All Entries in the "Schools and Education" Category

Guest editorial: Convicting social justice

Convicting Social Justice
by Josh Lambert
As a graduate of the University of Virginia, I have spent the past three years of my life listening to professors and students sing the praises of a concept I am sure we are all familiar with: Social Justice.  Intellectual after intellectual has told me that the pursuit of Social Justice [...]

Phoenix rising: Banned Albemarle high school editorial re-published

Ellie Leech’s editorial, Student’s P.E. Groans Might Be Warranted, was too hot for publication in Albemarle High School’s (AHS) student newspaper, The Revolution. The controversial piece was printed, but the papers reportedly were destroyed prior to distribution, following complaints from some AHS physical education teachers.
The subject of today’s lead editorial in the Daily Progress, the [...]

Breaking news: Arizona immigration law coming to Virginia?

Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chair, Corey Stewart, today announced the “Virginia Rule of Law Act” on WINA’s The Schilling Show.
The Act, essentially similar to Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law, would :

Enhance Police Powers to Capture, Detain, and help Deport Criminal Aliens

Direct Virginia law enforcement officials to ascertain, in any lawful contact, [...]

Still dangerous after all these weeks: Charlottesville High School bridge safety hazard continues

Nearly two months after being chronicled as a public safety hazard on The Schilling Show Blog and News, the connecting bridge between Charlottesville High School (CHS) and McIntire Park remains extremely dangerous.
Large sections of the safety railing have been missing for weeks on-end after the bridge was briefly repaired in April. Now out-of-sight apparently equals [...]

Hail to the Chief: President Obama supplants Bill of Rights in Virginia middle school

In America, and by design, “public” schools slowly have morphed into “government” schools—eschewing sovereignty through promotion of the neo-Marxist/Socialist agenda over American principles founded upon individual liberty.
This disquieting photo (see below), taken inside the office at Peabody Middle School in Petersburg, Virginia, subtly exemplifies artifacts of subversive educational indoctrination, and perhaps, institutional inscience.
The photograph shows [...]

Government school failure: Indoctrinated Albemarle schoolgirl solicits tax increase

Central Virginia’s Albemarle County is a municipality like many others across the United States: It is relatively affluent and it spends an inordinate amount of confiscated citizen wealth (i.e. taxes) on funding government schools.
A recent series of public hearings on the Albemarle County budget brought forward a surprising number of local residents and government school [...]

Breaking news: Bell “Composite Index” budget amendment fails

An upset for Albemarle County is a victory for Charlottesville City as Delegate Rob Bell’s Budget Amendment Item 132 #4h was not included in the Commonwealth’s 2010-2012 biennial budget at the conclusion of Virginia’s 2010 legislative session.
The proposal would have amended Virginia’s state budget in order to better reflect the annual wealth transfer from Albemarle [...]

Introducing IMPACT: I’m Paying Additional County/City/Commonwealth Taxes

IMPACT is a resource for the terminally undertaxed. It provides an opportunity for citizens to pay additional taxes.
WHY IMPACT?
In these difficult economic times, local and state governments are not receiving the significant increases in revenues to which they have become accustomed. While many support raising taxes on everyone to continue tax [...]

Deeds speaks! Breaks silence on Bell’s “Composite Index” budget amendment

At the behest of the Albemarle County School Board, Delegate Rob Bell (R-57) has proposed amending Virginia’s state budget in order to better reflect the annual wealth transfer from Albemarle County to Charlottesville City under the region’s Revenue Sharing Agreement. Currently, in assessing financial need of the localities, Virginia sees Albemarle County Government as $18 [...]

If at first you don’t deceive, lie, lie again: Charlottesville City spokesman denies, then admits hiring lobbyist

Much as been made by Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris and his downtown cronies regarding a commitment to open and transparent government—but actions speak louder than words and the road to City Hall transparency is paved with good intentions.
Recently local media reported that Charlottesville had hired a lobbyist to defeat Del. Rob Bell’s proposed state budget [...]