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Teachers more violent & criminal than students?: Dumbing Down U.S.A., October 2018

“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.

Former San Diego high school student who claimed sexual abuse by a teacher settles for taxpayer funded $400,000

Los Angeles Unified School District will force taxpayers to pay $5 million to settle one sex crime lawsuit

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

IDAHO:  New numbers show that after seven years of trying, taxpayer funded Idaho education has failed to improved

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’

graduation disconnect

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

Political candidate to return Globe University officials’ donations after school was revealed to be fraudulent

School Board Votes Unanimously to Terminate Special Ed teacher under investigation for cocaine possession

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

Former teacher wins lawsuit claiming the Kansas City Public School system maintains a “hostile work environment”!

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

test scores remain flat 

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?

School buses set on fire

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

substitute teacher accused of touching multiple elementary students….claims he was raised in ‘touchy feely family’

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”

“perceived threat”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., September 2018

“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

ASU financial aid woes

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

GUAM: Guam Department of Education blames skyrocketing operating costs and lack of taxpayer funding for hiring freeze

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

40% of high school graduates go on to out-of-state universities because in-state universities are too expensive

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

MARYLAND: Blatant case of ‘grade inflation’ as thousands of high school students in one district suddenly get A grades in math!

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 

rabid bat at Omaha school

Pic of gun locks 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!

Hypocritical taxpayer funded school blocks student’s attempt to form christian ‘pro-life’ school club, despite allowing other christian clubs

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

Teacher’s Home Raided by FBI

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

weather shuts down schools

‘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

Student newspaper censorship

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

Hurricane Florence

students upset that Robinson Secondary School is denying two male students from being selected as homecoming kings

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

Universal preschool

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

“Morale has never been lower.”: Dumbing Down the U.S.A., May 2018

“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, May 2018:

Alaska: So much for anti-gun (anti-2nd Amendment) efforts, Anchorage police report a student at Gruening Middle School attacked other students with a razor.  Police arrested a boy for vandalizing the Fire Lake Elementary School, the school has been targeted since March with spray paint and windows being broken.

Alabama: The voluntary Alabama Sentry Program will allow school administrators to carry guns.  A Tuscaloosa City Schools substitute teacher arrested for having sex with a student.  The teacher is actually on contract through Kelly Educational Staffing, and her last name is Lovely.

Arizona: Christians have taken over the taxpayer funded public school system and removed references to evolution, causing one high school biology teacher to quit in protest: “I was directed to make changes to adjust the wording to ‘evolution’. That was coming from levels above me, I believe, from the superintendent’s office. I turned in my resignation and said, ‘I will not be part of this.'”-Lacey Wieser

Arkansas: A man pled guilty to stalking and killing a Sheridan High School student, the reason was stupid, the victim was dating his son’s ex-girlfriend.  A Conway High School student, who is also a father, was shot to death as he got inside his car, police say there are no witnesses or evidence to go on.

California: Dedicated to preventing violence in schools, Richstone Family Center issued a layoff WARN for its Hawthorne location, 58 jobs gone mid-June.  First Student issued a shutdown WARN for its school bus ops in Los Angeles, 174 jobs gone by the end of June!  God powerless to stop ‘his’ Notre Dame de Namur University from eliminating more programs and five teaching jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS.  Frederick K.C. Price III Christian Schools issued a shutdown WARN for a school in Los Angeles, 46 jobs gone by the end of June.   A new northern California elementary school is being named after an illegal immigrant. 

Colorado: Public schools are being boosted by a population boom and by an oil fracking boom. 

Connecticut: A Black Yale Student Was Napping, and a White Student Called the Police

Delaware: The state Department of Education revealed that 44% of students at Stubbs Elementary School were suspended last year.  A Middletown High School student arrested for threatening another student with a gun in the school toilet room.   A lawsuit claims the state Department of Education spends more taxpayer funding on students from high income families, at the expense of low income students. 

Florida:  First it was an Idaho teacher feeding a live puppy to an illegal snapping turtle (they are considered invasive specie in Idaho), now a teacher at Forest High School is accused of forcing students to drown live raccoons and opossums: “It made me sick. It made me sick to my stomach! …..took the cages, filled up large trash cans full of water, and had the children drown the raccoons in the cages inside the water, inside the trash cans!”-mother of student who said the incident was also captured on video

Georgia: Northgate High School and Canongate Elementary School locked down prison style after reports of a person with a gun  walking along a road near the schools.  Apparently no such person was ever found.

