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Student Suspended for Slicing Apple During Healthy Snacks Presentation

Incredible, but unsurprising, these days…

Da’von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a “healthy eating” presentation he was giving to his speech class. He took out a knife to slice an apple, and I’m sure you can all guess what happened next:

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A while back, when we first started hearing about these zero tolerance follies, I might have sputtered something like, “What are we teaching kids when a school refuses to make any distinction between actual danger and normal life?” But now I realize: We are teaching kids precisely what they need to learn in a hyper-terrified society. They need to understand that society today refuses to distinguish between an infinitesimal risk and a huge one. Zero tolerance is perfect training.

Some day, if he doesn’t do something crazy like bring a nailclipper to school, Da’von will graduate. Eventually, he will matriculate into American adulthood, where, if he wants an easy time of it, he will not roll his eyes when a TSA agent confiscates his 3.5 oz tube of Pepsodent, and not slam the door when a cop comes to investigate him for letting his son play at the park, unsupervised.

In other words: To get along as he goes along, Da’Von will be expected—required!—to accept safety hysteria as a way of life. As a high school student who sliced an apple without considering the enormous threat this posed to his fellow students, he failed. But after five days at home to reflect on what he did, perhaps he will be ready to become a good, quaking, danger-hallucinating American.

Homeschool / church school / private school your kids.

Ohio Bill to Repeal Common Core Standards Faces Opposition from Evolutionists

Good news, but it shows that parents’ rights to have their children educated as they please are under attack from the Obama administration and its allies, unsurprisingly.

Will S.' Culture War Blog

Ohio Bill to Repeal Common Core Standards Faces Opposition from Evolutionists.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Evolutionists are angered by a proposed bill in Ohio that would cut the state’s Common Core education requirements, thus allowing for creation/evolution debates in the classroom.

As previously reported, several U.S. states have rejected the nationalized Common Core curriculum due to the standards’ promotion of debatable issues, including evolution and man-made global warming. In many cases, Christian homeschooling families and organizations have led the fight against the controversial standards.

In Ohio, parents and educators alike have expressed displeasure over the recently-adopted Common Core requirements in their state. Robert Coburn, school board president for Garaway schools in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, told state lawmakers earlier this week that the students are “being handcuffed” by the nationalized curriculum.

“The loudest concern from the teachers and administrators was that they feel there is a loss of time…

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