Show Prep: Mon, Dec. 14
After a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction banning Concord Community Schools from including a live Nativity scene as part of its annual Christmas show, the school, instead, featured a Nativity scene using mannequins in the Christmas Spectacular program on Saturday, Dec. 12.
Concord High School’s 2015 Christmas Spectacular still a hit despite federal lawsuit – Elkhart Truth
Bill Grossman, a 1988 Concord graduate who performed in four consecutive Christmas Spectaculars during his time as a band and orchestra member, said he did not appreciate what he considered a “lack of respect for authority” in including a Nativity scene of any sort.
Get Money Out Of Politics, Except When Democrats Need To Fund Their Convention – The Burning Truth
Already struggling with finances, the Democratic Party has drafted a plan to have taxpayers help pay about $20 million for next summer’s nominating convention, reversing a change Congress approved just a year ago. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also a congresswoman from Florida, has drafted a bill to restore money that both parties used to receive from the federal government to help defray the costs of running their quadrennial conventions.
Kids cancer fundraiser deemed microaggression by Kansas BLM protesters
Shortly thereafter, the RCIH demonstrators found themselves in conflict with another student group, the Tri Delta sorority, which was selling candy canes to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the same Wescoe Beach area in which the protesters were congregating.
Changes to ISTEP coming after clamor over Indiana scores – 953MNC.com
A top Indiana legislator on education issues says he’s coming up with proposals to adjust how the state uses standardized test scores to determine teacher pay.
Press Release – FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Owners may register through a web-based system at www.faa.gov/uas/registration
‘Star Wars’ T-shirt lands 7th grader in hot water at Texas school | Fox News
Specifically, that would be a Stormtrooper holding a “rebel blaster” on a “Star Wars” T-shirt.
Maybe they were mad because a Storm Trooper was holding a ‘rebel blaster.’
All of this started not that long ago, in a Walmart not particularly far away, when someone with a Facebook Star Wars fan group walked into a store and legally purchased a Star Wars figurine and then uploaded a photo of it to the Facebook group. Turns out the figurine contains a sort of spoiler within it or something. As such, plenty of other websites, such as Star Wars Unity, linked to it, embedded the photo of the figure, and discussed its implications. You know, like Star Wars fans do on all kinds of sites all the time. Well, that’s when the DMCA notices began rolling in and the images started coming down.
School principal bans Santa, Thanksgiving and Pledge of Allegiance | Fox News
Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. “Harvest festival” has replaced Thanksgiving, and “winter celebrations” substitute for Christmas parties.
Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years. Gore made the prediction to a German audience in 2008. He told them that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”
Immigration officials prohibited from looking at visa applicants’ social media | TheHill
Johnson decided to keep the prohibition in place in early 2014 because he feared a civil liberties backlash and “bad public relations,” according to ABC.