The girl’s mother had signed a consent form for use of the high school clinic, assuming that covered things like an earache, a sports physical, even birth control, but not for help terminating a pregnancy. The consent form did not mention abortion or facilitating abortion. The girl was told that if she concealed it from her family, the abortion would be free of charge.

“Free of charge?” Nothing is free of charge. Someone paid for this abortion. Is this what our taxes are being used for?

T.J. Cosgrove of the King County Health Department, which administers the school-based programs, says it’s always best if parents are involved in their children’s health care, but they don’t always have a say. “At any age in the state of Washington, an individual can consent to a termination of pregnancy.”

It is beyond bizarre that a teen cannot get their ears pierced without parental consent, but an abortion? No problem. What is wrong with our country? God save us.

ABC News Story

Frederick Poust III , a 38-year-old school bus driver in PA, hadn’t slept in two days, was listening to his iPod, talking on his cell phone and ran 10 stop signs before crashing into a 1999 Honda Civic killing the passenger,  27-year-old Richard Taylor, and seriously injuring the driver, 41-year-old Freddie Carroll on Feb. 17th.

45 students were on board the bus when it struck Carroll’s car. Poust has been charged with vehicular homicide and 45 counts of reckless endangerment.  Poust had been cited in a November 1999 crash that claimed the life of a two-year-old girl. In that accident Poust told police he was dialing his cell phone when he ran a stop sign and struck the other vehicle. Background checks apparently did not reveal the details of the 1999 crash.

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Gonzalez wrote “Lex was here 2/1/10″  and “I love my friends Abby and Faith.”

The girl was released after being held for several hours at the police station.

Gonzalez must perform eight hours of community service, as well as writing a book report and an essay on what she’s learned from the experience.

While I don’t endorse writing on desks and damaging public property, handcuffing and arresting a child for this is extreme and inexcusable.

Other New York City Student arrests:

2007 – Chelsea Fraser, 13, arrested for writing on her desk
2008 – Dennis Rivera, 5, handcuffed and sent to a psych ward after throwing a fit in his kindergarten class
2009 – 12-year-old sixth-grader arrested for doodling on her desk

At the time, she thought the children were over-reacting. The bus hit high speeds, ran over a mailbox and started rolling backwards downhill.

Student: “Turn the bus off!”

Driver: “No.”

Student: “You’re backing into the freaking ditch; you’re making the little kids cry. Stop!”

Finally, the children opened the emergency door in the back of the bus to get out, despite Thompson pleading against it.

Driver: “You can’t get off the bus!”

Schwalb attended a school board seminar about bullying and got upset when her daughter’s case wasn’t given the attention she felt it deserved. She became enraged when the district superintendent starting asking her questions, including one about whether her daughter was wearing a thong. Superintendent Joseph Luongo says it was a fair question, “I had to find out what body parts were actually revealed.”

Sounds like another case of blaming the victim. They better not let me near any boy that attempted to do that to one of my daughters, brings out the mother grizzly bear in me!

Complete article: MyFoxNY

Last week a 9-year-old fourth grade girl entered a stall in the Walnut Creek Elementary girls’ restroom. According to Genoa Township Detective Molly Welch, “When she went to pull down her pants, she looked down and there was an adult male who had his head under the stall and was looking at the 9-year-old.”

The girl was so frightened and embarrassed that she did not report the incident right away, however school surveillance videos confirm her report. Video shows a man dressed in black who walked past the front desk without signing in and headed directly to the bathroom. The videos indicate that the man was in the school on at least three different days. The time the girl signed out of class to go to the bathroom coincides with the time the man was seen on the video.

Prior to this incident all doors except the front door of the elementary were locked. Now the school is locking the front door also and admittance is by a buzzer/intercom system. Certainly all necessary security measures must be taken and we can all be thankful that this intruder was discovered before an innocent young girl was harmed.

What are our schools becoming? This sounds more like a prison facility than a school. Surveillance cameras, lockdowns, buzzers and intercoms. When I was in college I worked at a juvenile detention center as a security guard. This reminds me very much of one of my main duties there. I sat in a control center and inmates had to request various doors be buzzed open as they moved from the residential area to the dining area, gymnasium, or visitor room.

This incident occurred in the school district we lived in when we began homeschooling, a primarily middle-class, low-crime area. A general warning note was sent to parents after the incident was reported, but the note did not inform them that there had been an intruder in the school.

Bring your kids home!

Full report here…