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The schools sure are getting more and more ridiculous when it comes to rules for play time. From The McCarville Report:

A 7-year old student at the Mid-Del School District's Parkview Elementary School was suspended last week from school for pointing a "finger gun" at a wall.

Yep, a kid got suspended for pointing his finger at a wall. Even if it was in the traditional shape of a "finger gun", I see absolutely no problem with the kid's actions. The school's actions, on the other hand, were ridiculous and over the top.

What's next? A law that says parents can't let their kids play cops and robbers at home?

Go download the PDF, now!

Of the 527 districts in the state, 233 had at least one improvement to their website. And while last year only 15 districts fully met five or more criteria, that number more than doubled to 33 this year.

Seem like the $8,814 that the State of Oklahoma spent per pupil goes a long way in Tulsa-area private schools.

According to John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute, our public schools are teaching that freedom is expendable.

Over the past several decades, America's public schools have increasingly adopted the mindset that students have no rights, and school officials have not been reticent about communicating this message to young people. Indeed, this totalitarian outlook has been reinforced by an educational curriculum so focused on preparing students to enter the machinery of the corporate state that there is little time left over for the things they really need to learn such as what their rights are, how to exercise them, and the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. As a result, the majority of students today have little knowledge of the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution and, specifically, in the Bill of Rights.

He goes on to say

Recently, the Oklahoma Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill to allow elective courses on the Bible in public schools.  Now before you jump to conclusions, I don't think this is a bad thing.  A lot of American (and world) law is based off of principles taught in the Bible, and students may not fully grasp the principles without an opportunity to learn about them from their source.  However, students should also be afforded the same opportunity to take courses on other religious texts, including the Quran, on their roles in history and the development of the laws we have today.