“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)
Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online
Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?
Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, October 2018:
ALABAMA: Birmingham based for-profit Education Corporation of America shutting down 17 of its Virginia College campuses across several states due to crashing enrollment, affecting about 8-thousand-5-hundred students who thought a private college was better! Executives blame a ‘good job market’ for stealing prospective students, but reports say the for-profit system fails to meet academic standards. Virginia College students race to finish degrees before campuses close
West Alabama mom threatened teacher, kicked school resource officer
Struggling Sumter schools face more questions
ARIZONA: After five decades Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving now chapter 11 bankruptcy busted.
Education board rebuffs Christian-centric academic standards
Parents spent $700K in taxpayer funded school voucher money on beauty supplies!
ARKANSAS: Waiver sought on dismissal of teachers in Little Rock
At-risk kids swell Arkansas truancy rate
teacher fired after arrest in sex case
CALIFORNIA: Conduent Education Services eliminating 18 jobs in Long Beach, a couple of days after Xmas, and then an additional nine jobs eliminated by the end of January 2019.
University of Southern California to Pay taxpayer funded $215 Million Over Sex Abuse
campaign for state superintendent costs more than most Senate races.
COLORADO: University of Northern Colorado warning of layoffs and forced early retirements due to failed efforts to dig themselves out of a $10-million USD hole.
Weld County teacher on leave for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to student
CONNECTICUT: teacher’s aide accused of sexual assault had similar incident in another state
DELAWARE: teachers’ union boss resigns over old blog posts
High school football official receives death threat
FLORIDA: Lawsuit claims prep school football players were inappropriately touched
High School Teacher Arrested, Charged With Distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Video
Fashion teacher faces more than 353 charges
teacher suspended without pay for helping non-English-speaking students take standardized math test
GEORGIA: Savannah State University warning of mass layoffs due to what I call DSS: “…our enrollment has declined for two consecutive years, and a drop in enrollment means a decrease in tuition, fee and state-allocated revenue. This has resulted in a budget reduction for our current fiscal year. We also are preparing for reductions in state funding that will impact the next two budget cycles.”-President Cheryl Dozier
Transgender policy in Georgia school assault case
choir teacher accused of sexual battery
So much for gun control as Student stabs teacher with 8-inch butcher knife!
GUAM: Diploma scam linked to enrollment drop
investigation of profanity screaming teacher
High school teacher charged with ‘theft by deception’ and drug possession
HAWAII: Teacher arrested for alleged assault
‘Christian’ school pays $65M to 32 sex abuse victims
Trial for teacher accused of feeding live puppy to turtle, in front of students, postponed
Boise School District’s water system full of lead
ILLINOIS: Parents reject ‘Bring your own Computer to School’ policy
Schools offer professional development for parents
teacher charged with attempted murder
INDIANA: Driver charged with reckless homicide in crash at school bus stop
Two teachers found dead (murder-suicide?)
school district supplies gun safes
‘Very sad day’ at Valparaiso Law School
IOWA: Private Simpson College eliminating 13 jobs (the second layoff in 2018) and eliminating its art program due to what I call DSS: “The higher education field is changing and tightening. Iowa has a very competitive academic field.”-President Jay Simmons
historically high suicide rates
Teacher in Blackface at Party (oh my gawd, it’s the end of the world!). But wait, nobody got upset about nationally recognized TV weatherman in Whiteface, especially after same nationally recognized weatherman criticized another TV personality for pointing out hypocrisy of condemning Blackface?
Federal court rules that Iowa’s Special Ed policies are wrong
Finally, Iowa City gets rid of solitary confinement ‘padded cells’ for grade school students
KANSAS: Worsening Teacher Shortage
Wichita mom says teacher cyber-bullied kindergartner
KENTUCKY: Former Teacher accused of ‘Predatory Sexual Grooming’
LOUISIANA: elementary school teacher accused of child rape
Substitute teacher had sex with teen in classroom
Sexual comments, unsolicited hugs: Gretna teacher arrested
Elementary teacher arrested for possession of alcohol in class
MAINE: University of Southern Maine offered students credit for protesting federal Supreme Court nominee!
failure to implement proficiency-based education
Elementary School Teacher Disappears
coach’s tirade against student goes online
MARYLAND: teen arrested after making threats against high school
After Player’s Death, Coach and Athletic Director Keep Their Jobs
music teacher faces rape charges
ACLU joins challenge to Prince George’s summer school
MICHIGAN: Oregon based KinderCare Education laying off 43 people in Troy due to KinderCare’s takeover of Troy based rival Rainbow Child Care Center.
Substitute teacher contractor suddenly shuts down, schools scramble for substitute teachers
University of Michigan gets $20M to design Israeli made robots!
relationships — not money — are the key to improving schools
MINNESOTA: University of Minnesota reviews Greek policy after student death
teacher on leave after tweeting “kill Kavanaugh?”
Nearly 100 School Districts Awarded taxpayer funded Anti-Violence Grants
MISSISSIPPI: Sanctions against high school band after questionable program
Teacher shortage leads to accreditation trouble
High School teacher investigated for improper relationship
MISSOURI: Day care teachers accused of organizing preschool-age fight club
teacher indicted for child enticement
MONTANA: University of Montana forced 22 faculty to promise to ‘leave’ by 2021, in an effort to save $5-million USD.
Taxpayers forced to settle with student ‘sex’ victim of high school teacher
Charges dropped against teen for school threats
Social media threat shuts down White Sulphur Springs schools
NEBRASKA: Superintendent in school lunch kangaroo chili incident resigns
Chef fired after serving kangaroo meat to students (I don’t understand, people in Australia eat it, isn’t there a food crisis going on?)