Hawaii: Schools near the Kilauea volcano shutdown by the goddess.  On Oahu, Waipahu Intermediate School locked down prison style as police searched for a ‘suspect’ that a woman reported as armed with a gun, police found no such ‘suspect’.

Idaho: Despite the fact that it is legal to carry a gun in public, without a permit, and that some teachers can have guns in school in The Gem State, the Lakeland Joint School District is spending taxpayer money on hiring armed guards.  Despite previous lawsuits that revealed that fees charged by Idaho school districts violates the state constitution, districts continue to charge fees and now another lawsuit at the federal level.   Non-profit “emergency shelter, residential care, youth and family therapy, job readiness training, adoption services,  and more for at-risk kids” Idaho Youth Ranch shutdown five of its thrift stores in Blackfoot, Boise (on Chinden Boulevard), Buhl, Emmett and Twin Falls, due to lack of sales.

Illinois: After only nine years Motherland College shutting down after the U.S. Department of Education accused it of illegal activity. High schools Belleville East and Belleville West were shutdown after a male student threatened a female student, the male student was arrested.  A school cop stopped a former student from shooting up Dixon High School by shooting and wounding the former student. Litchfield High School and Junior High was locked down after two rounds of ammo were found in a toilet room, no other info was released because it involves juveniles.  Benedictine University eliminating 32 jobs due to The Rapture, I mean what I call Disappearing Students Syndrome (enrollment dropped by about 2-hundred since 2016).

Indiana: A student used two pistols (not assault rifles) to shoot another student, and a teacher, at Noblesville West Middle School. The teacher knocked the pistols away and subdued the shooter.  Hoosier Academy issued a ‘pending’ shutdown WARN, 62 jobs gone possibly by June.

Iowa: A Linn-Mar High School nurse (who also worked for god’s own Saint Luke’s Hospital) pled not guilty to having sex with a student.  Three Waukee School District schools were placed in ‘non-emergency lock-down’ after one report of a man with guns near the schools, no such ‘man’ was found.  Fulton and Holy Ghost Elementary schools were locked down prison style because of a stand-off between police and three adults after a failed attempted traffic stop, the three adults were arrested but the incident had nothing to do with schools.  Paranoid parents unfairly forced Iowa City Community School District to fire a substitute teacher, after the parents discovered that the substitute was arrested, not convicted, on drug charges ten years ago.  On top of that the drug charges were supposed to have been expunged from arrest records in 2014.  Apparently Iowa City Community School District has a policy of rejecting applicants just for arrests, not convictions, all you unAmerican paranoid taxpayers of Iowa City Community School District can expect a lawsuit. 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:  No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Kansas:  In Derby, after 20 years Blue Dragon Books shutdown due to “family issues”  State law allows teachers to have guns in school, but more powerful insurance companies are blocking teachers from doing so!

Kentucky: Jefferson County Public Schools suddenly laid off 224 people as a result of what I call DSS!  Gray’s College Bookstore shutdown after 31 years, saying “The college textbook industry has changed dramatically over the years, and there is a bunch of things coming down the road for digital delivery.  Small family-owned college stores don’t have a place.”

Maine: After only three years the privately run Portland Science Center shutdown due to lack of customers.

Maryland: Several schools in Baltimore County placed on prison lock-down after a home burglary-in-progress/shoot-out left one cop dead, and four suspects arrested. It had nothing to do with schools, entire neighborhoods were also prison locked down. Ironically one of the locked down schools is named Gunpowder.   Four Glenelg High School students charged with vandalizing the school with ‘hate’ graffiti.

Massachusetts: Paranoid Phillips Andover, Curtis Middle School and Algonquin Regional High School shutdown over various threats.  One school got an email that, after investigation, revealed it might not even have been a threat, and was meant for an out-of-state school! Another school claimed a student had a gun, but police found no such thing!  The third threat came in the form of a note found at a school, yet police said there was nothing to go on in the note, it didn’t even mention students or a specific school!

