It’s incredibly sad, tremendously frustrating, and infuriating because it didn’t have to be and it was foreseeable. If you close schools for this long and require remote learning, as well as drilling into children the idea that disease is all … Continue reading →
Actually, I think we already knew the gist of this was true even though we didn’t know every detail: [Biden’s] Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic … Continue reading →
The ostensible reason is COVID, of course, the all-purpose excuse. The real reason – IMHO – is they have gotten very very accustomed to just phoning it in (that is, computering it in), and being paid for it. So why … Continue reading →
No surprise here, but very sad nonetheless: School closings and "remote learning" have caused a massive mental health crisis among teenagers. This, and the disruption to their intellectual development, will be enduring and severe.https://t.co/Q3mtWJ9MnR pic.twitter.com/ONrnYIWBPI — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December … Continue reading →
Here’s a sickening story: A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended after making third-grade children reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including getting them to pretend to dig mass graves and shoot victims, and telling them the … Continue reading →
As I’ve written several times in previous comments, I’ve seen nothing about parental or school awareness of any prior mental problems for Ethan Crumbley, who IMHO may have been a sociopath who covered up his pathology very well, and only … Continue reading →
The recent Michigan school shooting was a terrible crime that resulted in the death of four high school students. It was terrible in a host of ways, first and foremost of course that result. But it was also terrible in … Continue reading →
University alumni have been increasingly using their power of the purse to put pressure on universities to defend academic freedom of thought and expression. Note the links there to organizations supporting and helping to organize the effort. Here’a another worthy … Continue reading →
Where does Kyle Rittenhouse go to get his reputation back [see *NOTE below]? There’s a group of Arizona State students who have discovered that Kyle Rittenhouse was enrolled in some online ASU courses, and are incensed by this terribly distressing … Continue reading →
Otherwise known as parents who might have opposed him in some way: The president, or possibly his father, appears to have kept a dossier on 47 parents who dared to speak out against his policies at school board meetings — … Continue reading →
Thomas Sowell is 91 years old, with a long record of accomplishment that includes the publication of many books that demonstrate an unusually brilliant clarity of thought and graceful yet economical expression of that thought. A few years ago he … Continue reading →
Commenter “MBunge” writes: I saw a poll in Virginia that found something like 70% of Democrats believe schools boards should have more say about children’s education than parents… Does anyone really think 70% of Virginia Democrats believe that? Do Virginia … Continue reading →