All Entries in the "Schools and Education" Category
World of (Agnor) Hurt: President Obama, same-sex marriage promoted by Albemarle County Elementary School?
In today’s highly charged political environment, government schools theoretically should be bastions of political non-partisanship. In Albemarle County, as in most Virginia school divisions, there are policies in place to prevent political indoctrination of students. Yet once again, Albemarle County’s enacted guidelines have failed to assuage concerned parents and protect vulnerable children from blatant political [...]
Big time: Schilling Show “We Are The World” exclusive makes Drudge Report
The story of an Albemarle County teacher removing “God” from a popular song has landed Schilling Show host, Rob Schilling, on the front page of the Internet’s premier news source, DrudgeReport.com. Subsequent to Drudge running the news, Schilling’s account of government-school deity-redaction also was featured on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and Todd Starnes’ Fox News [...]
Worldly: Albemarle County teacher deletes “God” lyric from “We Are The World”
Within weeks of a national scandal at Stall Brook Elementary School in Bellingham, Massachusetts—where an overzealous government school official removed “God” from Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”—a local teacher has performed her own secular exorcism on another popular song. For an upcoming 4th and 5th grade performance at Albemarle County’s Broadus Wood Elementary School [...]
Righteous red pen 2 report: Trimming $14M of fat and waste from Albemarle County’s budget
Far from being cut to the marrow, or even trimmed to the bone, a fundamental review of Albemarle County’s 2012-2013 proposed budget reveals a document laden with political lard, fat handouts, and gratuitous, meaty spending proposals. Following an exposé chronicling Charlottesville City’s profligate misspending, Albemarle County is the target of the “red pen 2” report—suggestions [...]
Righteous red pen report: Cutting $13M from Charlottesville City’s bloated budget
Despite ongoing annual proclamations that Charlottesville City Government is cash starved, a cursory analysis of the city’s proposed 2012-13 Operating & Capital Budget shows that nothing could be further from the truth. This year, Charlottesville City Hall is “swimming in cash”—as it has been for the last decade and beyond, running up cumulative surpluses in [...]
Guest editorial: Rules are replacing responsibility in government
Rules are replacing responsibility in government by Jim Stern Man has always lived under sets of rules. From the Ten Commandments to the legal code, sporting competitions to board games, in physics and in tax forms, there are rules everywhere guiding our lives. Deciphering the rules creates knowledge. Early man saw that fire burns, fire [...]
Guest editorial: The perpetual scream for increasing the unskilled wages for reasons of social justice
Guest editorial: The perpetual scream for increasing the unskilled wages for reasons of social justice by Claire Overton As a friend of Dr. Nelson Lichtenstein ( former UVA Professor, Now at UCLA, union apologist, author of Jimmy Hoffa, The Most Dangerous Man In Detroit et al. and the first “ Living Wage Activist “ in [...]
Overdrive: Illegal parking problems persist at Albemarle High School
It’s happened again. And again. And again. Less than 90 days after The Schilling Show reported dangerous and ongoing parking violations at Albemarle High School (AHS), the problem persists. The latest pictures, taken in January and February by Schilling Show contributor Jorge Brooks, Jr., show cars lining yellow-curbed emergency-vehicle access areas, blocking clearly marked fire [...]
Turn-votes: “Conservative” Albemarle County School Board members shun Buyaki, support Koleszar, McKeel for Chair and Vice Chair
In an amazing display of institutional protectionism, the seven-member Albemarle County School Board (ACSB) voted to prohibit conservative reformer, Jason Buyaki, from assuming a board leadership position. At the ACSB January 12 organizational meeting, politically left-leaning member Eric Strucko—recently a champion of process and corruption reform—nominated Buyaki for chair. Establishment darling, Diantha McKeel, then nominated [...]
Guest Editorial: Reasons to support public libraries over public schools
Guest editorial: Reasons to support public libraries over public schools by Steven C. Latimer Crozetians and Western Albemarleans awoke to welcomed news on December 8, 2011, as the Crozet Gazette and Charlottesville Daily Newspaper reported that the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors had voted to direct county staff to send out an RFP, or request [...]
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