Michigan:   Van Hoosen Middle School and Rochester Adams High School shutdown after high levels of mercury was found in the drinking water. The federal EPA says 2 parts per billion (ppb) is the maximum safe level for mercury, the school’s average sampling was 56-ppb!   Allendale Public Schools canceled its planned Sex Education Advisory Board hearing, and will ‘gather more info’, due to what is being posted on facebook regarding the school system’s sex ed course.

Minnesota: Taxpayers being raped of $25-million USD to ‘improve’ school security!  A student with a history of mental illness nearly beat to death a teacher’s aid at Harrison Education Center (security camera video shows the student using his fists, no gun needed)!  The teacher’s aid was put into a hospital in critical condition, but get this, a judge released the mentally deranged student to his family because the public defender said being in jail would make the student’s mental problems worse!  A  female Lincoln Park Middle School special ed teacher allegedly confessed to sex crimes with a 15 years old student that took place almost daily over a two weeks period.  Saint Francis Schools eliminating 36 jobs in June.

Mississippi: Due to massive math teacher shortage the state Board of Education lowered the standardized test score to qualify as a math teacher.

Missouri:  The ACLU is suing Independence School District after the district labeled a student’s Craigslist joke a threat.  The 3.9 g-p-a senior, with no school history of causing problems, wrote on the ad site that Truman High School was for sale. Now he can’t graduate.

Nebraska:  Hastings Public Schools refused to allow a graduate from wearing her U.S. Army sash to graduation, even threatened her on the day of graduation: “He pulled me out of line and said, ‘I talked to you and your father and you are not to be wearing that. If I see you wearing that again, you will not receive your diploma.'”-Megan Pohlmeier  

The school system has a clothing accessory policy that basically says if the school didn’t issue it you don’t wear it.

Nevada: Bonanza High School teacher arrested for making terroristic threats 

New Hampshire: Exalted state Department of Education screwed-up on state assessment tests, and as a result cost public schools $1.5-million USD! There’s now a push to get that $1.5-million issued to 163 districts, somebody send that Department of Education back to school.

New Jersey: Union Schools warning of as many as 2-hundred layoffs due to lack of funding, possibly caused by budgetary incompetence and taxpayer ripoffs by the school board!   Cumberland County College laying off 43 people and considering merging with a competing college due to a steady decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).  A 77 years old school bus driver, with a long history of traffic violations, made an illegal u-turn on a highway, plowing into a dump truck, killing a student and a teacher, and injuring dozens.  But wait, it wasn’t the only school bus that made an illegal u-turn on Route 80, school officials admitted that two other buses also broke traffic rules because the caravan of East Brook Middle School buses missed their exit!

New Mexico:  Taxpayer funded Shiprock High School scheduled christian prayers during graduation, not only in violation of the U.S. Constitution but in violation federal Supreme Court rulings.

Jesus of Nazareth said “Render unto Caesar what is his.”  Meaning if you take part in a government funded system then you play by its rules.

New York: Excelsior College laid off 50 employees due to lack of funding. The Yonkers Board of Education decided to eliminate 251 jobs due to being short $45.3-million USD!  Conduent Education Services halting ops in Utica, 162 jobs gone by the end of the year!

North Carolina: Cape Fear Community College warned employees of layoffs because of “a projected decrease in budget, enhanced technologies and streamlined processes.”

North Dakota: Fargo Public Schools reports that at least 510 teachers and staff were injured by students in the 2017-18 school year, up by 169 from the previous school year!  District officials refused to give news media details of those injuries.  A Bismarck pharmacist already accused of terrorizing students and child porn, now facing new charges of planting hidden cameras to record school girls.

Ohio: Poland School District shutting down Dobbins Elementary School and reducing work hours for employees, in an effort to get outta a multi-million dollar deficit hole.  God powerless to stop ‘his’ own Hiram College from conducting layoffs and radical program restructuring due to The Rapture, I mean what I call DSS which has caused the school to cut $1-million USD from its budget.

Oklahoma: “Some teachers don’t even have classrooms. They keep their belongings, textbooks and supplies on carts and push them from classroom to classroom, hour to hour. I have been a traveling teacher. Like some of our fellow union members who are adjunct college professors and hold ‘office hours’ in their cars and nurses who travel from school to school, fingers crossed, hoping no one at a school across town will suffer a health crisis, it is almost impossible to be an effective educator while carting your work around.”-Melissa Smith

Oregon:  The University of Oregon apologized for blaming the death of one of its students on life-style choices. A school cop, and the North Bend High School principal, both fired for telling homosexual students they were going to burn in hell.

