“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.
Incomplete (Tip-o-the-Iceberg) list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and crimes, September 2018:
AMERICANS TRUST TEACHERS, BUT DON’T WANT THEIR CHILD TO BECOME ONE
We’ve so overscheduled our kids that doctors are now prescribing playtime
ALABAMA: Transgender student sues school over mistreatment
elementary teacher charged with sex abuse of student
teacher, coach faces sex crime charges involving a student
school band briefly drops ‘Dixie’
How 9/11 Is Being Taught To A Younger Generation
elementary student shot with illegal stolen gun
ALASKA: drug testing, new sexual harassment policy
Kodiak District Closure, due to what I call DSS
student arrested over threat against schools
ARIZONA: Prescott High School invaded and locked down by police, overnight
A Creationist Will Be Reviewing Arizona’s Standards on How to Teach Science
The job Americans won’t take: Arizona looks to Philippines for teachers
ARKANSAS: School district targeting chronic absentee rating
State seizes control of Pine Bluff School District
College enrollment slips again, for all five state universities
Catholic schools struggle with what I call DSS
teacher under sexual misconduct investigation
student accused of touching teacher’s buttocks
teacher pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting student in her home.
teacher who clashed with TV reporter found not guilty
CALIFORNIA: Conduent Education Services issued a layoff WARN for its Long Beach ops, 20 jobs gone a week before Xmas.
children fall behind before they start school
Music Teacher Accused Of Molesting Student
police escort sister of slain deputy to junior high school
LAUSD is ‘living off reserves’ and running out of time
new state law requires schools to test water for lead
students pumped to vote — but not as Democrats or Republicans
She Dropped Out of High School. Now She’s President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank!
COLORADO: school district announces four-day weeks
SCHOOL DISTRICT CANCELS DATABASE CONTRACT AFTER DISCOVERING EASY ACCESS TO HARDCORE PORN
Student arrested at Mountain Range High School
teacher gets 40 years to life in prison
Taxpayers forced to pay-out $11.5-million USD because teacher sexually assaulted students
CONNECTICUT: Norwich Free Academy coach arrested
Berlin High School teacher arrested
Enfield High School student stabbed and killed
juvenile detention officer injuries increase
Yale removes prestigious honor from professor
DELAWARE: Academy of Public Safety and Security shuts down without warning!
Teacher shortage forces schools to offer to repay $10k of new hire’s student loans
FLORIDA: teacher says she was fired because she didn’t give credit to students who didn’t do homework
‘Teacher of the Year’ Accused of Exchanging Lewd Photos
7 students hospitalized after eating Nicorette at elementary school, in contest to see who could eat the most of the drug filled anti-smoking ‘candy’!
high school football coach told player to ‘commit suicide’
GEORGIA: SCHOOL BRINGS BACK PADDLING
graduation rate rises to all-time high
substitute teacher sent boys inappropriate texts, pictures
Typhoon Mangkhut caused power outage resulting in massive school shutdown
Health and safety of students threatened as janitorial contract expires
HAWAII: School closures due to Tropical Storm Olivia
bullying caused 6-year-old boy 2 concussions at school
550 teacher vacancies prompts ‘Be a hero. Be a teacher’ campaign
State education department’s student discipline rules criticized
IDAHO: Districts impose $9.2 million in emergency taxpayer raping levies!
East Idaho school ranked both high and low performing?
The taxpayer funded project to turn the vacant Pine Ridge Mall Sears (in Chubbuck) into a charter school got a little more complicated and expensive. Newly revealed plans show the west side mall parking lot being turned into a playground, add to that the Sears’ south side parking will be used for the school, this means if mall business ever returns to its late 1990s levels then there’s going to be a major problem with parking!
ILLINOIS: University of Illinois study says lack of school landscaping affects math scores in poor urban areas!
Woman clears school with fake gunman phone call
teacher accused of having sex with student fired
Illinois State University so desperate for students it Focuses on international students
INDIANA: After 116 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) Indianapolis based Harrison College (originally Indiana Business College) suddenly shutdown all 11 campuses in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, with only a few days warning! It’s blamed on lack of money caused by what I call DSS.
teacher reaches plea deal in child molesting case
teacher arrested, accused of having sex with junior high student
Bus Driver Arrested for Allegedly Allowing Students to Drive the bus.
17 Indiana colleges waiving fees
IOWA: Suspicious Package Situation shuts down school
Taxpayers approve of spending additional $55-million USD on Linn-Mar Community School District
dumb student tried to shoot teacher in the face, forgets to unlock safety switch
teacher sentenced for secretly making videos of boys showering
University of Northern Iowa employee killed by steam pipe
KANSAS: Suicide deaths reach a record high
teacher faces child sexual exploitation charge
KENTUCKY: Sullivan University suddenly laid off 16 people due to what I call DSS during the summer class period, local news media reported that the for-profit school has been eliminating jobs since August 2017.
Threat against Kentucky school results in California school lock down, due to similar names of schools!
