‘Black Lives Matter’ Protests Have Black Students With Failing Grades Demanding A Free Pass

Is it just me but this just does not smell right. Why should anyone be given a ‘free’ pass because of what is going on current events. It is a cop out on the part of the students. Where do schools stop it this is allowed?

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Black students at Oberlin College with failing grades are demanding a free pass due to the recent events surrounding Michael Brown, Eric Garner and the “Black Lives Matter” protests.

In a related report by the Inquisitr, black students at Columbia University and even Harvard Law requested an extension for semester final exams due to being “traumatized” by the grand jury rulings, riots and shootings.

A recent petition has gathered several thousand signatures already and it specifically requests that Oberlin College give failing black students a grade of “C” at the minimum.

Full story: Iquisitr

Be sure to read the comments as they seem to tell how people feel about this.

The Other ‘F Word’: Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer Name

This is a great story of David using Goliath to his advantage…..

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In general, getting a cease-and-desist letter from a big corporation isn’t the mark of a good day. But after a brewery owner got a letter from a law firm representing Starbucks, he saw a chance to draw distinctions between the businesses — and to be funny.

The coffee company’s bone of contention, Missouri brewer Jeff Britton was told in a Dec. 9 letter, was the use of the name “Frappicino” to describe a stout served at Exit 6 Brewery, a brewpub in a tidy strip mall in Cottleville, northwest of St. Louis.

The name too closely resembled Starbucks’ Frappuccino, Anessa Owen Kramer, an attorney at a law firm that protects Starbucks’ trademarks, wrote. The similar names might cause customers to “mistakenly believe that Exit 6 or this beer product is affiliated with or licensed by Starbucks Coffee Co., when they are not,” the letter said.

Full story: npr

Obama math: under new Common Core, 3 x 4 = 11

Only in America can 3 X 4 = 11 or some other number. It really does not matter. What does matter is whether or not the student can ummm, you know come up with a process of how he/ she arrived at the wrong number. So what is wrong can be right. To think of all of those people who had to come up with the right answer. What does it mean for them?

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Quick: what’s 3 x 4?

If you said 11 — or, hell, if you said 7, pi, or infinity squared — that’s just fine under the Common Core, the new national curriculum that the Obama administration will impose on American public school students this fall.

In a pretty amazing YouTube video, Amanda August, a curriculum coordinator in a suburb of Chicago called Grayslake, explains that getting the right answer in math just doesn’t matter as long as kids can explain the necessarily faulty reasoning they used to get to that wrong answer.

“Even if they said, ’3 x 4 was 11,’ if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in, umm, words and oral explanation, and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focused on the how,” August says in the video.

Full story and alarming video: Yahoo! News

No Lawful Status – on NC illegal immigrant licenses eyed

The concern is whether or not the pink stripe will brand those that have the license. A “Scarlet Letter” for modern times and what that means to the public. Is this a fair thing to do? Comments are welcomed.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A new North Carolina driver’s license set to be issued to some illegal immigrants has a bright pink stripe and the bold words “NO LAWFUL STATUS,” raising concerns about whether the design will brand those who show it.

The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles announced last week they would begin issuing the licenses March 25 following a lengthy legal review. The Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program grants valid federal work permits to qualified applicants brought to the U.S. as children without legal authorization.

Some Republican lawmakers in the state have balked at the idea, filing a bill Thursday to bar the DMV from granting the licenses until at least June.

Cinthia Marroquin, a 22-year-old Raleigh resident awaiting approval for a DACA permit, said the longer the license issue is delayed, the longer it will take for her to get a job and drive herself to work. Even if she is able to get one, she is worried about presenting a license declaring she has “NO LAWFUL STATUS” at a police roadblock or while writing a check at the grocery store.

Full story: Yahoo! News

Idaho bill would require students to read ‘Atlas Shrugged’

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In a symbolic move to teach “personal responsibility,” an Idaho lawmaker has proposed requiring every high school student in the state to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.”

State Sen. John Goedde introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require Idaho secondary students to read and pass an examination on the iconic 1957 novel touted by conservatives like Rep. Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh.

The lawmaker, though, says the bill is meant more as a statement than an actual proposed policy. Goedde, in a statement to FoxNews.com, said media outlets have thus far “totally missed the point” of the bill — he described the bill as a protest to a state Board of Education decision to roll back online class requirements.

“Traditionally in Idaho, the State Board of Education sets graduation requirements in rule,” Goedde wrote in an email Thursday. “They recently repealed a rule dealing with online class requirements and failed to move another rule forward dealing with administrators demonstrating proficiency in evaluating teachers. I felt both were important and wanted to remind them that the legislature could also set graduation standards.”

Full story: FOX News

‘Inigo Montoya’ shirt upsets travelers, leads to awkward flight

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Inigo Montoya is the character from “The Princess Bride” who vows to revenge the death of his father by the six fingered man. Inigo Montoya is quoted as saying “Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,” and this is what got Wynand Mullins of New Zealand in trouble. You see Wynand Mullins was wearing a T-Shirt with this saying and several passengers felt threatened by the saying.

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Careful what you wear on a plane.

Wynand Mullins of New Zealand told Stuff Magazine that he was asked to remove his T-shirt because other airline passengers found it intimidating.

And, yes, we suppose if one weren’t familiar with “The Princess Bride,” seeing a shirt that reads, “Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,” might be a little alarming, especially on board a plane. But in Mullins’s defense: Who the heck hasn’t seen “The Princess Bride”?

For the two or three of you who haven’t, the movie features a character named Inigo Montoya, played by Mandy Patinkin of “Homeland.” After seeing his father killed by an evil, six-fingered man, Montoya vows that when he crosses paths with the fiend, he will say, well, exactly what was printed on Mullins’s T-shirt. (Spoiler alert: At the end of the movie, Montoya does find the fiend, and he says his line over and over. It’s awesome.)

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