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Texas is a right-minded red state, where patriotism is still a virtue and political correctness is out of vogue. So how on earth have left-wing educators in public classrooms been allowed to instruct Lone Star students to dress in Islamic garb, call the 9/11 jihadists "freedom fighters" and treat the Boston Tea Party participants as "terrorists"?
Here's the dirty little secret: Despite the best efforts of vigilant parents, teachers and administrators committed to academic excellence, progressive activists reign supreme in government schools.
That's because curriculum is king. The liberal monopoly on the modern textbook/curricular market remains unchallenged after a half-century. He who controls the textbooks, teaching guides and tests controls the academic agenda.
That is how the propagandistic outfitting of students in Islamic garb came to pass in the unlikely setting of the conservative Lumberton, Texas, school district. As Fox News reporter Todd Starnes noted this week, a 32-year veteran of the high school led a world geography lesson on Islam in which hijab-wrapped students were banned from using the words "suicide bomber" and "terrorist" to describe Muslim mass murderers in favor of the term "freedom fighter."
Madelyn LeBlanc, one of the students in the class, "told Fox News that it was clear her teacher was very uncomfortable lecturing the students. 'I do have a lot of sympathy for her. ... At the very beginning, she said she didn't want to teach it, but it was in the curriculum.'"
But the headline-grabbing injection of moral equivalence into social studies and American history is just the tip of the education iceberg.
Top-down federalized "Common Core" standards are now sweeping the country. It's important to remember that while teachers-union control freaks are on board with the Common Core regime, untold numbers of rank-and-file educators are just as angered and frustrated as parents about the Big Ed power grab. The program was concocted not at the grassroots level, but by a bipartisan cabal of nonprofits (led by lobbyists for the liberal Bill Gates Foundation), statist business groups and hoodwinked Republican governors. As I've reported previously, this scheme, enabled by the Obama administration's "Race to the Top" funding mechanism, usurps local autonomy in favor of lesson content and pedagogical methods.
One teacher described a thought-control training seminar in her school district titled "Making the Common Core Come Alive." A worksheet labeled "COMMON CORE MIND SHIFTS" included the following rhetorical muck:

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Obama Was A D Student at Columbia, Failed Economics
It’s possible that while President Barack Obama was a student at Columbia, he wasn’t the library monk he claimed to be and was actually still hanging out with the “Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”Which would explain the D average in his classes and the F in Economics.Do I have any evidence Obama received these marks at Columbia?
Well, do you have any proof he didn’t?
That’s the logic Obama’s main man David Axelrod used on “Face the Nation” this weekend.
“This part about foreign money, that appears to be peanuts,” said CBS chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer. “Mr. Axelrod, do you have any evidence that it’s anything other than peanuts?”
“Well, do you have any evidence that it’s not, Bob?” the White House adviser replied. “The fact is that the Chamber has asserted that, but they won’t release any information about where their campaign money is coming from.”
If it’s good for the goose, it’s good for the gander.
Two years into his presidency, Barack Obama has yet to release anything from his college years. No transcripts, no college thesis.
So, if the Obama camp wants to come clean about his grades, they can. To paraphrase, the fact is that the Obama camp has asserted that he was a good student at Columbia, but they won’t release any information about his grades during that time.
By Simon McCormack Posted:   |  Updated: 05/10/2013 11:58 am EDT


Olivia Sprauer modeling photos: Martin County High School teacher says she was asked to resign.  Olivia Sprauer, a Martin County High School teacher who had planned to resign at the end of the school year, said she was asked to leave a month early.

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Olivia Sprauer who models under the name Victoria Valentine James had to leave her job after confirming she has posed for sizzling bikini photoshoots. The 26-year-old English teacher had been planning to resign from Martin County High School in Stuart, Florida, to pursue a modeling career. But the decision was taken out of her hands after school bosses saw one of her modeling photos and she was called into the principal's office. In her online modeling profile, Olivia describes herself as "very open-minded" and says: "I love being in front of the camera!" Picture by: DEmO Photography/Splash News