Powell High School, Again

Is there something in the water at Powell High School? Teachers there seem to keep attorney Greg Isaacs fully employed...

Every Breath I Take

A long time ago, I had a job that had me travel to Los Angeles frequently. When asked if I'd be willing to relocate to L.A. I declined because "I didn't want to live anywhere where I could see the air I breathe". Witness Knoxville, July 2007. All we need is Paris Hilton and some earthquakes.

Mitt Romney Wants To Protect Child Molesters

GOP presidential candidate Governor Mitt Romney is attacking Democrat Senator Barack Obama over Obama's support for age-appropriate sex education in kindergarten. Romney is courting conservative sheeple with questions like "How much sex education is age appropriate for a 5-year-old? In my view, zero is the right amount."

Romney's stance totally ignores the fact that one in six sexual assault victims are children under 12. As a foster parent, I've encountered several cases where a young child has been sexually abused, but has not reported the abuse because he or she didn't know that sexual contacts between adults and children are wrong.

Romney would rather plunge his abstinence promoting head into his abstinence promoting ass and pretend that child rape and incest does not exist. Sex education is not about teaching kids how to have sex, it is teaching kids what kind of sex and when is acceptable. Mitt Romney would let a child molester get away because the kindergartener does not have words to describe the abuse.

Bush To Poor Children: Drop Dead

Here's compassionate conservatism for you: President Bush is threatening to veto legislation that would renew a program that assists with providing health coverage for poor children. His veto is based on "philosophical" grounds, in spite of bi-partisan support in the Congress. The Great Divider rationalizes that the continuation of the program is "really beginning to open up an avenue for people to switch from private insurance to the government." Earth to Bush: The program is for families who do not have private insurance and are too poor to afford one. Again, slowly: Poor. Children. If you're so "pro-life", Mr. President, how about helping kids who are already born to stay alive before worrying about the "unborn".

Too Stupid To Breed

There oughta be a law that'd make it illegal to have children if you're too stupid, lazy or mean to breed.

Viva Chelada!

Finally, domestic beer that is actually drinkable (even if it imitates foreign beer).

The Kallenberg Case: The Charges

In the Kallenberg case, the school district finally published the charges against Ms. Kallenberg. The charges have meantime changed from grade fixing to "unprofessional conduct and neglect of duty". Some of the allegations are plain ridiculous, such as "allowing allowing a student to repeatedly include comments such as 'I love you' and 'Mrs. Kallenberg, your (sic) my girl.' in a senior project, others have no concrete evidence except for witness statements. Kallenberg's attorney Greg Isaacs also notes that witnesses in the case have changed their stories during the nine months it's taken for Knox County Schools to bring up the charges. Kallenberg continues to deny all the allegations.

Reboot

Junior dodged the KAEC bullet. I don't know if it was because he really is doing at school, or if it's because we showed up ready to put up a fight.

Lies, Damned Lies and IEPs

We had an IEP meeting for my son yesterday. As I predicted, Knox County Schools had a plan drafted and ready to sign to dump him to KAEC, but in the end, the school district wanted a time-out to rethink their position. Mostly the meeting went well, but it wasn't hard to notice that KAEC personnel was not accustomed to parents who knew their rights and who had done their homework. Round two will follow in a couple of weeks.