LOUISIANA: junior high school blasted for ‘gross’ and ‘inappropriate’ spirit week
taxpayer funded public school sued for promoting christianity
Teacher Claims Black People ‘Act Like Animals’
MAINE: teacher who won $1 million to be sentenced for shoplifting
Baltimore schools face nearly $3 billion maintenance backlog
University of Maryland School of Social Work gets federal taxpayer funded $30-million USD grant
MASSACHUSETTS: Teacher caught on video putting kid inside game machine
Baby Found Unresponsive At Watertown Child Care Center
MICHIGAN: female student stabbed to death in classroom with kitchen knife by another female student (so much for gun control)
high school bullied into dropping Homecoming Queen title
MINNESOTA: Student dies in frat house
Special education teacher under investigation for cocaine
retired Minnesota tennis coach arrested in Wisconsin underage sex sting
schools want taxpayers to shell out even more money for security
MISSISSIPPI: After 13 years Virginia College suddenly shutdown “because of the final adverse action taken by another recognized accrediting agency.”
Driver dead after crashing into school bus
Schools shutdown due to storm Gordon
No jail time for teacher after sexual battery plea
MISSOURI: school district to reward attendance with money
teacher charged with possessing child porn
banks offer financial literacy software to schools
school district forces taxpayers to settle mud-pit injury lawsuit
MONTANA: University of Montana enrollment drop
sex abuse claims against school trainer
Defunct Boarding School Settles Lawsuit
NEBRASKA: Carbon monoxide shuts down school
NEVADA: theater teacher arrested on sex charge
teacher arrested on drug charges
Dumb-ass Professor who shot himself to protest Trump now faces felony charges
NEW HAMPSHIRE: College lecturers being fired because of their age?
NEW JERSEY: In Westwood, after 40 years Shaw’s Book Shop shutdown because the owner took the end of his lease as a sign to “move on”.
Junior high teacher wants sympathy for Osama bin Laden
teacher ordered to pay $1.15M to student who claims sex abuse
NEW MEXICO: mysterious 11-day closure of Sunspot Solar Observatory caused by child porn!
NEW YORK: Barron’s Educational Series suddenly shutdown its Hauppauge test prep ops, 62 jobs gone without warning due to the operation being sold to a competitor. Lighthouse Guild-Heilbrunn issued a shutdown WARN for its education services for blind people, 31 jobs gone by Xmas.
Bronx teacher avoids jail and keeps teaching certificate after oral sex acts on 14 years old student
Professors Face Drug and Sex crimes charges
NORTH CAROLINA: Closings, cancellations due to Hurricane Florence
NORTH DAKOTA: Ever hear of School Lunch Day?
OHIO: student arrested for high school shooting threat
Female high school Teacher Accused of Sexual Battery
high school teacher suspended with-out pay
Nearly 600 teachers disciplined!
Ohio State University uses scholarship endowment to pay for fundraisers!
OKLAHOMA: Teacher shortage results in Hundreds of emergency teaching certifications
Oklahoma State University so desperate for money that it’ll start selling beer?
Fewer teachers graduating Oklahoma universities
OREGON: high school football player sues for $38 million
Hazardous Mobile Home Abandoned At Elementary School
Schools are for learning, not homeless housing
PENNSYLVANIA: School enrollment lowest in seven years
Which public schools had the most dropouts
High School Delayed Due to Social Media Threat
Mold contamination forces high school to shut down
School Bus Driver Sues Union and School District
School bus collides with truck
School District Fleet Manager Charged with Overbilling taxpayers
first Catholic ‘sober’ high school opens in U.S.
Teachers leave local schools at especially high rates, new study says
PUERTO RICO: Enrollment in schools continues to fall
SOUTH CAROLINA: schools closed for three weeks due to Florence and flooding
teacher forced her student into sex, and docked his grade
SOUTH DAKOTA:Protecting campus free speech
Student enrollment down for the 2018-19 school year
RHODE ISLAND: What happens when you pay students to get ready for college?
TENNESSEE: teacher at Rossview High charged with sex crimes
elementary school teacher accused of abusing infant
Nine Hamilton County schools among the state’s worst
‘strategic retention’ of teachers by effective principals
TEXAS: teacher bullies pro-Trump student
sex scandals involving Houston-area teachers in 2018
School evacuated after staff get sick
state funding for schools to drop
Taxpayer funded Board of Ed wants Moses to be taught in Classrooms
UTAH: high teacher turnover impacts Utah
Norovirus keeps more than 6-hundred students in one county from school
VERMONT: 16 schools have contaminated drinking water
High School Guidance Director Faked Transcript
$250,000 in taxpayer funding grants available for state Farm to School Grant Program
school shooting leads to new Vermont gun laws
VIRGINIA: spy agencies come to Northern Virginia Community College
Student struck by lightning at junior high school
WASHINGTON: School Lemonade Spiked with Laxatives?
Teacher shortage prompts para-educator program
WASHINGTON DC: high school football player punished for being homeless!
Teachers’ Union Fired Him For Being homosexual
teacher pleads not guilty in sex assault
principal caught mocking student’s sex assault claim
WEST VIRGINIA: High School Student Arrested in Connection to Bomb Threat on 9/11
High school seniors register to vote
Full-time enrollment down at West Virginia University
Mom shoots kills her own kids as they came home from school!
WISCONSIN: Police chase locks down several schools
WYOMING: school district officials deny claims they knew of hazing
student dies after incident in school parking lot
“perceived threat” to Natrona County High School
Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018: BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA