Reading Time: < 1 minute In an exclusive for OnlySky, our reporters have managed to obtain details of the notoriously secretive private school, Donda, founded by music mogul Kanye West. Some of the information summarized below has been shocking to say the least: Every class begins with a Christian prayer. All references to Jesus are replaced by “Yeezus” Civics 101 […]
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Under parent pressure, a Missouri school district brings back spanking
Reading Time: 2 minutes Despite the clarity of research condemning the practice, a school district in southwestern Missouri is bringing back corporal punishment. Beginning this year, children in the Cassville School District could face spanking as a disciplinary measure. The district removed spanking as a form of punishment in 2001, but Cassville School District superintendent Merlyn Johnson says he […]
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New Texas amendment requires ‘God’ in public schools
Reading Time: 2 minutes Texas students may notice new religious signs in their public schools this fall. A law passed in 2021 goes into effect this year requiring public schools to display “In God We Trust” posters in public spaces if donated to the school or purchased with money from donations. On June 21, 2021, an amendment to the […]
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5 Satanic shirts kids can now wear to school in Hays, Kansas
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wearing Satanic shirts to school shouldn’t be such a big deal, but in Hays, Kansas, it kind of is. That’s because the school district recently ordered that the dress code, which stated anything related to Satanism couldn’t be worn, was discriminatory. At a recent school board meeting, Mary Turner, a parent and member of The […]
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Are conservative attacks on teachers changing the future of education?
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new national poll show teachers’ job satisfaction at an all-time low, ith more than half of teachers polled saying they wouldn’t advise their younger selves to take up a career in education. In addition to unprecedented strain from the pandemic, the last few years have been marked with book bans, calls for cameras in […]
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Student to receive $90K settlement after Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although our public institutions are supposed to promote free speech and the separation between church and state, there is increasing pressure from religious groups to bring God back into the classroom. When such groups, or even sympathetic teachers or administrators get their way, secular students can face punishments that adversely affect their education. That’s exactly […]
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Are you a high school senior with senioritis or are you Garfield?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you counting down the days until your high school graduation? Or, do you have orange fur, an insatiable appetite for lasagna, and an overeager mutt named Odie? Take this quiz to find out. 1. You hate Mondays. And Tuesdays. And all other weekdays. 2. You’ve mastered the art of silently sassing others. 3. You […]
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Promise and Peril: Lyman Stone’s Galaxy-Brained Solutions to Decline
Reading Time: 10 minutes Yesterday, we examined a big report by conservative culture warrior Lyman Stone on behalf of American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He had a lot of things to say about the decline of Christianity in America, and I detected a constant theme of fearmongering and potential exaggeration throughout his work. We’ve already covered what his assertions are. Now, here’s my assertion: Lyman Stone needs his target audience to be scared enough to buy his product, because ordinarily they’d recognize what a bad idea that’d be.
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Taylor Swift’s Bubble.
Reading Time: 13 minutes “You Belong With Me” is a fairy tale about the Purity Myth–and about how conforming to it can win young women what they want. Unfortunately, fairy tales are rarely very in tune with reality.
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Change You’d Better Believe In.
Reading Time: 5 minutes If there was one thing I could say that drew me to fundagelical Christianity, way back when, it was the unchanging and static nature of the viewpoint, as illusory as that viewpoint was and is. There’s a certain comfort in something that never changes and is always perfect. Until then, I’d had a very chaotic […]