Enloe on Public Education:

“I stand up for my wife and myself every single time I vote AGAINST any piece of legislation that would benefit this failing sect of gov’t; the public schools of America.”

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

“If you are a parent that sends your child to public school, stop. Realize that you are encouraging this abuse and your child is a pawn. I will do everything in my power to hinder public education through my voting and education of others. I will NEVER do anything to help public education, even if it is something so simple as buying cookies or having my vehicle washed.”

Tim Enloe, November 2004, The Force Arena

“TRUST YOUR GOV’T? DON’T!

Katie Reeves; Communist Bitch &

“As everyone knows, I have been educating the masses in regards to the unjustified seizure and removal of families in the Crabapple area of Georgia for a high school that was not needed. Keep in mind what the Fulton County Board claimed in regards to the current Milton location being in “poor ” condition and not being suitable for future students. Of course, how can anyone forget about the evil lead paint, uneven track, or parking concerns. Oh the humanity! All smoke and mirrors as I knew it would be. If the Alpharetta area were still rural, would we be getting a new high school? We all know that answer. One has to wonder how those seven families Christmas was this year ... Please see the article below and stop supporting public education. It is run by communists who do not believe in the freedom and protection of private ownership and uses the children of America as pawns.”

Tim Enloe, January 2005, The Force Arena

New life sought for Milton High site

By Diane R. Stepp, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Published on: 12/26/04

The Fulton County school system has planned to sell the Milton High School building for as much as $25 million. But a group of Alpharetta school, community and government leaders thinks it has other uses.

A committee exploring those uses for the school - which will close in June - say if the property is not sold, then old Milton has plenty of mileage left.

Using it as a centralized site for students to take college coursework while completing their high school degrees or as a magnet school - possibly for technology and science or math - are two suggestions.

The building could provide administrative office space for those who oversee north Fulton schools and be a staff training center that would be more centrally located for north Fulton teachers.

Nearly half the school system’s teaching force lives north of the Chattahoochee River, school officials say.

Drive time

North Fulton teachers must now drive to the district’s Administrative Center on Cleveland Avenue in East Point for many training programs, said Martha Greenway, chief planning and evaluation officer for the district.

After first touring the facility with principal Ron Tesch, Greenway and 13 community, school and government leaders from the Alpharetta area sat down this month to brainstorm ways in which old Milton could best serve the community.

The buiding, near the heart of downtown Alpharetta, will be empty in June when the Class of 2005 departs. Students move in August to a new facility west of town.

Alpharetta officials have favored a plan converting the property to a mixed-use development if it is sold.

But if the school board decides to keep it, then a specialized magnet program and staff development training center are two options with a lot of support, said Debbie Gibson, a committee member and city councilwoman.

“That would solve a lot of issues and help ease overcrowding at other high schools,” she said. Four-year enrollment projections forecast overcrowding in north Fulton high schools.

Gibson said the committee discussed using Milton as a second open enrollment high school in north Fulton, but the idea received little support. Open campus high schools give working students flexibility in scheduling. Independence High in Roswell is an open campus and offers night classes.

The challenge factor

“It didn’t appear from the demographics and the fact there’s already one in Roswell, that it was a high priority. We were looking to offering more challenging classes and options for students,” she said.

Committee members offered suggestions within the framework of keeping a vibrant community, ease of transportation, manageable size, goodwill of downtown merchants and avoidance of redistricting, Gibson said.

Greenway is expected to present the committee’s findings to the board in January with possible action in February. “The data suggests that should the board decide to keep the facility, there could be some much-needed and valuable programs placed there,” said Greenway. “We don't want to start something up and nobody comes because the community’s not interested in it,” she said. “We definitely need to get broader community involvement about specifics,” the administrator added, referring to what direction a magnet school might take.

“Public education is a farce. Anyone who has any clue on how this failed gov’t system is run knows what I am talking about. Private eduation students ALWAYS finish higher than these pathetic gov’t institutions’ kids and it really is no wonder. When you see how these idiots running things, it is easy to see why. There are some other reasons that come into play when it comes to my loathing here, but that will be reserved for another day. Credit goes to www.boortz.com.”

Tim Enloe, May 2004, The Force Arena

OH BOY ... YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS ONE

More of the immense idiocy that permeates our government schools. This one comes from Ft. Worth, Texas. We take you to the Diamond Hill - Jarvis High School. A student at Diamond Hill has been suspended for “transporting weapons to school in his vehicle.” And just what was the weapon this student had in his car ... the weapon that was clearly visible through the windows of the car? Why, it was a baseball bat. It wasn’t the kind of baseball bat you would take to the plate at some Little League baseball game. It wasn’t the type of bat you would use, with great pleasure I would hope, to beat the ever-loving dog squeeze out of a burglar you find in your home in the middle of the night. No ... this “weapon” was a baseball bat that had broken off an award trophy. It was 8” long.

The student who brought this dangerous weapon to school has been suspended. School officials are now considering whether or not to expel him from the school permanently.

These are the very same government schools to which we are sending our children to learn critical thinking skills. Did I say “thinking?” Would any of you businessmen or women out there like to have in your employ someone so dense that they would consider an 8” baseball bat as a dangerous weapon worth of a student’s suspension? These things are handed out at baseball stadiums as “bat night” prizes, and these idiots at Diamond Hill consider them to be weapons? Consider the parking lot monitor who spied this dangerous weapon through the window of the student’s car. What kind of an incompetent void-surrounded-by-a sphincter-muscle must this person be? Here is someone who is truly unqualified to work for anyone other than government.

Be sure to send your congratulations to the wonderful administrators of the Ft. Worth Independent School District today. They need to know how much you appreciate the great job they’re doing teaching our children how to cope and thrive in the real world.

“Communist schools’ newest victim.

You know, I have to give them credit. This pathetic sect of gov’t never ceases to amaze me. We can now add animal cruelty to their fine repertoire. Credit goes to www.local6.com.”

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.

Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.

Bjerregaard made arrangements for his students to be a part of a dissection of a dog that was still alive.

The dog was still alive, but the teacher said it was sedated before the dissection began. With the students watching, the sedated dog’s digestive system was removed.

“It just makes me sick and I don’t think this should go on anywhere and nobody’s learning from it,” student Sierra Sears said.

The teacher said the lesson would allow students to see the organs actually working. “I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal,” Bierregaard said.

The school’s principal, Kirk Anderson, said notifications went to parents explaining the dog was going to be euthanized and that the experiment would be done with the dog’s organs still functioning. The teacher is standing by his decision and calls it the ultimate educational experience.

Principal Anderson said he supports the lesson and it will be allowed to continue because the students are learning. The dog used in the experiment was going to be euthanized despite the class project.

“Neal Boortz; an American with a BRAIN..

As they say, timing is EVERYTHING! With our recent wonderful debate about the Communistic schools of today’s America, the following falls right in line. Credit goes to www.boortz.com.

NOT A GOOD WEEK FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ...

... but then, what week IS a good week for turning your child over to the government to be educated?”

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

Dacula High School, Gwinnett County, Georgia

You heard about this last week on the show, and you saw Larry Nease on CNN this morning. “Doc” Nease is a science teacher at Dacula High School. For the past 10 years or more Doc has had a policy in his classrooms that if you fall asleep or disrupt the class you will get a zero for your class work for that day, or your grade will be cut drastically. Little Wesley, the football player, fell asleep in class. In fact, after an assignment was handed out Wesley the Football Player just put his head down on his desk and went to sleep. He did his assignment that night and handed it in the next day, as was allowed. But he got his zero. Wesley the Football Player’s Daddy came to school to complain. Did the principal stand by the teacher? Nope. Did the Gwinnett County School Board stand by the teacher? Nope. Doc Nease was fired. Twenty-three years teaching, and he was fired because he fulfilled a promise he made to his class - in writing - that if you fall asleep in class you can get a zero for that day’s work. The dictate from the teacher was included in a class syllabus that all students had to sign. I’m told that our football player’s parents also signed the syllabus. No matter. You just don’t screw with high school football players.

Spencer High School, Columbus, Georgia

You’ve heard about this one too. Spencer High School. Columbus, Georgia is a heavy-military area, home to Ft. Benning. Kevin’s mother is an Army Sergeant. She’s in Iraq. Kevin is in Spencer High School. Kevin’s mom calls him on his cell phone ... from Iraq. It’s lunch break at the high school, so Kevin goes outside to take the call. One of our wonderful government teachers sees him and demands he hang up. He explains that his mom has called from Iraq. This matters none to the teacher. She demands he hang up and tries to grab the phone. In the tussle the call is disconnected. The teacher starts marching Kevin to the principal’s office. His mother calls back. They refuse to allow him to take the call. He gets belligerent. Who the hell wouldn’t? He knows his mom is in dangerous territory. She could die that afternoon in an insurgent attack. He wants to talk to her ... they won’t allow him to answer the phone. End result? He gets suspended for 10 days. That suspension has now been reduced to three days ... all due to public outrage.

Bow High School, Bow, New Hampshire

Isabel Gottlieb is a great student. She plays in the school band. She is taking advanced placement classes. Things like calculus and biology. She isn’t going to be allowed to graduate with her class. Why? Because she didn’t take a required PE class. Physical Education. She holds varsity letters in three sports at Bow High School, but she didn’t take this particular PE class. She was told that in order to graduate she would have to drop one of her advanced placement classes and replace it with the PE class. She said no. Now she isn’t going to get her diploma. There is no PE class offered during summer school, so that means she might not be able to go to college next Fall. Trinity College in Hartford, CT comes to the rescue. She will take her GED test over the summer and Trinity has accepted her for the Fall semester.

These kinds of idiocy can only happen at the hands of government. All of these incidents .. and don’t we all know that there are so many more .. happened in government schools .. and all within the last week.

There are several things that must happen in our nation is going to survive ... and survival is by no means guaranteed. One of those things is that the American people need to come to the realization that it is counterproductive to the cause of freedom and economic liberty to turn out children over to the government to be educated. Year after year the quality of education in this country goes down. These government schools are under the full and complete grip of the largest, most powerful and most feared union in this nation .. The National Education Association.

There was a reason why Karl Marx insisted that government control over education was an essential step in bringing about the communist state. Government education is no less necessary to the growth of government power today than it was then.

“If I were a parent, I would never send my kid to public schools. Truth be known, I would make sure I had the cash to send my offspring to private school before they were even conceived. There is not a day that goes by that we don’t witness the continued failure of the whole public school system. If it is not the Board of Education kicking tax paying citizens off of private land for a school that was not needed, it is a student suing because he didn’t get the grade he wanted. There is no discipline, there is no focus, there is no foresight, and there is no responsibility. What is truly mind boggling to me is knowing that 60% of my property tax goes to this failed venture every year. It is bad enough that my wife and I have to pay even though we don’t have kids; it is even worse when the end result is what we have today; blatant communism and zero accountability. In closing, I commend this teacher for practicing a very simple premise; self responsibility. Credit goes to www.ajc.com.”

Tim Enloe, May 2005, The Force Arena

Grade controversy at Dacula

By Laura Diamond

Gwinnett school officials banished a veteran science teacher from school property after he refused to raise the grade he gave a student athlete who fell asleep in class, the teacher’s lawyer said Tuesday.But school officials say Dacula High physics teacher Larry Neace was barred from Gwinnett’s campuses for insubordination because he repeatedly refused to comply with a district policy prohibiting teachers from using grades to discipline students.

Neace, who has taught at Dacula for 23 years, remains on the school district’s payroll. His case will be discussed during a public hearing scheduled for Thursday.

Neace's lawyer, Michael Kramer of Atlanta, said Dacula High’s principal ordered Neace to change a grade he gave a football player on a lab assignment. “What we have in this case is a case of a pampered football athlete sleeping in class and being given favored treatment on an academic grade,” Kramer said. “What we have here is the principal essentially attempting to coerce and intimidate a teacher on behalf of the football coach and parent.”

Sloan Roach, spokeswoman for the district, disputed Kramer’s allegations. “This case is not about a student-athlete or the principal’s actions,” Roach said in a prepared statement. “This case is about Mr. Neace’s actions and his repeated failure to comply with school board policy.”

Barry Cheek, whose son received the reduced mark, said his child’s playing on the football team had nothing to do with Neace’s current employment situation. “[Neace] refused to do something his superiors asked him to do,” Cheek said. “My son being a football player had nothing to do with it. What’s right is right. What’s fair is fair.”

Students have been rallying to support Neace, who’s nickname is “Doc,” since he left school April 14. Last week, students put up posters in Dacula High’s hallways reading, “Where's Doc?” and “Free Neace.” Other students wore T-shirts protesting the principal’s action or passed out fliers saying, “Forget the whales, save Doc.” At the senior dinner Monday night, some students chanted “Doc” during the principal’s speech.

Students also circulated a petition asking administrators to reinstate Neace. Dacula High principal Donnie Nutt did not return phone message left at the school seeking comment.

Roach said the dispute began after Neace handed out an assignment that was due the next day. One student fell asleep during class the day the assignment was made, but turned in the work on time, she said. The student earned a perfect score, but Neace reduced the mark by half because the student fell asleep in class, she said.

“This action is a direct contradiction to the school system’s policy on grading,” Roach said. Neace said he developed his own policy about 10 years ago that students who waste time in class - by sleeping, playing games or engaging in other mindless activities - receive a penalty grade. The penalty can be a zero or half credit depending on the assignment, he said.

Several students have received zeroes and half credits this school year, Neace said. “I’ve never been reprimanded or punished or told to change the grade before,” Neace said.Roach said she did not know why Neace’s actions were challenged this time. She said additional facts will be presented during Thursday’s hearing.

The state has no policy specifying when principals can change or order teachers to change students’ grades, said Dana Tofig, spokesman for the Georgia Department of Education. Tofig said it is a local issue. Roach said she did not know if the district has a policy regarding whether principals can change grades.

“That's not the issue here,” Roach said. “This is an issue of Mr. Neace’s refusal to abide with school policy.” Gary Walker, director of educator ethics division for the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, said some educators are concerned that there is no state policy.

“There was some discussion during the session about this but nothing happened,” Walker said. “In the absence of a state policy, the principal is considered the chief instructional leader of a school and is typically charged with making sure grades for students are appropriate.”

Without a state rule or policy, administrators can change grades or force teachers to give out certain grades, Kramer said. “This is a dirty secret in public schools,” Kramer said. “There is this favoritism and teachers are forced to change grades. It is just wrong.”

Neace, 61, said he reviews his classroom policies with his students on the first day of class.

“We all know that if you sleep in Doc’s class you can get a zero,” said junior Alisha Crowder, one of the organizers of the petition drive.