Jan. 22nd, 2006
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Jan. 22nd, 2006 12:52 amBaptist "family values" pastor admits to repeatedly raping his daughter and a mentally handicapped parishoner.
The daughter told people about it repeatedly, but nobody believed her because her father was a priest. When he learned she was telling others about the rapes, he sent her to a private "Christian" boarding school in a different state.
The daughter told people about it repeatedly, but nobody believed her because her father was a priest. When he learned she was telling others about the rapes, he sent her to a private "Christian" boarding school in a different state.
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Jan. 22nd, 2006 01:01 amHow I Joined Teach for America—and Got Sued for $20 Million
One parent who was also a teacher’s aide threatened to “kick my white ass” in front of my class and received no punishment from the principal, beyond being told to stay out of my classroom."
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This lack of consequences encouraged a level of violence I never could have imagined among any students, let alone second-graders. Fights broke out daily—not just during recess or bathroom breaks but also in the middle of lessons. And this wasn’t just playful shoving: we’re talking fists flying, hair yanked, heads slammed against lockers.
When I asked other teachers to come help me stop a fight, they shook their heads and reminded me that D.C. Public Schools banned teachers from laying hands on students for any reason, even to protect other children.
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One week, two of my emotionally disturbed boys went on a binge of sexual harassment, making lewd gestures and grabbing girls' buttocks—yes, seven- and eight-year-olds. On another occasion, three students piled on top of one of their peers and were punching him with their fists before I intervened. My students were not even afraid to try to hurt me: two boys spent a month throwing pencils at me in the middle of lessons; another child slugged me in the gut.
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Kids who stab each other, use teachers as shields in fights, bang on doors to disrupt classes, and threaten to 'kick out that baby' from a pregnant teacher have created a 'climate of terror,' the Washington Post reports."
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Jan. 22nd, 2006 10:26 amThe Washington Post finally notices that Diebold election machines are trivial to hack and provide absolutely no record of any hacking.
Their response, however, is that the machines are supposed to be used in a secure environment under secure procedures, and that OF COURSE no election supervisor would ever know how to do this or be willing to defraud the election. Nuh-uh. Not even when it takes just one person *at Diebold* to make the fraudulent change, Diebold are Republicans and have openly promised that their machines will elect Republicans, the people pushing to use Diebold machines are Republicans, and there's statistically impossible evidence of gross fraud in Republican favour in *every single instance* of Diebold's hackable, recordless machines being used, always in the Republican direction (never Democrat), and where votes are reliably counted there's no such discrepancy.
Their response, however, is that the machines are supposed to be used in a secure environment under secure procedures, and that OF COURSE no election supervisor would ever know how to do this or be willing to defraud the election. Nuh-uh. Not even when it takes just one person *at Diebold* to make the fraudulent change, Diebold are Republicans and have openly promised that their machines will elect Republicans, the people pushing to use Diebold machines are Republicans, and there's statistically impossible evidence of gross fraud in Republican favour in *every single instance* of Diebold's hackable, recordless machines being used, always in the Republican direction (never Democrat), and where votes are reliably counted there's no such discrepancy.