Pennsylvania: Durham School Services issued a shutdown WARN for its Chester Township ops, 67 jobs gone in June.  Carnegie Museum of Art/Museum of Natural History eliminating 76 jobs by July.  Norwin School District laying off eight teachers and jacking up property taxes by 3.1%, because state level taxpayer funding is no longer enough.  Keystone Central School District laid off 34 teachers due to a 10% decline in enrollments (what I call DSS).

Puerto Rico:  STUDENT PROTESTERS IN PUERTO RICO FACE TRIAL AS GOVERNMENT CRIMINALIZES DISSENT

Rhode Island: Warwick School Committee wants to layoff 71 teachers and one other employee because “Even with the closure of six schools in three years, we have a budget challenge”.

South Carolina:  Taxpayer funded teachers join state employees on strike.  A female Byrnes High School teacher was suspended, then officially retired, after claims that she failed to stop students from performing sex acts in class, on multiple occasions. The alleged sex acts were reported by another student, the teacher said when the classroom is full there are areas of the room she can’t see.

South Dakota: A religious group espousing polygamy discovered that without government issued birth certificates you can’t enroll your masses of children in taxpayer funded schools.

Tennessee: A female federal level Congress’man’ blames school shootings on porno!  

Texas:  A student, and son of an immigrant, shot-up Santa Fe High School, using a shotgun and a pistol (no assault rifles) he managed to kill ten people (possibly because of the inaction’s of police who were trained for such a shooting, at the very same school).  Friends of the shooter, and even his father, blame pervasive bullying at the school, school officials deny it.   God powerless to stop Sojourn Baptist Church from shutting down its Academy due to The Rapture, I mean low student enrollment.   San Antonio Independent School District eliminating 132 teaching jobs ostensibly to save money, however, an Army ROTC teacher said he was being laid off even though the U.S. Army pays most of his salary!  Houston Independent School District eliminating 250 jobs due to a $115-million deficit hole supposedly caused by crashing property taxes caused by Hurricane Harvey!

Utah: A teacher with Nebo School District says district officials repeatedly ignored her reports of a janitor sexually assaulting boys.  A teacher at North Sanpete High School under investigation for sexting a female student.

Vermont: Taxpayer funded schools are prepping for a population death spiral as lack of babies being born in the state set another record.

Virginia: Taxpayer funded schools use of ‘seclusion’ under scrutiny after a mentally challenged student, who can’t speak, was placed into seclusion, and Belmont Ridge Middle School couldn’t give her mother a reason why!  It was revealed because another student took a pic of the incident on an iPad, The Washington Post reports the incident is not isolated but systemic across the U.S. 

Washington DC: God’s own Catholic University of America laying off at least 35 people because of The Rapture, I mean DSS, school officials said “Morale has never been lower.”

Wisconsin: In Saint Nazianz, after 134 years (surviving The Great Depression and numerous recessions) god powerless to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Gregory Catholic School, due to The Rapture, I mean because they’ve “had declining enrollment numbers for some time”Delavan-Darien School District laying off 39 teachers and an undisclosed number of other employees, due to cash strapped taxpayers voting down a plan to spend an additional $3-million USD just for operating costs.

Dumbing Down U.S.A., April 2018: “THIS IS SOMETHING UNEXPECTED”

ROARING BACK WITH A VENGEANCE, U.S. HIGH SCHOOL GUN CLUBS!

Dumbing Down the United States, 1st Quarter 2015: “we’ve had a 66% decrease in our enrollment!” “I just want to say how sorry I am.” “I don’t think the entire truth is here…!”

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 list of publicly announced education layoffs & school shutdowns from January to March 2015:

Alabama: Jefferson County Board of Education will beginning laying off 160 employees in July!

Alaska:  The University of Alaska Southeast shutdown their bookstore, due to crashing revenues.

Arizona: Dysart Unified School District announced they will kill off 147 jobs over the next three years! Administrators added that the 147 job cuts are just the first round of cuts! Back in November tax burdened voters rejected a school levy that would have jacked up their taxes even more. What gets me is why, year after year, school districts need more and more tax creating levies and bonds to be passed? Where is all that money going, especially the lottery money for those school systems that get money from lotteries as well as taxes?!

