What’s News today?
How about this.
There is just so much wrong here I don’t even know where to begin.
From the NYPost
“The Department of Education is giving morning-after pills and other birth-control drugs to students at 13 high schools, The Post has learned.
School nurse offices stocked with the contraceptives can dispense “Plan B” emergency contraception and other oral or injectable birth control to girls without telling their parents — unless parents opt out after getting a school informational letter about the new program.”
“It might be a nationwide first as well. The National Association of School Nurses could cite no other school district supplying Plan B.”
Read more here
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UPDATE
The Senate vote on Rep. Paul’s Bill
From the DC
“By a vote of 81 to 10, the Senate on Saturday defeated legislation that would have suspended foreign aid to Pakistan, Egypt and Libya in the wake of the violent anti-American demonstrations in those countries. All 10 supporters of the bill were Republicans.
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul had threatened to hold up all Senate business until the bill was considered. He succeeded in forcing a vote, but couldn’t come close to passage.
“When nearly 80 percent of Americans believe foreign aid should be reduced – especially to countries that are not our allies – it is inconceivable why their views are ignored by so many in Congress,” Paul said in a statement. “I am far from defeated on this; I will continue to fight for this issue when Congress returns, and I will continue to call attention to the billions of American dollars – borrowed from China, among other places – being sent to governments that are not willing to respect and protect our interests overseas.””
Read more here
Wandering Views 
If the Dept. of Education was abolished and all federal education spending was ended, it would be a net positive for the nation. The depts of Education and Energy are areas where we are still under the curse of Jimmy Carter.
In hindsight, Reagan should have vetoed all appropriations for those depts and pulled out all stops to insure their abolition. It would have certainly helped the country and it would have been great fun to watch Carter whine about it.
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OK let me get this straight. Be patient I might just be a little slow here…
My child cannot go to the school nurse with a headache, call me, and be given an aspirin because we have zero tolerance on drugs. I cannot send her to school with a benedryl when she is having allergy issues because we have zero tolerance for drugs and if she were to get caught they would assume she was dealing drugs and suspend her. Yet, the school nurse can give her contraceptives and a morning after pill that may or may not KILL HER?????
Now did I understand that correctly?
I have said it before. It is the schools responsibility to educate my child, not to police her food intake and dispense medical supplies. It is my responsibility as a parent to continue that education at home, teach morality, and nutrition.
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Kim, it takes a village to screw up your kid. You can’t do it alone.
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I was majorly aggevated over the weekend to hear an Obama add that criticized Romney for wanting to cut spending for education at the federal level and somehow translated that into him wanting larger class sizes. What a pile of crap.
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p.s. Kbells, good one
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A liberal friend of mine wants to know if there is a good reason the Republicans voted down the Veterans’ Jobs bill. I don’t know, so I’m asking you experts here. 😉
kBells – LOL!
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Since when does a school nurse or either the state department of education or federal department of education for that matter have a license to practice medicine? The last time I checked, practicing medicine without a license was a criminal offense. Were I a parent in the New York public school system, I would be swearing out a warrant for the arrest and criminal prosecution of the New York City School Board chief administrator along with any nurse dispensing the morning after pill.
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I decided many years ago that I would not go on the Pill if I were ever to get married. Why? Every woman I knew who was on it for at least two years (many who were on it for much less) had problems from it, some of them serious.
And we’re going to give it to girls who haven’t reached full adulthood yet, without telling their parents (and let the girls think they can now have sex as much as they want, without consequence–without, say, picking up four or five STDs by the time they’re of age) and we also somehow expect them to take it faithfully and even be safe from pregnancy?
They’re fools (that’s a moral judgment) and idiots (that’s an intellectual one).
God gave such responsibility to parents, not to schools. And the responsibility He gave parents is to help young unmarried people say NO not to help them say yes with fewer consequences. Rear them for marriage, not for unhindered sex. This is not the way girls are made. And to say, “They’re black, so this is different; they can’t help having sex” (which the government seems to be doing) is to make a racist statement and to make it that much harder for those who wish to be chaste.
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Karen, the reason the House is blocking the jobs portion for Veterans is because businesses get a tax cut for hiring veterans. I suspect that there is some provision for some bureaucratic office to be created adding to already bloated employment rolls of the Federal Government.
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Linda, research shows that class size doesn’t have much effect on student performance, except at the youngest levels. It was confirmed by the following study which Romney often cites, as well as Romney’s own research while governor of Massachusetts.
Click to access Worlds_School_Systems_Final.pdf
The available evidence suggests that, except at the very early grades, class size reduction does not have much impact on student outcomes. … More importantly, every single one of the studies showed that … variations in teacher quality completely dominate any effect of reduced class size”.
Obviously there are limits – you can’t just increase class sizes to infinity and expect performance to remain the same. No one wants to double class sizes and make teachers’ jobs harder with crowded classrooms. But an addition of only one student to the national student-teacher ratio would save $12 billion per year, according to the Brookings Institute.
The McKinsey study noted that out of 112 studies on the effect of smaller class sizes, only 9 found a positive relationship; the rest found no relationship or a significant negative relationship. The study noted that since more teachers are needed to achieve smaller class sizes, schools can be less selective in choosing their teachers. Also, it noted that when class sizes are decreased, that requires more teachers to teach the additional classes, and with the same level of funding, the money available per teacher is reduced. So then, if hypothetically class sizes are increased by one student per teacher, we may not want to take the full $12 billion in savings. If we’d take, say, only $6 billion, there would be more money available per teacher.
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Joe – In school and camp nursing, the nurse doesn’t usually need a separate prescription for each individual in order to give certain medications. Rather they are covered by standing orders, which give a list of requirements to be checked off to determine if the medication should be given, i.e. ‘If A, B, and C are present, then give D’. A physician does have to write and sign the standing order – which would lead to questions about the ethics of a physician who would write such orders for prolonged hormonal treatments with dangerous side effects. Standing orders are typically used for a one-time use in an acute situation, like Tylenol for fever or Asprin for chest pain.
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Karen,
Because, to quote Tom Coburn, “it’s crap.” Plus, it violates the spending agreements Congress had established. And while the meme will of course be all about those evil R’s, The D’s who hold the majority of votes, are responsible as well.
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/20/sen_coburn_blocked_veterans_job_bill_is_crap/
Here’s more.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57517160/senate-gop-blocks-veterans-jobs-bill/
“Senate Republicans blocked legislation Wednesday that would have established a $1 billion jobs program putting veterans back to work tending to the country’s federal lands and bolstering local police and fire departments.
Republicans said the spending authorized in the bill violated limits that Congress agreed to last year. Democrats fell two votes shy of the 60-vote majority needed to waive the objection, forcing the legislation back to committee.”
“Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said the federal government already has six job-training programs for veterans and there is no way to know how well they are working. He argued that making progress on the country’s debt was the best way to help veterans in the long-term.”
The R’s may have a point, but the D’s have the media on their side. So you know who gets the blame. It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t a good bill or not, the R’s will take a hit for it.
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Re class size.
I’ve been in colleges classes given in an auditorium.
We did have smaller seminars on the subject led by grad students.
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KBells 🙂
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Just to clarify why I blame Dems as well.
They knew that R’s would not go along with this because of the agreements they made. They knew this was yet another unfunded expense. They knew that was a no-no for R’s. They’ve used the fact that the R’s are keeping their word. They knew this would not pass, but they put it up anyway to make R’s look bad. Sadly, keeping your word and being honest will now be used as a tool to claim them uncaring. But unlike Dems, they kept their word. Every D plus 5 RINO’s didn’t. What good are agreements if one side doesn’t follow thru on their promises?
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This will offend everyone. I have developed a good reason to support Obama. The US is like a drunk or drug addict that must “hit bottom” before there will be a commitment to change. Obama is the quickest way to the bottom.
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I don’t usually comment on the political thread, but boy am I ever offended by that Ricky Weaver’s comment at 2:03 pm.
(Imagine hands-on-hips emoticon)
LOL, Ricky! 😀
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RW: I’m afraid that drunk would never be able to get up again!
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(Guess who that was…)
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Thanks, 6 Arrows. My wife and I were on a cruise to celebrate our 30th anniversary when the stock market crashed in 2008. ” Not knowing” made the whole thing less unpleasant. We think we’ll vote early and go to some isolated spot on November 6th.
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Tychicus, You may be right. I am afraid your Spurs have a better chance than the Republicans.
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The Spurs are third party, baby.
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Uh-oh.
This is good news. The uh-oh was for the response we’ll likely get for it. And the UK as well. The pessimist in me says “cue the rioters for Act 2”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207993/Hate-preacher-Abu-Hamza-booted-Britain-days-final-appeal-fails.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
“Hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza is to be booted out of Britain within days after Euro judges tonight rejected his final appeal against extradition.
The ruling brings an end to a legal saga which has lasted eight years and cost the UK taxpayer more than £1million.
Hamza, whose vile sermons outside the Finsbury Park Mosque earned him global notoriety, is wanted by the U.S. authorities for plotting to set up a jihadi training camp in Oregon.”
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I see where Pakistan has issued a $100,000 reward for anyone who kills the man who made the controversial movie.
We should tell them that anyone who commits murder might not live to collect $100,000.
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Regarding school nurses/teachers not giving aspirin or the like to students: There was a mother on the local news just last week complaining that her district school would not allow a teacher to give her grade school son epinephrin if he had an allergic reaction to peanuts. He is highly allergic and could die within minutes, but they said they would have to call her and she would have to drive to the school to give it to him. Seems there is no school nurse in their district, so they washed their hands of the problem.
In a semi-related story, another local news story tonight was about how high schools were hiring trainers for the athletic teams, so they could get on-the-field treatment for a sports injury.
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