with what those probable words are later, after giving readers a chance to guess them.

Imagine That

"A Wake County middle school teacher has been suspended following complaints about disparaging comments she made about her class, Christianity and Southern culture on her Facebook page.

Melissa Hussain, an eighth-grade teacher at West Lake Middle School in Apex, wrote on her Facebook page that it was a “hate crime” that students left a Bible on her desk and how she “was able to shame her kids” over the incident. Her Facebook page included comments from friends saying that the parents of Hussain’s students were “bigoted, stupid and uncaring.”

Hussain has been nominated for Teacher of the Year by the American Federation of Teachers.

Fine. Let Convicts Have A Say On Prison Rules, Then, and...

...lunatics have a say on asylum rules, too, while you're at it.

Why does it seem that the UK Labour Party is conspiring to hand the election to the Tories?