California:  The Los Angeles School District approved the elimination of 609 teaching jobs! The LASD is short $158-million USD for the upcoming school year.  Castaic Union School District has approved the elimination of at least 43 jobs. Those still employed will be forced to take unpaid days off (furlough). It’s blamed on what I call DSS, district administrators say the school system has lost more than 1-thousand students over the past ten years!   In Los Angeles, is Obama Care behind the layoff of 15 employees at the Bienvenidos Children Center? The WARN only says the layoffs will take place in April.  Denair Unified School District warned it must eliminate at least 16 teachers, shutdown classes and are even offering a bonus to anybody who’ll take early retirement. Administrators blame ongoing DSS.  The Acalanes Union High School District has decided to end its 70 years old adult education program, killing eight full time jobs.  In San Francisco, Apollo Education issued two WARNs saying 38 people will be laid off between June and August.

Connecticut: In Berlin, The Learning Experience preschool shutdown with ten days notice. The operators blamed “several circumstances beyond our control”.  The Milford Board of Education is planning to layoff 18 teachers for the 2015-16 school year, “primarily stemming from continued enrollment decline”. The University of Connecticut admitted they laid off employees, but refused to say how many.  Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system approved a 4.8% increase in tuition.  In Meridian, God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint Stanislaus School.  God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Saint John Paul II School. Christian administrators officially blame lack of money, but one parent thinks it’s a conspiracy: “I don’t think the entire truth is here because it’s NOT about money!”– Ewald Kuchciak, who pointed out that Christian students are being forced into a smaller school building

Florida: The state Department of Education has ‘failed’ Osceola County military prep school Acclaim Academy, twice, and as a result it shutdown.  In Orlando, DeVry University issued a layoff WARN saying 50 employees will be unemployed in May.

Idaho: In Kellogg, the Sunnyside Elementary school shutdown due to massive population exodus which created what I call DSS: “Since 1970, we’ve had a 66% decrease in our enrollment!”-Art Krulitz, Kellogg School District

Illinois:  Warsaw Community School District laid off 11 employees and eliminated vacant jobs, and administrators are now pushing to jack up local property taxes.  Elgin School District U-46 announced they will eliminate 463 jobs, due to DSS!   The 42 years old Aurora Child Development Center shutting down due to state funding problems. Administrators say the great state of Illinois is at least three months behind on their Child Care Assistance Program payments!  In Harvey, after 23 years Ingalls Childcare Center shutdown. Administrators blamed the bad economy for not being able to pay their employees!   The Adler Planetarium laid off 15 people, blaming lack of public attendance: “We’re trying to make it so that our annual revenues match our expenses. For at least the last few years, we were using money either from our endowment or a fundraising campaign to sustain us.”-Marc Lapides

Louisiana: The Pelican State’s Secretary of State Tom Schedler said he is laying off 24 museum employees and reducing operating hours for state run museums in April. A special election is being postponed until October. It’s part of a plan to cut state spending by $61-million. Politicians are blaming crashing tax revenues from the petroleum industry caused by ‘low’ oil prices.  The Gov’na also warned of massive layoffs for the university-higher education system, saying there’s a $1.6-billion shortfall!  Tulane University warned it must consider layoffs due to being constantly $20-million in the hole, year after year.

Massachusetts: Facing less funding, due to DSS, Marshfield will eliminate seven elementary school jobs for the next school year.  In Springfield, private Curtis Blake School shutdown with short notice to parents. Administrators blame what I call DSS, as usual parents were shocked by the bad economic news: “This is a big huge blow, we weren’t expecting this at all!”-Melissa Sullivan

Michigan:  In Lakewood, the Clarksville and Sunfield elementary schools are being shutdown, the school district is short $1-million! The last two libraries of the Wayne County Library system threatened with shutdown. The communities of Ecorse and Taylor say they will follow the other former library system members and go independent, in order to save money.  Baraga Area School District warned that Pelkie Elementary School could shutdown due to massive DSS: “The primary problem is shared actually across the district. We have been experiencing declining enrollments in a very similar pattern that the State of Michigan has, but it really hit hard about two years ago.”-Jennifer Lynn, superintendent

Minnesota: Minneapolis Public Schools laid off 160 people, with only one weeks notice! Administrators implied most of the jobs were administrative and had no direct impact on education, they claim the money saved will now be focused on education.

