RETARD ALERT - Parent fined $10 by school for not including crackers in a sack lunch

Socialist Food Police

Parents fined for not including Ritz crackers

in kids’ school lunch

Retard Alert  -  The insane are running the asylum.  I am firmly convinced that our "educators" are some of the most fucking stupid people on the planet.

It's quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government's Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article incorrectly pointed at the Manitoba Child Care Association as the source of the strangely interpreted policy).

Apparently if a child's lunch is deemed "unbalanced", where "balance" refers to ensuring that a lunch conforms to the proportions of food groups as laid out by Canada's awful Food Guide, then that child's lunch is "supplemented", and their parent is fined.

Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child Care fined mother Kristen Bartkiw $10 because she neglected to include healthful Ritz crackers in her kids’ school lunches. Weighty Matters has more details:

She sent her children to daycare with with lunches containing leftover homemade roast beef and potatoes, carrots, an orange and some milk. 

She did not send along any “grains”. 

As a consequence the school provided her children with, I kid you not, supplemental Ritz Crackers, and her with a $10 fine.

(Yahoo News)

School Eliminates the Honor Roll - All hail Marxism and the equality of blandness

Lohini Winn and her son, Andreas, are upset that St. Basil Elementary and Junior High School
is moving away from recognizing its Grade 7 to 9 students academic achievements, dropping
awards ceremonies and honor roll to avoid “hurting the self-esteem and pride of those
who do not receive a certificate.”

School Eliminates the Honor Roll

Awards might ‘hurt the self-esteem’ of the dumb students

(Calgary Herald)  -  When Grade 9 student Andreas Winn, 14, made the honour roll last year, it was a point of pride for him and his parents.

He won’t make the honour roll this year. Not officially at least. And not for a lack of effort.

Administration and staff at St. Basil Elementary and Junior High School, in the northwest community of Tuscany, decided earlier this month to stop recognizing the academic achievements of its roughly 250 Grade 7 to 9 students, axing award certificates and year-end ceremonies.

“They’re telling us that the one per cent of students or so who have learning problems or the group of students who can’t get on the honour roll outweighs the kids who can,” said Winn.

“So we should all stoop down to their level so everyone is happy.”

So-called "educators" are some of the most stupid people in society.

But he’s not happy. Neither are many parents and students who expressed shock, frustration and disappointment by the school’s decision and apparent lack of consultation.

Jason Redelback, whose 14-year-old son “hates” the decision, doesn’t think dropping awards and ceremonies is in the best interest of students.

“When you start to take away the recognition of a job well done, what you end up doing is you take away someone’s well-being,” said Redelback. “What they’ve done here is take away something of value and purpose.”

That’s not how officials at St. Basil see it.

In a letter to parents explaining the decision, school officials said, “Awards eventually lose their lustre to students who get them, while often hurting the self-esteem and pride of those who do not receive a certificate.”

That letter also cites the work of education guru Alfie Kohn, who contends that “dangling rewards in front of children are at best ineffective, and at worst counterproductive.”

Praise and recognition will now be immediate through feedback from teachers, not awards. Individualized goal-setting will be prepared by teachers and students. Parents are encouraged to celebrate academic success as a family.

Winn’s mother, Lo, believes awards and ceremonies serve a purpose: they act as an incentive for students to strive for high marks, and prepare kids for university and beyond.

“The students have nothing to work toward,” said Lo Winn. “They need incentive, they need motivation. I totally believe that if a child does well, a child needs to be recognized for it.”


Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for a heads up on this story.

Even China abandoned Socialism.
The Chinese threw away Socialism and the moronic "equality" of bland Chairman Mao jackets in favor of capitalism, excellence, achievement, fashionable clothes and wealth.
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As China adopts excellence and success, the nations of the West want to adopt the insane philosophy of Socialism, mediocrity and failure.

Cyberbullying laws increase Big Brother control over free Internet speech

Government to protect losers from life.

Big Brother is attacking the Internet because the losers

of life cannot use a delete button.

Free speech frightens both the pathetic losers of the world but also Big Brother government.

The latest fad the government is pushing in so-called cyberbullying laws to protect idiots who are not smart enough to hit a delete button.  These new anti-free speech laws are working their way through the system in Canada, California and other states.

Here’s how Nova Scotia’s new Cyber Safety Act, which went into effect this month, will go about tamping down free speech on the Internet.

Someone feels that you’re cyberbullying them. They visit or phone the court and request a protection order against you (minors , or some reason, cannot do so, only adults).

A judge decides if their claim meets the law’s definition. The definition of cyberbullying, in this particular bill, includes “any electronic communication” that ”ought reasonably be expected” to “humiliate” another person, or harm their “emotional well-being, self-esteem or reputation.”

