Well put, Governor DeSantis
Short and to the point: There’s no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”
Continue reading →Category Archives: Education
Elite private school education: at least these parents won’t have to worry that their kids will need to be sent to re-education camp
Instead, their kids are getting their goodthink indoctrination very early in life. Bari Weiss formerly wrote for the NY Times, but she got pushed out for being insuficiently woke, despite remaining a liberal. Here she meets with and reports on … Continue reading →
Critical Race Training in K-12
You might want to tune into this event given at 7 PM tonight by Legal Insurrection.
Continue reading →“Culturally responsive” Illinois teacher training
Here’s the situation in Illinois regarding the education of teachers across the entire state: …[I]n December, the Illinois State Board of Education, or ISBE, passed a new rule that would require culturally responsive teaching and leading standards to be incorporated … Continue reading →
The Nineteen Eighty-Four election, and the control of history
[NOTE: The first part of this post is a repost of something I originally published on 11/11/2019, a little over a year ago. I think it’s interesting to look back at it in the light of what’s happened since. I’ve … Continue reading →
Not your father’s Civics classes
Paul Mirengoff discusses a national drive currently underway to institute standards for a civics curriculum. Sounds good, right? After all, civics is a subject that’s been highly neglected and is extremely important. Most of you probably can see the catch, … Continue reading →
Does it feel like Saturday?
It sure doesn’t feel like Saturday to me. I assume that’s because yesterday was a holiday. Of course, at this point in my life the days of the week don’t have the sharp delineations they used to have. No child … Continue reading →
Why would any parent pay big bucks to send a child NY’s Dalton School?
Read the description at Legal Insurrection of what’s happening these days at NYC’s Dalton School. It’s worth taking a look at the entire article, the gist of which is that it appears this exclusive private school is in the process … Continue reading →
The war on art: Of Mice and Men
The school system in Burbank, California has added the following five books to its “banned in Burbank” list: Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, … Continue reading →
They say it’s the journey, not the destination
What could possibly go wrong?: [NYC] Chancellor Richard Carranza’s new grading policy bars failing grades. Students will be marked “in progress” or “incomplete,” even if they’ve done no work at all, writes Sanzi. Excelsior!
Continue reading →Socialism is doubleplusgood
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: This year’s study showed increased favorability of the term ‘socialism’ (49%) among Gen Z compared to 2019 (40%). Opinions of capitalism declined slightly from 2019 to 2020 among all … Continue reading →
Professor Bruce Gilley is a very brave man
Gilley, a political science professor at Portland State University, is a profile in courage: “I attribute the ease and suddenness of my latest [book publishing] cancellation to this year’s Black Lives Matter moral panic. It has taken cultural totalitarianism to … Continue reading →