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		<title>It Is Intentional</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>19 Reasons to NEVER Send Your Child to a Government School or Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following are 19 really crazy things that school children are being arrested for in America…. #1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume. #2 A &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2012/02/03/19-reasons-to-never-send-your-child-to-a-government-school-or-library/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img alt="" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1574280243970&#038;id=85e8bf9cf162482a6ed2f6de5c9aa8bd" class="alignright" width="300" height="200" />The following are 19 really crazy things that school children are being arrested for in America….</p>
<p>#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.</p>
<p>#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.</p>
<p>#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket.  The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.</p>
<p>#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.</p>
<p>#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up.  Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.</p>
<p>#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.</p>
<p>#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.</p>
<p>#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.</p>
<p>#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school.  It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples.  So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this?  The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.</p>
<p>#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.</p>
<p>#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://thelineinthesands.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/g12c000000000000000ca2c585b1456433e898d55e8d0c2867d3e3704ba.jpg" class="alignleft" width="300" height="406" />#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.</p>
<p>#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.</p>
<p>#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police.  The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….</p>
<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.</p></blockquote>
<p>#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.</p>
<p>#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom.  The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.</p>
<p>#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.</p>
<p>#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.</p>
<p>#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/02/02/19-crazy-things-that-school-children-are-being-arrested-for-in-america/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pakalert+%28Pak+Alert+Press%29">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>More Reasons to Home School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Children would have to be removed from their parents</title>
		<link>http://www.independentamerican.org/2012/01/21/children-would-have-to-be-removed-from-their-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Truth about the origins of government school: A small number of very passionate American ideological leaders visited Prussia in the first half of the 19th century; fell in love with the order, obedience, and efficiency of its education system; &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2012/01/21/children-would-have-to-be-removed-from-their-parents/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Truth about the origins of government school:</p>
<blockquote><p>    A small number of very passionate American ideological leaders visited Prussia in the first half of the 19th century; fell in love with the order, obedience, and efficiency of its education system; and campaigned relentlessly thereafter to bring the Prussian vision to these shores. Prussia&#8217;s ultimate goal was to unify Germany; the Americans&#8217; was to mold hordes of immigrant Catholics to a national consensus based on a northern European cultural model. To do that, children would have to be removed from their parents and from inappropriate cultural influences.
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<p>- John Taylor Gatto<br />
 &#8220;Our Prussian School System,&#8221; p. 10 </p>
<p>Rebel against tyranny. Don&#8217;t allow your child to go to government propaganda mills.</p>
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		<title>Nevada Teachers are Crying in Support of Marxist Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crying, her voice trembling, Clark County School District teacher Shannon Regin repeatedly apologized as she sobbed through her account of last week. Read more Yes Virginia&#8230;Americans are practicing Marxists and they LOVE and worship their Marxism. After all.. It&#8217;s for &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2011/12/09/crying-in-support-of-marxism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<blockquote>Crying, her voice trembling, Clark County School District teacher Shannon Regin repeatedly apologized as she sobbed through her account of last week.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/teachers-angry-tearful-as-threat-of-layoffs-looms-135306028.html">Read more</a></p>
<p>Yes Virginia&#8230;Americans are practicing Marxists and they LOVE and worship their Marxism. After all.. It&#8217;s for the children.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html">Tenth Plank of the Communist Manifesto</a> is about public education by the government. Our current public schools system is based upon Marxist principles.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto">The Communist Manifesto</a> was published (paid for the World Banker Rothschilds) in 1848. Just four years later the free mandatory public education plan was being implemented here in the United States.</p>
<blockquote><p>Massachusetts passed the first compulsory school attendance laws in 1852, followed by New York in 1853. By 1918 all states had passed laws requiring children to attend at least elementary school.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.servintfree.net/~aidmn-ejournal/publications/2001-11/PublicEducationInTheUnitedStates.html">Read more</a></p>