The issuing of a protection order is an ex parte process between your accuser and the court. You won’t have an opportunity to defend yourself reports Macleans News.

If a judge issues one against you, here’s what might happen:

• The police can seize your computers and phone.
• Your Internet connection can be shut off.
• You can be ordered to stop using electronic devices entirely.
• Your Internet Service Provider or Internet companies, such as Facebook, can be compelled to fork over all your data to the police.
• You can be gagged by the court and prohibited from mentioning your accuser online.
• If you violate any of these orders, you’ll face stiff fines and up to two years of jail time. At this point, your accuser can sue you in civil court.

But wait, there’s more.

If your kid is found to be a cyberbully, you are deemed to be a cyberbully as well for not stopping them, unless you can prove that you tried really hard to. Any civil suit would target you.

The act also modifies the Nova Scotia Education Act to make school principals somewhat responsible for what their students do online. It’s now their job to “promote and encourage safe and respectful electronic communications” between students wherever they are. So if a kid disrespects another kid on Facebook, a principal can suspend them for five days — something the principal could feel compelled to do.

Losers don't know what this button is for.
It appears that the pathetic losers of the world, who claim they are "victims" of cyberbullying, do not know the delete button exists.  When some bully is being "mean" to them on the net they cannot manage to ignore the message and delete it.  Instead Big Brother starts making laws to protect the losers of life from the Internet . . . and increase their control over free speech.

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Police may block mobile devices via Apple

Police will have control over what can and cannot be

documented on wireless devices during any public event.

Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem “sensitive”, and “protected from externalities.”

­In other words, these powers will have control over what can and cannot be documented on wireless devices during any public event.

And while the company says the affected sites are to be mostly cinemas, theaters, concert grounds and similar locations, Apple Inc. also says “covert police or government operations may require complete ‘blackout’ conditions,” reports RT News.

“Additionally,” Apple says,” the wireless transmission of sensitive information to a remote source is one example of a threat to security. This sensitive information could be anything from classified government information to questions or answers to an examination administered in an academic setting.”

The statement led many to believe that authorities and police could now use the patented feature during protests or rallies to block the transmission of video footage and photographs from the scene, including those of police brutality, which at times of major events immediately flood news networks and video websites.

Apple patented the means to transmit an encoded signal to all wireless devices, commanding them to disable recording functions.

Those policies would be activated by GPS, and WiFi or mobile base-stations, which would ring-fence ("geofence") around a building or a “sensitive area” to prevent phone cameras from taking pictures or recording video.

Apple may implement the technology, but it would not be Apple's decision to activate the “feature” – it would be down governments, businesses and network owners to set such policies, analyzes ZDNet technology website.

Having invented one of the most sophisticated mobile devices, Apple now appears to be looking for ways to restrict its use.

“As wireless devices such as cellular telephones, pagers, personal media devices and smartphones become ubiquitous, more and more people are carrying these devices in various social and professional settings,” it explains in the patent. “The result is that these wireless devices can often annoy, frustrate, and even threaten people in sensitive venues.”

The company’s listed “sensitive” venues so far include mostly meetings, the presentation of movies, religious ceremonies, weddings, funerals, academic lectures, and test-taking environments.

A Canadian Gun Grab

Hell to pay:
Residents angry as RCMP seize guns from homes

• ‘It’s just like Nazi Germany,’ says resident

HIGH RIVER, CANADA  -  Royal Canadian Mounted Police revealed Thursday that officers have seized a “substantial amount” of firearms from homes in the evacuated town of High River.

“We just want to make sure that all of those things are in a spot that we control, simply because of what they are,” said Sgt. Brian Topham.

“People have a significant amount of money invested in firearms … so we put them in a place that we control and that they’re safe.”

That news didn’t sit well with a crowd of frustrated residents who had planned to breach a police checkpoint northwest of the town as an evacuation order stretched into its eighth day reports Canada.com.

“I find that absolutely incredible that they have the right to go into a person’s belongings out of their home,” said resident Brenda Lackey, after learning Mounties have been taking residents’ guns.

“When people find out about this there’s going to be untold hell to pay.”

About 30 RCMP officers set up a blockade at the checkpoint, preventing 50 residents from walking into the town. Dozens more police cars, lights on, could be seen lining streets in the town on standby.

Officers laid down a spike belt to stop anyone from attempting to drive past the blockade. That action sent the crowd of residents into a rage.

“What’s next? Tear gas?” shouted one resident.

“It’s just like Nazi Germany, just taking orders,” shouted another.

“This is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms,” said Charles Timpano, pointing to the group of Mounties.

Officers were ordered to fall back about an hour into the standoff in order to diffuse the situation and listen to residents’ concerns.