New Jersey:  In Manville, God refuses to stop the Diocese of Metuchen from shutting down ‘his’ Christ the King School. It’s the 11th ‘christian’ school to be shutdown by the Diocese of Metuchen, since 2009.  The Trenton School District says it must eliminate 226 jobs, and will shutdown schools due to a $19-million shortfall! But wait there’s more, previous announcements said a total of 350 jobs could be lost, once the state government puts out its final funding numbers for the 2015-16 school year! (and those layoffs are for just one of many school districts!)  Kean University announced it will layoff 54 janitors and grounds keepers. The jobs will be contracted out. University administrators claim they’re trying to cut $3.4-million per year, yet this didn’t stop them from spending $219-thousand on a conference table made in China!  The Paterson Board of Education has decided it will not jack up taxes on the impoverished taxpayers, but it means 363 school employees will become jobless next school year!

New York:  God refuses to stop his 156 years old Saint Patrick School in Tiago County from shutting down.  Administrators say enrollment has crashed & burned, they were able to get only 58 students for the year.  In West Nyack, Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge (aka Cambridge University Press) issued a WARN saying they will shutdown in June, 42 jobs lost.   In Brooklyn, upscale The Guild for Exceptional Children preschool shutdown, 81 jobs affected.  Corning Community College shutdown its 30 years old child care center.  In Brooklyn, Milestone School for Child Development issued a WARN saying they will shutdown, 73 jobs lost in June.  Grandpa’s Bus Service issued a massive shutdown WARN saying they lost their state Department of Education contract, more than 5-hundred jobs threatened!

Ohio: In Mentor, school administrators announced that Rice Elementary School will shutdown at the end of the school year. The school now boasts the lowest enrollment in the district.  Owens Community College eliminated 50 occupied and vacant positions, as well as cut wages and salaries. They also proposed new taxes, blaming increased employment costs caused mainly by higher insurance and retirement rates mandated by Obama Care!  In Mansfield, School Specialty revealed it had laid off an undisclosed number of employees last week, this after they claimed to be investing $7-million into a new school supply warehouse.

Pennsylvania:  God refuses to stop the shutdown of ‘his’ Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Roseto, and ‘his’ Pius X Junior/Senior High School in Bangor.  Pittsburgh based Education Management shutdown all its Art Institutes across the U.S., killing at least 225 jobs! Education Management is in big trouble with the federal Department of Education for basically bribing students and violating other federal education laws.  In Oakmont, after 88 years (surviving the Great deflationary Depression and numerous recessions) God refused to stop the Saint Irenaeus Catholic Elementary School from shutting down. Administrators say enrollment has dwindled to only 44 students.

Tennessee: After 70 years the Christian God refuses to stop the shutdown of Tennessee Temple University. Local news reports say some student athletes were told about the shutdown, and were also told not to tell anybody about it.

Texas:   God refuses to stop ‘his’ Southern Methodist University from laying off 100 people! The Christian school will also eliminate 50 vacant jobs. Typical of ‘christians’ the administrators are living in denial, regarding their financial status, calling efforts to cut $35-million from their budget “addressing our slight structural budget deficit”.   In Abilene, McMurry University announced it will layoff 12 people in May, blaming DSS.

Vermont: Lyndon State College laid off five employees, blaming a huge decline in enrollment.

Wisconsin:    In Green Bay, Excel Driving School shutdown without notice. Somehow the state DMV heard of the shutdown before anybody else. The owner of the driving school said he could no longer juggle his personal life with his business. About 250 paid up students looking for answers and refunds.   University of Wisconsin Madison warned of layoffs: “I just want to say how sorry I am. Because some of the people in this room are going to be impacted by cuts. I know how hard you work for this university and this state… we will get through this.”-Rebecca Blank, Chancellor, apologizing for the actions of Right to Work you over gov’na Scott Walker who wants to cut higher education funding by $300-million over the next two years!

Wyoming: God refuses to stop Saint James of the Valley School from shutting down. Church administrators blame it on what some Christians call The Rapture, or what I call DSS.

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

Into the New Dark Ages as students ‘disappear’ and Obamacare ‘kills’