<p>But that was not the only plank implemented shortly after the Manifesto was published. Americas First Marxist President, Abraham Lincoln, gave us the second plank, income taxes. Lincoln also gave us the 5th plank with his credit money with his &#8220;greenbacks.&#8221; That was also the first time the United States defaulted and never paid the holders of the &#8220;greenback notes&#8221; in REAL MONEY.</p>
<blockquote><p>5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. </p></blockquote>
<p>So as you send your children off to those public schools you worship before they take of for winter break (not Christmas break) remember that you are promoting a Godless hive of scum and villainy and are supporting the works of Karl Marx and the Rothschild bankers.</p>
<p><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/7.20?lang=eng#19">By their fruits shall ye know them.</a></p>
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		<title>The Dwindling Power of a College Degree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*** One of the greatest changes is that a college degree is no longer the guarantor of a middle-class existence. Until the early 1970s, less than 11 percent of the adult population graduated from college, and most of them could &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2011/11/29/the-dwindling-power-of-a-college-degree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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One of the greatest changes is that a college degree is no longer the guarantor of a middle-class existence. Until the early 1970s, less than 11 percent of the adult population graduated from college, and most of them could get a decent job. Today nearly a third have college degrees, and a higher percentage of them graduated from nonelite schools. A bachelor’s degree on its own no longer conveys intelligence and capability. To get a good job, you have to have some special skill — charm, by the way, counts — that employers value. But there’s also a pretty good chance that by some point in the next few years, your boss will find that some new technology or some worker overseas can replace you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/changing-rules-for-success.html?_r=1">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>NEW Reasons To Not Have Sex With Animals&#8230; Higher Education Tax Dollars At Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer group of guys. If you&#8217;re searching for a reason not to have sex with animals, add this to the list: It could give you penis cancer, according to a new study published in theJournal of &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2011/11/11/new-reasons-to-not-have-sex-with-animals-higher-education-tax-dollars-at-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer group of guys.</p>
<p><img class="alignright" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1366244525410&amp;id=4059cef9cd9d5b2c25156cea1fd6a634" alt="" width="300" height="225" />If you&#8217;re searching for a reason not to have sex with animals, add this to the list: It could give you penis cancer, <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02512.x/abstract" target="_hplink">according to a new study</a> published in the<em>Journal of Sexual Medicine</em>.</p>
<p>The authors found that men who have had sex with animals were twice as likely to develop penile cancer as those who stick with their own kind.</p>
<p>Lead author Stenio de Cassio Zequi, a urologist in Sao Paulo, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45206258/ns/health-mens_health/#.Tr1sGlZSmGh" target="_hplink">gave Live Science his theory</a> explaining the increased risk.</p>
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<p>A female member of <a href="http://www.equalityforall.net/" target="_hplink">Equality For All</a>, a pro-zoophilia group, told <em>The Huffington Post</em> that the results of the study should prompt people to take precautions, like using a condom, when having sex with animals, but she said it likely would not deter diehard zoophiles.</p>
<p>&#8220;Expecting people who truly love animals to give up their sexuality and nature just because of some physical dangers would be as absurd as expecting gays to become straight because of AIDS,&#8221; Sallie Graves wrote in an email.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/sex-with-animals-penis-cancer_n_1088874.html">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>What MORON would send his child to a &#8220;for-profit&#8221; University</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1 billion, but it had its sights set on industry domination. So, five years ago, the Pittsburgh company&#8217;s executives &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2011/10/14/what-moron-would-send-his-child-to-a-for-profit-university/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1 billion, but it had its sights set on industry domination. So, five years ago, the Pittsburgh company&#8217;s executives agreed to sell its portfolio of more than 70 colleges to a trio of investment partnerships for $3.4 billion, securing the needed capital for an aggressive national expansion.</p>
<p>One of the new partners brought an outsized reputation for market savvy, deep pockets and a relentless pursuit of profits &#8212; the Wall Street goliath, Goldman Sachs.</p>
<p>After the deal closed and Goldman became a partner, employees soon noticed a drastic shift in culture. Longtime admissions managers were replaced, ushering in an era in which recruiters were endlessly hounded by supervisors about hitting weekly enrollment targets. The admissions staff nearly tripled, requiring expanded floor space to accommodate a sales force of more than 2,600 across the country.</p>
