Education

During a rare moment Tuesday when CNN wasn’t obsessing over the first Trump trial, correspondent Dianne Gallagher used a live shot from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to fret police caused “a very intense escalation” with pro-Hamas students, whom she said were merely holding a “rally and silent vigil” with “dancing and chanting” amid their tent cities.

The year was 1966 and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” and other college campuses throughout the state that were experiencing protests and strikes over issues that included the military draft, civil rights and “women’s issues.” While not on a scale of the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-America and Jewish…

Arkansas teacher Reagan Gray was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy she met at Immanuel Baptist Church. Gray, a volunteer at the church, purportedly sent nude photos to the boy after getting his number from the church's music program WhatsApp group. The boy's parents discovered the explicit text messages in 2020 and Gray was removed from the student ministry, but later…

The Big Ten, the Pac-12, and the Ivy League are overrun with antisemitic students protesting in favor of Hamas. They claim they support Palestinians, but “Globalize the intifada” and “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” are explicit genocidal slogans of Hamas. Democrats insist words mean things. These words mean the students are terrorist sympathizers. Some of the protestors are…

Pro-Hamas protests have spread across US college campuses following the group's attacks on Israelis. Media coverage appears to favor these protests over pro-Israel sentiments, such as those expressed at a large prayer vigil held by students at Liberty University, a private Christian school. Violence at some protests has drawn concern, with the University of Southern California even cancelling…

Michelle Solis, a 46-year-old teacher, admitted to raping a 14-year-old student on graduation day in 2021, according to District Attorney Mike Ramsey. This inappropriate relationship reportedly began when Solis friended the boy on Instagram and sent explicit images, which eventually circulated amongst local parents, leading to an investigation. Solis was later arrested and released on bail,…

Tennessee legislators passed a bill allowing select teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns in public schools. The controversial HB 1202/SB 1321 bill, passed after a 68-28 vote, also states that other teachers and parents will not know which staff members have possession of a firearm. These individuals will undergo extensive training, pass criminal and mental health checks, and require…

Tuesday was World Book Day and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel celebrated by bringing a quintet of librarians together to tell Republicans to “shut the [bleep] up” over their supposed book bans. The only problem was that the books Kimmel and his new friends highlighted, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird, are regularly targeted by race-…

With all that is occurring in our political and cultural life, there are signs some Americans have had enough. Google recently fired 28 employees from its New York and Sunnyvale, California, offices for protesting the company’s cloud-computing contract with Israel. The reason given by the company’s vice president for global security, Chris Rackow, as reported in The Wall Street Journal…