Officials in Burinlington Township held a mock hostage crisis a couple weeks ago to prepare police and school employees for the worst. “You perform as you practice,” Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that […]
Courtesy of the weird news watchers over at Fark.com, we have this story out of Tampa, Fla., on the stupidity of school administrators when confronted with Nazi-vandalism in the bathrooms. Instead of having employees monitor the facilities during passing periods or rounding up the usual suspects, the geniuses closed every bathroom on campus save one. […]
Here's a few articles from the past week or so that you really shouldn't miss. The Los Angeles Times story on 2nd Lt. Mark Jennings Daily. John Leo looks at how speech codes on campus have been stifling -- mostly conservative -- speech. Judge Gibson Lee should be recalled after giving eight black youths probation […]
So, for the past couple of months I've been getting these postcards in the mail from a company contracted by the Grossmont Union High School District asking for various information for the Granite Hills High School class of '90 graduate directory. Problem: I graduated from Helix High School. I finally got around to calling the […]
Posting has been nearly non-existent this week because I'm currently sick with the world's worst cold/cough/sore throat/runny nose ailment. Before "The Sickness" hit me full force I was able to attend a portion of Thursday's Grossmont Union High School District Board meeting where Hoystory The Elder (aka "Mr. Wonderful") was sworn in. Pastor Ronnie Short […]
Some of you may be familiar with blogger Bill Roggio and his reports as an embed with troops in Iraq. The Christian Science Monitor ran an interesting article on Roggio yesterday and I just wanted to highlight one observation by the author, Dante Chinni. But while some might discount Roggio as a journalist who lets […]
Sunday's Washington Post opinion section, Outlook, features short articles by five historians on where President George W. Bush will rank in history. Four of the historians are so blinkered by their own politics that it's highly likely that they've never met someone who voted for Bush in person and the only Republicans they know are […]
There's a certain type of person who simply can't be trusted to wield any sort of power. You know the type -- they were the self-important, arrogant jackasses in your high school class who somehow managed to avoid having reality give them a good kick in the butt. Today's example is something that probably went […]
As of 3:17 a.m., it looks as though my father, Richard "Dick" Hoy will be one of the trustees of the Grossmont Union High School District Board. With the top 3 vote-getters winning seats, Hoy Sr. is currently 2nd behind Jim "Little Dictator" Kelly. Congratulations to Hoy Sr. It looks like the campaign will be […]
For those of you living within the boundaries of the Grossmont Union High School District, Hoystory encourages you to vote for the following people for the school board: Richard "Dick" Hoy Andrew John "Andy" Sundstrom Ken Sobel Hoystory readers, being among the most intelligent people on the planet, will recognize that the first endorsee shares […]