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		<title>The Truth about Home Schooling and Unschoolers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a fantastic article my wife found in Salon.com about home schoolers and unschoolers. It is entitled: A home-schooler goes to college It wasn&#8217;t the schoolwork or social life that threw me. It&#8217;s that I never realized how dull a &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2011/10/12/the-truth-about-home-schooling-and-unschoolers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img alt="" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1292608480358&#038;id=ddf92aa2bf11dc0eb295ff75d236c003" width="300" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Just Another Brick the Marxist Free School Wall</p></div>What a fantastic article my wife found in Salon.com about home schoolers and unschoolers. It is entitled:</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://life.salon.com/2011/10/12/a_home_schooler_goes_to_college/">A home-schooler goes to college<br />
It wasn&#8217;t the schoolwork or social life that threw me. It&#8217;s that I never realized how dull a classroom could be</a></strong></p>
<p>Some of the great quotes:</p>
<p>Like about the bigotry of teachers toward the &#8220;unschooled&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>But before I could say any of that, Mrs. Grimini interrupted me. “Home-schooled?” she said tightly.</p>
<p>“Yes,” I said, offering my politest smile.</p>
<p>“OK, you don’t need to participate.” And she moved on.<br />
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And I learned that I wasn’t allowed to talk in Mrs. Grimini’s class. The next time I raised my hand, she said to the other students, “Kate was home-schooled, she can’t participate in this discussion.” And she never called on me again.</p></blockquote>
<p>The difference between working for grades and because you WANT to learn:</p>
<blockquote><p>For me, home schooling meant getting to read all day and then read all the next day. It meant being able to apprentice myself to the adults whose work I admired, spend a lot of time playing in the nearby brook, write the books I couldn’t find but wanted to read, try directing Shakespeare plays and competing in classical piano and learning some Greek, all without having to worry about what might happen if I failed. Home schooling was about making mistakes that didn’t have bigger consequences than momentary embarrassment. <strong>Because I didn’t have grades. I worked hard to get better, because I cared about being better</strong>, because, I think, maybe people just care about that.</p></blockquote>
<p>The difference between a schooled and unschooled child:</p>
<blockquote><p>I wasn’t worried. I was happy.</p>
<p>I thought college would be interesting, but it didn’t sound particularly necessary, and I only applied to one school, the state university, which I chose for its proximity to my job and its relatively low cost. Home-schoolers often already have jobs, and I’d gotten mine at 15. I led services and tutored bar and bat mitzvah students at my synagogue. I was the one who sang the prayers in Hebrew on the bima, at the podium across from the rabbi’s. Adults sometimes asked for my advice. I was a community leader. I was making more money than all of my friends (a lot of them went to school and didn’t have time to work as much as me). College was going to be a piece of cake compared to this. But I had no idea what that particular piece of cake would be like.</p></blockquote>
<p>The truth about classrooms:</p>
<blockquote><p>That was one of the most jarring lessons I learned in college. Life is just less interesting in a classroom. In college, you don’t really have to contribute.</p></blockquote>
<p>The truth about boredom:</p>
<blockquote><p>I also learned what it felt like to be truly bored. I learned it was much more important to memorize than to understand.</p></blockquote>
<p>The end of life:</p>
<blockquote><p>It was mostly that I had thought that college would be the beginning of an exciting new phase of life, and instead it felt like the end of one.</p></blockquote>
<p>When her mom wanted to know about College she could not be truthful:</p>
<blockquote><p>So I didn’t tell her that my little brothers were wittier than the students I was meeting.</p></blockquote>
<p>Be sure to read all of the articles:</p>
<p><a href="http://life.salon.com/2010/08/29/homeschooling_dora_the_explorer/singleton">Why My Kids are Pop-Culture Illiterate<br />
</a></p>
<p><a href="http://life.salon.com/2010/03/15/home_school_3/singleton/">Why our kids don’t go to kindergarten</a></p>
<p><a href="http://life.salon.com/2009/10/19/o_hehir_homeschooling/singleton/">Home schooling: How we do it</a></p>
<p><a href="http://life.salon.com/2009/09/28/confessions_homeschooler/singleton/">Confessions of a home-schooler</a></p>
<p><a href="http://life.salon.com/2000/10/02/homeschooling_battle/singleton/">Battling for the heart and soul of home-schoolers</a></p>
<p>Will your child be another masked brick in the <a href="http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html">10th Plank of the Communist Manifesto</a> WALL</p>
<p>And now a video to help you consider your choices about government free schools:</p>
<p><iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/t4SKL7f9n58" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
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		<title>California to Sue Banks Directly</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of California is pulling out of multi-state negotiations with large U.S. banks to resolve allegations of mortgage abuses, according to a letter obtained by Reuters, dealing a sharp blow to long-running efforts to secure a broad settlement. California &#8230; <a href="http://www.independentamerican.org/2011/09/30/california-to-sue-banks-directly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The state of California is pulling out of multi-state negotiations with large U.S. banks to resolve allegations of mortgage abuses, according to a letter obtained by Reuters, dealing a sharp blow to long-running efforts to secure a broad settlement.</p>
<p>California Attorney General Kamala Harris wrote in a letter on Friday that she will pursue her own investigation.</p>
<p>&#8220;California was being asked for a broader release of claims than we can accept and&#8230; the relief contemplated would allow too few California homeowners to stay in their homes,&#8221; Harris said in a letter to government officials leading the talks.</p>
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