Archive for March 7th, 2007

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

The Warren Township student sex scandal gets stonewalled then defended: No danger to the kids says attorney for the State DOE

This brings new meaning to sex education doesn't it?

The summary of the story is that in a shop class at Raymond Park Middle School, two 6th grade students engaged in sex.  The shocker was that they did it IN CLASS.

The teacher was reputedly there, but apparently they managed anyway.  The story has some inconsistencies depending on who you talk to, which is not helped by the fact that school officials refuse to comment on the story, which has outraged parents.

School officials refuse to comment on sex incident

Indianapolis - The Warren Township school district is gaining national attention after a 13 Investigates report confirmed young students engaging in sexual activity during class time.

School officials are refusing to comment publicly, prompting concern and outrage among township parents.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Faux Outrage Over Rep. Hastings (1 Update)

1 Update After the Jump 

For the next little while, the hard-left will be going up in an uproar over the removal/resignation of U.S. Attorney John McKay.  Of course, there was a blog entry about this.

But here's why the latest faux outrage is insane, concerns about voter fraud aside:

McKay is one of eight federal prosecutors fired last year by the Bush administration. He told a Senate committee that Ed Cassidy, then chief of staff to Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., asked him about allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 election. Democrat Chris Gregoire won over Republican Dino Rossi by just 133 votes out of nearly 3 million cast after the second recount.

McKay said he told Cassidy he was sure that the call was not intended to suggest that Hastings was calling for a federal investigation, because that would be improper.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Vancouver WA Students punished for praying at school, before class

NOTE- Location corrected 

Normally the Establishment clause is used to keep religion out of schools, but in this case, a group of kids who wanted to pray before school were suspended and driven off campus because they didn't want to organize, they just wanted to pray together.

Suspended Heritage students move prayer group

A group of students met to pray Monday on a sidewalk just off the grounds of Heritage High, where a dozen students were recently disciplined after ignoring warnings to move their prayer group out of a well-trafficked area so they wouldn't disrupt education.

It was a common area, and it was before class.  What's the problem?

Ann Sosky, principal of the school, said she didn't know how many students were in the group Monday or who they were, but that they came into the building when the bell rang at 7:20 a.m.