NEVADA: Elementary teacher sentenced to 20 years for forcing high school students to have sex with her
special ed director, fired for ‘bullying’, accuses school principals of breaking law
Comparison of teachers with other jobs makes unrealistic conclusion
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kids with anxiety so epidemic that Milton Town School District conducted a Parenting the Anxious Child event
Substitute Teacher Shortage Affects Districts Statewide
NEW JERSEY: teacher accused of sex with 13-year-old
teacher faces suspension after federal fraud indictment over health care claims
school gym closed due to mercury poisoning
NEW MEXICO: path to higher education is changing
NEW YORK: Without warning the 47 years old non-profit Cohoes Community Center shutdown, 72 people suddenly jobless, parents in shock as they were called to pick-up their kids, the center is under investigation to find out why it has almost half-a-million dollars of debt. It was revealed that Molloy College suddenly canceled its contract with food service provider Compass Group-Chartwells, 26 jobs gone. It was revealed that The Research Foundation for the State University of New York lost a contract, 74 jobs gone days after Xmas.
Bonuses of Up to $8000 to Teach in Struggling New York Schools
New York City teacher salaries increase
NORTH CAROLINA: Bullying Led to Fatal Shooting of Student
Why can’t North Carolina kids read?
NORTH DAKOTA: Native American Graduation Rate Improves
OHIO: High School teacher indicted on sex charges
Junior High School art teacher resigns due to undisclosed complaints
the demise of an online charter school is roiling Ohio politics
desperate Ohio State University launches first-of-its-kind comprehensive e-sports (video game playing) program
Ohio schools don’t have air conditioning?
OKLAHOMA: School Support Staffers Work Extra Jobs (gee, like a lot of other people)
Audit reveals how superintendent wasted taxpayer funds on himself
teacher under investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate messages
Governor’s Race Pits Teachers Against Oil and Gas
OREGON: Still struggling Oregon Shakespeare Festival laid off 16 people and cut work hours for the rest, due to “significant financial losses” as a result of being smoked-out by never ending wildfires surrounding the venue.
appointee delays release of school ratings
Governor orders release of school performance ratings
Taxpayer funded website to combat school absenteeism?
PENNSYLVANIA: delay of high school graduation test, again
costs for special education outpacing taxpayer funding
Entire school district shuts down due to transportation problems!
Superintendent denies spying on board members
Female christian school teacher joins growing list of men accused of sex crimes
PUERTO RICO: Puerto Rico’s First Charter School
SOUTH CAROLINA: drunk University of South Carolina students overwhelming Emergency Rooms and causing mayhem
South Carolina students bomb the ACT, falling behind Mississippi
Despite students failing the ACT, teachers are demanding to be given the majority of the state government budget surplus
Student dies after shooting at high school
SOUTH DAKOTA: superintendents report rise in school threats
RHODE ISLAND: Taxpayer funded Naval Undersea Warfare Center paying 143 taxpayer funded employees to attend the University of Rhode Island full time. Another 139 will be paid to attend universities part time.
Bus driver strike shuts down schools?
TENNESSEE: After 71 years the private Fountainhead College of Technology shutting down because they can’t compete with “free education offered by the state of Tennessee” (just remember, it ain’t really ‘free’, it’s paid for by raping taxpayers).
Top scoring (ah em) teacher accused of sex crimes
A ‘christian’ student kills herself at a public school, her ‘christian’ mother says it’s because the government won’t let god into taxpayer funded schools!
TEXAS: Crosby Independent School District eliminating 129 jobs, supposedly due to a “financial emergency” caused by the incompetence of former administrators who threw taxpayer money at too many construction projects and hired too many employees! God’s own Hardin-Simmons University shutting down dozens of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as shutting down five campus extensions, due to The Rapture, I mean crashing enrollments (DSS).
Texas property owners forced to pay lion’s share of education funding!
Texas might lose 33-million in federal taxpayer dollars, for special education funding, because fed’s say Texas special education is a failure
Despite 6 probation violations, teacher who struck autistic student somehow avoids jail
sharp increase in special education students
More proof it’s a police state: High school students must take class on how to behave when pulled over by a cop, or else they can’t graduate
Teacher Accused of Drunken Sex with Her Students
teacher charged with improper relationship
UTAH: Ex-boyfriend kills University of Utah student on campus
Why don’t more college students teach? It’s more than the money
‘Men’s Week’ posters at Utah school sparks backlash (but if somebody tore down a women’s week poster there’d be holy hell to pay)
VERMONT: Taxpayers forced to pay $31-million to encourage high school graduates to go to college!
Vermont State Colleges System sees continued decline in enrollment
VIRGINIA: teacher pleads guilty in ‘celebgate’ case
Missing High School Teacher’s Body Recovered
High school student accused of sexual misconduct blames the school
Richmond Public Schools has the worst graduation rate
University of Virginia bans ten people
WASHINGTON: Art Institute of Seattle suddenly laid off ten people, leaving just three instructors on the full time payroll! Tacoma Public Schools conducted its first ever layoffs due a budget deficit of $23.4-million USD, and a strike by teachers demanding mo-money, 19 positions suddenly eliminated: “I don’t want the public to think that we’re going to cut this money and everything’s going to be the same. It’s not.”-Superintendent Carla Santorno
Supreme Court upholds most of charter school law
WASHINGTON DC: Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt
WEST VIRGINIA: Special Education teacher pleads not guilty to child abuse
WISCONSIN: ’emergency license’ teachers are running classrooms
substitute teacher charged with sexual assault
WYOMING: The grade school with only one student
Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018: “PERCEIVED THREAT”